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Terremark Debuts vCloud Express Service

September 7, 2009 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Terremark recently announced the addition of the vCloud Express service to its suite of VMware Virtualized offerings.

vCloud Express is a new class of service based on VMware’s powerful virtualization platform that allows software developers and other users to easily access computing resources in a pay-as-you-go model. vCloud Express will provide customers with flexible computing on demand, with the power and control to configure resources as needed. It uniquely offers users compatibility with their internal datacenters, as well as Terremark’s Enterprise Cloud offering, enabling users to move applications to the production environment of their choice.

Customers will be able to easily sign up for the service online with a credit card and immediately begin provisioning computing capacity using Terremark’s intuitive Web console. Integrated firewalls, load balancing and network management features allow users to easily customize their cloud environment to their specific needs. Users will also be able to access their cloud computing environments via the VMware vCloud™ API, enabling interoperability across internal and external clouds. A Terremark vCloud Express community website featuring expert blogs, support forums and product documentation will provide customers with an interactive platform to receive up-to-date information and insights from Terremark’s team of cloud computing experts.

With the addition of vCloud Express, Terremark is expanding its suite of industry-leading infrastructure-as-a-service solutions. These solutions will leverage VMware’s robust and advanced enterprise-class platform and Terremark’s top-tier, massively connected datacenter facilities to deliver high-performance cloud computing services to the developer market.

Terremark’s strategic move into the cloud computing market began with the June 2008 launch of the Enterprise Cloud, a highly reliable and secure platform with the power to dynamically provision computing resources for mission-critical applications. Designed to meet the high security and regulatory standards of large enterprises and Federal government agencies, the Enterprise Cloud leverages a full suite of managed security services and unique “burst” option to offer customers a highly secure and elastic platform to meet their IT infrastructure needs.

Terremark’s vCloud Express will initially be launched in a limited-availability beta program, with a full launch scheduled by the end of 2009.

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Release: Neocleus NeoSphere 2.1

September 7, 2009 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Neocleus recently announced the next release of NeoSphere, its desktop and laptop management platform and another Neocleus product that uses the company’s second generation Type 1, bare metal client hypervisor.

NeoSphere 2.1 allows IT managers to centrally control multiple operating system (OS) instances that execute locally as virtual machines (VMs) on distributed laptops and desktops. Neocleus is demonstrating NeoSphere 2.1 at the VMworld Conference, August 31 – September 3, in Booth 1527 at the Moscone Center in San Franscico, CA. The product was first announced in April, 2009 and began shipping to customers and partners in May, 2009.

NeoSphere 2.1 enhancements include performance improvements, better support for popular disk encryption, and the introduction of a client GUI. NeoSphere 2.1 offers the broadest hardware support of any client virtualization product in the industry with the ability to support all Intel vPro and AMD VT-D enabled laptops and desktops.

The most prominent use cases customers are addressing with NeoSphere 2.1 include:

  • Side by side execution of two separate and isolated OS instances, running locally as virtual machines on a PC. One instance can be a 100 % secure locked-down operating environment containing all the corporate applications, data, network connections, and hardware configurations. The other OS instance can run an “open” image with applications that have a high intrusion threat such as music sharing software, games and social networking websites. With NeoSphere 2.1, IT can be assured that any intrusions or threats that come into the “open” OS instance cannot permeate the “locked-down” OS instance.
  • Operating two separate corporate images side by side on the same laptop or desktop; ideal for running two environments on separate, secure networks, managing application migration during mergers and acquisitions, and multi-project initiatives or environments with outsourced workers.
  • Running two versions of Microsoft Windows natively on the same machine to allow legacy applications that have not yet been updated to the upcoming Windows 7 to be used, while end users also leverage the benefits of the more current operating environment in a separate VM.
  • Creating new efficiencies in desktop and laptop management by delivering a single “golden” image to a variety of different hardware platforms; thus, dramatically reducing the amount of time necessary to prepare and test the corporate OS environment prior to delivering it to end users.
  • Granular control of the hardware components on the desktop or laptop, from a centralized, policy-based administration system allowing IT to centrally turn “on” and “off” devices on the target end user machine without ever touching the machine. For instance a doctor’s laptop can be centrally configured to allow a patient to read records from their PC but when trying to print the records out to a non hospital printer, those ports have been disabled. The doctor can then toggle to a “personal” environment where IT has allowed the use of a printer, USB ports, copy/paste, etc.

NeoSphere 2.1 leverages the company’s second generation Type 1 client hypervisor to address IT and user demands. The product allows two fully functional virtual machines, or “spheres” to run simultaneously and natively on a single desktop or laptop. Each sphere is centrally controlled by IT policies and requires no incremental hardware in the data center. Spheres are distributed to PCs where they execute locally in 100% secure isolated VMs. Users seamlessly move between environments without any degradation in performance. The spheres have full access to the power of the underlying hardware, including native access to the RAM, CPU, hard disks, network cards, USB devices, touch screens, and other devices attached to the local desktop or laptop.

Using NeoSphere 2.1, IT administrators centrally control each sphere as though they were sitting directly at the PC, including the manipulation of all aspects of the underlying hardware. For example, the Desktop Administrator can centrally turn off all USB devices for the corporate image on each of the desktops in the organization. With the flick of a switch, they can selectively turn these back on for select users as well. They can also transition hardware components from one environment to another. With NeoSphere 2.1, a DVD drive can easily be “moved” from the personal environment to the corporate one, or vice versa, or the Desktop Administrator can make it available to both environments.

NeoSphere 2.1 works with existing systems and tools familiar to desktop administrators, and there is tight integration with applications such as Microsoft Active Directory and SQL Server. The system is designed to work in conjunction with all OS patching and updating products as well including existing change and configuration management systems such as Microsoft SCCM, Symantec Altiris Client Management Suite, Tivoli, HP Radia, BigFix, Novell ZENworks, and others. In addition, NeoSphere works in conjunction with existing application virtualization solutions such as Microsoft App-V, VMware ThinApp, and InstallFree.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Neocleus, neocleus neosphere, neosphere, neosphere 2.1, virtualisation, virtualization

Teradici Introduces Multi-Protocol Hardware Zero Client Solution for Virtual Desktops

September 7, 2009 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Teradici today announced the first multi-protocol hardware zero client solution for virtual desktops. This flexible zero client solution enables IT managers to deploy PCoIP clients across their organizations and connect to a complete range of hosted compute resources including:

  • VMware View virtual desktops via VMware View 3 client mode
  • Blade, tower or rack 3D graphics workstations via PCoIP protocol mode.
  • Microsoft Terminal Server sessions via RDP client mode.

Desktop clients based on the Teradici TERA1100 portal processor are a true zero client solution that can support any user type from task workers, to mainstream office workers, to extreme workstation/visualization application users. These innovative clients have no x86 processors, no application O/S, and no drivers, which dramatically simplifies deployment and management. With additional features such as no local data storage and unique USB device authorization, PCoIP hardware zero client solutions are highly secure and resistant to viruses that can impact traditional remote desktop installations.

With the growing interest and deployment of virtual desktops and VMware View in enterprise computing environments, secure, multi-protocol hardware zero clients are an ideal solution for universal employee access. For example in the healthcare industry, facility wide access must be available to any hospital compute resource. In addition to enabling strict security for compliance, the PCoIP client can be used to access highly virtualized electronic medical records, or performance workstations for high-resolution diagnostic images, video or 3D models.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: multi-protocol hardware zero client, pcoip, teradici, teradici corporation, virtual desktop, virtualisation, virtualization, VMware View

The SCO Group Offers Free 1-Year Subscription on New Virtualized Version

September 4, 2009 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

The SCO Group today announced that it is offering a free one-year subscription with the purchase of its new OpenServer 5.0.7V virtualized version of the UNIX operating system. The licensing promotion is available until October 2, 2009.

SCO’s new OpenServer 5.0.7V is a virtualized version of its popular UNIX operating system that is optimized for the VMware environment. OpenServer5.0.7V gives customers a familiar environment while increasing the power and
efficiency of a virtualized infrastructure and extending the life of existing OpenServer applications to run on modern hardware.

OpenServer 5.0.7V is offered as an Enterprise Edition and is licensed under an annual subscription model; however the subscription fee for the first yearwill be waived with this special promotion for all purchases made through October 2, 2009. OpenServer 5.0.7V requires the installation of a time-limited subscription license available from SCO resellers.

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Red Hat, HP Optimize RH Enterprise Virtualization for HP BladeSystem Matrix

September 3, 2009 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Red Hat and HP today expanded their collaboration to drive the next generation of converged server, storage and networking infrastructure solutions with the launch of open source software designed to improve administrator productivity, lower costs and maximize resource utilization.

Yesterday, Red Hat announced the availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4, the foundation of the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization portfolio of solutions. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 is now available on HP BladeSystem and HP ProLiant servers. With this combination, customers can take advantage of an open source, standards-based virtual infrastructure that provides scalability and security capabilities. Additionally, enterprises will be able to leverage management capabilities offered by both companies. In the future, customers can expect increasing levels of management integration between the system and operating environment to further drive administrator productivity.

The HP BladeSystem Matrix is a “cloud infrastructure in a box” that brings the economics, scalability and response times of the cloud to diverse applications across customers` data centers.

Customers can obtain increased performance improvement and cost savings by deploying Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and JBoss Enterprise Middleware on HP ProLiant G6 platforms. They also can get a single point of accountability for the purchase and support of Red Hat Enterprise Linux on HP systems. With its comprehensive range of world-class support services, HP offers customers complete confidence to grow their businesses while controlling costs.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: enterprise virtualization, HP, hp bladesystem matrix, red hat, red hat enterprise virtualization, red hat hp, RedHat, virtualisation, virtualization

Virtustream Raises $25 Million Equity Financing

September 2, 2009 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Virtustream a privately held infrastructure services firm, today announced the completion of new equity financing with total commitments of $25 million led by Virginia based Columbia Capital and Miami based Blue Lagoon Capital.

Virtustream is an infrastructure services firm committed to helping clients actualize the enterprise cloud by providing strategy, integration and managed services leveraging deep virtualization experience, and its own proprietary platform. The infusion of funding is part of Virtustream’s growth strategy and will be used to continue accelerating its platform development, build international presence and expand domain expertise.

Virtustream also recently completed the acquisition of VirtualizeIT, the premier European consultancy practice dedicated to the advancement and adoption of virtualization technologies, and Brigh Technologies (Brigh), the leading North American provider for the design and deployment of custom solutions in the virtualization space. The union brings together pioneers in enterprise computing including being one of the first VMware professional services partners in North America and the 2008 VMware EMEA Partner of the Year. The stockholders of both acquired companies will have an equity interest in Virtustream, and all employees will continue their employment with Virtustream.

Filed Under: Funding Tagged With: blue lagoon capital, columbia capital, financing, Funding, infrastructure services, virtualisation, virtualization, virtualizeit, virtustream

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