Avastu Blog: Sustainable Global Clouds

The new offering leverages industry-standard NPIV to provide customers with the functionality to maintain storage area network (SAN) best practices, while delivering improved Quality of Service (QoS) and data protection capabilities. Additionally, Emulex has teamed with Cisco and VMware to integrate NPIV functionality into VMware VMotion(tm) technology, which enhances storage access by maintaining the same Virtual Port ID while migrating live virtual machines from one physical host to another. "This solution brings together the best in virtualized server and storage technologies, innovation and expertise by combining the unique features associated with NPIV and VMware VMotion. VMware VMotion helps eliminate downtime and works with NPIV to ensure a continuous SAN connection during the virtual machine migration process, and enables leverage of critical features and functionality, such as zoning," said Mike Smith, executive vice president of worldwide marketing, Emulex Corporat...

Got this from our webpitr folks: London - January 22, 2008 - Rackspace ( www.rackspace.co.uk ) today announced its new corporate identity reflecting its shift into IT hosting. As more organisations transition from purchasing in-house computing assets to leveraging service providers, Rackspace now offers a suite of hosted IT services that are more reliable and provide better value, including virtualisation, hosted mail, custom application support, back-end IT and storage. "Fanatical Support(r), our business philosophy, has been central to our managed hosting success for the past nine years and will continue to propel us as we expand our offering. Our new services will complement our existing portfolio allowing customers to easily offload more and more IT functions, and our new identity reflects this approach," said Doug Loewe, Managing Director, Rackspace EMEA. The newly-launched name, Rackspace, drops the "Managed Hosting" terminology, signifying Rackspace's new...

AUSTIN, Texas—January 23, 2008 — Surgient, the market leader in virtual labs that power solutions for software testing, training and evaluation, today announced that it has been awarded three new patents from the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Reinforcing its technical leadership in the virtual lab management market, the three new patents cover technologies that enable Surgient customers to better allocate, manage and organize virtualized resources used to accelerate the software development and delivery lifecycle. The three patented technologies are key components of the Surgient virtual lab management platform, providing organizations with enhanced efficiency for all software delivery processes. Specifically, the patented technologies help organizations better manage and coordinate the use of virtual labs across both their physical and virtual infrastructures, ensuring that IT resources are utilized to their fullest capacity. “Since pioneering the virtual lab manag...

We will do our RTA (Real-Time Analysis) on the community blog of CEB and talk about the future (Near-Future to be precise) developments with such "implosive black-holing"phenomena. The trillion dollar question is: Where does the consumer stand in all this hyper-disruptive era). I may also be writing for the cool domain owner Toon Vanagt of the one and only Virtualization.com soon. You'll be hearing from me soon on that one. “We see virtualization as the next great frontier within IT,” said Vinny Smith , Quest CEO , “and the completion of the Vizioncore acquisition along with the recent additions of Provision Networks and Invirtus to the Quest family combine to position us as one of the leading pioneers in this emerging market space. As virtualization grows in importance for organizations, the demand for the kind of management products we’ve delivered for years in the database, application and Windows infrastructure areas will increase. Seeing this as the next logical...

I spoke to Albert Lee, Fourder, CSO & Director of xkoto, last week and we had a very interesting discussion on this emerging trend. Applications is king! Without applications it really doesn't make any sense of even a business case to go ahead with virtualization. If one can ensure that their apps are going to function and perform seamlessly across all these virtualization domains, then surely you should go for virtualization. Anyways, here are the Q&A's: Hi Albert, tell us a bit about xkoto's history? What made you start xkoto? xkoto was founded in 2005 by Albert Lee, Dr. Jeff Heisz, and Ariff Kassam. We were running a mature systems mgt s/w company and recognized customer trends towards commodity computing & virtualization. We recognized that all the virtualization technologies, whether at the app, O/S, storage, or network layer would need to interact with transactional data. xkoto is our response to the need for data virtualization that can enabl...

Key Benefits include: * Proven Technology: One of the most sophisticated connection brokering and virtual machine lifecycle management solutions in the industry, Sentral builds on five generations in production environments to provide unique connection brokering features, including switching, sparing, load balancing as well as support for 1:1 and 1:many connection models. Delivered through its Virtualization Module, Sentral's VM lifecycle management features VM pooling and automated hibernation. The Dynamic Allocation Module manages all of the connection brokering tasks through static or dynamic mappings of users and devices to blades and virtual machines based on availability and utilization. * A One Stop Shop: A single management console for virtual desktop and centralized computing management, Sentral provides a single management framework for centralized computing infrastructures. Beyond its connection broker and VM management functionality, Sentral provides system ...

Milton, Australia – January 22, 2008 – Moonwalk Inc., the Australian developer of all-inclusive data management and protection software, today announced that it has been awarded General Services Administration (GSA) certification, allowing the company to offer its enterprise data management system for direct sale to U.S. government agencies. GSA is the premier procurement source for federal government employees and agencies. GSA works closely with federal agencies and industry partners to establish long-term, government-wide contracts that allow customers in the public sector to acquire a vast array of products and services directly from commercial suppliers. GSA certification is a process instituted by the government that requires potential government vendors to be recognized as credible and established. “By earning GSA certification, we are now positioned to offer government agencies the ability to purchase and implement Moonwalk software into their network computing environments wi...