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SYS-CON's Virtualization News Desk trawls the news sources of the world for the latest details of virtualization technologies, products, and market trends, and provides breaking news updates from the Virtualization Conference & Expo.
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5th International
Virtualization Conference
& Expo in London Will Be
the Most Significant
Virtualization Event to
Date By Virtualization News Desk  The conference theme of
the Virtualization
Conference & Expo Europe,
to be held in London,
England, January 26-27,
2009, is 'Deploying
Virtualization in the
Enterprise.' The Call for
Papers, which is now
open, welcomes
submissions from
exceptional speakers with
... Jul. 24, 2008 04:30 PM Reads: 28,430 Replies: 2 | Deploying into the
Clouds: Concepts,
Benefits, and Experiences By Virtualization News Desk  Cloud Computing offers
significant benefits over
traditional solutions for
deploying production
systems as well as for
conducting development
and testing activities.
Dr Thorsten von Eicken,
CTO of RightScale, Inc.,
will be giving a session
at SYS-CON's 'Cloud
Comp... Jul. 24, 2008 04:30 PM Reads: 10,989 | Virtualization on Wall
Street Conference & Expo
Will Be a Leading
Technology Event in New
York By Virtualization News Desk  SYS-CON Events announced
today that the
Virtualization on Wall
Street Conference & Expo
will take place on March
22-24, 2009, in New York
City. The event is
expected to attract over
1,000 developers,
architects, IT managers,
and software
professionals of every
s... Jul. 24, 2008 04:30 PM Reads: 13,236 | SYS-CON's Virtualization
Expo Was Larger Than Any
Gartner Event in Two
Years By Virtualization News Desk  Virtualization has
quickly become a staple
new concept for
enterprise IT. At
SYS-CON's 3rd
International
Virtualization Conference
& Expo, held at the
Roosevelt Hotel in New
York City, June 23-24, we
had exceptional speakers
with high-quality use
cases not only ... Jul. 24, 2008 04:30 PM Reads: 18,476 Replies: 2 | "Virtualization Power
Panel" Live on SYS-CON.TV By Virtualization News Desk Red Hat CTO Brian
Stevens, Citrix CTO Simon
Crosby, Egenera CTO Pete
Manca, Allen Stewart,
Group Manager, Windows
Virtualization at
Microsoft, and Brian
Duckering, Sr. Director
of Products and Alliances
at Symantec were the top
industry executives who
joined Jerem... Jul. 24, 2008 04:30 PM Reads: 8,017 | SYS-CON's "Cloud
Computing Expo" Call for
Papers Open Through July
31 By Virtualization News Desk The future model for
providing IT
infrastructure and
services in large
organizations is what
many today are calling
'Cloud Computing' - a
concept popularized by
Amazon through its web
services efforts. Merrill
Lynch analysts for
example reckon that by
2011 the v... Jul. 24, 2008 04:30 PM Reads: 7,281 | SYS-CON Launches Another
Worldwide First: "Cloud
Computing Journal" By Virtualization News Desk  The world's first journal
devoted to the delivery
of massively scalable IT
resources as a service
has been launched by
SYS-CON Media, the latest
in a series of
leading-edge additions to
its 25-plus stable of
online and print
publications such as Web
2.0 Journal, A... Jul. 24, 2008 04:30 PM Reads: 5,934 | Isilon Systems Licenses
Likewise Technology By Virtualization News Desk Likewise Software
announced that Isilon
Systems is licensing its
technology to further
streamline the management
of mixed storage
environments. Likewise
Software products deliver
state-of-the art
authentication and audit
capabilities for mixed
network environments... Jul. 24, 2008 04:15 PM Reads: 465 | Alameda County Medical
Center Selects DataCore's
Storage Virtualization By Virtualization News Desk DataCore Software
announced that its
SANmelody software is
serving as the foundation
of a replication and
disaster recovery (DR)
plan at Alameda County
Medical Center (ACMC)
that was orchestrated by
DataCore partner Entisys.
The IT environment at
ACMC was fundamen... Jul. 24, 2008 04:00 PM Reads: 390 | NYFIX Chooses Egenera for
Infrastructure
Virtualization By Virtualization News Desk Egenera announced that
electronic trading
systems pioneer NYFIX has
standardized on
infrastructure
virtualization solutions
from Egenera. Egenera
systems are highly
available, flexible
platforms that eliminate
the need to rigidly
dedicate servers to
applications... Jul. 24, 2008 04:00 PM Reads: 439 | BakBone Simplifies VMware
Virtualization for The
Latin School of Chicago By Virtualization News Desk BakBone is providing
comprehensive,
easy-to-manage VMware and
heterogeneous data
protection solutions for
The Latin School of
Chicago, helping the
school keep its focus on
students, rather than
data protection. An
independent,
coeducational day school
located on... Jul. 24, 2008 02:00 PM Reads: 657 | Reflex Security Launches
Reflex Virtual Security
Center By Virtualization News Desk Reflex Security announced
the availability of
Reflex Virtual Security
Center (VSC), pioneering
a new level of security
through heightened
visibility and control
for virtualized
environments. Reflex VSC
provides a single
authoritative visual
interface to secure the... Jul. 24, 2008 02:00 PM Reads: 343 | Avnet Provides Partners
with Virtualization
Market Understanding By Virtualization News Desk With Gartner predicting
that virtualization will
be the highest-impact
trend changing
infrastructure and
operations through 2012,
Avnet Technology
Solutions furthered its
commitment to enable its
value-added reseller
partners to excel in this
fast-growth market. A... Jul. 24, 2008 02:00 PM Reads: 373 | Catbird Launches
Virtualization Security
Training & Certification
Program By Virtualization News Desk Catbird announced the
Certified Virtual
Security Professional
(CVSP) Program, a
professional training and
certification program for
virtual security. The
CVSP program provides IT
professionals with
in-depth knowledge and
tools required for
best-practice
implemen... Jul. 24, 2008 11:30 AM Reads: 1,409 | TRANGO Hypervisor
Demonstrates Secure
Platform Virtualization
on TI OMAP3430 Processor By Virtualization News Desk TRANGO Virtual Processors
delivers isolation and
portability of operating
systems and drivers on
the TI OMAP 3 platform.
The TRANGO Hypervisor
offers a broad choice of
operating system (OS) and
real-time operating
system (RTOS) including
Linux, Windows Embedded
CE... Jul. 24, 2008 11:30 AM Reads: 339 | General Dynamics to
Deliver Trusted
Virtualization
Environment By Virtualization News Desk General Dynamics C4
Systems has selected the
OptiPlex 755 desktop by
Dell as the computer
hardware to host its
Trusted Virtual
Environment (TVE), a High
Assurance Platform
(HAP)-compliant
workstation intended for
classified work by
government users. The
workstat... Jul. 24, 2008 11:15 AM Reads: 779 | Trustware Releases New
Version Of Desktop
Virtualization Security
Software By Virtualization News Desk Trustware unveiled a new
version of its powerful
security software
application, BufferZone
Pro 3.0. With close to 2
million installations
worldwide, BufferZone has
become the de-facto
standard for browser and
application based
virtualization security.
By creating ... Jul. 24, 2008 11:15 AM Reads: 883 | Ericom Announces Desktop
Virtualization Solution
That Supports VMware's
ESXi Hypervisor By Virtualization News Desk Ericom announced that its
desktop virtualization
(VDI) and presentation
virtualization (SBC)
solution, PowerTerm
WebConnect, fully
integrates with VMware's
free ESXi hypervisor.
Currently, PowerTerm
WebConnect is one of the
only desktop
virtualization solution
t... Jul. 24, 2008 11:15 AM Reads: 210 | TRANGO Virtual Processors
Announces Secure
Virtualization for
Operating Systems By Virtualization News Desk TRANGO Virtual Processors
announced that it has
added support for the
uITRON RTOS to the
growing list of operating
systems.hosted by the
TRANGO Hypervisor.
TRANGO's secure
isolation, robust
protection of critical
data and services, and
the company's steadfast
co... Jul. 24, 2008 11:00 AM Reads: 300 | AppSense Sees
Acceleration in Desktop
Virtualization
Implementations By Virtualization News Desk AppSense reported a 50
percent increase in U.S.
revenue for the fiscal
year ended June 30, 2008.
Its global business -
which includes a growing
customer base of over
4,000 - realized a 30
percent increase in
worldwide revenue,
continuing its trend of
30 percent gr... Jul. 24, 2008 11:00 AM Reads: 219 | VMware to Ship
Virtualization Hypervisor
for Free By Virtualization News Desk VMware is moving to
create a free version of
the VMware ESXi
hypervisor. The company's
new CEO also plans to
delve deeper into cloud
computing and expand
VMware's virtualization
technology reach. Jul. 24, 2008 10:45 AM Reads: 233 | Astaro Releases New
Astaro Smart Installer By Virtualization News Desk Astaro announced the
availability of the
Astaro Smart Installer, a
new product designed to
allow resellers and
customers to quickly and
easily install Astaro
software appliances and
re-image Astaro hardware
appliances. Available for
Astaro Security Gateway
and Ast... Jul. 24, 2008 10:30 AM Reads: 173 | Emulex to Provide HBA
Virtualization Technology
for Solaris Environments By Virtualization News Desk Emulex announced that its
LightPulse Fibre Channel
host bus adapters (HBAs),
available from Sun as the
Sun StorageTek Enterprise
Class 4Gb/s PCI Express
HBA, now offer Virtual
HBA technology within
Solaris 10 Operating
System (OS) environments.
Enhanced capabilities... Jul. 24, 2008 09:45 AM Reads: 1,032 | Aerohive Introduces
Virtual HiveManager By Virtualization News Desk Aerohive announced the
availability of Virtual
HiveManager, a new
feature of the company's
HiveManager network
management system (NMS)
appliance. Virtual
HiveManager provides
network management
virtualization and
permits the flexible
delegation of network
manage... Jul. 24, 2008 09:45 AM Reads: 716 | Interphase Systems
Responds to Increased
Demand for Virtualization
Services By Virtualization News Desk Interphase Systems
announced it has named
Lew Smith as Product
Manager, Virtualization
Solutions. In this newly
created position, he will
be responsible for
leading and building
Interphase's
virtualization practice
and offerings, with a
concentration on the key
... Jul. 24, 2008 09:45 AM Reads: 573 | FalconStor Teams Up With
HiNet to Offer SaaS-Based
Storage Services in
Taiwan By Virtualization News Desk FalconStor announced its
expansion in the Software
as a Service (SaaS)
market, collaborating
with HiNet - the Internet
service provider (ISP)
arm of Chunghwa Telecom,
an information and
telecom service provider
in Taiwan - to make
online backup services
available ... Jul. 24, 2008 09:30 AM Reads: 155 | CA Products Complement
Alternative Technology's
Virtualization Offerings By Virtualization News Desk Alternative Technology
continues to expand its
offerings by announcing
it will supply a broad
range of CA distributed
enterprise IT management
software. Those offerings
include: application &
development databases;
application performance
management; database
mana... Jul. 24, 2008 09:15 AM Reads: 171 | VirtualLogix Introduces
Carrier Grade
Virtualization By Virtualization News Desk VirtualLogix announced
Carrier Grade
Virtualization, a
solution that meets the
performance, security,
serviceability and
availability needs of
next generation,
multicore-based carrier
grade systems.
VirtualLogix Carrier
Grade Virtualization
reduces the cost and ... Jul. 24, 2008 09:00 AM Reads: 536 | VMware Reports
Second-Quarter 2008
Results By Virtualization News Desk VMware reported financial
results for the second
quarter of 2008: Revenues
for the second quarter
were $456 million, an
increase of 54% from the
second quarter of 2007.
GAAP operating income for
the second quarter was
$61 million, compared to
$47 million for the sam... Jul. 24, 2008 09:00 AM Reads: 536 | VMware Virtualization
Helps Universities
Enhance the Academic
Experience for Students By Virtualization News Desk VMware announced that
more than 40 universities
in Australia and New
Zealand are using VMware
virtualization to enhance
the online experience of
their students. VMware is
working with the Council
of Australian University
Directors of Information
Technology (CAUDIT) ... Jul. 24, 2008 08:45 AM Reads: 150 | Virtual Hosted Desktop
Vendor Leostream Raises
$3 million Series A Round By Virtualization News Desk Leostream announced it
raised US$3 million in a
first round of venture
capital funding led by
Meakem Becker Venture
Capital of Pittsburgh,
PA. Leostream will use
the proceeds from its
sale of Series A shares
for the expansion of
sales and marketing. Jul. 24, 2008 08:00 AM Reads: 154 | Virtualization Trend
Enables Qatari Businesses
to Fully Leverage Their
Existing Technology
Resources By Virtualization News Desk EMC recently addressed
Qatar's business
decision-makers on how
can EMC help them have a
flexible and efficient IT
environment by realizing
the full potential and
advanced functionality of
virtualization solutions
from VMware. Executives
in Doha heard how they
can ... Jul. 23, 2008 03:45 PM Reads: 645 | Tripwire ConfigCheck Now
Assesses VMware ESX 3.0
Hypervisor Virtualization
Configurations to Improve
Security By Virtualization News Desk Tripwire announced the
availability of Tripwire
ConfigCheck for VMware
ESX 3.0. Tripwire
ConfigCheck is a free
utility that assesses
configuration settings
for VMware ESX 3.0 and
3.5 hypervisors,
determines potential
configuration risks, and
provides prescriptive ... Jul. 23, 2008 03:30 PM Reads: 868 | 3PAR Introduces Thin Copy
Desktop for VMware VDI
Virtualization By Virtualization News Desk 3PAR announced the 3PAR
Thin Copy Desktop for
VMware VDI, an integrated
virtual desktop
provisioning and
management solution for
VMware Virtual Desktop
Infrastructure (VDI).
3PAR Thin Copy Desktop
for VMware VDI is
designed to let customers
automatically provision... Jul. 23, 2008 03:15 PM Reads: 806 | 3Leaf Systems Enables
V-8000 I/O Virtualization
with HP BladeSystem
c-Class By Virtualization News Desk 3Leaf Systems announced
that is has successfully
performed
interoperability testing
of the 3Leaf V-8000
Virtual I/O Server with
the HP BladeSystem
c-Class and an HP
StorageWorks 8100
Enterprise Virtual Array
running VMware ESX.
Successful completion of
interoper... Jul. 23, 2008 03:00 PM Reads: 845 | VMware CTO Keynotes
SYS-CON's 3rd
International
Virtualization Conference
& Expo By Virtualization News Desk  'Traditionally people
have tied their software
to their hardware.
Virtualization changes
all that,' said Dr
Stephen Herrod, CTO of
VMware, the 10-year old
Virtualization giant.
Herrod gave a highly
informative Morning
Keynote today in New York
City at the 3rd
In... Jul. 23, 2008 02:45 PM Reads: 6,214 | Fortisphere to Support
VMware VMsafe
Virtualization Technology By Virtualization News Desk Fortisphere announced
that it plans to support
VMware VMsafe technology,
expanding the market
reach of its Virtual
Essentials software
suite, which provides
customers with greater
levels of visibility and
control over their VMware
virtualized environments.
VMware ... Jul. 23, 2008 02:45 PM Reads: 1,934 | Microsoft's
Virtualization Chief Mike
Neil To Keynote SYS-CON's
Virtualization Conference
& Expo By Virtualization News Desk  Mike Neil is general
manager for
virtualization strategy
in the Windows Server
Division at Microsoft.
Mike is focused on the
delivery of the Windows
virtualization
technology, including
Windows Server 2008
Hyper-V, Microsoft
Hyper-V Server and
Virtual PC 2007. M... Jul. 23, 2008 02:30 PM Reads: 3,505 | Red Hat's CTO Brian
Stevens Speaks at
SYS-CON's 3rd
International
Virtualization Conference
& Expo By Virtualization News Desk  Open Source. Open
Standards. Open
Collaboration. At the 3rd
International
Virtualization Conference
& Expo, Red Hat's CTO
Brian Stevens spoke about
how, over the past five
years, the open source
community has turned its
attention to
virtualization and what
has b... Jul. 23, 2008 02:30 PM Reads: 1,740 | Marketing the Cloud
Computing Paradigm Shift By Virtualization News Desk  Cloud Computing is the
new buzz word in the
technology industry. But
even industry insiders
don't agree on exactly
what the term means. Mike
Eaton, Founder and CEO of
Cloudworks and Atticus
Information Systems, will
be giving a breakout
session at SYS-CON's
'Cloud... Jul. 23, 2008 02:15 PM Reads: 2,374 Replies: 1 |
PBDJ LATEST STORIES . . . Adobe's Kevin Lynch and
Microsoft's Scott Guthrie
to Keynote AJAX World RIA
Conference & Expo By RIA News Desk  Two of the biggest
launches in Rich Internet
Application history took
place in 2007/2008 when
Adobe launched AIR 1.0 in
February '08 and
Microsoft launched
Silverlight (September
'07). At the 6th
International AJAXWorld
RIA Conference & Expo in
October SYS-CON Events is
delighted to be | A Technology Leap for
PowerBuilder Developers By Chris Pollach  Sybase has just released
the latest version of its
premier .NET development
tool in PowerBuilder
version 11.2. I am proud
to say that I haven't
missed a beta since
November 1989 (version
0.8) and that includes
PocketBuilder and
InfoMaker too. I need to
thank the people at
Sybase for co | PowerBuilder and
EAServer: Uniting the
.NET and J2EE Communities By Jim O'Neil  In PowerBuilder 11.2,
.NET meets J2EE head-on
with the capability to
deploy .NET Windows Forms
and Web Forms
applications (as well as
assemblies and Web
Services) that access
Enterprise JavaBeans
(EJBs) in Sybase's own
EAServer. As you'll see
over the course of this
article, integratin | HarPB Tool Review By Al Soucy  HarPB is a specialized
utility for checking
PowerBuilder source
objects in and out of
AllFusion Harvest. It
handles the special
requirements of checking
objects out to
PowerBuilder Libraries
(PBLs) and checking
objects in from PBLs.
These operations are
non-standard to most
source cont | PowerBuilder Editorial:
The State of the State By Bruce Armstrong  Back in 2002, Sybase
announced their
four-phase approach
toward adding .NET
support to PowerBuilder.
Phase 1 was the
implementation of web
services in PB9 and Phase
2 was the release of
DataWindow.NET, which was
packaged with PB 10.
Phases 3 and 4 were the
more significant phases.
In P | PowerBuilder History -
When Did Sybase Develop
PB and How Did It Evolve? By Chris Pollach  I have been asked many
times by various clients,
students, and the IT
curious about
PowerBuilder: When did
Sybase develop the
product and how did it
evolve? I keep telling
this story and answering
e-mails on the subject. I
am now to the point where
I have decided that I
should have PBD |
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SYS-CON FEATURED WHITEPAPERS BREAKING POWERBUILDER / SYBASE NEWS  | Adobe's Kevin Lynch and
Microsoft's Scott Guthrie
to Keynote AJAX World RIA
Conference & Expo Two of the biggest
launches in Rich Internet
Application history took
place in 2007/2008 when
Adobe | A Technology Leap for
PowerBuilder Developers Sybase has just released
the latest version of its
premier .NET development
tool in PowerBuilder ver | PowerBuilder and
EAServer: Uniting the
.NET and J2EE Communities In PowerBuilder 11.2,
.NET meets J2EE head-on
with the capability to
deploy .NET Windows Forms
and W | HarPB Tool Review HarPB is a specialized
utility for checking
PowerBuilder source
objects in and out of
AllFusion Harv | PowerBuilder Editorial:
The State of the State Back in 2002, Sybase
announced their
four-phase approach
toward adding .NET
support to PowerBuilder. | PowerBuilder History -
When Did Sybase Develop
PB and How Did It Evolve? I have been asked many
times by various clients,
students, and the IT
curious about
PowerBuilder: Wh | PowerBuilder 11's .NET
Interoperability PowerBuilder 11 deploys
entire applications as
.NET Windows Form or Web
Form applications and
deploy | Sanity, Strategy,
Sustainability: The New
World of Verification
Platforms The lines between
embedded and enterprise
computing are blurring.
As embedded devices
become more an | Publishing .NET Web
Services Using SQL
Anywhere 10.0.1 In this article we're
going to take a database
and create our own mini
version of an
'Amazon-like' i | PowerBuilder Editorial -
"There You Go Again" If that doesn't ring a
bell, it's from the
Reagan / Carter debates
in the 1980 election
cycle. Carte | Integrated Support for
XML Data Management XML is increasingly being
used as the language of
data exchange. An XML
document based on a DTD
or a | SYS-CON's Virtualization
Conference & Expo: Themes
& Topics From Application
Virtualization to Xen, a
round-up of the
virtualization themes &
topics being discu | How Does NY State Manage
Its PowerBuilder
Applications? Most applications need
upgrades and corrections.
If you maintain in-house
development you want to
be | PowerBuilder and UPS
Shipping Does your shipping
department have these
problems? Extra charges
due to incorrect
addresses? Difficu | Using the Eclipse Data
Tools Platform with
PowerBuilder and SQL
Anywhere The Eclipse Data Tools
Platform (DTP) is now a
top-level project at
eclipse.org. Originally
proposed | 2008 Worldwide
PowerBuilder Survey Novalys is holding its
8th annual PowerBuilder
Worldwide Survey. This
survey is a great
feedback mec | View "Virtualization
Power Panel" Live on
SYS-CON.TV Red Hat CTO Brian
Stevens, Citrix CTO Simon
Crosby, Egenera CTO Pete
Manca, Allen Stewart,
Group Man | Sybase PowerBuilder
Delivers AJAX and .NET
Enhancements Sybase announced that
AJAX development
capabilities and further
Microsoft .NET
enhancements have bee | The PB Future: More on
Graphs in PowerBuilder
11.5 Last week I posted a
screen shot of the new 3D
Rendering capabilities
being added to some of
the 3D | BluePhoenix Expands
Modernization
Collaboration with
Microsoft BluePhoenix announced
that it has expanded its
collaboration with
Microsoft on legacy
modernization |
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