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Interphase Systems Wants Lew Smith To Grow Virtualization Business

July 22, 2008 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

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Management and technology consulting company Interphase Systems today announced it has named Lew Smith as Product Manager, Virtualization Solutions. In this newly created position, he will be responsible for building Interphase’s virtualization practice and offerings. Smith will continue to build relationships with existing technology partners, as well as engaging in new partner relationships.

Smith comes to Interphase Systems with 11 years of experience working with large enterprise companies in the areas of IT project management and large-scale application management. Most recently, he served as a senior project manager at Advanced Automation, a manufacturing systems integrator, where he managed multiple million dollar projects within the food, beverage, and pharmaceutical industries.

Lew Smith holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Elon College in Elon, NC. He currently lives in Kennett Square, PA.

“Virtualization is our fastest growing practice area and we had the need for a dedicated Product Manager with the expertise and experience to lead this part of our business,” said John Biglin, CEO of Interphase Systems. “We are thrilled to have Smith join us at this important time to help expand our growing virtualization practice nationwide and bring businesses a solution that will save them time, money, and energy, while also providing increased security and disaster recovery capability.”

[Source: Marketwatch]

British Library Consolidates Wealth of Digital Data With Virtualization

July 22, 2008 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

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The UK’s national library, the infamous British Library, is using a new Ethernet networking infrastructure as the basis for a number of projects to digitize huge amounts of content and to consolidate its data center using virtualization.

Stephen Lilgert, the British Library’s head of infrastructure strategy and development told IT PRO the library is celebrating its tenth anniversary at its St Pancras facility and needed to update its existing networking technology in support of a number of initiatives.

The Library now uses equipment from Foundry Networks (which coincidentally, as announced today, was acquired by Brocade) to meet demands in increased networking capacity for a wide range of digital projects, from digitizing current and historical library collections and materials, to enabling virtualization in order to control costs through better use of server infrastructure.

It is using the latest BigIron RX-8 Layer 2/3 backbone switches and FastIron Edge X Series Power over Ethernet (PoE) ready switches to augment its existing Foundry equipment already installed at its Boston Spa and St Pancras sites.

Lilgert also said VMware technology, used for 18 months now, has already helped reduce the server farm by 80 machines.

“That amounts to £14,000 a year in power, not to mention £4,000 in air-conditioning and cooling,” he said. “We’re looking to reduce our large physical server infrastructure through a combination of consolidation and virtualisation. We are running a clustered, high-availability VMware infrastructure working on the basis of around 25 virtual servers sitting on one physical host. Bandwidth, therefore, needs to be increased at the distribution layer hence the deployment of gigabit Ethernet FastIron Edge X Series switches in our computer rooms.”

[Source: IT Pro]

Nebulas Virtualise Appoints New CEO, Partners With VMware, PlateSpin and Vizioncore

July 22, 2008 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

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Nebulas Virtualise, a provider of virtualization solutions and part of the Nebulas Solutions Group, has appointed Mike Young to head the division and announced a series of new technology partnerships, including VMware, PlateSpin (Novell) and Vizioncore.

According to the company, Mike Young, who has been appointed to head Nebulas Virtualise, is a virtualization specialist with over 20 years’ experience in managing complex IT projects. He will lead the technical team and will be involved at all stages of client projects. Before joining the company, Young worked at System Group Integration (SGI) where he was responsible for implementing large scale VMware and Microsoft solutions.

The new partnerships with VMware, PlateSpin and Vizioncore are expected to ensure that the company can offer customers the latest virtualization solutions. Nebulas Virtualise will market a complete service from initial consultancy, cost and return on investment analysis, infrastructure planning and migration and management of virtualized environments. The financial details of the partnerships were not disclosed.

[Source: TradingMarkets]

TRANGO Virtual Processors Embeds Hypervisor In Texas Instruments’ OMAP3430 Processor

July 22, 2008 by Robin Wauters 1 Comment

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TRANGO Virtual Processors, provider of embedded virtualization IP, delivers greater isolation and portability of operating systems and drivers on the Texas Instruments OMAP 3 platform. The TRANGO Hypervisor offers a broad choice of operating system (OS) and real-time operating system (RTOS) including Linux, Windows Embedded CE, Symbian OS, eCos, uC-OSII, uITRON and other proprietary RTOS, while the OMAP 3 platform, based on ARM Cortex-A8 processor, offers up to 3X performance gain over ARM11 based processors.

Leveraging TI’s OMAP3430 multimedia applications processor, the TRANGO Hypervisor is the perfect fit for mobile platform designers who want to find the optimal balance between the effective reuse of legacy features, the development of new functionality, the secure sharing of common hardware resources, time-to-market, and cost constraints.

With secure platform virtualization, OEMs benefit from an inherently secure architecture, easier porting of a rich OS or RTOS to the hardware, and highly portable drivers. On the TI OMAP3430 processor the TRANGO Hypervisor offers the ability for OEMs to reduce or even eliminate driver changes in moving from one OS platform to another OS platform, with a positive impact on the resultant development and validation effort.

The TRANGO product is available on the ARMv5/ARMv6/v7 and MIPS32/MIPS64 embedded architectures, supports a broad choice of OS and RTOS including Linux, Windows Embedded CE, Symbian OS, eCos, uC-OSII, uITRON and other proprietary RTOS. It is shipped with a complete SDK and tool suite based on Eclipse.

[Source: Marketwatch]

Endeavors Unable To Secure Funding, Suspends Shares

July 22, 2008 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

These are troubled times for application virtualization and streaming startup Endeavors Technologies, who recently released its Application Jukebox and split the offer into 3 separate editions. Apparently, the company has been unable to secure a large funding round after exploring a number of possible options, resulting in a suspension of ordinary shares which have stopped trading on the London Stock Exchange.

David Lee, Chairman of Endeavors commented:

“The continued decline in institutional confidence has undermined our best efforts to satisfactorily conclude the proposed re-construction of the company and our inability to attract the relevant level of investment appropriate to the company’s phase of development is deeply disappointing. We are exploring all available options”

A further announcement is expected to be made in due course.

[Source: Virtualization.info]

3PAR Launches Thin Copy Desktop for VMware VDI

July 21, 2008 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

3PAR announced today 3PAR Thin Copy Desktop for VMware VDI, an integrated virtual desktop provisioning and management solution for VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure.

3PAR Thin Copy Desktop for VMware VDI is designed to let its customers automatically provision hundreds of high-performance virtual desktops that consume only a fraction of the bandwidth and storage capacity required with traditional storage.

3PAR says its Utility Storage enhances the benefits of implementing VDI on a traditional SAN by providing additional performance, simplified provisioning, and rapid recovery while reducing required capacity—benefits that are ideal for these next-generation virtualized environments.

3PAR Thin Copy Desktop for VMware VDI builds on 3PAR Virtual Copy to create a resilient utility computing infrastructure that maximizes the benefit of centralized desktop management. 3PAR Thin Copy Desktop offers high performance desktop booting, automated provisioning, and rapid desktop recovery while consuming 90% less capacity for desktop images.

3PAR also announced today enhancements to 3PAR Virtual Copy to support up to 128 read/writable snapshots per base volume and the ability to promote a child Virtual Copy snapshot to any of its read/writable parent snapshots. Up to 500 read-only snapshots per base volume also remain supported with these enhancements.

3PAR Thin Copy Desktop for VMware VDI comes with 3PAR Virtual Copy at no extra charge.

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