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On October 3, Riverbed Technology, announced the integration of VMware vSphere inyo its Riverbed Steelhead EX model appliances.
Riverbed implements virtualization, consolidation, cloud computing, and disaster recovery, to build an IT architecture that would permit to align with the business needs of the organization.
On October 4th, VMware announced the availability of VMware Compliance Reference Architectures, a group of appliances including application guides and design architectures which are supposed to simplify compliance for business-critical applications in the cloud and are designed to assist customers to develop virtualized infrastructure meeting compliance standards.
On Friday September 28, 2012, Dell announced to have completed the acquisition of Quest Software.
Californian Quest was founded in 1978 and it is famous for being the maker of Toad (Tool for Oracle Application Developers) used for development and management of relational databases using SQL. Quest software
The company was also known for investing in technology areas such as virtualization, cloud automation and backup and recovery. Apparently Dell has completed its acquisition of Quest Software at $28 a share, or $2.4 billion, in July, the price seems to have been approved by Dell stockholders on September 25. This acquisition would permit Dell to provide an end-to-end solution , by offering virtualization, mobile applications and software deployment services.
Just a couple of weeks ago Citrix announced its partnership with Dutch cloud backup software vendor BackupAgent, today we received the news about its new partnership agreement with Californian Palo Alto Networks.
Citrix is dynamically evoluting, between new partnerships and acquisitions, such as the last one of Beetil, to compete the rapidly growing market of cloud-based and virtualized services. This new partnership with Palo Alto Networks, a network security company, would permit to create simplified network solutions of desktop virtualization.
Today, October 3rd, Oracle announced the release of Oracle Solaris 11.1 at Oracle OpenWorld 2012, in San Francisco.
This is the first update to the Oracle Solaris 11 operating system, since its release in November 2011, and it is focused on integration between Oracle products, virtualization and protection allowing to create a mission-critical cloud environment.
Precise, an independent company with over 20 years delivering application performance management solutions in application performance management (APM), on October 1st announced the availability of Precise 9.5
This release includes new or updated features including enhanced visibility into VMware — Precise built in new tools for managing VMware and providing IT administrators with the ability to see how apps run in VMware environments. With so many transactions running on virtual servers, the company hopes to make it simpler and easier to get more visibility into virtualized environments. We’re aiming for this end user- and customer service-level assurance, and this is really driving the ability to cover that and give it visibility on the virtualized server space. It’s a big move forward for our customers.
Today, October 2nd, Veeam Software, VMware Technology and Microsoft partner, producer of software for virtual infrastructure management and data protection announced support for Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V.
The company with headquarters in Switzerland, Columbus, Ohio, Paris and Sydney, develops backup softwares that allows to manage VMware and Hyper-V, starting from Q4 2012 it will be available its support for Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V. Veeam Backup & Replication 6.5 and Veeam ONE 6.5 are being demonstrated as Beta versions at a series of Windows Server 2012 and Microsoft Cloud-OS launch events worldwide.
Capacity Management product provider VKernel announced today, October 2nd, enhanced support for its managed service providers (MSP) install base.
Today, October 1st, Cisco announced on its blog the release of a new pricing and packaging strategy for its switch portfolio.
Nexus 1000V 2.1, that was released last month, is going to have two editions, one called Essential Edition and the second named Advanced Edition.
