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Teneros Joins VMware Technology Alliance Partner Program

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Teneros recently announced that the company has joined the VMware Technology Alliance Partner Program (TAP) as a Select Partner. VMware’s authorized resellers are able to provide simple, effective email continuity via the Teneros Application Continuity Appliances.

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“Teneros Application Continuity Appliances effectively leverage VMware virtualization to solve email downtime, enabling customer’s high availability and disaster recovery of Microsoft Exchange®,” said Bernie Mills, senior director, alliances programs at VMware. “We are pleased that Teneros is helping to deliver added value to customers with innovative technology combined with the significant business benefits of VMware virtualization, including lower capital and operating expenses, business continuity, strengthened security and reduced energy consumption.”

According to the news release, Teneros appliances are designed to meet the email continuity demands of today’s businesses. The plug-&-go appliances protect essential communications by assuring 24X7, ongoing email operation and access to valuable email data, calendar information, and email attachments that power business operations worldwide. This process is transparent to end-users. Client software (Outlook, Outlook Web Access, etc.) and access devices (laptop computers, desktop computers, mobile devices) continue to operate normally with complete email access and functionality maintained.

Teneros appliances incorporate VMware’s virtualization technology to facilitate their remote support, upgrade, and monitoring performed by Teneros’ Network Operations Center. As a result of including VMware technologies, Teneros can deliver the requisite levels of email reliability demanded by successful corporations today.

With more than 700 members worldwide, the VMware TAP program works with technology partners to provide them a comprehensive set of VMware technical and marketing services, support, tools and expertise to deliver enhanced value to joint customers.

[Source: Sourcewire]

VMware Site Recovery Manager 1.0 Released

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VMware has announced its new tool for disaster recovery management and automation of a virtual infrastructure, VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 1.0 (build 97878).

VMware SRM 1.0 is part of VMware’s suite of management and automation products for the datacenter, leverages virtualization to simplify business continuity planning and testing, and reduces the risk and complexity associated with executing disaster recovery.

“Effective disaster recovery has been a significant challenge for many organizations,” said Raghu Raghuram, vice president of products and solutions at VMware. “With the delivery of VMware Site Recovery Manager, VMware removes hurdles associated with disaster recovery planning and implementation. Through our innovative disaster recovery testing, management, and automation capabilities, we bring predictability back into the hands of IT and help eliminate risks associated with human error.”

VMware Site Recovery Manager

Site Recovery Manager works seamlessly with VMware Infrastructure, VMware VirtualCenter, and replication software from storage partners to provide integrated disaster recovery management and automation. It provides:

  • Integrated management of disaster recovery plans. Create, update and document recovery plans directly from VMware VirtualCenter.
  • Non-disruptive testing of disaster recovery plans. Execute automated tests of recovery plans in an isolated testing environment using the recovery plan that would be used in an actual failover. Hardware configuration dependencies are eliminated and testing can occur without impacting production systems.
  • Automated failover and recovery. Automate execution of the recovery process, eliminating many of the slow and unreliable manual processes common in traditional disaster recovery.

VMware’s parent company, EMC, is one of the first vendors to officially announce support for Site Recovery Manager. Other vendors showing support for the product include 3Par, Dell, FalconStor Software, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM, LeftHand Networks, and NetApp.

Pricing for Site Recovery Manager is based on the number of processors in the servers. SRM can be purchased as a standalone product or purchased as part of VMware’s Management and Automation Bundle which includes two-processor versions of VMware Site Recovery Manager, VMware Lifecycle Manager, and VMware Lab Manager or VMware Stage Manager. There’s also a trial version available for download.

Release: VmwAROS 0.8 Beta

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VmwAROS is a pre-configured AROS Research Operating System environment for VMware.

A new version of this AROS distribution has been released. VmwAROS is available in two flavours: a virtual environment for VMware, and a live-cd that runs on top of real hardware, which can be installed on the hard drive as any other operating system. The new beta version includes lots of new games and applications for AROS, includes a complete C, C++ environment and E interpreter, and fixes an annoying compatibility problem that plagues current nightly builds on some hardware, by using a second “emergency” kernel.

VmwAROS

[Source: OSNews]

Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst On The Linux Vendor’s Virtualization Initiatives

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A half-year after becoming president and CEO of Linux vendor Red Hat, Jim Whitehurst was in Boston this week for the annual Red Hat Summit, where a lot of announcements were made about Red Hat’s forray into virtualization. Whitehurst sat down with Network World’s Jon Brodkin to discuss open source, a new patent settlement, and Red Hat’s moves in virtualization, reports PC World.

This is the excerpt of the interview where they talk about virtualization:

The virtualization market is dominated by VMware, but you guys expanded your virtualization portfolio with a Linux-based hypervisor this week. What are your goals in virtualization?

Virtualization is half the operating system. Paul [Cormier, Red Hat president of products and technologies] would actually say virtualization is the operating system in a lot of ways. We feel pretty strongly virtualization needs to be pretty tightly integrated with the operating system.

VMware’s the dominant player in an industry that’s what, like 5 or 10% penetrated? And it’s primarily in development and test scenarios, and primarily to reduce server sprawl.

We come from a different heritage. Our systems usually aren’t running at 10%. Linux workloads are a lot higher. The value from our perspective is less around server consolidation and more about what new functionality or architectures can be enabled by virtualization.

You talk about grid computing, cloud computing, whatever that is. The necessary enabler of that is Linux with integrated virtualization. Because otherwise what are you going to run on a cloud?

Read the rest of the interview on PC World.

Fortinet Patents Four New Network Virtualization And Multi-Threat Security Related Inventions

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Fortinet, a provider of unified threat management (UTM) solutions, has announced that the US Patent and Trademark Office has awarded the company four additional patents for network virtualization and security related inventions. These new patents strengthen Fortinet’s intellectual property portfolio, bringing Fortinet’s total awarded patents to 17.

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Charles Cote, Fortinet Regional Director for Australia and New Zealand commented on ARN:

“Security consolidation and virtualisation are key business trends for enterprise networks. Fortinet is the clear technology pioneer in the unified threat management space, with a long track record of innovation. Our security consolidation solutions based on these new virtualisation patents will help our customers build more efficient and easier to manage security systems.”

The four new patents reflect Fortinet’s focus, on innovative methods for processing network data while applying various security-related filtration processes within a consolidated and accelerated platform. Three of the newly awarded patents are directed to the routing and processing of data in virtualized environments.

“These patents support Fortinet’s innovation and vision for an integrated, multi-threat and virtualised approach to network security – groundswell areas for the networking and security industries,” said Michael Xie, CTO and co-founder of Fortinet. “As we continue our strong research and development efforts, our growing patent portfolio provides momentum for accelerating the course of innovation we are undertaking.”

[Source: ARN]

Application Virtualization Comparison Chart

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Sven Huisman and his coworker Matthijs Haverink were unable to find a good comparative list of application virtualization solutions, so they mocked up a useful chart of their own. The chart includes:

You can download the chart here, courtesy of the technical consultants.

[Source: ICT-Freak]