VKernel Introduces End-to-End Virtualization Management with Unified vOperations Suite

Andover, MA (PRWEB) March 06, 2012

VKernel, a subsidiary of Quest Software and the award-winning provider of enterprise-class performance and capacity management products for virtualized data centers and cloud environments, announced today the expansion of its award-winning vOperations Suite TM(also referred to as vOPS). Now available as part of the vOperations Suite are products from VKernels parent company, Quest Software. The enhanced vOPS product suite offers a single solution for VM administrators to manage all infrastructure areas related to their virtualized data centers and cloud environments. Specifically, the unified vOperations Suite extends monitoring capabilities to other hardware areas and layers of the infrastructure including the storage area network (SAN), the guest OS inside a VM and physical servers that have not been virtualized. This unified offering bolsters Quest Softwares position as the leading independent virtualization management company.

Virtualization administrators have long searched for a data center management system to gain visibility across the many layers that make up a virtualized environment: from storage array to guest OS. Previous attempts to gain this holistic visibility have either required multiple vendors, or have involved complex large-scale management platforms that are time consuming and not cost efficient. The enhanced vOPS product line provides VM administrators with an out-of-the-box solution to monitor, capacity plan, chargeback, report on and optimize their entire virtual environment that can be set up in minutes.

Virtualized environments are complex, multi-tiered systems made up of several hardware components and abstraction layers, says Bernd Harzog, The Virtualization Practice. Because resource usage is interconnected, a failure at any point in the infrastructure can cause issues in other areas. The only way to pinpoint where an issue is originating is to have visibility into every infrastructure area that constitutes the virtualized environment.

The new vOperations Suite is built around two broad product lines: vOPS Server and vOPS Storage.

vOPS Server focuses on server management with three editions:

Explorer (Free) Designed to assess the health of a virtualized environment, the Explorer Edition immediately identifies VMs, hosts and datastores that are suffering performance, capacity and efficiency issues. Users can upgrade to a free trial of the Standard Edition to remediate any issues identified with the click of a button.

Standard ($ 549/socket) An easy to install, rapid time to value application that works out-of-the-box to provide virtual server performance analysis, capacity management, optimization and chargeback. vOPS Server Standard Edition(formerly VKernel vOPS) will detect issues in VMs, identify root cause and provide remediation steps that can be automatically implemented.

Enterprise ($ 799/socket) Adds the former Quest Software vFoglight product on to the Standard Edition. Enterprise allows data centers to extend near real-time monitoring into applications such as SQL Server and Microsoft Exchange, the guest OS and non-virtualized servers. The Enterprise edition is vastly scalable and can manage tens of thousands of VMs in a single pane of glass that includes highly configurable dashboards and environment characteristics.

vOPS Storage focuses on storage management with two editions:

Monitor ($ 499/socket) – For VM administrators who require deep visibility into the SAN or are also the storage administrators, vOPS Storage Monitor visualizes the topology from VM to disk. Formerly vFoglight Storage, this solution displays the SAN and the interconnection between various components highlighting where issues are present and the root causes to the problems.

vOptimizer ($ 299/socket) The former Quest Software vOptimizer Pro detects VMs that are running out of disk space, are over-allocated in storage or have misaligned disk block partitions. All of these issues can then be instantly remediated with automation capabilities.

The new vOPS product family provides unparalleled visibility into both non-virtualized and virtual environments, said Bryan Semple, CMO, VKernel. Combining market leading products from our parent company, Quest Software, with VKernels award-winning vOperations Suite allows both companies to provide virtual administrators the ability to proactively manage their entire virtualized environment at a price point that wont break the budget.

Quest Softwares acquisition of VKernel is a win-win for all our customers, said Shayne Higdon, SVP & GM, User Workspace Management and Monitoring, Quest Software. VKernel is a pioneer in offering solutions that allow virtualization administrators to ensure performance and balance costs in their virtualized network environments. The enhanced vOperations Suite will help these customers vastly simplify their day-to-day operations and bolster the support that Quest Software can offer a data center.

General Availability

The new vOPS product family is available now for a 30-day trial download from http://www.vkernel.com/download. vOPS products are available from http://www.vkernel.com and Quest partners worldwide.

About VKernel

VKernel, an independent subsidiary of Quest Software (NASDAQ: QSFT), is the number one provider of virtualization management products for virtualized data centers and cloud environments. The companys powerful, easy-to-use and affordable products simplify the complex and critical tasks of planning, monitoring and predicting capacity utilization and bottlenecks. Used by over 50,000 system administrators, the products have proven their ability to maximize capacity utilization, reduce virtualization costs and improve application performance.

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Bizanga Store and SYNERGY4 Team up to Provide Storage Virtualization Solutions for Microsoft SharePoint Customers

Bruehl, Germany (PRWeb UK) March 17, 2010

Bizanga Store and SYNERGY4, today announce a joint marketing initiative to deliver Microsoft SharePoint Platform customers an easier and lower cost way to store Microsoft SharePoint content. The integration of software from both companies provides storage infrastructure for Microsoft SharePoint customers, which solves the disaster recovery problem and offers new levels of application performance for customers with large or business critical Microsoft SharePoint data stores.

In combination with Stealth Softwares STEALTH Content Store distributed by SYNERGY4, Bizanga Store RING software becomes a massive-scale object-store for Microsoft SharePoint users who need increased storage and application performance to respond to the demands of exponential storage growth. STEALTH Softwares Content Store software enables users to use inline AES encryption on their content before storing it.

Bizanga Store RING delivers on Cloud Storages promise of unlimited storage capacity and lower infrastructure cost, while improving application performance and providing the security of on-premise installation. Unlike Microsoft SQL Server, Bizanga Store Ring has been designed to store Petabytes of unstructured content for millions of users. In addition, Bizanga Store Ring eliminates the overhead of volume management and capacity planning while providing automatic load balancing, automatic tiering, geo-redundancy and online compression.

The Integration of Bizanga Store RING with the STEALTH Softwares Content creates storage virtualization for the Microsoft SharePoint community. When the integrated solution is connected to Microsoft SharePoint, it restores SharePoint performance and solves backup and restore issues, even with many Terabytes of stored content, while Bizanga Stores RING technology offloads data onto low cost tiered storage to reduce TCO. By eliminating administration overhead in managing large data volumes, IT managers can focus on higher order challenges.

“We are enthusiastic with the Synergy 4 and Stealth Content Store initiative to create integrated storage solutions for the Microsoft SharePoint community”, said Dr. Bradley King, Director Partnerships at Bizanga Store.

SYNERGY4 integrates software that provides Microsoft SharePoint customers with more resilient content storage capabilities and creates Value Packages that enable our Partners to deliver business value to their clients.

The Bizanga Store initiative is exciting as it enables us to create storage solutions that solve specific problems for the Microsoft SharePoint user community said Mark van Horik, co-founder of SYNERGY4 LTD., responsible for all Sales & Marketing activities for SYNERGY4.

Note to Editors:

About Bizanga Store

Bizanga Store has developed a massively-scalable unstructured data storage platform providing significantly easier application deployment at a fraction of the cost of traditional storage. Delivered as a software solution, Bizanga Store can be deployed to enable email solutions for cable and telecom operators or as a system to enable and grow cloud storage services at hosting providers or other storage-intensive services.

Bizanga Store sells direct to Internet service providers cable operators, fixed-line, mobile operators and hosting companies and through distribution channels in EMEA. The company has offices in Paris and San Francisco, complemented by sales presence in core Asian markets.

For more information please contact

Benedicte Siguier

+33 1 7809 8270

Bizanga Store and SYNERGY4 Team up to Provide Storage Virtualization Solutions for Microsoft SharePoint Customers

New Hires Augment Consonus Virtualization and Disaster Recovery Expertise

Cary, NC (PRWEB) March 19, 2010

Consonus today announced three new hires that extend the companys already deep knowledge of and experience with virtualization and disaster recovery. Patrick R. Dunn joins the Consonus IT Consulting team as principal consultant responsible for building and implementing Consonus Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity consulting program on a national scale. Stan Yarbrough joins the Consonus IT Consulting team as a senior consultant responsible for the companys Virtualization solutions. Brian Costello joins the Consonus IT Consulting team as delivery consultant for infrastructure computing and virtualization. All three new hires have considerable cloud computing and cloud services expertise.

Patrick Dunn brings to Consonus over 20 years of experience in providing IT consulting and IT infrastructure services focused on Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning, crisis and incident management, information security, data center operations, and IT and project management for multi-national Fortune 500 and Big Five accounting firms. As a Business Continuity Professional, he has provided business continuity consulting services in the United States and Europe. His industry expertise includes financial, entertainment, manufacturing, telecommunications, retail, healthcare, and government.

A member of the Association for Contingency Planners (ACP), the Southeast Continuity Planners Association (SCPA), the Contingency Planning Association of the Carolinas (CPAC), Patrick holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Maine and his credentials include Certified Information Security Professional (CISSP), and Certified Business Continuity Planner (CBCP). Patrick has presented at Contingency Planning Management and other national conferences on a variety of Disaster Recovery, Security and Pandemic topics.

Stan Yarbrough also brings to Consonus over 20 years experience as an operations manager, technologist, engineer, and architect in the support of business development, solutions development, and the implementation and support of enterprise network, telecommunications and security solutions. Stans expertise encompasses designing, implementing, and managing enterprise routing and switching architectures, remote access solutions, data center planning, enterprise applications, security and business continuity solutions, data center migrations, data center relocations, service policy, and virtualization. His experience includes engagements with Lowes Corporation, S1, CARE, Consolidated Container Company, BellSouth/AT&T, HBOC/McKesson, Georgia Pacific, Delta Airlines, and most recently was Operations Manager for the Katalyst Network Group and Senior Manager, Technology Consulting Services for North Highland.

Stans many credentials include Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), Master Certified Novell Engineer (MCNE), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP), Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP), and he is a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) candidate.

Brian Costello joins the Consonus IT Consulting team as delivery consultant for infrastructure computing and virtualization. Brian was most recently the infrastructure support Analyst for Burts Bees, Inc. in Durham, NC where he supported more than 500 customers around the world. Brian has extensive experience performing NetBackup implementations and also Physical-to-Virtual (PV2) implementations, specifically around migrating Windows 2003 servers to the VMware ESX 3.5 environment.

Led by company veteran Michael Overton, Consonus Director of IT Consulting, and supported by Steve Bulmer, Consonus Chief Technology Officer, Patrick and Stan enhance the Consonus IT Consulting teams ability to address the rapidly increasing demand for world-class consulting services around business continuity, disaster recovery, virtualization, and data protection. An essential aspect of their mission is to reach out to prospective and existing clients by transferring knowledge and delivering thought leadership such as vis-

New Hires Augment Consonus Virtualization and Disaster Recovery Expertise

PerfCap Adds Virtualization Support to its Enterprise Class Performance and Capacity Management Software

Nashua, NH (PRWEB) April 24, 2012

PerfCap Corporation, the leading provider of automated performance management and capacity planning software for the IT industry, today announced virtualization support in PAWZ Version 10. PAWZ with CloudView enables customers to expand the performance and capacity management of virtual infrastructures and distributed applications. Using CloudView, IT managers can optimize current resource usage and plan for future growth ensuring the best possible system responsiveness.

PAWZ with CloudView delivers a comprehensive, automated software solution that at-a-glance provides enterprise, data center, cluster and host views of the availability of important virtual infrastructure resources and applications. Utilizing sophisticated modeling and what if analysis, CloudView goes beyond simple trending to forecast actual system and application responsiveness and end-user satisfaction. CloudView features include the ability to:

Automatically monitor, analyze, report, and project key performance dimensions of virtualized resources, including: CPU; memory; network and SAN adapters; storage space and latency;

Enable management, infrastructure and application teams to visualize the important virtual infrastructure resources and performance risk status pertinent to their perspective;

Automatically identify and analyze guest provisioning issues and recommend solutions; and

Integrate with VMwares agentless collector technology.

These virtualization features further enhance PAWZs already powerful performance management and capacity planning capabilities. Customers can now take advantage of industry-leading functionality that dramatically improves the management of infrastructure and applications, enabling enhanced end-user performance and more effective utilization of systems while improving IT support productivity.

Aberdeen research finds that today over 60% of all applications are virtualized, said Dick Csaplar, Senior Research Analyst for Aberdeens Storage and Virtualization practice. This makes understanding how servers are provisioned more important than ever because the findings can be leveraged across a large number of servers. With a tool like PAWZ CloudView users will know exactly what servers can handle additional loads so companies can avoid purchasing new, unnecessary hardware.

Virtualized environments introduce additional challenges in managing large server estates said Prem Sinha, CEO of PerfCap. These new CloudView features give IT organizations the tools they need to monitor, understand and plan their virtual infrastructure in the most cost effective manner.

PAWZ simplifies the often challenging task of managing the performance of computer systems and applications in todays distributed, heterogeneous environments. It meets the challenges that IS managers face by allowing them to visualize the performance, capacity and risk status of all of their servers and applications in a single view. PAWZ provides realistic capacity planning, even with limited historical business forecasts, by going beyond the simple trending projections to forecast actual system responsiveness based upon sophisticated algorithms that reflect end-user satisfaction – all while easily scaling to manage 10s to 10,000s of servers.

About PerfCap Corporation

PerfCap Corporation (http://www.PerfCap.com), formed in July 2001 by experts in performance management and capacity planning, is headquartered in Nashua, NH, USA. A privately held company, PerfCap continues to focus on the development, deployment, and support of world-class performance management, capacity planning, asset management and software solutions for open system environments.

PerfCap Corporation provides the banking, stock exchange, technology, pharmaceutical, semiconductor, medical insurance, education, and defense industries with next-generation performance management and capacity planning solutions.

Media Contact:

Madeline Burns +1 (603) 594 – 0222 x 110

Madeline.Burns AT PerfCap.com

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PerfCap Adds Virtualization Support to its Enterprise Class Performance and Capacity Management Software

Data Growth and Virtualization Mandate New Approach to Federal Storage Management

Washington, DC (PRWEB) April 12, 2011

CTOlabs.com, provider of innovative research, evaluations and technology concepts, announced today the results of its study on the impact of data growth and government best practices to protect, manage and replicate mission critical data.

Survey results showed that data is growing at a rate of 30 percent per year in 50 TB or more environments. The report concluded that if left unchecked this data growth overtime could become overwhelming since results also showed that the federal government is lagging behind private industry in switching from tape to disk back up infrastructures. While the majority of respondents indicate they do plan to eliminate tape-based systems, currently outdated federal backup strategies are being driven by needs to retain data for the mission at great expense. Many agencies have embraced virtualization as a way to control data sprawl and its associated costs, but management of virtual data has since become an issue.

Its no surprise that server virtualization is a high priority within the federal government, but as more agencies implement the technology theyre experiencing an increase in the time needed for backup due to virtual data growth, said Bob Gourley, founder of CTOlabs.com. Data deduplication technologies hold great promise in addressing the storage and management needs of todays federal enterprises.

Almost 90 percent of survey respondents ranked data deduplication as a priority and over 60 percent are planning to deploy the technology within the next 12 months. However, there are many IT professionals in the federal government who are already using data deduplication technologies to lower storage capacity needs by eliminating the storage of redundant data. In addition to achieving significant savings through reducing the amount of data stored, federal IT professionals can more efficiently manage virtual machines, optimize their infrastructure, and enhance agency disaster recovery and continuity programs.

Federal agencies that have implemented or are thinking about implementing virtualization should also be thinking about data deduplication, since were already seeing the pair yield dramatic results, said Gourley. These survey results have made it obvious to us that the technology is poised for takeoff in the very near-term.

Top ten data points coming out of the survey:

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CRC Clients Receiving the Best of All Backup Worlds: Local Restore, Emergency Virtualization, and Online/offsite Component

(PRWEB) November 17, 2011

Says Robert Gerace, CEO, Backup should be complete, automatic, monitored, have a local restore option, have an online/offsite component, and should be able to restore a server to life in 30 minutes or less by creating a virtual copy of it in case of a failure.

Yet all too often, CRCs new IT clients come from businesses that relied on substandard solutions and either lost data or a great deal of time in attempting to recover from a data catastrophe.

This is not so, and will not ever happen to any of CRCs current IT clients. CRCs solution takes 15 minute snapshots of entire servers, moves that data offsite, allows technicians to restore data without waiting for it to download from the Internet, and allows technicians to bring up an emergency copy of the server in a virtual environment.

Tony Perry, CRCs CTO said, This is the ultimate backup solution. Imagine a company depending on a server to process orders or perform other critical business tasks. In the past, companies would lose that server, and be days without a replacement. No more. Now, in less than 30 minutes they are right back in business taking orders, receiving email, etc. While the virtual copy is running, its still making backups of itself. Once the new (or repaired ) server is available, the solution simply copies the virtual server back to the physical server, and the system is restored to full health without more than 5 minutes of downtime for users.

CRC, Computer Resource Center, LLC was founded in 1989 in Tampa Florida as a software development company for the Consumer Packaged Goods industry. Beginning in 1996, CRC began serving its software in the cloud as a provider of Software as a Service. Since the year 2000, CRC has grown and diversified and become four distinct but synergistic business units. In addition to the SaaS mentioned above, CRC offers other cloud based services such as: IT service/support, Disaster Recovery planning and protection, and hosted applications such as QuickBooks. CRC is headquartered in Cumming, GA and led by Robert Gerace, its CEO.

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IdentityLogix Joins The Virtualization Practice Community of Sponsors

Merrillville, IN (PRWEB) July 31, 2012

IdentityLogix, an innovator in security middleware and continuous security intelligence, joins The Virtualization Practice an industry analyst firm that provides unique analysis, commentary and resources on Virtualization and Cloud Computing as a security sponsor.

IdentityLogixs participation with Virtualization practice allows for one of the largest community of Virtualization and Cloud computing experts and practitioners to learn about SpyLogix for VMware vSphere and how it enhances virtualized server infrastructure security using its unique capabilities for:

Continuous native monitoring of virtual environments
Enhanced operational awareness and virtual enterprise visibility
Virtual infrastructure security data

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PHD Virtual Records Record Revenue in 2011 on Strong Customer Growth and Virtualization Product Portfolio Expansion

Philadelphia, PA (PRWEB) January 13, 2012

PHD Virtual Technologies, pioneer and innovator in virtual machine backup and recovery, and provider of virtualization monitoring solutions, announced record revenue for fiscal year 2011. PHD Virtual continued its trend of strong quarterly growth, with the fourth quarter of 2011 marking the sixth consecutive quarter of record revenue growth for the company. The company achieved significant growth in its customer base with new customer acquisition growing by 75%.

PHD Virtual recorded strong product growth across its VMware and Citrix product lines both domestically and internationally during the year. The company invested in expanding its business with the addition of key distributors in international markets which helped to accelerate international revenue growth, including more than a 50% increase in revenue from the EMEA region. The company also saw success expanding into new markets and increasing sales to existing customers with new releases of its data protection solution and the addition of its new comprehensive monitoring solution, PHD Virtual Monitor.

The new PHD Virtual Backup and Replication version 5.3 was released in the fourth quarter, extending the companys flagship data protection solution with virtual machine replication, faster performance, and flexible archiving technologies that provide an easier, more cost effective solution for disaster recovery of VMware and Citrix virtual environments. Its PHD Virtual Backup solution continued to achieve significant competitive wins over other vendors including Veeam, Quest and Symantec. Most commonly cited by customers was PHD Virtuals ability to provide a robust data protection and disaster recovery solution that was significantly easier and more cost effective than alternatives.

The business continued to grow sharply through 2011 and we are very pleased to record our sixth consecutive quarter of record growth, said Thomas Charlton, chairman and CEO, PHD Virtual. We built a solid foundation for the business throughout the year, while expanding our portfolio of data protection and management solutions to take advantage of continued growth in the virtualization market. 2012 will see continued expansion of our product portfolio with planned enhancements and new technologies targeted at optimizing data protection, monitoring and management for the rapidly growing Cloud, Service Provider and Virtual Desktop (VDI) Markets.

About PHD Virtual Technologies

Delivering the highest performance and most scalable cross platform backup and monitoring solutions on the market and pioneer of Virtual Backup Appliances (VBAs), PHD Virtual Technologies has been transforming data protection for virtual IT environments since 2006. Its award-winning data protection solution, PHD Virtual Backup is used today by more than 3,500 enterprises worldwide to achieve unlimited scalability, high availability and cost effective backup and recovery for VMware and Citrix XenServer virtual machines. Its PHD Virtual Monitor provides a complete, end to end solution for monitoring virtual, physical and application infrastructures in VMware and Citrix environments. PHD Virtual also provides a suite of free virtualization utilities to assist with the administration and management of virtualized environments. For more information, please visit http://www.phdvirtual.com.

Press Contact:

Brian Nason

briann(at)phdvirtual(dot)com

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Acronis Makes it Easy to Migrate to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0

London, UK (PRWEB UK) 19 January 2012

Acronis, a leading provider of data protection and disaster recovery solutions for physical, virtual and cloud environments, today announced that Acronis Backup & Recovery

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WFT Cloud Unveiled the New Service Model for SAP on Cloud at SAP Virtualization & Cloud Week 2012 at Palo Alto, CA

Princeton, NJ (PRWEB) April 30, 2012

Wharfedale Technologies Inc. (WFT Cloud), a leading SAP Infrastructure and SAP to Cloud consulting firm, provides customers insight into its unique SAP to Cloud deployment model at the SAP Labs Virtualization and Cloud Week 2012 event in Palo Alto, CA.

Ganesh Radhakrishnan, CEO of WFT Cloud, quoted Gartner during his presentation at SAP Virtualization and Cloud Week, 20% of all businesses will own absolutely no IT assets come 2013. Based on this industry evaluation, WFT Cloud is well positioned to assist customers to meet or exceed their goals to reduce operation costs and improve efficiencies.

As a leader in SAP to Cloud Aggregation, WFT Cloud possesses strategic partnerships with multiple, well established Cloud providers. With these relationships firmly in place, customers can take advantage of reducing the cost of running SAP Landscapes, seamless migrations between cloud providers, and SLA driven services.

WFT Cloud unveiled its proprietary SAP Cloud Image Factory (SCIF) at SAP Virtualization and Cloud week. The SCIF is based on the permutation combination methodology which contains nearly 800+ SAP images. WFT Clouds SCIF enables customers to deploy SAP Pre-Fabricated Landscape in the Cloud within minutes. The SCIF approach also frees up existing resources and additional CapEx which can then be applied to other business critical initiatives. WFT Clouds proven SCIF methodology reduces a customers deployment to cloud from months to weeks, weeks to days, and even days to minutes.

WFT Cloud not only provides a most innovative SAP to Cloud solution for its customers, it also enables customers to enjoy the peace of mind derived from our all inclusive hourly pricing model includes BASIS Support, infrastructure stack support, hardware cost(s), OS/DB Backup/Restore, and SAP system refresh and Patching. The end result of building a trusted partnership with WFT Cloud is no surprises!

Mahesh Reddy, CTO covered WFT Clouds expertise in SAP Data Protection on Cloud. WFT Cloud provides multiple SAP Data Protection options to meet customers business needs:

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T. Farlow Associates Inc Now Providing Windows Server Virtualization

Kannapolis, NC (PRWEB) September 10, 2012

For over two decades now, T. Farlow Associates Inc of Kannapolis, N.C., has been providing clients with world class technical support and solutions. With a national, multi-industry client base, the company works to stay on the cutting edge of technology to ensure that its clients receive the service for which the company is known. To that end, T. Farlow Associates Inc is announcing the arrival of Windows server virtualization, a robust solution for clients looking for additional layers of protection against online and real-world disasters.

One of the most exciting advantages of using server virtualization is that it gives clients more protection and faster disaster recovery times. Disasters can come from anywhere, whether from the Internet or from a storm, and T. Farlow Associates Inc is pleased to announce that its virtualization services will make it much easier for clients to react and recover from these events. Because virtualization involves hosting and imaging multiple servers, downtime is minimized. T. Farlow Associates Inc is able to re-image servers quickly to get them back online.

Additionally, virtualization makes operating servers easier and more affordable for clients. These servers require less overall maintenance, and because there can be multiple images and applications on one physical server, the cost of hardware is dramatically reduced. Making operation even easier is the http:// remote terminal access granted to clients, letting them access their servers around the clock from any location in the world. For clients needing affordable access to a tried-and-true server system, the virtualization services offered by T. Farlow Associates Inc are the ideal solution.

About the company

Since 1990, it has been T. Farlow Associates’ goal to provide the highest level of technical support available. Their nationwide, multi-industry client base relies on TFA for consistent, dependable, expert solutions for their commercial data processing needs. Whether these services are provided at TFA’s hardened facility, the TFA/Fast Recovery Data Center, or within their Client’s locations, their goal has been and remains, delivery of the highest quality and cost competitive technical services to be found. For more information visit their website at http://www.tfarlowassoc.com.

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Announcing Shunra NV (Network Virtualization) for Mobile 8.5

Philadelphia (PRWEB) November 29, 2012

Shunra, the industry-recognized authority in network virtualization for software testing, today announced the availability of Shunra NV for Mobile 8.5, a performance testing solution designed specifically to help organizations test, and optimize performance of their mobile apps.

The shift to mobile and competitive advantage provided by mobile performance demands a paradigm shift in performance testing, said Bill Varga, Shunra COO. As monitoring solutions (APM) continue to struggle with the complexity of todays composite applications and networks, Shunra NV for Mobile is emerging as the most reliable and accurate solution available for ensuring app performance even before an app is deployed.

Shunra NV for Mobile bridges the gap between development and deployment by enabling testers to fully and accurately assess the behavior and impact of the network on mobile apps before they are introduced to end users. Shunra NV for Mobile captures the highly variable network conditions that are unique to the mobile app, then brings those virtualized conditions into the lab, allowing testers to immediately isolate potential network-related performance issues, and focus their optimization efforts on the fix with the greatest performance return. Typical results are 40% improvement in app performance.

New features for Shunra NV for Mobile 8.5 include:

Integration: The new web services interface allows rapid deployment within industry standard development, test, and Q/A platforms. In most testing labs, user populations are virtualized with Load Testing tools; distributed applications such as SOA and cloud based services demand a Services Virtualization product; and mobile functional testing is improved by leveraging virtualized device services in the cloud. These testing platforms cannot deliver accurate results in the absence of the network context in which the apps will be deployed. Shunra NV provides the complex network virtualization necessary to achieve relevant and accurate results.

Multi-user mobile testing: Multi-user mobile testing extends the availability of network virtualization within an environment, speeding app development and testing processes.

Global library integration: Inclusion of Shunras Global Library of mobile conditions from thousands of locations worldwide reduces the need for specific knowledge of existing network conditions. Users can search network profiles by mobile carrier or location, and then download those profiles to be used in mobile app tests.

Web analytics: Quickly decide if a transaction needs further deep-dive analysis with automated HTTP analysis that measures transaction response time, total throughput, packet overhead, app turns, and provides performance grades and optimization rules.

Performance must shift left in the development life cycle, said Varga. With Shunra NV for Mobile, Shunra remains committed to providing the products, services, and best practices to help enterprises build performance into their app design, development, test, and deployment processes.

For more information on how Shunras NV for Mobile can provide a competitive performance advantage, please visit http://www.shunra.com/products/shunraNVmobile.

About Shunra

Shunra Software is the industry-recognized authority in network virtualization for software testing. With over 2500 customers, including 75 of the Fortune 100, Shunra Software helps customers reduce IT costs and increase profits by ensuring that application performance over mobile, Cloud and WAN is optimized before deployment. Shunras technology enables performance engineers to incorporate real-world network conditions including bandwidth, latency, jitter and pack loss into their test environment for a precise and reliable performance test. Shunras technology includes analytics and automated optimization recommendations that have been shown to improve application performance by over 40%. On average, Shunra customers report a reduction in the occurrence of performance problems in production by 25%, resulting in a significant reduction in performance remediation costs and dramatic improvement in end user satisfaction and customer retention. Customers include Apple, AT&T, Bank of America, Best Buy, Boeing, Cisco Systems, Citibank, eBay, FedEx, GE, IBM, ING Direct, Intel, Marriott, MasterCard, McDonalds, Merrill Lynch, Motorola, Oracle, Pepsi, Pfizer, Siemens, Target, Thomson Reuters, Verizon, Walt Disney and the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank. Shunra is headquartered in Philadelphia and privately held.

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Role Of Desktop Virtualization In Virtual Private Server Technology

Very like the process of server virtualization, desktop virtualization separates the physical location of a client device from its logical and internal interface. In the larger interests, this innovative web hosting utility allows end users to access the data and application without specific hardware hassles. This mode of virtualization mitigates the management and support cost and other soaring hardware expenses. If web hosting experts are to be believed, desktop virtualization is available in two modes of service segments.

In the scenario of hosted desktop virtualization, a virtual machines is hosted by servers available at the data centers. In order to create a server connection, users use connection brokers to receive their user interface via some of the highly popular and safe standard protocols like Remote Desktop Protocol etc. Another sort of the virtualization of desktop is called client virtualization where some particular software is installed on the client to allow running multiple operating systems together.

Desktop Virtualization Add-Ons: With the aspects of DV in a web hosting services company,  users are not bounded to reduce the number of PCs on a single server. Among other considerable advantages of this kind of virtualization, users may count on reduced infrastructure costs, manageable desktop environments and centralized provisioning of PCs and other client devices. Significant bandwidth is also an important benefit of this process and in compare to the other client computing modules, the ratio of users using the services are relatively very high.

It allows affordable upgrades to the servers, storage, and network infrastructure very effectively.

Hosted Desktop Benefits: In the hosted virtualization model, both data and applications run on the same server that users can make use during streaming of the data. At one way it offers enhanced security to the application and at other, it transfers much of the desktop processing workload from client devices to the data center in order to allow IT departments to reduce their infrastructure overheads.

In the client virtualization model offered by a web hosting company, IT departments of the organization separate the confidential data and applications and protects the data from unauthorized security breach of any kind. Network administrators assign different levels of security patches to virtual machines based on the permissions and authentications for the users.

Desktop virtualization is an ideal IT infrastructure model adopted by the web hosting service providers where systems and PCs are used both for personal and professional use and a tough regime of security restrictions are imposed to enable smooth functioning of privacy guidelines strict with data privacy regulations and terms.

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Alike, the leading Citrix XenServer Backup and DR Solution, Delivers new Disaster Recovery Techniques for Virtualization

Burlington, VT (PRWEB) December 20, 2012

QuorumSoft, a world leader in backup and disaster recovery solutions for virtualized environments, today announced Alike Version 2.6, a technically rich new Citrix XenServer Backup and Disaster Recovery solution. Scheduled for general availability in January, Alike v2.6 is the latest in a series of innovative technical advances that help XenServer users protect their valuable business information with greater flexibility and at lower cost.

Alike v2.6 demonstrates our commitment to delivering unique new capabilities that address our customers real-world backup and disaster recovery challenges, said Phil Baskette, co-founder and CEO, Quorum Software, Inc. Alike v2.6 will deliver new local and offsite recovery features that build on the success of our recent introduction of Q-Hybrid, the innovative way to perform quiesced backups without using XenServer snapshots.

Key new features in Alike v2.6 include:

Flexible new capabilities for offsite VM protection. The Alike Offsite Vaulting capability in v2.6 significantly streamlines the process for saving globally deduplicated data to an offsite location for XenServer disaster recovery protection. The greater flexibility and simplicity of the new Offsite Vaulting feature will make it easy for users to tailor the capabilities to their unique requirements and respond rapidly and effectively to a disaster.

The ability to recover running virtual machines. The new Alike Disk and Memory Backup will deliver unique capabilities for preserving the memory state of a virtual machine during backup so users can restore the VM to the running state it was in at the time of backup. Alike Disk and Memory Backup will enable lower RTO and offer a new way to ensure data integrity, complementing the Alike Q-Hybrid backup technology.

New flexible VM restoration options. Alike v2.6 includes two new capabilities that will deliver more flexibility and speed in VM restoration tasks. The Alike Incremental VM restore capability makes it possible to revert or roll forward a VM to a specified backup state, only updating the data that has changed. Complementing Incremental VM restore, Alike v2.6 also offers scheduled VM restorations from either on-site or off-site data stores.

Faster Q-Hybrid backups. The recently introduced Q-Hybrid backup technology is being expanded with NTFS awareness capability, allowing Alike to detect and protect only the necessary data on the disk. As a result, the impact on storage repositories and networks can be reduced greatly, boosting overall performance and reducing backup window time.

New versatile multi-tenancy capabilities for MSPs. For the Managed Service Provider (MSP) market, Alike v2.6 will offer improved support for using Alike as a DRaaS solution. Improvements are being been made in the Alike Enhanced Replication and Offsite Vaulting feature sets to better support multi-tenancy environments.

About QuorumSoft

Quorum Software, Inc. was founded in 2008 to offer organizations of all size the high-performance and cost-effective solutions they need to meet their backup and business continuity requirements.

More information:

You can get more information on Alike v2.6 at: (http://www.quorumsoft.com/alike-v2.6/)

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Contact:

Jim Elder

PR for QuorumSoft

Phone: 802-863-3242

Cell: 802-881-9474

Email: jim(at)risingridge(dot)com

Alike, the leading Citrix XenServer Backup and DR Solution, Delivers new Disaster Recovery Techniques for Virtualization