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Kaspersky Lab To Add Support For VMware vShield For Virtual Data Centers

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Kaspersky Lab, a developer of secure content and threat management solutions, recently announced that it will support VMware vShield Endpoint from later this year and offer comprehensive protection for virtual machines from the latest malware threats.

VMware vShield Endpoint streamlines and accelerates anti-virus and anti-malware processing. It improves performance and provides comprehensive security by eliminating the need for agents in every virtual machine. In addition, the solution optimises resource utilisation by offloading anti-virus processing to a single security virtual machine.

VMware Acquires Shavlik Technologies

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Virtualization software juggernaut VMware this morning announced that it has agreed to buy Shavlik Technologies, a provider of cloud-based IT management solutions for small and medium businesses (SMBs).

Financial terms of the acquisition, which is expected to be completed later this year, were not disclosed, but Mark Shavlik was ‘happy‘ to announce the agreement: “I want to thank all Shavlik employees past and present as well as our partners. Because of your hard work and dedication, we were able to build a great company…Our two companies have a long-term relationship built upon VMware GO™, our joint SaaS based IT Management solution. VMware GO assists SMBs with rapid deployment and management of VMware vSphere, the VMware Hypervisor and general IT management of both physical and virtual computers. VMware GO has attracted over 200,000 registered users creating more than 20,000 VMware Hypervisors and 120,000 Virtual machines. Shavlik and VMware share a vision of IT Management for now and the future. A vision of delivering solid, easy to use IT solutions to SMBs to enable customers to take full advantage of the efficiencies gained with the latest technologies. ”

Shavlik Technologies was founded in 1993 to offer a new approach to security application design and development that enabled us to take big steps in the simplification of computer security while at the same time creating a very trustworthy product. Since then, we have grown to help thousands of customers simplify their IT management.

Shavlik Technologies provides on-premise and SaaS-based management solutions that enable SMBs to manage, monitor and secure their IT environments when moving to virtual and cloud computing IT deployments.

Some view this acquisition as a way for VMware to ‘shield’ their customers from popular configuration management and deployment tools, such as Puppet, Opscode’s Chef, and even Microsoft’s System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM).

According to VMware’s press release, Shavlik currently has more than 3,500 customers using their on premise IT management products.

VMware Acquires SlideRocket

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VMware recently announced that it has acquired SlideRocket, an SaaS-based business presentation provider.

Terms of the acquisition were not announced.

SlideRocket delivers innovative presentation solutions that uniquely leverage modern concepts of cloud computing, collaboration, social media and mobile computing platforms. More than 20,000 customers and 300,000 users leverage Slide Rocket to more effectively build, deliver and share presentations.

SlideRocket is built specifically to take advantage of a modern web and cloud based end-user computing model that blurs the lines between presentations, websites and multi-media content.

The acquisition of SlideRocket advances VMware’s vision for a modern end-user computing model leveraging cloud computing to securely deliver access to applications and data from any device, where and when a user needs it. Presentation software is second only to email as the most widely used business software.

Virtacore Debuts VMware vCloud Express, An On-Demand Self-Service Cloud Offering

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Virtacore Systems, provider of hybrid cloud services, has announced the availability of the company’s vCloud Express offering. The public cloud solution, based on VMware vCloud technology, provides virtual servers from a shared resource pool for a low monthly cost.

One of only two global providers to offer vCloud Express, Virtacore vCloud Express provides organizations with an on-demand, pay-as-you-go infrastructure that meets the needs of organizations seeking a flexible and affordable infrastructure.

Socialtext Unleashes New Virtual Appliance Built For VMware

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Socialtext, an enterprise social software provider, recently announced the addition of a new deployment option that enables customers to run Socialtext on VMware.

In a targeted effort to help IT leaders leverage virtualization investments inside their private cloud environments, Socialtext released the Socialtext Virtual Appliance. This new offering provides organizations with the ability to install social software securely behind the firewall and easily scale server resources as their use of Socialtext expands.

The virtual appliance adds to a rich set of deployment options offered by Socialtext. The company’s enterprise social software platform can be hosted in the cloud (single or multi-tenant), or on premises as a private cloud (a hardware appliance and, as of today, a virtual appliance).

VMware Debuts Cloud Foundry, An Open PaaS

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VMware recently delivered Cloud Foundry, according to the company the industry’s first open Platform as a Service (PaaS) and a new generation of application platform, architected specifically for cloud computing environments and delivered as a service from enterprise datacenters and public cloud service providers.

Cloud Foundry streamlines the development, delivery and operations of modern applications, significantly enhancing the ability of developers to deploy, run and scale their applications in cloud environments while embracing the widest choice of public and private clouds, industry-standard high productivity developer frameworks and application infrastructure services.

VMware introduced a new VMware-operated developer cloud service, a new open source PaaS project and a “Micro Cloud” PaaS solution.

Cloud Foundry supports popular, high productivity programming frameworks, including Spring for Java, Ruby on Rails, Sinatra for Ruby and Node.js, as well as support for other JVM-based frameworks including Grails. The open architecture will enable additional programming frameworks to be rapidly supported in the future.

For application services, Cloud Foundry will initially support the MongoDB, MySQL and Redis databases with planned support for VMware vFabric services.

Cloud Foundry is not tied to any single cloud environment, nor does it require a VMware infrastructure to operate.