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Quoting from the Zeus official announcement:

…Zeus Technology, the leading provider of award-winning application traffic management software, and Egenera, a global leader in datacenter virtualization architecture, announced an alliance to offer a fully agile application infrastructure by combining Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager (ZXTM) and the Egenera BladeFrame system.
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Combining ZXTM?s open and flexible software architecture with Egenera PAN Manager? software makes it possible to build a fully responsive and agile Service Oriented Infrastructure (SOI)…

Zeus Technology has been one of the first companies adhering to the new VMware Virtual Appliances Certification Program, launching its Extensible Traffic Manager (ZXTM) as virtual appliance in the Virtual Appliance Marketplace.

ZXTM is a traditional network load balancer Zeus is already selling as appliance and software-only solution. It’s able to handle incoming traffic and balancing it across a cluster of machines, virtual or physical.

Usually virtualization.info doesn’t cover virtual appliances releases but Zeus ZXTM VA is expected in near future to offer a more tight integration with VMware management products, as emerge from official announcement:

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“In launching the Virtual Appliance Network, VMware has made a bold play to create an ecosystem of solutions that will help organizations deploy and manage a completely virtualized datacenter environment,” said Paul Di Leo, CEO, Zeus Technology. “By joining this programme, Zeus is able to help VMware customers improve the performance and resilience of their virtualized applications, giving them greater control over security, provisioning and traffic management.”…

It’s a tool worth to monitor.

Quoting from the Provision Networks official announcement:

Provision Networks, a global provider of application delivery and dynamic desktop deployment solutions for the VMware Virtual Infrastructure and Microsoft Windows Terminal Server platform, today at VMworld 2006, launched the Dynamic Desktop Deployment (D3) Alliance Program, a powerful and comprehensive ecosystem of industry-leading partners collaborating to deliver the first-ever true end-to-end enterprise VMware virtual desktop infrastructure powered by the Provision Networks Virtual Access Suite.
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Industry-leading companies lent their support for the launch of the Dynamic Desktop Deployment Alliance Program:

• Computer Lab International (CLI)
• DataCore
• Expand Networks
• McAfee, Inc.
• Reflex Security
• Stampede Technologies
• vizioncore

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Quoting from the Scalent official announcement:

Scalent Systems, a leading provider of server infrastructure repurposing software for large enterprise data centers, today announced that it has joined the VMware Community Source Program, a collaborative effort to develop industry-leading virtualization technology and products. As part of its participation, Scalent would contribute server repurposing technology to VMware ESX Server, which is part of VMware Infrastructure 3, the third generation of the industry-leading virtualization software suite.
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Using Scalent V/OE, customers can seamlessly repurpose servers to add, swap, and failover among any combination of machines, while transparently maintaining the consistency and integrity of their business systems. Scalent V/OE allows customers to increase their flexibility and asset utilization, rapidly deploy VMware ESX Server to consolidate their IT infrastructures, and reduce the cost of ensuring high performance and availability…

Quoting from the Scalent official announcement:

Scalent Systems, the leading provider of server infrastructure repurposing software for large enterprise data centers, and DataSynapse, a global provider of application virtualization software, today announced a comprehensive sales and technology partnership.

Scalent will certify DataSynapse FabricServer ? on the Scalent Virtual Operating Environment (V/OE) platform and the two companies will collaborate in selling their joint solution…

Quoting from the Leostream official announcement:

Seeking to further promote the adoption of hosted desktops and the benefits of thin client computing, Leostream Corp. today announced that its Connection Broker for hosted desktops now supports thin clients from Wyse Technology, a global market leader in thin computing.
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The highlight of this integration is the support for Wyse’s recently announced Wyse S10-VDI Edition thin client…

Quoting from EverGrid official announcement:

Evergrid, Inc., a provider of advanced quality of application service management for next generation datacenters, today announced its entry into the high performance computing market, with patent pending high availability and resource management software that lets massively parallelized distributed applications run at near 100 percent reliability on high performance computing (HPC) clusters.
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The Evergrid software sits between the operating system and the applications, and captures the collective state of the application and its IO across all processors. By recording the state of the application, Evergrid is able to checkpoint and recover from failures rapidly with minimal overhead. The software also allows data centers to do preemptive scheduling of lower priority applications in favor of running higher priority applications, with little or no data lost. The software installs on Linux systems and requires no modifications to either the OS or application. It is scalable up to thousands of nodes at a time, with less than five percent performance overhead.
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Evergrid’s new fault tolerant software prevents downtime by automating the checkpointing, migration and recovery of applications, thus offering automatic failover across multiple nodes and tiers. With Evergrid, even failure of multiple processors does not stop an application from functioning continuously. In addition, Evergrid’s efficient and robust management software provisions servers from bare metal up through the application and allows preemptive allocation of resources to high priority applications…

Quoting from the SWsoft official announcement:

SWsoft, a recognized leader in server automation and virtualization software, today announced that the SWsoft Developer Network (SWDN) has attracted more than 1,000 subscribers in less than 90 days.
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The Community Technology Preview program was added for the recent launch of Plesk 8.1 for Linux/Unix, giving developers an opportunity to preview, test and provide feedback on product features directly to SWsoft engineers. SWDN?s OPEN FUSION Forums offer another new resource for developers to share experiences and ask questions…

Quoting from the VMware official announcement:

Pacific Gas and Electric Company today announced the first-ever utility financial incentive program to support virtualization projects in data centers, with industry support from VMware, Intel Corporation and other high tech leaders.
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PG&E customers in northern and central California who are interested in earning financial incentives for virtualization projects must apply for the rebate prior to pursuing a project. The incentives are based on the amount of energy savings achieved through data center consolidation. Qualifying customers can earn a maximum rebate amount of $4 million per project site.

In addition to the rebate, customers can expect to save $300 to $600 in annual energy costs for each server that is removed. Those savings can almost double when reduced data center cooling costs are also taken into account.
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For more information on Pacific Gas and Electric Company?s virtualization technology rebate program, please visit our website at www.pge.com/hightech.

This announcement probably represents one of the most important milestone in modern virtualization history, demostrating value of the technology and indirect profits it leads to.
Worldwide governments should consider following PG&E example to save money improving energy management and preserve environment.

Quoting from the Red Hat official announcement:

Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions to the enterprise, and VMware, the global leader in virtual infrastructure software, today announced an expanded relationship to support customers and ISVs who are deploying virtualization today. As part of the relationship, Red Hat and VMware are delivering certification and focusing on open, community-based interoperability between Red Hat and VMware solutions.
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By collaborating on key technology issues such as virtual machine disk formats, paravirtualization, and management API’s, the companies intend to work within the open source community to create a common, interoperable virtualization model that ISVs and customers can trust – no matter which deployment model they choose.
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Starting today, the Red Hat Application Stack virtual appliance is certified and available in VMDK format in the VMware Virtual Appliance Marketplace for both customers and ISVs to evaluate in a pre-production environment.
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Red Hat and VMware plan to jointly deliver channel bundles of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the Red Hat Application Stack paired up with VMware Infrastructure and VMware Server…