LACCD is the largest community college district in the United States, serving more than 250,000 students annually at nine colleges spread throughout 36 cities in the greater Los Angeles area. Accounts are being created for more than 2.5 million student records.

"Live@edu aligns with LACCD's strategic vision to modernize and improve our colleges to ensure Los Angeles residents are trained with the skills needed to fill jobs of the 21st century," said Jorge Mata, chief information officer for LACCD. "We needed a solution that would be easy to administer across all our colleges. One of the reasons we chose Microsoft Live@edu over Google Apps for Education is because it provides us with simple and automated management along with the visibility and control we need to apply our policies across our student information systems."

To develop a truly customized solution for LACCD, Live@edu teamed up with SADA Systems to deliver a solution that mitigates the need for manual student email registration while reducing time and expense allocated toward the registration process. Once students register, they will automatically receive an email and collaboration account in real time.

"Our unique partnership with Microsoft enables LACCD's IT personnel to focus on the system's more mission-critical IT goals," said Niv Dolgin, director of IT, SADA Systems. "Streamlining the registration process is not only a win for LACCD IT personnel; it is a win for students and LACCD administrative staff."

Live@edu will allow LACCD to provide students with a single email address even if they are enrolled at multiple colleges. The same goes for faculty who teach at multiple colleges, thereby simplifying communication for both the district and those it serves. Live@edu will also help LACCD eliminate paper processes, such as printing fee receipts that can be emailed instead.

"We are excited to see the largest community college district in the U.S. deploy Live@edu to not only experience the benefits of a cloud-based collaboration service, but to also roll out a technology that will develop its students' skills," said Sig Behrens, general manager of U.S. Education for Microsoft. "LACCD is committed to student employability and recognizes the value to its students of skills gained by using Microsoft technology and that the knowledge will serve them well as they prepare to enter the workforce."

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OpenDNS, the world's largest and fastest-growing provider of Internet security and DNS services that deliver a safer, faster and more intelligent Internet experience to everyone, today announced Regent University is using OpenDNS Enterprise, the favorite security solution of colleges and universities across the globe. Regent University, a leading academic center offering rigorous programs and high academic standards, selected OpenDNS Enterprise because the cloud-based solution allows for improved security and easier management and monitoring of its wired and Wi-Fi networks.

Prior to deploying OpenDNS Enterprise Regent University was using an appliance-based Blue Coat solution for some very basic filtering of malicious domains, but the solution tended to create more problems than it actually solved. The team was searching for a more comprehensive way to prevent malware from proliferating across the campus.

A trusted team of Regent University engineers who were familiar with OpenDNS’s home offerings recommended that Director of Network Engineering, Jonathan Harrell, and his team begin testing OpenDNS Enterprise. Right away it was clear that the DNS-based security solution was ideal for scaling to serve the large campus without creating network bottlenecks, and it would be able to uniquely prevent the proliferation of malware at the university.

“With lightweight OpenDNS Enterprise we can now identify and block malware before users even know how to find it,” explained Harrell. “More importantly, we can easily look at a high-level flyover of all of our networks and identify trends before they become problems. That means we’re preventing malware instead of cleaning it up.”

OpenDNS Enterprise offers a two-pronged approach to malware protection. First, the solution prohibits access to sites known to host malware so that the university’s students and faculty can’t download it. Second, OpenDNS Enterprise eliminates communication between devices that are already infected and the networks they access, meaning that malware and botnets are both disabled from communicating with their online hosts and proliferating across the network.

Additionally, OpenDNS Enterprise offers network managers the ability to easily gain insight on what is happening across their networks without having to sort through heavy or complicated reports. “The centralized OpenDNS Enterprise Web-based Dashboard allows us to regain complete control over our network,” Harrell continued. “Whether I’m making network changes, examining high-level network reports, or drilling down to identify the source of potential threats, I can do it all on the go with easy-to-understand reports.”

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For external partners/clients to send emails to a particular distribution list, you must make sure that you do not require all senders to be authenticated. Here is an error of what might happen if authentication is enabled under the mailflow restrictions options:

Delivery has failed to these recipients or groups:

colo.alerts@mycompany.com
Your message can't be delivered because delivery to this address is restricted.

Diagnostic information for administrators:
Generating server: mycompany.com
colo.alerts@mycompany.com
#550 5.7.1 RESOLVER.RST.AuthRequired; authentication required ##rfc822;colo.alerts@mycompany.com

Here is a screenshot of the options and walk through:

• Open Exchange Management Console
  Under the Recipient Configuration, click on the Distribution Group
  All the distribution groups in your forest should populate in the console.
• Select the distribution group you would like to edit and double click OR right click and select properties
• Select the Mail Flow Settings Tab
• Double click the "Message Delivery Restrictions" option or select it and click on Properties button
• Make sure that the "Require that all senders are authenticated" option is UNCHECKED
• Click OK button and then Apply or OK button to close the distribution group properties options.
• Test by sending email from an external email address!

Exchange 2010 Distribution Group Properties

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This means that AWS clients can now perform powerful on-demand search and eDiscovery of their data within their AWS environments worldwide without first exporting their data out of the cloud. Additionally, law firms and other eDiscovery professionals can now conduct early case assessment (ECA) and first pass review in their own instance of the AWS cloud, as opposed to transferring their client’s data to a vendor’s dedicated SaaS installation for cloud-based eDiscovery.

According to Barry Murphy, principal analyst at eDiscovery Journal, “X1 Rapid Discovery is built to be deployed in Cloud environments where there tend to be heterogeneous infrastructure elements. The system is not tightly wound to third party hardware so it can be decoupled so as to scale out and be virtualized more easily.” Murphy continues, “Perhaps most interesting to me is the work X1 Discovery has done to get into the Amazon AWS ISV program...X1 Discovery is really striking first.”

“We are pleased to team with Amazon Web Services to provide much needed enterprise eDiscovery and search directly within the AWS cloud environment through the innovation of X1 Rapid Discovery version 4,” says X1 Discovery’s CEO, John Patzakis. “Amazon’s criteria for entry into the Solutions Provider program is very comprehensive but it demonstrates that we meet all the requirements of a true IaaS cloud solution,” Patzakis continues. X1 Discovery is the first enterprise eDiscovery solution for collection and early case assessment to be demonstrably deployable and effectively operational in the IaaS cloud.

About X1 Rapid Discovery
With X1 Rapid Discovery, organizations can quickly access, search, triage and collect their data in their existing cloud environments, without having to first export that data; thereby transforming how organizations address the challenges of search, collection and analysis of cloud-based data. While other eDiscovery products require migrating or even shipping your data to the vendor tools, X1 Rapid Discovery is a hardware-independent software solution that uniquely installs and operates on demand where your data currently resides.

Benefits of X1 Rapid Discovery

• Designed for virtualized environments and to scale out. Other eDiscovery solutions are mostly amalgams of OEM technology and monolithic architecture, preventing true virtualization and unsuited for the cloud.
• Installs remotely in a matter of minutes, in the cloud or in your enterprise, without costly and rigid hardware requirements. This provides unique portability for immediate search and data investigation requirements.
• Quickly search and cull up to terabytes of data stored within your enterprise or in the cloud, without ever exporting that data from its native environment.
• Non-appliance solution with a simple flat fee licensing model and no GB processing fees.
• Intuitive web user interface with matter centric work-flow for eDiscovery and enterprise search.

For more information about X1 Rapid Discovery, visit http://www.x1discovery.com/rapid_discovery.html or contact Cathryn Goodman by phone at 626-229-3071 or by email at cgoodman@x1discovery.com.

About X1 Discovery, Inc.
X1 Discovery offers next generation eDiscovery and enterprise search solutions specifically designed for IT, electronic discovery and legal professionals. Built upon the market leading X1 search solution for business professionals, X1 Discovery delivers eDiscovery that provides a platform for social media eDiscovery and effectively supports investigations of cloud-based data. X1 Discovery was founded by Idealab, a creator and operator of technology businesses, and is powered by award winning and patented X1 Search Technology for business professionals.

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The Relion 2804E is a four-way system designed for maximum performance. Based on Intel’s new ‘Sandy-Bridge EP’ E5-4600 processor, the Relion 2804E accommodates four processors with up to 32 cores in a 2U form factor. With 48 dual in-line memory module (DIMM) slots, the system supports up to 1.5TB of memory and four memory channels per processor provide ample memory bandwidth per core. The Relion 2804E is the ideal server platform for running virtualization and high performance computing applications, as well as enterprise applications like relational databases.

“The Relion 2804E and 800E perfectly complement our new line of servers built for the needs of the enterprise,” said Phil Pokorny, CTO of Penguin Computing. “For users that need the highest levels of performance the 2804E delivers, and with 1.5TB of RAM, it supports even the most memory intensive applications. The 800E offers the highest levels of efficiency and is the ideal platform for large scale deployments where its cost-effectiveness, reliability and great efficiency minimize TCO.”

The Relion 800E is a cost-effective 1U two-way server designed for maximum performance per watt per square foot. It is ideal for web server farms and other deployment scenarios that need to accommodate network and I/O driven workloads in environments with power and cooling constraints. The Relion 800E features two Intel E5-2400 processors based on the ‘Sandy Bridge EN’ architecture. With 12 DIMM slots the Relion 800E supports up to 384GB of RAM and three memory channels per processor. The Relion 800E’s efficiency is achieved through special design features such as high efficiency voltage-regulators, a spread core design and highly efficient power supplies.

Like all other models in Penguin Computing’s E-series, the Relion 800E and the Relion 2804E have been engineered to deliver the highest levels of reliability and include a comprehensive set of software tools for server deployment and management. The Relion 800E and the Relion 2804E come with a standard four year warranty and 24/7 technical phone support with priority handling by dedicated support engineers.

About Penguin Computing
For well over a decade Penguin Computing has been dedicated to delivering complete, integrated Enterprise and High Performance Computing (HPC) solutions that are innovative, cost effective, and easy to use. Penguin offers a complete end-to-end portfolio of products and solutions including workstations, rackmount servers, custom server designs, power efficient rack solutions and turn-key clusters. Penguin also offers the Scyld suite of software products for efficient provisioning and infrastructure monitoring. For users who want to use supercomputing capabilities on-demand and pay as they go, Penguin provides Penguin Computing on Demand (POD), a public HPC cloud that is available instantly and as needed. Penguin counts some of the world’s most demanding organizations as its customers, including AOL, Yelp, Caterpillar, Life Technologies, Dolby, Lockheed Martin and the US Air Force.

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As the industry moves from the PC Era to the Cloud Era, the explosion of mobile devices and new applications is driving IT to provide anywhere access on any device. With millions of seats deployed worldwide, Citrix XenDesktop® is answering this need by providing simple and flexible solutions for the user along with the security and cost-savings benefits necessary to IT. Desktop virtualization has allowed enterprises to deploy virtual desktops at scale, across multiple datacenters and geographies. With this increase in scale, they are building datacenters, managing thousands of virtualized desktops and creating custom deployment scripts for automation, management and personalization of virtual applications and desktops. Whether customers are starting with a virtual desktop or private Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud, today there is clearly a need for the path leading to Project Avalon.

Introducing Project Avalon
Project Avalon delivers on the industry’s need for the next phase in cloud services – transforming any Windows application or desktop into a cloud service that can be seamlessly delivered across any network, to any device. Project Avalon enables those using private cloud solutions to create the following scenarios currently enjoyed via public cloud offerings today.

Quickly and simply deploy Windows apps and desktops as a cloud service
As virtual desktop deployments increase in size and scale, organizations are looking to cloud deployment models to enable self-service, cost effective, flexible and agile infrastructure to deliver Windows apps, desktops and data across private and public clouds. Project Avalon is a highly optimized and tuned integration of XenDesktop and CloudStack™ that enables multi-tenant deployment across multiple locations and multiple clouds, and delivery across any network to any device. Project Avalon provides organizations with the ability to shift apps and desktops into public clouds to deliver capacity on demand. This helps many customers today looking to support business continuity and disaster recovery initiatives, as well as those looking to better equip people in everyday scenarios such as enabling contractors, offshoring projects and integrating mergers and acquisitions.

• Automate and efficiently provision, manage and orchestrate apps and desktops Project Avalon provides the ability to define and automate the creation of a workspace that can scale to any number of users from 100 to over one million. Any user, regardless of the workspace size, still experiences the same performance characteristics, network configuration and isolation requirements all while having the orchestration engine complete the deployment – hands-free. When it comes time to update apps or desktop images, the admin simply points to the new image, and Project Avalon handles draining servers and migrating subscribers without manual intervention.
• Manage technology transitions at a business pace without taxing IT resources Project Avalon is built upon an open architecture that eliminates technology-specific management of Citrix XenApp®, XenDesktop, Windows Server, hyper-visor technology or public cloud offerings. The ability to “mix and match” enables IT to focus on delivering desktops and applications based upon business needs, rather than vendor-introduced technology transitions.
• Seamlessly deliver a secure, cost-effective personalized workspace to every userUnlike “vanilla” Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) offerings in the market today, Project Avalon with integrated cloud storage via Citrix ShareFile® provides the capability to ensure that user profiles, settings and application data are securely delivered to every user. Regardless of where the information is coming from or the type of device it is going to, the virtual desktop experience remains persistent and personal each and every time.

Inside Project Avalon
Project Avalon creates an infrastructure that transforms any desktop to an Amazon-style cloud. By leveraging the new Citrix CloudPlatform, powered by Apache CloudStack. Avalon will also make it easy for existing Citrix customers to adopt new features at whatever pace they like, allowing them to “mix-and-match” different versions of Windows Server, XenDesktop and XenApp – and span across any mix of public and private clouds. Project Avalon also incorporates and extends the app orchestration technology from the Citrix Cloud Provider pack, which is available to over 2000 Citrix Service Provider (CSP) partners and hundreds of thousands of hosted desktop users. Service providers can deploy Project Avalon as a highly scalable, fully multi-tenant, multi-site cloud and deliver self-service enabled, personalized Windows apps and desktops to organizations of all sizes that will seamlessly integrate with enterprise private clouds.

Project Avalon’s integration with ShareFile enables personalized user setting and data across all deployment models leveraging cloud economics. CloudGateway™ delivers Project Avalon apps, desktops and data to any device via secure self-service enterprise app store Citrix NetScaler® powers the world’s largest clouds today and ensures security, high performance, reliability and availability.

Availability
At this point in time, we are not announcing availability of Project Avalon. Citrix XenDesktop and CloudStack are available separately at this time. Also, authorized Citrix Service Provider partners have exclusive access to the Citrix Cloud Provider Pack which provides them with efficiencies in the data center, superior end-user experience with all types of apps, and support for every type of device.

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In addition, WinOnX 1.3 now includes automatic problem analysis — making it fast and easy to diagnose and resolve errors — and the ability to rate, review and comment on program compatibility right from the status bar. WinOnX supports over 70 percent of Windows programs, requires no Windows boot time and has a low cost, easy setup. The latest enhancements are a big win for customers that must navigate between the incompatible worlds of Apple and Microsoft Windows software.

The first release of WinOnX promised Mac users a way to run their critical Windows software without the complexity and cost of virtualization programs, purchasing additional licenses, time spent setting up Windows or resorting to the command line — and it delivered. WinOnX 1.3 continues delivering on that promise by making the software even more robust and easy to use. Users can interact more naturally with Windows applications due to the application’s improved full screen view and better multiple printer integration.

WinOnX is based on the latest version of the open source Wine library, version 1.4, and launches faster than other virtual environments. Users simply install WinOnX 1.3, locate their Windows application and double-click — that’s it. Unlike with other tools, there’s no need to wait for virtual environments to load; once WinOnX is installed, users can launch their Windows apps directly with no extra steps. Even better, at $4.99, WinOnX is an affordable way to have access to the world of Windows software without leaving the Mac.

Customers that have tried the latest release, WinOnX 1.3, are pleased; one user commented,

“Unbelievable, but it works. When I consider how Parallels slowed down my system, not to talk about the booting time, this program is a real liberation for my Mac.”

System Requirements
WinOnX requires Apple Macintosh OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) or later and at least 91.3 MB of space to install.

Pricing and Availability
WinOnX is priced at $4.99 and can be found in the Apple Mac App Store.

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Dell introduced industry-leading innovations in the PowerEdge 12th generation servers based on input gathered from more than 7,700 customer interactions in 17 countries across four continents. The company was the first-to-ship servers based on the Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 product family with the first wave of PowerEdge 12th generation servers in March 2012.

Extending the Benefits of the PowerEdge 12th Generation Server Innovations
The new PowerEdge rack, tower and blade servers expand on Dell’s commitment to deliver end-to-end solutions optimized for maximum throughput from storage to switch to server to blade enclosure. With these new PowerEdge servers customers can experience energy efficiency, scalable storage, networking and security features at an unprecedented price for performance. The new PowerEdge rack, tower and blade servers include Intel® Xeon processor E5-2400 and Intel Xeon processor E5-4600 product families.

The PowerEdge R820 is the world’s first 4-socket, 2U server with Intel Xeon E5 product family processors. Customers using 4 socket 4U servers can now save computing space by replacing one HP Proliant DL580 with two Dell PowerEdge R820 servers, for up to 24 more processing cores, 1TB more memory capacity and 3 times the internal storage density. In addition, the PowerEdge R820 offers an option for 4 front-accessible, hot-swappable Dell Express Flash PCIe SSDs.

The PowerEdge M420 is the world’s only quarter height 2-socket blade server, offering extreme computational density, performance and efficiency. The PowerEdge M1000e, the only chassis in the world with the thermal engineering to support individually serviceable, enterprise-class, quarter-height blade servers, holds up to 32 PowerEdge M420s. Customers can stretch their infrastructure budget farther by doubling the nodes per chassis with the greatest 2-socket density server on the planet in the PowerEdge M420 and the Dell Force10 MXL 10 blade switch. The PowerEdge M420 is designed to adhere to stringent government requirements while offering world class density with no compromise to datacenter availability and performance.

Maximize Operational Efficiency

Dell offers robust anytime, anywhere systems management of platforms and infrastructure to simplify operations throughout the server lifecycle, with key innovations including:

• Dell also significantly improved cooling while increasing density in the PowerEdge M820, which is the first four socket blade server capable of Fresh Air configuration and allows customers to deploy highly dense solutions while significantly decreasing cooling costs.
• The PowerEdge 12th generation servers are the world’s only full generation of rack and tower servers to all offer Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 7 (iDRAC7) with Lifecycle Controller 2.0 for deploying, updating, maintaining and monitoring their systems without a software management agent, regardless of operating system.
• In addition, industry-leading Chassis Management Controller (CMC) has been updated to support up to 288 independently serviceable blade nodes, all from a single console, using a single IP address.

Achieve More
Large and small businesses are continuously challenged to scale appropriately; balancing the risks of either significantly overpaying for equipment they do not use or being caught with underpowered equipment and losing business cycles.

The new PowerEdge 12th generation servers can provide customers with increased application performance, availability and scalability, and key innovations including:

• The PowerEdge M820 blade servers are loaded with extra memory to allow customers headroom to grow in the future.
• With more processor cores, larger memory capacity and greater I/O bandwidth than previous generations, the R520, R420 and R320 rack servers, and the T420 and T320 tower servers, can provide higher performance to small and medium business users as well as departments and remote offices of large enterprises and organizations, enabling them to deliver real results faster.
• Small and midsized businesses can deploy new levels of computational density via the PowerEdge M420 with 32 powerful nodes in just 10U of rack space without trading off redundancy by providing hot-swappable, fault tolerant HHDs as well as Failsafe Hypervisors.

Help Ensure Business Continuity

Downtime and data loss determine business revenue and performance as companies are increasingly dependent on cloud-based applications, virtualized solutions, and high performance computing. Businesses must now deliver IT solutions that not only ensure redundancy and maximize uptime, but can scale to address increased demand while maintaining cost efficiency. Customers running PowerEdge 12th generation servers can now benefit from continual access to the applications that drive the business, with innovations including:

• The new PowerEdge M420, M520 and M820 blade servers offer performance and efficiency improvements, and leading features including hardware RAID and hot-swappable hard drives.
• The world’s first full product family portfolio to servers to offer enterprise-class RAS features for redundancy and fault-tolerance, memory mirroring, memory sparing, hot plug hard drives and redundant power supplies. This provides IT administrators with continuity and consistency across their entire server infrastructure from the datacenter to remote and mobile locations.
• The industry’s first server family portfolio to all offer Redundant Failsafe SD Hypervisors across the entire family, so customers can take advantage of server virtualization with built-in redundancy and fault tolerance.

Availability
The PowerEdge R820 server began shipping early in March 2012. Six new Dell PowerEdge servers are available today on www.dell.com/PowerEdge or through any of Dell’s Global PartnerDirect Channel Partners. The PowerEdge M520 will be available later this month, and the M820 will be available this summer.

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The ThinkServer RD530 and RD630 servers offer a compelling value to companies seeking a rack server optimized to increase performance, maximize efficiency and ensure business continuity, as well as deliver the flexibility to manage different application requirements in the data center. Based on industry standard protocols and IPMI 2.0 compliant interfaces, customers can easily deploy the servers in hybrid server networks, allowing them to integrate the new ThinkServers without sacrificing their existing IT investments. IT managers can install the operating system and drivers using a two-click rapid deployment feature—enabling the servers to go into production within minutes of being racked—and integrated remote management tools make simple work of monitoring and maintenance.

“The size and scale of today’s enterprise data centers requires IT organizations to balance needs for uncompromised performance and cutting-edge power efficiency, while at the same time manage increasing amounts of data with fewer resources,” said Lu Yan, senior vice president, Think Product Group, Lenovo. “Whether organizations need a server platform for IT and web infrastructure, collaboration, business processing or decision support, the RD530 and RD630 ThinkServers deliver high performance and simple management with the unmatched reliability and value of Lenovo’s Think-branded business products.”

Available in either 1U (RD530) or 2U (RD630) configurations with tool-less rail kits for easy installation, Lenovo’s latest two-socket rack servers come equipped with choices of processors from the Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 product family. With up to eight cores per processor, the Intel processors achieve up to 30 percent greater CPU performance and more than twice the memory bandwidth compared to the current Lenovo server platform. Both servers feature up to 320GB of RAM deployable in 20 DIMM slots, hardware and advanced RAID (redundant array of independent disks) controller options and large memory capacity that provides full redundancy with up to eight (RD530) or 16 (RD630) hot-swappable hard drives.

Lenovo’s new ThinkServers also deliver impressive power savings and are up to 45 percent more efficient than previous generation Lenovo servers. Exclusive Smart Grid power management technology leverages Intel Node Manager® to scale power management to the data center level, simultaneously managing as many as 1,000 servers. SmartGrid can be used at each level of the data center hierarchy—rack, row, room or group—to provide IT policy-based, power management that increases server utilization while significantly lowering energy consumption and operating costs.

A new chassis design that improves thermal efficiency 30 percent and helps ensure uninterrupted performance in ambient temperatures up to 104ºF (40ºC), above the industry average of 95ºF (35ºC) enhances the power efficiency of the ThinkServer RD530 and RD630. The design also delivers an added benefit with improved fault tolerance, resulting in a 40 percent lower risk of failure due to vibration and shock issues. The servers further improve power consumption in the data center with high efficiency 80 PLUS Gold-rated power supplies, optional low voltage memory and fan speed control algorithms that compensate for altitude and temperature.

“Intel welcomes Lenovo’s new generation of server platforms. By utilizing the Intel Xeon processor E5 family’s leadership performance and breakthrough I/O capabilities, Lenovo is able to offer optimized solutions for customers across a broad spectrum of workloads,” said Boyd Davis, vice present and general manager of Intel’s Datacenter Infrastructure Group. “Lenovo’s new server platforms also take advantage of Intel Node Manager technology to provide customers with greater flexibility, control, and power management in their datacenters.”

Pricing and Availability
The ThinkServer RD530 and RD630 are available mid-June at www.lenovo.com or through Lenovo business partners. Prices for the ThinkServer RD530 and RD630 start at $2,399 and $2,699, respectively.

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TechNavio's analysts forecast the Global Virtualization Security Management Solutions market to grow at a CAGR of 49.53 percent over the period 2011-2015. One of the key factors contributing to this market growth is the increasing deployment of applications in the virtualized product environment. The Global Virtualization Security Management Solutions market has also been witnessing the virtualization security solutions for multiple platforms. However, the low control on data could pose a challenge to the growth of this market.

Key vendors dominating this market space include Trend Micro Inc., Juniper Networks Inc., VMware Inc., and Symantec Corp.

Commenting on the report, an analyst from TechNavio's IT Security team said; Most companies use virtualization technology for deploying their application servers and databases. Also, virtualization security vendors are placing greater importance on security for server and database virtualization. Although security solutions for virtual environments are increasing and vendors are adding new features such as log management and web access management, the major market driver remains securing the virtual servers.

According to the report, one of the major drivers of the Global Virtualization Security Management Solutions market is the increasing severity of security threats on the virtual environment/infrastructure. Securing the virtual environment helps to monitor the entire system and report any threat to the administrator. In this way security threats affecting other systems in the same environment can be reduced, because each machine has multiple virtual instances housed in it. Therefore, increasing security threats to the virtual environment is driving the market.

Further, the report also discusses that data sprawl in the virtual environment could hinder the growth of the market.

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/ks2zb2/global_virtualizat

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