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INSYSTEK Releases Virtualization Roadmap

Topeka, KS (PRWEB) September 23, 2006

INSYSTEK® Virtualize IT™ technology provides the ability to effortlessly manage complex virtual infrastructures from the same console used to manage the physical one. Automatically discover virtual assets, determine resource usage and performance.

This year we can expect the Virtual IT™ enabled solutions with several features:

    Enterprise management support for thousands of physical and virtual machines

    Discover virtual infrastructure systems and resources.

    Create virtual servers and desktops

    Automatically track and manage physical and virtual relationships

    Deploy software applications to your virtual environment.

    Run reports for virtual resource configurations and usage.

    Audit all virtual machines for resource configurations.

    Audit guests for operating system and software configurations.

“Virtualization Management is going into the 5.0 release of all our solutions,” says Richard Carlsen, CTO of INSYSTEK. “Using INSYSTEK’s Virtualize IT™ technology, customers will be able to discover and map virtual environments, create virtual machines, track and manage physical and virtual relationships and automate the lifecycle of a large number of virtual servers and desktops.”

About INSYSTEK

INSYSTEK, Inc. has established itself as a leader in Agentless™ IT management software, supplying solutions that enable system auditing/inventorying, software distribution/removal, and server performance & availability monitoring capabilities to clients in business, government, education and healthcare in the United States, Israel, Canada, United Kingdom and South Africa.

More information on INSYSTEK and the full range of INSYSTEK Agentless™ IT management solutions, including free trial versions, can be found at http://www.insystek.com or by sending an e-mail or calling toll free 1-877-467-9783.

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Hannover Germany (PRWEB) February 4, 2009

HELIOS Software GmbH announced it has released full server virtualization support for VMware, Microsoft, and IBM. As a leading developer of cross-platform networking, PDF, and image server solutions for Mac, Windows, and web clients, all HELIOS server products, including the WebShare, EtherShare, and PCShare cross-platform file and print server solutions, are now fully supported in virtual machine (VM) environments.

Virtualization has become a critical technology as demand for IT services increases, while energy and other costs necessitate a reduction in server hardware. Systems such as VMware ESX server, Microsoft Hyper-V, and IBM PowerVM allow running multiple “virtual machine” guest systems on a server. Several instances of Linux, Windows, and Solaris can run simultaneously on the same server hardware, allowing consolidation of servers, adding hardware flexibility and better efficiency, while retaining isolation of services.

Now, HELIOS has added additional support to ensure that HELIOS Server Solution products running in a virtual machine work with high availability. The load balancing options of the virtualization vendors are supported as well, allowing for the most flexible usage of given hardware resources. Exporting and importing entire VMs allows quickly moving an entire server configuration to new hardware.

“Consolidation of servers, higher availability, more hardware flexibility and resource efficiency can be accomplished using virtualization”, according to HELIOS CEO Helmut Tschemernjak, who adds, “This is demanded by customers worldwide. We are glad to announce that the major vendors of server virtualization, namely VMware, Microsoft and IBM, are fully supported with our HELIOS UB+ server solutions.”

More detailed background information at http://www.helios.de/news/news09/N_02_09.phtml.

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HELIOS UB+ Unbreakable Server Solutions deliver mission critical server solutions to enterprise, government, university, and prepress sites. WebShare, EtherShare, and PCShare provide integrated cross-platform networking for Mac, Windows and Web clients, with advanced file and print server services, and easy remote server administration. HELIOS ImageServer, PDF HandShake and PrintPreview bring high efficiency and advanced capabilities to design, prepress and printing operations.

HELIOS products run on powerful and scalable servers including Apple Mac OS X, IBM AIX, Linux, Sun Solaris, and Windows systems. HELIOS products provide reliable cross-platform support for Mac, Windows, Web and UNIX-based clients.

Distributors sell HELIOS products worldwide to value-added resellers who provide complete networking solutions to customers. HELIOS also works with many strategic partners that incorporate HELIOS server software to provide powerful third-party archive, asset management and workflow solutions.

For U.S. Sales:
European MikroGraf Corp.: 916-923-3520; E-mail: sales (at) ugraf.com; www.ugraf.com

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HERNDON, Va. (PRWEB) November 28, 2007

The OpenVZ project announced that using its open source virtualization software in combination with virtual machine open source Xen software, users can effectively create many virtual servers to improve utilization of the physical server.

A software download available now at the OpenVZ website, http://openvz.org/download/kernel/rhel5, enables users to divide one physical server into virtual servers using Xen software, and then creating OpenVZ virtual environments inside those virtual machines.

The software download is based on the RHEL5 Xen kernel with builds available for both x86 and x86_64 platforms. The software can run on the Xen hypervisor in both Dom0 and DomU.

“We wanted to show people what is possible with the low overhead of our operating system (OS) virtualization open source OpenVZ software,” said Kir Kolyshkin, manager of the OpenVZ project. “This is a marriage of complementary technologies that blends the flexibility of virtual machine technology, which is capable of running different operating systems, along with the efficiency of OS virtualization, which can run several times more virtual servers as compared with other virtualization technologies.”

“This combination of open source virtualization technologies provides users with flexibility of running one or more guest operating systems, while also realizing high performance through low overhead,” said Tom Schwaller, an expert in Linux, open source and virtualization technologies based in Germany. “We’re seeing virtualization technologies maturing as we really understand what is possible.”

The OpenVZ project freely distributes and offers support to its users, promoting operating system virtualization through a collaborative, community effort. Supported by SWsoft, the OpenVZ project serves the needs of the community developers, testers, documentation experts, and other technology enthusiasts who wish to participate in and accelerate the technology development process. OpenVZ is open source software that is used as the basis for the SWsoft Virtuozzo virtualization software product.

Since going into full production late in 2005, the OpenVZ project has been very active with the user community with more than 20,000 message posts on its support Forum. The OpenVZ website attracts tens of thousands of visitors each month as more businesses and individuals explore and contribute to the leading open source operating system virtualization project.

About OpenVZ

OpenVZ is operating system server virtualization software technology, built on Linux, which creates multiple isolated, secure virtual environments on a single physical server – enabling greater server utilization and superior availability with fewer performance penalties. The virtual servers ensure that applications do not conflict and can be re-booted independently.

With the power of today’s processors, hardware is often under utilized. With virtualization technology, the server can effectively be split into many small ones, each running its tasks so that the whole server is utilized more efficiently.

OpenVZ software can be used to help consolidate servers and increase server utilization rates, or for creating “sandboxes” for test and development, or when sharing resources so that every user can have root access while being kept isolated from each other.

The OpenVZ software comes with user tools that help automate management of virtual servers. With its unique architecture that uses a single operating system instance, the virtual servers perform and execute like independent servers with their own memory, configuration files, users and applications. Each can be re-booted independently. Using template-based application deployment provides a simple way to get new virtual servers up and running in minutes and OpenVZ can run several times more virtual servers per CPU than other virtualization technologies. Also, the OpenVZ project maintains a blog site discussing virtualization technology, which can be accessed here, http://blog.openvz.org .

Contact:

Bill Baker, Baker Communications Group, LLC

860-350-9100

wbaker(at)bakercg.com

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Herndon, VA (PRWEB) March 11, 2006

SWsoft, the leading provider of operating system virtualization and automation tools, today announced its Virtuozzo support of Intel® Virtualization Technology (VT) capabilities, including the recently unveiled Intel Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d) specification.

By supporting Intel VT and Intel VT-d, Virtuozzo will offer customers additional levels of manageability, security, isolation and I/O performance.

“Building virtualization technology into the processor enables Virtuozzo to deliver higher functionality,” said Serguei Beloussov, CEO of SWsoft. “As Intel adds more technology like VT-d into its processor and chipsets, hardware vendors, software vendors and ultimately end users benefit from more robust virtualization solutions.”

“Intel Virtualization Technology is helping customers achieve better utilization of their hardware investments,” said Lorie Wigle, Director of Marketing for Intel’s Server Platforms Group. “By incorporating support for Intel Virtualization Technology, SWsoft delivers OS-level virtualization which improves application compatibility and reliability.”

The SWsoft Virtuozzo product release with VT support is scheduled for later this year. Virtuozzo VT-d support will follow in conjunction with platform availability.

In addition to the close technology collaboration efforts between the two companies, Intel Capital is also an investor in SWsoft.

Virtualization Simplification

The proliferation of servers in the datacenter has led to increased complexity and costs. Virtualization helps to reverse this trend by dramatically reducing the need for adding physical servers (and their associated capital, power, software and management costs) by turning an existing single physical server into multiple isolated and secure virtual servers, enabling higher server utilization and availability.

Virtuozzo virtual servers perform and execute as independent servers with their own memory, I/O, configuration files, users and applications running on a single operating system. Virtuozzo management tools provide unified management of thousands of virtual servers on hundreds of physical servers.

About SWsoft

SWsoft is a recognized leader in server virtualization and automation software. With more than 10,000 customers in over 100 countries, SWsoft’s suite of products delivers proven performance, reliability, manageability and value. With offices around the world, SWsoft is a high growth company funded by Bessemer Venture Partners, Insight Venture Partners and Intel Capital. For more information about SWsoft, visit www.swsoft.com.

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IT Services Firm Infrasys Boosts Virtualization and
Server Performance with PerfectDisk

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Gaithersburg, MD (Vocus) November 17, 2010

Raxco Software, the pioneer in disk defragmentation software for virtual environments, announced today that Infrasys has chosen the PerfectDisk vSphere Bundle and PerfectDisk Server to improve server virtualization performance of its clients’ IT environments. With offices in England and Northern Ireland, Infrasys acts as an IT and business consultant to some of the United Kingdom’s largest companies, with responsibility for maintaining and enhancing companies’ infrastructures and virtualization environments.

Infrasys manages over 1,000 physical servers and hundreds of virtual machines for its customers, as well as its own cloud offering. Prior to selecting the PerfectDisk solutions, Infrasys used the Windows built-in defragmentation tool, which proved to have severe limitations. With PerfectDisk, fragmentation has been virtually eliminated, disk latency has been significantly reduced and overall server and virtualization performance has improved considerably. Infrasys also anticipates the reduced performance degradation will likely lead to less need for replacement hardware, resulting in additional savings.

“Using PerfectDisk has allowed us to virtually eliminate fragmentation on our physical and virtual servers,” said Alex Livingstone, project manager at Infrasys. “This helps maintain the performance desired when commissioning servers and has also removed fragmentation as a potential issue for troubleshooting storage or server performance issues. PerfectDisk’s tight integration with VMware vSphere gives us the confidence that our applications, which are run by our staff of IT engineers, will not be negatively impacted.”

“We’re happy Infrasys has chosen PerfectDisk to meet the challenges of performance optimization for its clients,” said Joe Abusamra, vice president of operations at Raxco Software. “As service providers such as Infrasys implement virtualization and cloud computing solutions, more and more of them are turning to PerfectDisk to ensure they are maximizing the benefits of these technologies.”

About Raxco Software

Raxco Software has been helping large enterprises, small businesses, and consumers with their computer resource management needs for more than twenty-five years. Its PerfectDisk is Windows® Certified by Microsoft®, and optimized for Windows XP. The PerfectDisk line has a long award-winning history, most notably its perfect 5-star review from CNET Download, winner of the Windows IT Pro 2005 and 2006 Readers’ Choice Awards for Defragmentation Utility and Storage Management Tool, and Redmond Magazine’s Best of the Best Award for 2005, and having won PC Magazine’s Editors Choice award for the past two years. In addition to its PerfectDisk line, Raxco also produces PC optimization software for Windows operating systems and HP’s OpenVMS operating system. Raxco Software can be found on the Web at http://www.raxco.com.

Contacts:    Kelly Parker

Raxco Software, Inc

301-519-7804

kparker(at)raxco(dot)com

Copyright 2010, Raxco Software, Inc. All rights reserved.

PerfectDisk is a registered trademark of Raxco Software, Inc. Windows, Windows Server and Microsoft are trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks or trade names are the property of their respective owners.

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Rolling Meadows, IL (PRWEB) December 20, 2006

Train Signal, Inc. has released their new FastTrack Video Training Course, Microsoft Virtualization, specifically for IT students and professionals who want to learn to utilize Virtual PC and Virtual Server. Featuring over 12 hours of video training, the Microsoft Virtualization training course covers the following topics: Installing Virtual Server, Converting Physical to Virtual (P2V), Virtual Networks, Managing and Administering Virtual Server, Creating and Using Virtual Machines, Virtual Disks, and more.

The Microsoft Virtualization course sells for $ 199.95, plus shipping and requires no additional software to complete as it features Windows Media Video compression and can be viewed with standard Windows Media Players. The course is instructed by David Davis, a multi-certified instructor with 12+ years of hands-on IT experience. Davis is credited with writing numerous IT articles, practice tests, and has coauthored a book.

Train Signal’s Director of Product Development, Gary Eimerman say, “This Microsoft Virtualization course is really the first of its kind offering the fundamentals of virtualization in video format. The majority of virtualization training out there is available in book or CD format only. The best way to learn Virtual Server and Virtual PC is through watching it configured on a live network using real-world examples — and that’s exactly what our video training delivers.”

Founded in 2002, Train Signal, Inc. creates unique, high quality computer training products for the serious IT student and professional. Currently they have over 20 courses covering topics in Microsoft, Cisco, Linux and Wireless Networking.

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Orlando, FL (PRWEB) July 23, 2010

Server Intellect http://www.serverintellect.com obtained the Microsoft Virtualization Competency expanding its ever-growing base of Microsoft competencies focused around Cloud Based Server Solutions.

The Microsoft Virtualization Competency assures customers that Server Intellect has the skills needed to build enterprise-class Virtualization and Cloud Server Solutions based on products such as Windows Server Hyper-V technology, Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager, Microsoft application virtualization, Microsoft enterprise desktop virtualization, and Microsoft virtual desktop infrastructure.

Eric Pratt, Founder and CEO states “Server Intellect is proud to have obtained the 7th and most challenging competency to date in the Microsoft Partner Program. This competency is by far the most rewarding since becoming a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner in 2006. This certification clearly demonstrates our commitment to becoming a leader in delivering affordable, easy-to-use Cloud Based Server Solutions to customers worldwide.”

Server Intellect spent 18 months building their custom ‘Public Cloud’ offering that required extensive custom programming and enterprise-class hardware routing solutions. The level of flexibility and scalability offered is truly groundbreaking in the Cloud Hosting market. The Public Cloud offering boasts automated website, mail server, and database failover, as well as full hardware redundancy, and cross-datacenter load balancing.

Server Intellect’s ‘Private Cloud’ solution offers customers a platform to build their own custom Private Cloud in minutes. Customers have the ability to start with a single, hardware redundant server and scale their custom private cloud to hundreds of servers in a matter of minutes. The Private Cloud offering is the answer to what customers have been demanding from the industry for years.

About Server Intellect

Server Intellect, located in downtown Orlando, Florida assists businesses and individuals worldwide to achieve their internet technology goals. By offering cloud server hosting, dedicated servers, private cloud servers and complete cloud services coupled with world-class customer service, Server Intellect has become a world-recognized leader in the global web hosting market.

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Herndon, Va. (PRWEB) February 23, 2006

The OpenVZ project today announced that its website attracted more than one million hits in January – just one month after full production – as more businesses and individuals explore and contribute to the leading open source operating system virtualization project. Also, with more than 1,000 message posts, the OpenVZ support Forum has been very active with the user community.

The OpenVZ project freely distributes and offers support to its users, promoting operating system virtualization through a collaborative, community effort. The software can be downloaded at http://openvz.org.

“Clearly virtualization is technology whose time has arrived,” said Kir Kolyshkin, manager of the OpenVZ project. “We are immensely gratified that OpenVZ has quickly gained traction not only in the community, but with users who derive value by deploying their applications on virtual private servers. We will continue to add features to OpenVZ software and expect that over time virtualization will become part of the mainstream Linux distributions.”

One example of a community contribution is a Web control panel for OpenVZ that uses a graphical interface (www.ronny-goerner.de/vzadmin.html).

A post to the website Forum said, “OpenVZ was the only virtual server system that was simple to install and get working.”

Since going into full production in December, the OpenVZ project has delivered pre-built Debian 3.1 (Sarge) Virtual Private Server (VPS) templates, as well as OpenVZ beta level software based on the Linux kernel 2.6.15.

Earlier this month, project manager Kir Kolyshkin, spoke on the topic of Linux and virtualization at the Southern California Linux Expo, saying, “The mandate to reduce costs within the IT department without sacrificing performance is generating renewed buzz around virtualization technology.”

About OpenVZ Software

The OpenVZ server virtualization software is built on Linux and creates isolated, secure virtual private servers on a single physical server – enabling better server utilization and better availability with fewer performance penalties. The virtual servers perform and execute like independent servers with their own memory, configuration files, users and applications. Each can be re-booted independently.

With the power of modern CPUs from both Intel and AMD (including the latest dual-core offerings), hardware is often under utilized. With virtualization technology, the server can effectively be split into many small ones, each running its tasks so that the whole server is utilized more efficiently.

About the OpenVZ Project

OpenVZ software serves the needs of the community developers, testers, documentation experts, and other technology enthusiasts who wish to participate in and accelerate the technology development process. OpenVZ receives support from SWsoft and is the core to the Virtuozzo virtualization software product. More information is available at http://openvz.org.

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Minneapolis, MN (PRWEB) March 9, 2009

Evolving Solutions (www.evolvingsol.com), a leading server virtualization and storage consolidation solution provider, is offering critical insight to companies who have either just implemented or are planning to implement server virtualization. Absorbing this insight ensures companies are both aware of mistakes that could be made when employing server virtualization and how best to avoid them.

“Data Center Leaders: Server Virtualization Best Practices With Dan Kusnetzky” posts a recent discussion between Kusnetzky and Judie Van Keulen, Evolving Solutions’ head blogger. In the interview, Van Keulen seeks to paint server virtualization in an accurate light to companies who may tend to view it as an out-of-the-box cure-all for every IT related business woe.

“Server virtualization, deservedly so, is gaining mainstream awareness in the business community as a component of viable IT strategy, particularly as it relates to data center cost avoidance,” states Van Keulen. “With this awareness, however, come misconceptions about what server virtualization can or cannot provide. The purpose of my discussion with Kusnetzky was to ensure our readers have the most accurate view of this powerful IT solution.”

Kusnetzky is a founding partner with the Kusnetzky Group and posts on virtualization related topics regularly to ZDNet’s Virtually Speaking. Having been involved with information technology since the late 1970s, Kusnetzky has long been on the forefront of new IT solutions. In his former role as vice president for IDC’s System Software, Kusnetzky was responsible for research and analysis on the worldwide market for operating environments and virtualization software.

“Whoa, big fella (or lovely lady in the case of a female executive), what is your overall plan to deploy virtualization technology and how does that fit into your overall IT plan?” Kusnetzky offered as an opening remark aimed at those companies who have just implemented server virtualization.

In response, Van Keulen asked Kusnetzky to highlight the mistakes he has witnessed companies making after implementing server virtualization.

Kusnetzky answered in kind:

“I’m often surprised that executives who have grabbed onto virtual machine technology as a panacea don’t have a clear understanding of the following:

    What applications and application components are running on what physical and/or virtual machines?
    How do these components relate to both the network and storage infrastructure?
    Who is responsible for managing each component, of the underlying physical machines, for the underlying network, for the underlying storage?
    Does the organization’s license management and support policies have a way to deal with easily copied virtual machines that could, in the end, be updated at different rates?
    Have failure scenarios been explored and plans been created to address what happens if a physical machine, a disk or a network router fail?

One clear message to remember is something Alan Lakein once said, ‘Failing to plan is planning to fail.’”

“The key insight offered by Kusnetzky is that server virtualization, as a solution, should fit into a company’s overall IT plan, rather than be the plan itself,” states Van Keulen. “While this insight was offered in regards to virtualization, it is insight that should be leveraged when implementing any new IT solution.”

Evolving Solutions’ complete interview with Kusnetzky Group founding partner and ZDNet blogger, Dan Kusnetzky, may be found on Evolving Solutions’ Evolving IT blog. http://www.evolvingsol.com/blog/2009/02/10/server-virtualization-best-practices/

About Evolving Solutions

Evolving Solutions architects and implements IT solutions that assist businesses in the utilization of technology to help achieve corporate goals. Specializing in server and storage virtualization, server and storage consolidation, Tivoli Storage Manager Software implementation, disaster recovery and business continuity planning and implementation; Evolving Solutions is an IBM 2008 Beacon Award Winner. For more information about Evolving Solutions, call 800-294-4362 or visit their website at www.evolvingsol.com.

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