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Virsto Software , an innovator in storage solutions for virtual servers, announced today it has completed its Series A round of funding, raising $ 7 million.
The round was led by August Capital and includes Canaan Partners. Canaan Partners was also a seed investor in Virsto in 2008.
Virsto will use the funds to launch its new storage solution for virtual servers. The company will also focus on building its customer base and engaging new partners.
Maha Ibrahim, General Partner at Canaan, will remain on Virsto’s board of directors and Vivek Mehra, General Partner at August Capital, will join the board.

Virsto’s History

Virsto was founded in the fall of 2007 to address the growing need for cost-effective and efficient storage for virtualized data centers.
Virtualized data centers are transforming IT infrastructures by reducing costs, improving performance and increasing efficiency. Server virtualization platforms from VMware, Microsoft, Citrix, Oracle, Red Hat, and others are being rapidly adopted as the technology matures.
Most data storage systems in use today were designed before server virtualization came about. The older storage techniques and technologies used for physical servers are not optimal for virtual servers. While existing vendors have tweaked storage solutions to work better for virtual servers, the products are inadequate, expensive and complex.
Later this year, Virsto will launch a new type of storage solution designed for the unique needs of virtual servers.

Supporting Resources:

Virsto blog located on Virsto website
•TechAlpha April 2009 report on virtualization by George Gilbert and Juergen Urbanski:

Supporting Quotes:

“We have repeatedly heard from both cloud and enterprise customers how problematic current storage for virtual servers is,” said Vivek Mehra, General Partner at August Capital. “Virsto’s technology and team are far ahead of established and startup competitors working to solve this problem. We believe Virsto has the right leadership, technology and timing to take advantage of this growing market opportunity.”
“We saw a clear need for Virsto’s unique approach to storage more than a year ago when we made our initial investment in the company,” said Maha Ibrahim, General Partner at Canaan Partners. “More than 60 percent of enterprises are trying some form of virtualization and all of these organizations will need to address the specific storage problems virtualized data centers present. We’re pleased with Virsto’s strong execution to date and we are excited to help them bring their innovative storage solution to the market.”
“The assumptions that were true for physical servers are not true for virtualized servers,” said Mark Davis, CEO of Virsto. “Current storage systems weren’t built for this reality and as a result, storage for virtualized data centers is broken. Our team includes some of the best talent in the industry and we set out to invent a dramatically different solution built for the unique way storage is consumed by virtual servers.”

About Virsto Software

Storage in the virtual age is broken and Virsto is fixing it. Founded in late 2007 by a team of storage and virtualization experts, Virsto has created an entirely new type of storage solution for the unique needs of virtual servers. Virsto is separating storage from the physical world once and for all to save organizations time and money. For more

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PerfectDisk 10

Gaithersburg, MD (Vocus) February 24, 2009

Raxco Software, the leader in disk and virtualization defragmentation software, today announced the release of the PerfectDisk® 10 Virtual Enterprise Edition for virtual environments using VMware ESX Server and Microsoft’s Hyper-V or other Windows®-based physical hosts. The PerfectDisk 10 Virtual Enterprise Edition is the world’s only disk defrag utility with Virtual Awareness to ensure optimal performance in virtual environments. Licensing also includes the PerfectDisk 10 Enterprise Console, providing enterprises with a fully integrated management system for their virtual environments.

The Virtual Enterprise Edition utilizes new patent-pending technology that is virtually aware of its environment. Other disk defragmenters available in the market today are unable to distinguish that they are in a virtual environment, resulting in scenarios where a virtual guest will consume resources from the host that are critical to another guest’s potentially critical activity. This resource contention can easily lead to a severe degradation in performance for the critical guest. With the PerfectDisk 10 Virtual Enterprise Edition, PerfectDisk is able to determine when it is in a virtual environment and adjust defragmentation accordingly to eliminate performance-debilitating resource contention.

“The PerfectDisk 10 Virtual Enterprise Edition’s virtual-awareness capability is a great advancement and makes defragmentation truly valuable and a no-brainer in virtual environments,” said Russ Howard, Systems/Programmer III at the University of Pittsburgh. “Raxco Software has improved an already top-notch product.”

“As organizations continue to implement more virtualization solutions to keep costs and energy use down, the PerfectDisk 10 Virtual Enterprise Edition is a critical piece of the virtualization puzzle,” said Bob Nolan, president and CEO of Raxco Software. “With this component of the PerfectDisk 10 line, enterprises can be assured that they are maximizing performance in these environments without wasting valuable resources.”

The PerfectDisk 10 Virtual Enterprise Edition is available immediately at www.perfectdisk.com.

About Raxco Software

Raxco Software has been the industry leader in helping large enterprises, small businesses, and consumers with their computer resource management needs for over 30 years. Its PerfectDisk 10 is Certified by Microsoft® for Vista, Windows Server® 2008 and Hyper-V. PerfectDisk products have a long history of winning the industry’s highest awards, most notably its perfect 5-star review from CNET Download, winner of the Windows IT Pro Readers’ Choice Awards for Defragmentation Utility and Storage Management Tools, Redmond Magazine’s Best of the Best Award, and PC Magazine’s Editors’ Choice Award. Raxco also produces optimization software, for HP’s OpenVMS operating system. Raxco Software can be found on the Web at www.perfectdisk.com.

Contacts:    

Sherry Murray

Raxco Software, Inc

301-519-7836

smurray(at)perfectdisk.com

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Holmdel, NJ (PRWEB) April 1, 2010

5nine Software today announced 5nine Virtual Firewall 2.0 for Microsoft Hyper-V — a powerful and easy to use virtual firewall for Microsoft Hyper-V and Server 2008 / R2. 5nine Virtual Firewall controls network traffic between virtual machines, detects/blocks malicious attacks and improves the security of a virtualized environment.

Both SMB and large size Enterprise deployments or hosting companies need v-Firewall to harden security of the virtual machines and the Virtual host system.

5nine Virtual Firewall provides an ability to monitor and control network traffic between virtual machines and external (physical) networks, as well as between virtual machines within the virtual network. System Administrators can define the rules for different types of traffic coming to/from virtual machines, as well as the ports used. This could be done both programmatically (with simple PowerShell API), or using administrative applications running on a management Virtual machine or a standalone web server.

Special security heartbeat service continuously checks if the security rules/policies are enforced, and stops/pauses the virtual machine if its network filter is not communicated, which prevents exposure of the VMs to a wide range of exploits.

By controlling incoming and outgoing network traffic for each Hyper-V virtual machine 5nine Virtual Firewall helps to improve the security of a virtual environment, and enforces various compliance best practices and standards, including PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard).

5nine Virtual Firewall can be used with Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager when virtual machine is provisioned, or deployed on the physical machine(s) prior to P2V Migration.

Virtual Firewall also keeps statistics for a number of packets and average size of each packet. Based on these statistics Virtual Firewall creates a network usage pattern, and notifies the user if it has changed, which often indicates a malicious attack or a Malware. System Administrators subsequently can take an action to block suspicious traffic creating or modifying appropriate rule.

“More and more companies, including those of highly regulated financial, insurance and healthcare industries, are looking to utilize Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization technology to reduce costs and optimize IT resources. Security and compliance are increasing concerns for a broad range of virtualization deployments. 5nine Virtual Firewall provides tremendous protection for the virtual infrastructure, along with conventional perimeter firewalls,” said Irene Achong, Director of Sales of 5nine Software. “5nine v-Firewall version 1.0 has drawn significant attention from many organizations of different size, including SMBs, hosting companies and Enterprises utilizing Microsoft Hyper-V and Server 2008 / R2. It allowed us to gather common requirements for secure Hyper-V Virtual Machines provisioning and deployment, which were implemented in version 2.0 of 5nine Virtual Firewall and 5nine Security Heartbeat Service for Hyper-V.”

Features and Benefits:

Controls Network Traffic — Using simple PowerShell API/scripts or intuitive Management applications system administrators can define/modify various firewall rules to allow or restrict various types of network traffic coming from the external network to Hyper-V virtual machines, or vise versa, and between the virtual machines. It allows users to protect the Virtual Machines and the Host System from both ‘outside’ and ‘inside’ vulnerabilities.

Security Heartbeat Service — Special service continuously checks if the network traffic rules are enforced, and can stop or pause the virtual machine if its network filter is not communicated to ensure that VM is not compromised.

Deployment options — 5nine Virtual Firewall can be used with Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager templates when a new virtual machine is provisioned on Hyper-V / Server 2008/R2 host, or to be deployed on the physical machine(s) prior to P2V Migration, as well as on VMs after Migration.

Compliance Audits — Enables successful compliance audits by providing the ability to monitor, report on, and filter virtual network traffic effectively.

Pricing and Availability

5nine Virtual Firewall 2.0 is currently in beta, and is expected to be GA in April, 2010. A free 30 day trial version can be downloaded at http://www.5nine.com/ . It is priced at 49.00 per virtual machine. Volume discounts apply.

About 5nine Software

5nine Software helps organizations to safeguard their investment in virtual infrastructure by providing innovative systems management solutions designed to reduce costs, increase productivity and mitigate risks. 5nine offers a suite of P2V and V2V tools such as 5nine P2V Hyper-V Planner, 5nine Migrator, 5nine Optimizer and 5nine P2V Hyper-V Planner Free Edition.

5nine is an international company with its U.S. headquarters in New Jersey. 5nine is rapidly expanding its presence and its partner network around the world, and will continue to offer innovative and practical solutions to help IT professionals to better plan and manage their virtual infrastructures.

Contact: Irene Achong, irenek(at)5nine(dot)com, +1 404 916 1457

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New York, NY (PRWEB) May 23, 2006

Best 10 Web Hosting ( http://www.best10webhosting.com ) featured an article named “Best Blogging Software”. The author Miles Evans reviewed blogging platforms and explained the differencies between them.

The remotely hosted blogs featured in the article are Blooger, Typead, Xanda, Blogsome, Blogster, MindSay and Multiply, all under dot-com domain extension.

Mr. Evans explains their history, how do they work, their search engine ranking and options they offer to bloggers.

The Article begins with Blogger-dot-com’s review that says it is probably the most popular blogging platform. The B10WH directory targets your attention to the fact that Blogger.com users are allowed to host their blog under their own hosting account under their own domain name.

Article also explains self hosted and and community based bloging platforms. Those reviewed in this section are WordPress (WP), MovableType.org and Textpattern.

“WordPress originally began as a mod of an older open source package known as B2. WP is MT’s biggest competition and is often the bain of endless WordPress vs Movabletype style threads around the internet” says the author. According to Mr. Evans, who writes essays on organic SEO, SEM, development and other equally fascinating subjects, although launched just over a year or so ago “WordPress has really taken the blog sphere by storm”. The reason for WP’s fast growing popularity is the free under GNU licensing. It comes with many features users can not find with other blog software applications. Other key advantages of WP are it is easy-to-instal, to get blogging for novice users and the very large and helpful community of users.

The third blog platform explained in the article – “Community Based Blogging Software” – features applications and systems such as Slash.com, Scoop, Drupal, Livejournal and PHP Nuke. The author points readers attention to blog software comparison chart.

The B10WH (Best 10 Web Hosting) directory published hundreds of web hosting, webmaster and web development articles since 2003.

About B10WH:

Best 10 Web Hosting (http://best10webhosting.com) directory is one of the most popular shared web hosting directories. It has been online since August 2003. It features shared web hosting service providers in different categories. The directory has special regional sections where consumers can find European, Canadian and Australian hosting providers. B10WH accepts both free and paid submissions from web hosting companies. Consumers can read web hosting related news and articles on a range of webmaster topics.

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Wilmington, DE (PRWEB) February 14, 2006

Host Color LLC (http://www.hostcolor.com), a US shared web hosting provider has announced it will expand its partnership offers to software vendors and online companies. The company will launch a new voucher system which will promote its service with a number of selected partners. Companies that wish to learn more about Host Color’s new offer can find more information on the company’s website ( www.hostcolor.com ).

Host Color’s idea is to offer its services at preferential pricing to the customers of selected partners. Host Color’s new initiative is not solely commercial. Host Color looks for partnership with software companies that live up to the high standard of service that the company aspires to. The range of web hosting services that Host Color provides, will be complementary to the offerings of many companies. The hosting discount that customers would get is also an additional marketing point that software developers or vendors can use.

The new program will offer savings of up to 15% on the wide range of web hosting and domain registration services that Host Color offers. “Host Color is a rapidly developing company. We operate in data centers in the United States and Europe. We also have developed our own control panel software. The greatest value of our service however comes from the effort that our staff put into providing a superb service. That’s why we are looking for partnership with reputable IT businesses that would match this attitude,” says Host Color’s manager Vesselin Drangajov.

Host Color has also recently incorporated multi-domain hosting in its new NextColor control panel. The new feature gives customers the opportunity to host additional websites on their main hosting account. The newly added option is important because it will make the company’s hosting services very attractive to customers such as web developers or small design companies.

They will be able to host more than one website on a single account, and will have easier management of their on-line content.Multiple domain hosting helps make complete use of the disc space and the bandwidth, featured in a hosting package.

Additionally, Host Color has announced that it made available the popular PhpMyVisites to its customers. The web stats software is one of the pre-installed tools the company offers.

About Host Color

Host Color LLC (http://www.hostcolor.com) is a US web hosting company incorporated in Delaware. It has been operating on the hosting market since 2000. The company hosts thousands of personal and business Web sites. Host Color LLC offers web hosting services in US and European data centers. The hosting company provides shared hosting services in Europe through Host Color Europe (http://www.hostcoloreurope.com) web site.

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San Diego, CA (PRWEB) April 25, 2006

HostLabs, a leading provider of hosting services for Exchange and Windows applications, has developed Active Director, a customer directory integration (CDI) tool. This tool allows customers to synchronize their Active Directory with their hosted Active Directory.

“The biggest obstacle facing organizations that already have Active Directory and want to outsource Exchange Hosting is that it doesn’t make sense to manage two Active Directories, as Exchange Hosting relies completely on Active Directory to work,” said Brian Furphy, CEO of HostLabs. “I believe an obstacle is what you see when you take your eye’s off of the goal. We’ve been working to address the customer data integration needs of businesses of all sizes, and now with Active Director, I think we’ve reached that goal.”

In addition to helping organizations centralize or maintain their current Active Directory operations, HostLabs’ Active Directory integration software can plug in additional hosted services, such as:

     Exchange Hosting

    SQL Hosting

    .NET Web Hosting

    SharePoint Hosting

    ColdFusion Hosting

    FLASH Media Server

To begin CDI Services with Active Director or to learn more about HostLabs’ other hosting services, visit www.HostLabs.com or contact a HostLabs representative at 1-877-571-0403.

About HostLabs

HostLabs is a global leader in hosting services for Exchange, Outlook, and other Windows applications. They have several years of experience designing, managing, and implementing Microsoft Exchange Server for hosting, and their team consists of industry experts.

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Question by Stuart G: What online project collaboration software do you recommend for managing client projects?
I am looking for a hosted project collaboration tool to manage my client projects. Some of my requirements are:
1. It must be intuitive and easy to use.
2. It must have basic project management features like tasks and milestones with the ability to specify due dates.
3. I would like to be able to brand it so it looks like my company.
4. Integration with email would be great too since I know I probably won’t be able to get some of my clients to use the tool.

Any recommendations?

Best answer:

Answer by Dave W
Some products to consider are:
Basecamp: http://www.basecamphq.com
Central Desktop: http://www.centraldesktop.com
TeamWork Live: http://www.teamworklive.com

They are all hosted, easy to use, and all allow you to brand the site.

Basecamp is the simplest to learn but it has limited project management features. Note that you do not have the ability to assign due dates to to-do items in Basecamp.

Central Desktop is the most full-featured of the three: it includes many additional features like online databases, customizable pages, and web meetings (costs extra). The amount of features makes it harder to learn, though, which might be a problem if you are using this with clients.

My personal favorite is TeamWork Live: it has Basecamp’s ease of use but it is much more full-featured. It is also fully integrated with email so your clients don’t even have to login in to the site to collaborate with you. They can simply reply to the notification emails and it will automatically be saved to TeamWork Live. They have other features which I really like too, such as a full-text search engine and an internal Gmail-like messaging system.

I’m putting together a site that aggregates articles about project collaboration software along with reviews of each of the product if you are interested. You can check it out at: http://www.projectcollaborationcenter.com

Cheers,
Dave

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