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ThousandEyes Emerges From Stealth, Launches Performance Management for the Cloud Era

2013-06-19T12:19:00Z

Today at Structure 2013, ThousandEyes emerged from stealth mode and launched a new product that, for the first time, provides detailed visibility into the performance of cloud applications and helps IT teams resolve performance problems quickly. ThousandEyes' customers include members of the Fortune 500, Equinix, Evernote, Priceline, ServiceNow, Twitter, Zendesk and Zynga. ...(read more)

Moorfields Hospital Invests in Workspace Virtualization to Improve Service Delivery

2013-06-19T12:15:00Z

Moorfields Eye Hospital is working with Workspace Virtualization specialist RES Software to significantly improve IT service delivery across the hospital's central London campus....(read more)

Q&A: Interview with Instart Logic Talking about the Application Streaming Network

2013-06-19T12:13:00Z

Peter Blum heads product management and product marketing at Instart Logic, which unveiled its new Web Application Streaming Network June 13, the week before the O'Reilly Velocity conference where the world gathers to talk about the latest advances in web performance and optimization solutions. I've previously spoken with Peter when he was at Citrix, where he was senior director of product management and marketing for the XenClient product. So I thought it appropriate to reach back out to him to see if I can find out more about what his latest venture is all about....(read more)

N-able Announces 2013 EMEA Managed Service Provider Partner of the Year Awards

2013-06-19T11:52:00Z

N-able by SolarWinds, a global leader in remote monitoring and management (RMM) and service automation software, today announced its 2013 EMEA Managed Service Provider (MSP) Partner of the Year awards. The annual awards recognize N-able's top-performing international partners for outstanding achievement in leveraging N-able's N-central MSP service automation platform to deliver exceptional IT service to customers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA)....(read more)

Bromium vSentry 2.0 protects users, companies with latest microvisor

2013-06-19T11:28:00Z

At Citrix Synergy this year, I had the opportunity to speak with Simon Crosby, co-founder and CTO at Bromium. Though Bromium didn't have a booth at this year's event, I've discovered on more than one occasion that Crosby and I have a knack for finding one another in a crowd of a few thousand people. That's great news for me because I was able to get a sneak peek at what Bromium has been up to since our last conversation months earlier....(read more)

Zenoss Cloud Service Assurance Certified on VCE Vblock Systems

2013-06-19T00:42:00Z

Zenoss Inc, the leading provider of unified IT monitoring and management solutions for physical, virtual, and cloud-based IT infrastructures, today announced that Zenoss Cloud Service Assurance has been certified on Vblock Systems from VCE as "Vblock Ready". ...(read more)

Combine Flash and Storage Virtualization

2013-06-19T00:29:00Z

Join DataCore and Astute to Learn About Achieving Unparalleled Storage Performance & Availability for Physical and Virtualized Applications...(read more)

Inktank Works with Alcatel-Lucent to Integrate Ceph Storage in CloudBand

2013-06-19T00:27:00Z

Inktank, the company delivering Ceph – the massively scalable, open source, software-defined storage system, today announced it is teaming with Alcatel-Lucent to help service providers manage their storage infrastructure within the cloud....(read more)

Symantec Issues Global SMB IT Confidence Index

2013-06-19T00:25:00Z

Symantec Corp. today released its 2013 Global SMB IT Confidence Index, which found that SMBs with higher IT Confidence scores are more successful in leveraging IT to drive their business, and ultimately experience stronger, better business outcomes....(read more)

More than 500 Licenses of PHD CloudHook Sold in the First 90 Days

2013-06-19T00:06:00Z

PHD Virtual Technologies, a pioneer in virtual backup, infrastructure monitoring and innovator of disaster recovery assurance solutions, announced today that its newly launched CloudHook™ backup feature is off to a great start with more than 500 licenses sold in the first 90 days. ...(read more)

Media Temple Kicks off HostingCon 2013 with Speed and Simplicity; Introduces Next Generation VPS Hosting Platform and CloudTech Premium Technical Support

2013-06-19T00:04:00Z

Today, (mt) Media Temple, a leading provider of web hosting and cloud services, launches a slate of new products and services during this year’s HostingCon 2013 to further enhance its customer experience and provide time-saving solutions for small businesses, entrepreneurs and enterprises. ...(read more)

PrivateCore Beta Program Opens to High Demand

2013-06-19T00:03:00Z

PrivateCore, the private computing company, today announced the general availability of its PrivateCore vCage software beta release which protects data in use with full memory encryption. The beta release is designed to provide service providers (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS), government, financial trading and enterprises with early access to this unique technology that provides a new layer of security for achieving end-to-end data protection. ...(read more)

OnApp and Bacula4Hosts to Bring Near Continuous Data Protection to OnApp Cloud

2013-06-19T00:01:00Z

OnApp has partnered with Bacula4Hosts to bring its backup and recovery system to the OnApp Cloud platform. Developed by leading cloud and managed services provider Cartika, Bacula4Hosts will add incremental backup and self-service restore to the OnApp Cloud platform, so data is backed up as it changes, and customers can restore specific files and databases as well as entire virtual machines. It will complement the existing backup and restore capabilities of OnApp Cloud by adding near-continuous data protection, and create a more flexible, resilient and efficient backup environment for cloud providers and their customers. ...(read more)

CloudFounders Launches CloudFrames vRun for Cisco UCS

2013-06-19T00:00:00Z

CloudFounders, Innovators in Cloud Technologies, has launched CloudFrames vRun offering, an all-in-one converged infrastructure in a box. CloudFrames vRun is purpose-built for the industry leading Cisco UCS server architecture and builds further on the unique Cisco Unified Computing principle. CloudFrames vRun offers Storage Virtualization, VM centric Management, Snapshotting, Replication and Multi-Tenant Networking on a single platform....(read more)

Infoblox Speeds Up Cloud Deployments with New IPAM Plug-In Integration with VMware vCloud Automation Center

2013-06-18T23:58:00Z

Infoblox Inc., the automated network control company, today announced that the Infoblox IP Address Management (IPAM) Plug-in for VMware is now integrated with VMware vCloud Automation Center. As part of the VMware vCloud Suite, the VMware vCloud Automation Center is designed to enable rapid deployment and provisioning of cloud services across private and public clouds, physical infrastructures, hypervisors and public cloud providers. The plug-in is designed to deliver cloud infrastructure resources on-demand to provide maximum business agility. ...(read more)