Virtualization News

SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Attune Systems, Inc., a provider of enterprise-class file virtualization solutions, today announced that Bluesocket, the leader in open wireless security and management solutions, has selected the Maestro File Manager(TM) to optimize file management, provide non-disruptive data migration, and deliver detailed monitoring and reporting of its file storage environment. Bluesocket started by using Attune's integrated Maestro Symphony Service(TM) reporting tool, which provided in-depth insights into the current state of IT operations-including server-by-server performance metrics, as well as data usage and file storage statistics. The results showed that on-going memory usage on many of Bluesocket's servers had spiked well past 80%. "I definitely liked the detail of the report. With memory utilization, some of that tells me I... (more)

Egenera vBlades Out

Egenera has gone to market with its promised vBlade software, the extension to its PAN Manager that provides a single environment for configuring, allocating, repurposing and managing both physical servers and virtual machines. This initial implementation uses XenEnterprise, a virtualization solution from XenSource based on the open source Xen hypervisor. Egenera intends to put other hypervisors in PAN for future vBlade implementations. VBlades, which are priced as an add-on, are user-defined partitions of a physical blade to consolidate multiple VMs on a single physical server. P... (more)

RENCI Selects Infinera's Bandwidth Virtualization Capabilities for N.C. Research Network

The Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) has selected Infinera to support its research on the experimental network testbed dubbed BEN (Breakable Experimental Network), which links RENCI to sites at three universities in North Carolina's Research Triangle Park. In addition, RENCI, Duke University and Infinera are collaborating on a proposal to the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the GENI project, a federally backed research effort to build a nationwide networking testbed to enable the exploration of technologies for a future Internet with enhanced security, stability, an... (more)

Virtualization: HP's Hurd Not "Somebody Famous"

Mark Hurd has been the leader of HP since 2004, yet he still likes to tell anecdotes about his relative low profiled compared to his predecessor Carly Fiorina (pictured). Hurd was present at TUCON 2007, TIBCO's annual user meeting in San Francisco, where he gave a keynote presentation about how HP is virtualizing its internal IT infrastructure to achieve new efficiencies. Hurd pointed out that HP now has revenues of more than $90 billion, and has quietly slipped past IBM as the world's largest technology provider. Hurd says the company is poised to reach $100 billion in revenue wit... (more)

Acer's Global Footprint Increases; Buys Gateway for $710M Cash

"The acquisition of Gateway, and its strong brand, immediately completes Acer's global footprint by strengthening our US presence," said Acer Chairman J.T. Wang (pictured), as it was announced yesterday that, by paying $1.90 per share, or $710M total, in cash, Acer was going to buy Gateway - currently the fourth largest computer maker in the USA. In turn gateway is currently in talks to buy Dutch-based rival Packard Bell, a development which would make the Acer acquisition an even more direct affront to Lenovo, the Chinese computer group, which itself has been negotiating to buy ... (more)