Avastu Blog: Sustainable Global Clouds

Avastu as in my blog ;-) So here's returning the favor and letting ye all know that we're gonna kick ass together and ride together into the next decade, a new era , (much professed by me only as of yet, aren't investors listening???) the Ideation-Age . Guy's email: We recently added your site to Alltop ( http://cloudcomputing.alltop. com/ ). Alltop is an "online magazine rack" that aggregates RSS feeds about popular topics. If Alltop is slow or down, please keep trying because we often get hammered by traffic. We'd appreciate your help in getting critical mass for Alltop. 1) Mention us on your site. I hope that you will share Alltop with your readers by writing about your site's inclusion—even the shortest blog post or news item will help. 2) Display our badge. Hundreds of our member sites display our badges, and we'd be honored if you did so too. In fact, we serve approximately 250,000 badges per day. They are available at http:/...

"ACM SIGKDD is pleased to present Dr. Raghu Ramakrishnan with its 2008 Innovation Award for his important contributions to the advancement of the data mining and knowledge discovery," said Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, chair of ACM SIGKDD. "Dr. Ramakrishnan's visionary research on techniques for scaling data mining algorithms to large datasets, and on mining ordered and streaming data has significantly influenced ongoing developments in the industry." The award is given to one individual or one group of collaborators who has made significant technical innovations in the field of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery that have been transferred to practice in significant ways, or that have significantly influenced direction of research and development in the field. The previous ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award winners include Rakesh Agrawal (IBM), Jerome Friedman (Stanford University), Heikki Mannila (Helsinki University of T...

LOS GATOS, Calif.--( BUSINESS WIRE )--VendorRate ( www.vendorrate.com ) announced today that IT professionals attending the LinuxWorld Expo 2008 Conference in San Francisco this month gave their highest customer satisfaction scores to technology vendors Amazon, VMware, Shoretel, Apple and Google. VendorRate.com, the only Internet site that offers quick, confidential performance ratings and comparisons of technology vendors, said hundreds of vendors were rated during the August 5-7 show attended by some 10,000 Linux users. Attendees were invited to rate any IT or telecom vendor, regardless of whether they were among the 200 exhibiting at the show. While raters at LinuxWorld 2008 demonstrated their general propensity for alternative technologies in their ratings, they also proved to be more scrutinous in their evaluations, delivering lower overall performance scores than vendors h...

PALO ALTO, Calif.--( BUSINESS WIRE )--VMware, Inc., (NYSE:VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter, today announced that VMware Infrastructure 3, VMware ESX Server 3.0.2 and VMware VirtualCenter ™ 2.0.2 have earned Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 4 (EAL4+) certification under the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC) Common Criteria Evaluation and Certification Scheme (CCS), following an extensive analysis and testing process. The EAL4+ rating is the highest assurance level that is recognized by all signatories under the Common Criteria Certificates (CCRA). “ Passing this rigorous, globally recognized certification process demonstrates our commitment to delivering secure, reliable virtualization products, ” said Dr. Stephen Herrod, chief technology officer for VMware. “ Earning the EAL4+ rating reinforces that VMwar...

Well I've always said that you were cool, guys. You don't need a Gartner to say that :-) This news further validates the strong interest that StackSafe Test Center has generated in the market in 2008. In the past two and a half months, we have accomplished numerous significant achievements: A successful launch at DEMO '08 Ranked #7 of the 72 DEMO companies by TheDeal.com Ranked #3 of 20 DEMO "Products That Matter to VARs" by ChannelWeb Listed as one of DEMO "Ten Favorite Products" by PC Magazine Positive analyst coverage of StackSafe Test Center Gartner First Take Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) Product Brief Ptak, Noel and Associates Commentary Winning the ITIL Innovation of the Year Award at the February ITIL Pink Elephant Conference

The results were attained following structured interviews with Fortune 1000 storage professionals across a variety of vertical industries. Throughout the last 10 iterations of TheInfoPro ’ s Storage Study, spanning five years, Hitachi Data Systems has consistently led in customers ’ ratings for both in-use block-level virtualization and near-term deployments. “ The steady stream of positive customer feedback speaks to the strength of our storage solutions and our unique ability to deliver these in a services-oriented approach, ” said Hu Yoshida, CTO, Hitachi Data Systems. “ Hitachi is the only company to deliver storage virtualization in a scalable, enterprise-class, storage control unit, which in turn, provides the capability to aggregate the storage services of the control unit to enhance lower level storage resources. Combining storage services like thin provisioning i...

Parallels Desktop 3.0 is a Mac system utility that allows users to run Windows, Linux, and more side-by-side with Mac OS X on any Intel-powered Mac, without rebooting. Parallels’ Mac virtualization technology has won over 25 major industry awards and is used by more than 850,000 users every day. * Runs Windows programs like native Mac applications with Parallels Coherence feature * Opens Windows files with Mac apps and Mac files with Windows apps using Parallels SmartSelect feature * Shares files and folders between Windows and Mac OS X via “drag-and-drop”, shared folders, and the new Mirrored Shared Folder utility, which gives users access to important documents with single-click simplicity from either Windows or Mac applications. Link

London - 7th March 2008- Attenda Limited, the Always On Managed Services company, today announced that it has been awarded the VMware EMEA Hosting Partner of the Year Award. The award was presented at the Partners Awards ceremony at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes, France, as part of VMworld Europe 2008, which was attended by more than 4,500 IT professionals from around Europe to experience Europe's largest virtualisation industry event. The award is a mark of Attenda's success as a leading VMware Service Provider, bringing to market new virtual infrastructure hosting and managed services offerings. Commenting on the Award, Steve Jackson, Director, EMEA Strategic Partners, VMware, said "VMware is proud to honour Attenda with this well deserved accolade. As one of our primary EMEA Service Provider Partners, Attenda is embracing VMware 's datacenter virtualization capabilities in VMware Infrastructure 3 to create innovative and powerful on-demand computing services fo...

I like 3PAR guys for their excpetional and unique approach to storage challenges. So covering and watching them receive such honors is no surprise to me ;-) Fremont, CA , February 14, 2008-- 3PAR ® (NYSE Arca: PAR), the leading global provider of utility storage , announced today that the 3PAR InServ ® S800 Storage Server was cited most frequently as a “Most Exciting Product in Use” by midsize enterprise storage end users in Wave 10 of the TheInfoPro’s ™ (TIP) Wave 10 Midsize Enterprise (MSE) Storage Study. In addition, 3PAR was cited as the leader in “Customer Fulfilment,” and in sustaining the highest level of customer loyalty, with 100% of current 3PAR users indicating they would not consider switching vendors. 3PAR was also cited as one of the top “Most Exciting Storage Vendors” for the midsize enterprise, which TIP defines as companies with revenues between $150 Million and $1 Billion. Many of 3PAR’s customers in this segment include service providers and Internet/Web 2.0 compa...

Congrats to Pano folks and the others as well! By granting the Silver award to Pano Logic's thin-client device, judges recognized the benefits of a truly thin-client device designed specifically for virtual desktop deployments. Meanwhile, the Bronze award resulted in a tie between Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) for their latest quad-core processors with enhanced virtualization capabilities (the Xeon 7300 and quad-core Opteron processor, respectively). In approaching the limits of Moore's Law, x86 processor vendors have recognized that innovation should focus on improved utilization enabled by virtualizing workloads rather than on speed. See more here...

This is indeed a great product and really deserves those awards! "The annual Technology of the Year Awards recognize the best and most innovative products reviewed by the InfoWorld Test Center in the past year that are transforming, and will continue to transform, IT in the coming year," said Doug Dineley, Executive Editor, Test Center at InfoWorld. "2007 was a big year for virtualization, and VMware continues to lead the way." InfoWorld's 2008 Technology of the Year Awards recognize 49 IT products across 9 general categories and identify the highest scoring products and technologies reviewed in the past year by the InfoWorld Test Center. Selected by InfoWorld Test Center editors and reviewers, the annual awards identify the best and most innovative products on the IT landscape. InfoWorld's Technology of the Year Awards are not open to outside nominations. Winners are drawn from all of the products tested during the past year, with the final selections m...

VMware, Inc., the virtualization leader, today announced VMware Infrastructure was named "Best Software" at the CMP XChange Tech Innovators conference last week in Miami. The recognition adds to other recent accolades from attendees of CMP Channel-focused conferences. In August, VMware products won CMP XChange XCellence awards in four categories: Best of Show, Best Software Solution, Best Business Technology and Most Innovative Technology. "Innovation is truly the heart of the technology industry, and the winners of this year's VARBusiness Tech Innovator Awards have taken innovation to the next level," said Robert C. DeMarzo, vice president and editorial director at CMP Channel. "We congratulate each and every one of this year's Tech Innovator Award winners." Press Release at VMware

The FalconStor CDP Virtual Appliance for VMware Virtual Infrastructure is the first solution to provide customers with complete data protection across both physical and virtual systems. Fully certified and integrated with the VMware ESX server, the CDP Virtual Appliance gives organizations the ability to meet data protection challenges by providing continuous availability of the application server and its data across virtual and physical environments. This industry-first data protection solution effectively eliminates backup windows and the need for mandatory restores to deliver true business continuity. “We are particularly proud to receive this award for technological innovation from VARBusiness based on recognition from value-added resellers and solution providers,” said Wendy Petty, vice president of sales, FalconStor Software. “The FalconStor CDP Virtual Appliance has been designed to provide channel partners and, in turn, their end-user customers, with a complete data protection...

And loads of other winners and runner-ups. Bridget reports: In the Data Protection and Security category, the gold went to Symantec Corp.'s NetBackup 6.5 for its tight and elegant integration with VMware Consolidated Backup, or VCB. Finalists include Cupertino, Calif.-based Blue Lane Technologies Inc. for VirtualShield and Boulder, Colo.-based LeftHand Networks Inc. for its Virtual SAN Appliance. Check out the whole list.

Rainfinity virtualizes unstructured data environments and moves data according to policy, including active and open files, without disruption. These features are designed to help IT organizations optimize disk utilization, improve storage performance and system responsiveness, while lowering capital expenditures and reducing total cost of ownership of heterogeneous NAS, CAS and server environments. “This editor’s choice award validates EMC Rainfinity’s value to IT organizations as a safe, scalable and effective solution to help manage rapidly growing file systems and we’re honored to receive this recognition from Communications Week,” said Sean Lanagan, EMC Corp. Vice President and General Manager, Rainfinity Business Unit. “Organizations are struggling to fully maximize networked storage capacity while keeping pace with massive enterprise data growth. EMC Rainfinity simplifies these challenges through tiered storage optimization and automated file management and archiving.” See the pr...

This time we are talking about the "AO* Top Private Company" award! These guys never cease to amaze us. AO = AlwaysOn BTW. Blue Lane and the AlwaysOn 100 Top Private Companies for 2007 will be honored at the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit to be held July 31 - August 2, at Stanford University. The Stanford Summit is a two-and-a-half-day executive gathering that highlights the significant economic, political and commercial trends affecting the global technology industries. The idea behind the AO100 top private companies list is to identify the most promising entrepreneurial opportunities and investments in the global technology industry. Blue Lane has advanced the state of server security by being the first comprehensive application and protocol-aware vulnerability shield for both physical and virtual servers. Blue Lane products decode all traffic with minimal latency, protecting servers from attacks designed to evade general purpose IDS/IPS products. As a result, servers are protect...