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Avnet to Distribute Reflex Security’s “Virtual Security Manager”

August 21, 2008 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Reflex Security today announced a global distribution agreement with Avnet Technology Solutions, an operating group of Avnet, which will be implemented initially in the U.S. and Canada. Under the agreement, Avnet will distribute Reflex Security’s “Virtual Security Manager” (VSM) solution. The agreement will significantly broaden the market opportunities for Reflex Security, and VARs will benefit from Avnet’s virtualization solutions practice.

While virtualization enables enterprise organizations to optimize IT resources and reduce their costs, there are also critical security implications that need to be taken into account. The first company to introduce a dedicated virtual security solution in the market, Reflex Security provides companies with a simple and cost-effective way to apply an additional layer of security to their virtualized environments.

Filed Under: News, Partnerships Tagged With: Avnet, Avnet Technology Solutions, Reflex Security, Reflex Security Virtual Security Manager, Virtual Security Management, Virtual Security Manager, virtualisation, virtualization, virtualization security

vmSight Includes VDI User Activity Control In vmSight 3.5

August 21, 2008 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

vmSight today announced that its recently released vmSight 3.5 product suite now includes a user activity control feature for virtual desktops, in addition to its existing monitoring capabilities. This newly added capability allows virtual desktop administrators to block unauthorized user and application activity on virtual desktops for improved performance or security. The feature is available immediately in the vmSight virtual appliance that directly integrates into an organization’s virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) platform.

vmSight’s patented Connector ID technology facilitates the new activity control functionality in release 3.5. Similar to the caller ID capability prevalent in today’s phone networks, vmSight’s Connector ID enables virtual desktops and thin clients with a user identification and tracking capability. Using this technology, vmSight is the only solution of its kind with the ability to monitor users and prevent unauthorized application activity for performance or security purposes. Administrators can identify the specific virtual desktop and applications accessed by a user at any given time, and can track, control and optimize user activity and performance end-to-end.

As part of the company’s vmSight 3.5 product suite for virtual desktop deployments, user activity control integrates completely with the vmSight Center and Monitoring Stations. User activity is monitored in real-time, and unauthorized user or application activity can be blocked for improved performance or security. Integration with Active Directory and LDAP allows policy definition based on existing user groups. Combined with its other features, such as performance monitoring and service level management, vmSight 3.5 provides a complete virtual desktop management solution to help reduce problems and support costs.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Connector ID, user activity control, VDI, Virtual Network Intelligence, Virtual Network Intelligence 3.5, Virtual Network Intelligence suite, virtualisation, virtualization, vmSight, vmSight 3.5, vmSight Virtual Network Intelligence, vmSight Virtual Network Intelligence 3.5, vmware, vmware virtualcenter

Sun Microsystems Nearly Doubles Sun Ray Shipments

August 21, 2008 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Sun Microsystems today announced the company nearly doubled shipments of its Sun Ray thin clients during the fourth quarter of Sun’s 2008 fiscal year, compared to the third quarter of its 2008 fiscal year.

Sun claims that the Sun Ray unit shipments are growing faster than the thin client industry at large, underscoring the increased appeal thin client and desktop virtualization solutions are experiencing among businesses and organizations. Contributing to this growth is strong market demand for Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Software 2.0, which now ships on approximately 25% of Sun Ray units since being introduced in March 2008, in addition to enabling customers to display Solaris, Windows or Linux desktops on the same device.

Sun Ray virtual display clients, Sun Ray Sofware and Sun VDI Software 2.0 are key components of Sun’s broad desktop virtualization offering, which are a set of core desktop technologies and solutions within Sun’s xVM virtualization portfolio.

Sun offers a complete desktop-to-datacenter virtualization product portfolio and comprehensive set of virtualization service offerings to help customers deploy new services faster, maximize the utilization of system resources, and more easily monitor and manage virtualized environments. Sun’s virtualization products help to provide unified software management tools and virtualization capabilities across operating systems, servers, storage, desktops and processors.

Sun Microsystems

Filed Under: News Tagged With: sun, sun microsystems, Sun Ray, Sun Ray Sofware, Sun Ray thin clients, Sun VDI, Sun VDI Software 2.0, Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Software 2.0, Sun xVM, thin clients, virtualisation, virtualization

Hyperic CloudStatus Now Monitors Google App Engine

August 20, 2008 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

We’ve covered Hyperic before, most recently when they added monitoring for Citrix XenServer environments to their Hyperic HQ service. The company just announced that their CloudStatus service now also supports Google App Engine, after launching with advanced monitoring for Amazon EC2 services. Support for additional cloud providers is planned for the coming months.

Update: check out the excellent analysis on GigaOM as well.

The addition of App Engine monitoring is designed to provide customers with the ability to obtain up-to-the-second perspectives on performance and network connectivity from both inside and outside the App Engine platform. The initial release will allow for continuous monitoring of the health and performance of major App Engine infrastructure, including the DataStore, Memcache, and global network connectivity. CloudStatus uses App Engine-specific management plug-ins to collect measurements that provide administrators and developers with unprecedented insight into the health of the App Engine platform.

As part of this development, Hyperic is also announcing the availability of the first cloud-specific management plug-in for its flagship product, Hyperic HQ. The new plug-in extends the full monitoring and management capabilities of Hyperic HQ to App Engine users, enabling them to examine the performance of their own custom applications running in the cloud. This plug-in is free for download on HyperForge.

Hyperic

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Amazon, Amazon EC2, citrix xenserver, cloud computing, CloudStatus, Google, Google App Engine, Hyperic, Hyperic CloudStatus, Hyperic HQ, virtualisation, virtualization

ELASTRA Adds Support for Eucalyptus Platform

August 20, 2008 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

ELASTRA, which recently raised $12 million from Amazon and other investors, today announced Elastra Cloud Server support for the Eucalyptus platform.

ELASTRA’s products are designed for portability across compute clouds and currently provide support for the Amazon EC2 and S3 compute and storage environments. Because Eucalyptus exposes its virtual machines through an EC2-compatible API, ELASTRA’s portability to Eucalyptus was a straightforward addition to its platform offering.

Eucaplyptus (Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs To Useful Systems) is an open-source software infrastructure for implementing “cloud computing” on clusters. The current interface to EUCALYPTUS is compatible with Amazon’s EC2 interface, but the infrastructure is designed to support multiple client-side interfaces. Eucalyptus is implemented using commonly available Linux tools and basic Web-service technologies.

Elastra

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Amazon, Amazon EC2, cloud computing, Elastra, Elastra Cloud Server, ELASTRA Corporation, eucalyptus, virtualisation, virtualization

SplashTop Maker DeviceVM Raises $15 Million in Series C Funding Round

August 20, 2008 by Robin Wauters 1 Comment

DeviceVM, maker of the Splashtop instant-on environment, announced today a $15 million Series C round of funding led by venture capital firm New Enterprise Associates. Existing investors including Storm Ventures, DFJ Dragon, Tim Draper, and Larry Augustin also participated in this Series C investment, demonstrating continued commitment to DeviceVM’s growth.

“Splashtop is a game-changing product in the personal computing space,” said NEA partner Peter Sonsini, who previously led NEA’s investment in XenSource (acquired by Citrix Systems), and was an executive at VMware prior to joining NEA. “We are excited to invest in a revolutionary product and a team like DeviceVM.”

Warren Lazarow and Paul Sieben of O’Melveny & Myers LLP represented DeviceVM in the transaction.

DeviceVM

Filed Under: Funding Tagged With: DeviceVM, Funding, instant-on environment, investment, NEA, New Enterprise Associates, Splashtop, virtualisation, virtualization

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