ArabBusiness.com: Virtualization goes everywhere in a flat world!

In fact, the response from regional CIOs to a new idea in IT can probably best be summed up by this quote from Sir William Preece, chief engineer at the British Post Office in 1878: "The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys."

So it's all the more surprising that vendors and end users seem be in absolute agreement about virtualisation - the ability to present a singular piece of hardware as multiple virtual devices - and are happily repeating the same mantra - "it's the way of the future, the way of the future".

With the ability to virtualise nearly any piece of hardware or software, virtualisation has the potential to completely transform the enterprise IT space. The depth to which it can be applied within an organisation's operations is really only limited by the imagination of the IT manager.

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Get Vyatta Virtual Appliance, now VMware certified!

We all know Vyatta, don't we?

Vyatta, the leader in Linux-based networking, today announced that its open-source networking software has received VMware Virtual Appliance Certification, thereby providing customers with a solution that has been optimized for a production-ready VMware environment. The company also announced it has joined the VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) Program. As a member of TAP, Vyatta will offer its solutions via the TAP program website. With the Vyatta virtual appliance for VMware environments, organizations can now include Vyatta’s router, firewall and VPN functions as part of their virtualized infrastructure.

Vyatta combines enterprise-class routing and security capabilities into an integrated, reliable and commercially supported software solution, delivering twice the performance of proprietary network solutions at half the price. Running Vyatta software as virtual appliances gives customers many more options for scaling their data centers and cons…

3PAR adds native LDAP support to simplify administration

3PAR®, the leading global provider of utility storage, announced today native support for lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP). Support for LDAP enables centralized user authentication and authorization using a standard protocol for managing access to IT resources. With 3PAR’s support for LDAP, customers are able to now integrate 3PAR Utility Storage--a simple, cost-efficient, and massively scalable storage platform—with standard, open enterprise directory services. The result is simplified security administration with centralized access control and identity management.

“3PAR Utility Storage already provides us with a reliable, shared, and easy-to-use consolidated storage platform,” said Burzin Engineer, Vice President of Infrastructure Services at Shopzilla. "Now, with 3PAR support for LDAP, managing security commonly--across all our resources, including storage--is also simple and efficient.”

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In fact, the response from regional CIOs to a new idea in IT can probably best be summed up by this quote from Sir William Preece, chief engineer at the British Post Office in 1878: "The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys."

So it's all the more surprising that vendors and end users seem be in absolute agreement about virtualisation - the ability to present a singular piece of hardware as multiple virtual devices - and are happily repeating the same mantra - "it's the way of the future, the way of the future".

With the ability to virtualise nearly any piece of hardware or software, virtualisation has the potential to completely transform the enterprise IT space. The depth to which it can be applied within an organisation's operations is really only limited by the imagination of the IT manager.

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