Cisco, NetApp and VMware team up for dynamic data center
Cisco, NetApp and VMware announced Tuesday an expansion of their collaboration to deliver new architectures for improved efficiency, flexibility and security. The three companies introduced an end-to-end Secure Multi-tenancy Design...
Voltaire announces 40 Gigabit InfiniBand switch with integrated Ethernet gateway
Voltaire on Tuesday announced the industry’s first 40 Gbit/sec. InfiniBand switch with a built-in low latency Ethernet gateway for seamlessly bridging traffic to and from Ethernet-based networks. The Voltaire Grid Director 4036...
Mellanox 10 Gigabit Ethernet available through HP
Mellanox on Monday announced that is latency-sensitive ConnectX-2 EN controller is now available on the new HP NC542m Dual Port Flex-10 10GbE BLc Adapter directly from HP for the company’s HP BladeSystem c-Class servers. The HP...
Unidesk gets $12 Million venture funding
Unidesk of Marlborough, Mass., announced Monday that it had received $12 million in Series B venture funding. Unidesk focuses on desktop virtualization software used to run multiple operating systems on the current generation of...
Oracle acquisition of Sun approved by European Commission
Oracle announced on Thursday that it had received unconditional regulatory approval from the European Commission for its acquisition of Sun Microsystems. Oracle expects unconditional approval from China and Russia and intends to...
VKernel releases Optimization Pack 1.2
VKernal Wednesday announced release 1.2 of its Optimization Pack, to manage VM sprawl, re-size virtual machines (VMs) to improve performance and increase the number of VMs on existing hardware and reclaim storage wasted on abandoned...
5nine Software releases Hyper-V migration solution
5nine Software Wednesday announced the release of 5nine Migrator for Hyper-V, software designed for enterprises and small to medium businesses’ physical to virtual deployment with Hyper-V. Migrator includes functions for migration...
International Computerware introduces the vCube
International Computerware announced on Wednesday the introduction of the vCube, a datacenter solution that combines servers, switches, unified storage, virtualization, monitoring, information protection and other modular components...
VMware expands VMware vCloud developer platform
VMware on Wednesday announced the availability of both Java and Python open-source software development kits (SDKs) for the VMware vCloud API. Python and Java SDKs for the VMware vCloud API will accelerate developers’ ability to...
IEEE launches Smart Grid web portal
IEEE on Tuesday launched a web portal dedicated to intelligence related to Smart Grid technology. With over 100 standards published or in development specific to Smart Grid, IEEE is in a position to provide information critical to...
Gartner CIO survey predicts flat spending for 2010
Gartner on Tuesday released the results of its 2010 CIO survey which shows that budgets are expected to be 1.3% higher in 2010 than in 2009, when budgets were slashed by 8.1%. The survey includes responses from 1,586 CIOs...
Intel plans Westmere release during Q1
During its quarterly earnings call Thursday, Intel CEO Paul Otellini said that new Xeon server processors, based on the Westmere architecture, would be released during the current calendar quarter. Using a 32 nanometer process, Intel...
HP and Microsoft to invest $250 million for product integration
Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft executives discussed a three-year agreement for a product development strategy to simplify technology deployments by their customers, in a Wednesday conference call. An ‘infrastructure-to-application’...
VMware eases virtualization implementation for SMBs
VMware on Wednesday announced the availability of VMware Go, a web-based service that allows small or medium businesses (SMBs) to virtualize servers and create running virtual machines with just a few clicks of a mouse. By automating...
Wyse has new client provisioning software
Wyse Technology on Wednesday introduced the availability of WSM 3.0 for provisioning thin clients. New features include faster application streaming and pre-fetching, high availability for distributed sites, full Windows 7...
VMware to acquire Zimbra
VMware announced Tuesday that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Zimbra, a vendor of e-mail and collaboration software, from Yahoo! Inc. Financial aspects of the deal were not disclosed. Zimbra is an open source...
Raritan has encrypted version of KVM switch
Raritan on Monday launched a keyboard video mouse (KVM) switch with an embedded Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2 certified encryption module, providing KVM-over-IP security. The Cryptographic Module used by the...
APC and IBM partner on shipping container data center
APC by Schneider Electric on Monday announced an expanded relationship with IBM to offer an IBM Portable Modular Data Center (PMDC) container version based on APC's InfraStruxure architecture and IBM's global services capabilities....
CDW virtualization survey finds high level of deployment
CDW Monday released the results of its Server Virtualization Life Cycle Report examining the maturity of the server virtualization market. The survey involved 387 IT executives in organizations with 100 employees or more. 90% of...
Cisco selects Avnet for unified computing distribution
Shortly before the Holidays, Avnet announced that it would be distributing Cisco’s data center products in the US and Canada. In addition to the Unified Computing System (UCS) Blade and Rack servers (models B and C), the agreement...
