Logicalis IDs Eight Things CIOs Should Know About VMware vSphere

Farmington Hills, MI, (PRWEB) March 27, 2012

Today, with CFOs keeping a watchful eye on every penny, its more important than ever to embrace the virtues of virtualization and the ways it can help stretch server capacity, decrease the total cost of ownership of existing server equipment and enable organizations to operate at cloud scale. While hypervisor technology itself isnt new, there are some new and incredibly important advantages that the VMware Cloud Infrastructure Suite and VMware vSphere

Logicalis IDs Eight Things CIOs Should Know About VMware vSphere

Unitrends Next Generation VMware Backup, Archive, and Disaster Recovery Critical for Educator

Columbia, SC (PRWEB) July 21, 2010

Unitrends, the leading provider of backup solutions for K-12 education, today announced that Godfrey-Lee Public Schools has selected its backup appliances to protect the school systems complete information technology infrastructure.

Godfrey Lees computing environment consists of several Novell servers, file servers and window servers all virtualized with VMware. The district purchased Unitrends backup appliance several years ago and recently upgraded to a Recovery 610 for optimum data protection capabilities.

The real value that Unitrends brings to our organization is the quick response times for restoring lost or deleted files, and the lack of disruptions, Dan Verwolf, Godfrey-Lee Schools system administrator, said. Unitrends has proven to be a reliable component in our IT environment.

Godfrey-Lee found that Unitrends backup appliances were not the only benefits associated with its company- the support happened to be the best they received. We selected Unitrends for the superb customer service and support, Verwolf said.

Were pleased that our next generation VMware backup, archive, and disaster recovery capabilities based on VMwares VADP (vStorage API for Data Protection) interface that support licensed ESXi and ESX is receiving such rapid adoption, said Mark Campbell, Chief Operating Officer, Unitrends. Were even more excited that our strategy of company-wide focus on dazzling customer support is being recognized.

For more information, please view the complete backup solution success story for Godfrey-Lee University.

About Godfrey-Lee

Godfrey-Lee is a K-12 school district located in Wyoming, Michigan that focuses on academics, fine arts, character development and civic responsibilities to enrich its students lives. The school district provides innovative technology solutions that enable each school to incorporate the best practices and technology to produce a comprehensive learning environment. With the implementation of Unitrends solution, Godfrey-Lee protects its entire districts database of information.

About Unitrends

Unitrends is an all-in-one appliance company integrating backup, archive, and disaster recovery. Our obsession is on enabling our customers to focus on their business rather than backup by providing the best backup solution at the lowest total cost of ownership in the industry. More companies every day join those that have realized significant capital expenditure and operational expenditure while realizing enterprise-level data protection.

Information about Unitrends can be found at http://www.unitrends.com.

A virtual appliance free trial is also available for download.

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iland Participates in VMwares VSPP Partner Advisory Group, Showcases Hybrid Cloud at VMWare Partner Exchange 2011

Houston, TX (Vocus/PRWEB) February 04, 2011

iland Internet Solutions (http://www.iland.com) today announced its participation in the VMware Partner Exchange Conference, where iland will demonstrate to partners how to integrate a hosted VMware vCloud Director solution into their existing virtualization or managed services practice and increase their value proposition while building recurring revenue streams. Partners can co-brand or white label ilands cloud services in six datacenters distributed throughout the US and the UK. Furthermore, ilands cloud experts will be on hand to whiteboard the latest VMware technologies, including vCloud Director and vShield Edge, and discuss their impact on hybrid and public cloud delivery.

This years Partner Exchange is an exciting event for iland. We will be showcasing public, private and hybrid cloud use cases leveraging the latest in VMwares rapidly evolving vCloud technologies. ilands new services put full control in our partners hands so they can easily create cloud services and quickly capitalize on customer demand, said Dante Orsini, Vice President of Business Development at iland. We are thrilled to be part of the thought leadership throughout the conference and look forward to jointly creating valuable cloud opportunities.

ilands cloud solutions and thought leadership will be featured at the following events during VMwares Partner Exchange:

iland Participates in VMwares VSPP Partner Advisory Group, Showcases Hybrid Cloud at VMWare Partner Exchange 2011

iland Continuity Cloud to Support VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5

Las Vegas, NV (PRWEB) August 29, 2011

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Bluemile Attains VMware vCloud

Columbus, OH (PRWEB) August 29, 2011

Bluemile today announced that its public cloud service has achieved VMware vCloud

Bluemile Attains VMware vCloud

VaultLogix Announces Online Backup Support for VMWare ESXi

Danvers, MA (PRWEB) January 17, 2012

VaultLogix, the only online backup provider focused on delivering a solution customized to each business customers specific data backup needs, today announced the launch of support for VMWare ESXi in the Internet Vault Classic (IV-Classic) solution.

The latest version of the VMWare agent for IV-Classic allows users to install one instance of the agent on a VMWare VSphere virtual server and backup and restore multiple Virtual Machines simultaneously, without requiring that the agent be installed on each VM it is backing up. The version of the agent also adds compatibility with ESXi implementations of VMWare VSphere. Users can use these backups to restore entire virtual machines for disaster recovery, or simply restore virtual disk files when only restoring data is necessary.

With the growth of virtual environments in the data center, IT operations must also ensure that the data on those systems is protected from loss, said Tim Hannibal, President and CEO of VaultLogix. We strive to ensure that, no matter what combination of technologies a customer chooses to implement for their business, we can help them safeguard their critical data in an efficient and cost-effective way.

IV-Classic is one of a suite of online backup solutions VaultLogix offers under the Internet Vault name. Combined with IV-Advantage and IV-Live, VaultLogix has several solutions available for its customer base, providing VaultLogix the ability to understand the backup needs of each customer and define the optimal solution to meet the operating system, application, compliance, retention lifecycle, and budget of businesses of all sizes and technological complexity.

About VaultLogix

VaultLogix believes that data backup is not a one size fits all solution. The Internet Vault suite of online backup solutions safeguards customer data in the optimal way based on the particular needs of each business. Each solution VaultLogix implements can back up data both locally and offsite, ensuring that customers can recover from data loss with the optimal combination of speed, availability, and offsite protection. In addition to providing the benefits that businesses require, VaultLogix also delivers industry-leading solutions for remote backup service support, billing, marketing and integration for VARs, MSPs and IT Consultants.

For more information, visit http://www.dataprotection.com or call 1-877-VAULTLOGIX (877-828-5856).

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Unitrends Announces Instant Recovery for Windows AND VMware

Columbia, SC (PRWEB) March 14, 2012

Unitrends, the leading provider of all-in-one backup, archiving, and disaster recovery solutions, today announced the availability of instant recovery for Windows and VMware via their failover virtualization technology.

Failover virtualization is designed as a first step to recover immediately and simply from critical system failure. It reduces the time to recover a failed system to less than five minutes, thereby increasing business continuity and reducing IT staff repair time.

“IT organizations need an affordable and manageable way to ensure non-stop business operations and continuous data protection,” said Mike Coney, CEO of Unitrends. “Instant recovery through failover virtualization allows Unitrends to help organizations of all sizes meet those requirements.”

The availability of instant recovery for both Windows and VMware via one solution is a key differentiator for Unitrends from other backup and recovery solutions in the marketplace, and makes it attractive to both end users as well as resellers.

With Unitrends new Instant Recovery feature, CNP is now able to offer a simple and affordable disaster recovery solution to our customers, said Andrew Flowers, Senior Network Engineer of CNP, that allows us to cut their downtime window from days to a matter of minutes.

Failover Virtualization Highlights:

Unitrends Announces Instant Recovery for Windows AND VMware

Barracuda LiveBoot for VMware Provides Instant Recovery from Backups

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) August 27, 2012

Barracuda Networks Inc., the leading provider of security, networking and data protection solutions, today launched Barracuda Backup release 5.0, featuring groundbreaking functionality with its new instant recovery via Barracuda LiveBoot for VMware. This new capability, included at no additional charge to Barracuda Backup customers, allows administrators to boot a critical server if the primary storage for their VMware environment fails, reducing overall downtime.

Barracuda Backup is a complete end-to-end business backup solution for mixed physical and virtual server environments. Barracuda LiveBoot for VMware enables a virtual machine to be booted directly off the Barracuda Backup Servers deduplicated backup storage live, getting businesses up and running again quickly. In addition to reducing overall downtime, Barracuda LiveBoot for VMware also provides customers a platform for testing and sandboxing their servers to validate software upgrades or changes.

“The move to virtualization has brought about significant management benefits not previously possible in the physical server world,” said Guy Suter, general manager for Barracuda Backup. “With our new ability to instantly boot from deduplicated backups and test restores to file level, Barracuda Backup offers unprecedented capabilities in data center continuity and disaster recovery previously unrealized in the world of tape backup.”

Additional highlights of this new Barracuda Backup release include:

Barracuda LiveBoot for VMware Provides Instant Recovery from Backups

LogicMonitor Sponsors Atlanta VMUG to Showcase SaaS-based VMware and IT Infrastructure Monitoring Solution

(PRWEB) November 06, 2012

LogicMonitor, the leading SaaS-based IT infrastructure monitoring solution for physical, virtual, and cloud environments, today announced its sponsorship of the VMUG (VMware Users Group) event at the Atlanta Convention Center on November 7, 2012. The LogicMonitor team will be on hand to answer questions and demonstrate its hosted monitoring solution, which is fast-becoming a popular alternative to both premise-based and open source solutions.

IT infrastructure monitoring has traditionally been thought of as a resource drain and cost-center, says LogicMonitor CEO Kevin McGibben. Thats because traditional solutions premise-based and/or open source require a lot of engineer time, and in many cases a large capital expenditure, to implement and maintain. Our SaaS-based monitoring model disrupts that way of thinking. McGibben says LogicMonitors architecture allows new clients to start monitoring their infrastructure in as little as fifteen minutes, with no upfront costs, and a simple per host per month pricing model gives users the flexibility to easily scale up or down at will.

The ability to effectively monitor all levels of the IT infrastructure is especially relevant to VMware users, who are heavily dependent on interrelated complex technologies in their infrastructure stack such as NetApp and Cisco. This necessity has fueled the growing popularity of FlexPod a pre-configured and validated architecture containing server, storage and networking components thats ready for use out-of-the-box. LogicMonitor has positioned itself as the go-to standard for FlexPod monitoring.

Companies interested in gaining instant visibility into their entire IT infrastructure can get a 14-day free trial of the full version of LogicMonitor at http://www.LogicMonitor.com. Or they can get free access to a live demo portal at http://www.LogicMonitor.com/VMUG-Test-Drive.

About LogicMonitor

LogicMonitor, Inc. is the leading SaaS-based IT infrastructure monitoring solution, giving instant visibility into the entire IT infrastructure stack networks, servers, applications, storage, and cloud in a single pane of glass, whether physical, virtual, or in the cloud. Headquartered in Santa Barbara, California, LogicMonitor was founded by a team of data center operations experts on a mission to make monitoring powerful and simple. The company is a NetApp, VMware, Dell, HP, and Citrix technology partner. In addition to being recognized as one of the top network monitoring solutions by TechRepublic, LogicMonitor recently received the WebHost Magazine Editors’ Choice Award for comprehensive network monitoring, and received the Best of SaaS Showplace (BoSS) Award for delivering outstanding business value. For more info, visit http://www.logicmonitor.com

LogicMonitor Sponsors Atlanta VMUG to Showcase SaaS-based VMware and IT Infrastructure Monitoring Solution

BlueWave Computing Achieves VMware Solution Competency in MS SQL Server, MS Exchange

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) October 26, 2012

BlueWave Computing, Atlantas leader in business IT support and managed services, today announced that it has successfully completed the Virtualization of Business Critical Applications solution competency in MS SQL Server and MS Exchange. This achievement demonstrates that BlueWave Computing is committed to be an expert in helping customers virtualize their IT environments. Further, in achieving this competency, BlueWave Computing acknowledges that this distinction and VMware solutions are key accelerators for enabling their growth in the virtualization and cloud markets.

VMware is pleased to recognize BlueWave Computing for achieving the MS SQL Server and MS Exchange solution competency. Achieving this competency demonstrates to customers that BlueWave Computing is committed to be an expert in helping customers virtualize their IT environments, enabling them to confidently select BlueWave Computing as a solution provider capable of delivering VMware solutions to customers on the journey to cloud computing, said Doug Smith, vice president, global partner strategy and operations, VMware. We value our partnership with BlueWave Computing and we appreciate their efforts in achieving this VMware distinction.

By partnering with VMware, BlueWave Computing can provide customers with ease of administration and backup of highly available, redundant solutions within a private cloud platform and within existing virtual environments, said Steve Vicinanza, BlueWave Computing CEO. Achieving VMwares Virtualization of Business Critical Applications Competency further demonstrates to our clients that BlueWaves engineering team possesses the certifications and expertise required to implement and support virtualization of business-critical applications such as Exchange and SQL while improving our marketplace visibility through the VMware Partner Locator.

VMware has established solution competencies as designations of expertise that enable customers to identify partners with the highest level of VMware technical solution knowledge and experience. VMware partners with competencies are able to earn customer credibility by driving deeper into customer engagements, based on knowledge and ability with the following VMware solution competencies:

Infrastructure Virtualization Competency: Recognizes partners for their demonstrated ability to virtualize and consolidate server environments using a VMware virtualization solution

Business Continuity Competency: Recognizes partners for their expertise in deploying VMware solutions for data protection, high availability and disaster recovery

Desktop Virtualization Competency: Recognizes partners for their expertise in deploying VMware solutions for virtualizing desktops and applications

Virtualization of Business Critical Applications (VBCA) Competency: Recognizes partners for their demonstrated ability to provide guidance and solutions for virtualizing business-critical applications such as Exchange, SQL, SharePoint, Oracle DB and SAP

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Competency: Recognizes partners for their expertise in VMware hybrid cloud solutions and services

Management Competency: Recognizes partners for their ability to help customers simplify and automate the operations of virtual and cloud environments with the VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite

VMware Partner Network is a comprehensive program that provides a common infrastructure, extensive sales and services tools, margin opportunities and industry-recognized training for the entire VMware partner ecosystem, including solution providers, technology partners and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). VMware Partner Network is designed to help ensure a more consistent and successful user experience as well as help partners increase their business potential by increasing their skills in VMware solutions. The program helps partners maximize their investments in VMware virtualization to provide customers with the best end-to-end virtualization solutions available.

Read more about VMware Partner Network.

About BlueWave Computing, LLC

As Atlantas largest managed service provider for small and mid-sized businesses, BlueWave Computing keeps IT services Under Your Control while enabling real-time network visibility through its proprietary IT Quality Management System. Using BlueWave Computings Total Control System, businesses find IT costs are more effectively controlled, more predictable and more reliable. BlueWaves service options include IT management, cloud computing, disaster recovery, strategic planning, web development, custom application and mobile application development, 7×24 monitoring and support, Microsoft CRM and VoIP systems. Visit http://www.bluewavecomputing.com or call 770-980-WAVE for more information.

VMware is a registered trademark and/or trademark of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. The use of the term partner or partnership does not imply a legal partnership relationship between VMware and any other company.

BlueWave Computing Achieves VMware Solution Competency in MS SQL Server, MS Exchange

Nassau, Bahamas (PRWEB) December 31, 2012 Nassau-based Cloud Carib is announcing the immediate availability of hosted virtual datacenters, delivered securely as a service on VMware’s (NYSE:VMW) market-leading vCloud platform. “The paradigm shift from legacy IT infrastructure platforms to the advent of cloud computing offers organizations with on-demand flexibility, resiliency, scalability and cost control enabled with cloud-based infrastructure,” said Anthony Giorgi, member of the Advisory Board of Cloud Carib and former Sales Director of Q9 Networks (recently acquired by an investor group which included Bell Canada). “We are introducing a proven, world-class offering to the Caribbean market, enabling firms to take advantage of the latest best-in-class cloud technologies supported by VMware without the associated up-front capital investment.” Hosted infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is a proven delivery model currently utilized by more than 8,000 VMware cloud service providers around the world, handling mission-critical workloads for customers like the NYSE Euronext, TD Bank, Ducati, and more. “Recently, ESG conducted a study (http://www.eweek.com/cloud/iaas-finding-favor-among-businesses-vmware/) showing that 67% of mid-market and enterprise companies surveyed are now running what they view as mission-critical workloads on IaaS, while more than 80 percent of IaaS customers surveyed are running production workloads on IaaS.” This puts Cloud Carib in a unique position to benefit from the tremendous demand we are seeing in the fast-growing Cloud IaaS space,” said Leonardo F. Gonzalez-Morillo, Sales Director, North of Latin America for VMware. Mid-market and Enterprise Caribbean firms operating in sectors that require secure, compliant, and validated IT infrastructures (for example banking, legal, and government agencies), are the ones to benefit most from Cloud Carib’s new offshore Cloud IaaS offering. The major benefits include: -Shorter implementation time compared to building a virtual infrastructure on-premise. A virtual datacenter can be provisioned in a matter of hours, versus having to wait for several days to procure, setup, and configure new hardware, and clear customs. -Simplified administration, since back-end management is handled by VMware-certified engineers, and automated by the vCloud stack. -Reduced electricity cost and datacenter footprint. Also redundant power, connectivity, and cooling, since Cloud Carib’s hardware is hosted in the biggest datacenter in Nassau, with a track record of no outages in more than 3 years. -Elastic capacity, allowing the provisioned resource pools to scale as the customer needs change, paying only for what they actually use. -Flexible billing; typically customers register the service costs as operating expenses (OpEx), making it easier to obtain approvals when compared to capital expenses (CapEx). -Easy management and monitoring: for customers already virtualized on vSphere platform, vCloud Connector plug-in is available, offering centralized management of their on-premise and remotely-hosted resources from their familiar vCenter client. IDC predicts that worldwide spending on professional services related to building or implementing cloud services revenue will grow 44% over 5 years, reaching $ 16.7B in 2015. This growth rate is 10x faster than that of the overall IT services market during the same time period. Cloud Carib recognizes the fact that customers may need assistance when moving their legacy systems to the cloud, and offers a cloud migration service, with details at http://www.cloudcarib.com. The service is offered with limited availability; existing Cloud Carib customers have priority access to this new offering. Additional slots will be offered in Q1 2013 when more availability zones are added, to address the needs of customers with specific data domicile requirements. About Cloud Carib Ltd. Cloud Carib, a Citrix-certified and VMware-certified Enterprise partner in The Bahamas, offers a range of world-class cloud computing and IT solutions, with a core focus on infrastructure and application virtualization. Headquartered in Nassau and servicing the Caribbean region, Cloud Carib enables huge cost savings and operational improvements in organizations of all sizes. The company provides cloud computing solutions and services to customers in the government, financial, hospitality and healthcare markets. For more information, visit http://www.cloudcarib.com. Connect with Cloud Carib on twitter: @cloudcarib (http://www.twitter.com/cloudcarib/) and Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/cloudcarib/) VMware is a registered trademark and/or trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. Cloud Carib Becomes First in Latin America & Caribbean to Achieve VMware (NYSE:VMW) "Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service" Solution Competency, Launches Offshore Cloud IaaS

Nassau, Bahamas (PRWEB) December 31, 2012

Nassau-based Cloud Carib is announcing the immediate availability of hosted virtual datacenters, delivered securely as a service on VMware’s (NYSE:VMW) market-leading vCloud platform.

“The paradigm shift from legacy IT infrastructure platforms to the advent of cloud computing offers organizations with on-demand flexibility, resiliency, scalability and cost control enabled with cloud-based infrastructure,” said Anthony Giorgi, member of the Advisory Board of Cloud Carib and former Sales Director of Q9 Networks (recently acquired by an investor group which included Bell Canada). “We are introducing a proven, world-class offering to the Caribbean market, enabling firms to take advantage of the latest best-in-class cloud technologies supported by VMware without the associated up-front capital investment.”

Hosted infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is a proven delivery model currently utilized by more than 8,000 VMware cloud service providers around the world, handling mission-critical workloads for customers like the NYSE Euronext, TD Bank, Ducati, and more.

“Recently, ESG conducted a study (http://www.eweek.com/cloud/iaas-finding-favor-among-businesses-vmware/) showing that 67% of mid-market and enterprise companies surveyed are now running what they view as mission-critical workloads on IaaS, while more than 80 percent of IaaS customers surveyed are running production workloads on IaaS.” This puts Cloud Carib in a unique position to benefit from the tremendous demand we are seeing in the fast-growing Cloud IaaS space,” said Leonardo F. Gonzalez-Morillo, Sales Director, North of Latin America for VMware.

Mid-market and Enterprise Caribbean firms operating in sectors that require secure, compliant, and validated IT infrastructures (for example banking, legal, and government agencies), are the ones to benefit most from Cloud Carib’s new offshore Cloud IaaS offering. The major benefits include:

-Shorter implementation time compared to building a virtual infrastructure on-premise. A virtual datacenter can be provisioned in a matter of hours, versus having to wait for several days to procure, setup, and configure new hardware, and clear customs.

-Simplified administration, since back-end management is handled by VMware-certified engineers, and automated by the vCloud stack.

-Reduced electricity cost and datacenter footprint. Also redundant power, connectivity, and cooling, since Cloud Carib’s hardware is hosted in the biggest datacenter in Nassau, with a track record of no outages in more than 3 years.

-Elastic capacity, allowing the provisioned resource pools to scale as the customer needs change, paying only for what they actually use.

-Flexible billing; typically customers register the service costs as operating expenses (OpEx), making it easier to obtain approvals when compared to capital expenses (CapEx).

-Easy management and monitoring: for customers already virtualized on vSphere platform, vCloud Connector plug-in is available, offering centralized management of their on-premise and remotely-hosted resources from their familiar vCenter client.

IDC predicts that worldwide spending on professional services related to building or implementing cloud services revenue will grow 44% over 5 years, reaching $ 16.7B in 2015. This growth rate is 10x faster than that of the overall IT services market during the same time period. Cloud Carib recognizes the fact that customers may need assistance when moving their legacy systems to the cloud, and offers a cloud migration service, with details at http://www.cloudcarib.com.

The service is offered with limited availability; existing Cloud Carib customers have priority access to this new offering. Additional slots will be offered in Q1 2013 when more availability zones are added, to address the needs of customers with specific data domicile requirements.

About Cloud Carib Ltd.

Cloud Carib, a Citrix-certified and VMware-certified Enterprise partner in The Bahamas, offers a range of world-class cloud computing and IT solutions, with a core focus on infrastructure and application virtualization. Headquartered in Nassau and servicing the Caribbean region, Cloud Carib enables huge cost savings and operational improvements in organizations of all sizes. The company provides cloud computing solutions and services to customers in the government, financial, hospitality and healthcare markets.

For more information, visit http://www.cloudcarib.com. Connect with Cloud Carib on twitter: @cloudcarib (http://www.twitter.com/cloudcarib/) and Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/cloudcarib/)

VMware is a registered trademark and/or trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions.

Cloud Carib Becomes First in Latin America & Caribbean to Achieve VMware (NYSE:VMW) "Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service" Solution Competency, Launches Offshore Cloud IaaS