Service providers, data centers and enterprises are increasingly embracing virtualization to increase hardware processing utilization and efficiency, unify networking and server farms, and reduce complexity and total cost of ownership. The Xen hypervisor is a fast and secure infrastructure virtualization solution that enables multiple instances of the same or different operating systems on a single processor. Each operating system will not only run completely independently, but also securely so that the software running on one operating system is protected from that on another operating system. Multiple applications, therefore, can run on a single processor, but operate completely independently from each other. This allows developers the opportunity to create compact, multi-function systems solutions that take full advantage of multi-core processors while minimizing power consumption. For example, a base station can be designed to provide both 3G and LTE services with a single processor, ultimately reducing the cost and complexity of the hardware, while enhancing the flexibility and capability of the system solution.

NetLogic Microsystems’ XLP and XLP II multi-core, multi-threaded processors are the industry’s most advanced, highest performance communications processors that feature an innovative quad-issue, quad-threaded and superscalar architecture with out-of-order execution capabilities. This uniquely superior architecture makes the industry-leading XLP and XLP II processor families ideally suited for the virtualization of multiple applications and multiple operating systems on each of the high-performance cores. The flagship XLP processor family in 40nm operates at up to 2GHz and delivers cache-coherent scalability of up to 128 NXCPUs™, while the next-generation XLP II processor family is designed for up to 2.5GHz and scalability up to 640 NXCPUs in the state-of-the-art 28nm process.

The Xen hypervisor is a thin software layer that resides between the operating system and the processor, thus providing an abstraction layer that allows each processor to run as multiple virtualized processors. As a unique open-source technology, the Xen hypervisor is developed collaboratively by a broad community comprising leading system original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), software and application providers, and semiconductor vendors. The Xen hypervisor from NetLogic Microsystems is freely accessible through the Xen open-source community. This will enable customers and third-party developers to easily incorporate and extend their systems solutions using the best-in-class XLP and XLP II multi-core processors.

“We are pleased to spearhead and pioneer the all-important virtualization efforts for MIPS64 multi-core communications processors. Because our embedded multi-core processors are designed to deliver the highest performance per core, they lend themselves particularly well to virtualization techniques by our leading customer base,” said Chris O’Reilly, vice president of marketing at NetLogic Microsystems. “Our Xen hypervisor extends our technology leadership and helps our customers and partners create new and innovative solutions with our revolutionary XLP and XLP II processor families.”

NetLogic Microsystems’ Xen hypervisor will be submitted to the open source community in the first quarter of 2012.

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The survey of government IT decision makers indicates that virtualization initiatives are picking up momentum. Eighty-two percent of Federal and 77 percent of state-and-local IT professionals say their agencies have already implemented some server virtualization, leading to an estimated savings of 19 percent of their IT budgets – $15 billion across government. By 2015, virtualized workloads are expected to nearly double from 37 to 63 percent – which would boost the savings to an estimated $23.6 billion government-wide.

According to the report, 57 percent of Federal and 64 percent of state-and-local respondents say server virtualization takes priority over desktop virtualization. While government agencies have plans to implement some form of desktop virtualization, less than one in 10 plan to virtualize all applications for all users. However, if desktop virtualization provides just half of the savings of server virtualization, agencies could save 9.5 percent of their IT budget or $7.5 billion.

“When agencies do begin developing their virtualization plans, they should look beyond servers and consider desktop virtualization as well,” said Mark Weber, President, U.S. Public Sector, NetApp. “The more opportunities that agencies are able to recognize and incorporate into their modernization frameworks, the greater their long-term benefits.”

Despite the proven results and clear savings opportunity, only 48 percent of Federal and 39 percent of state-and-local respondents believe that they have the funding needed to meet their server virtualization goals, and that’s not the only barrier. The most common challenge that agencies face for both server and desktop virtualization is legacy application migration. Security is also a hold-up, but more so for Federal agencies than for state/local – 41 percent of Feds cited security concerns, as opposed to 24 percent of state-and-local respondents. Only 63 percent of respondents say their management fully supports server virtualization adoption. Fewer than half report that their agency has a formal policy or common framework for server virtualization.

“Virtualization and consolidation are critical components of an effective cloud strategy, resulting in tangible benefits,” said Susie Adams, Microsoft Federal’s Chief Technology Officer. “If agencies are thinking vigorously and broadly about combining server consolidation, data center consolidation, and private cloud infrastructures, the industry can realize tremendous leaps in scalability, cost savings, improved services, and integrated management. In many ways this begins with a smart approach to virtualization.”

The report also reveals that while virtualization yields big savings, good things come to those who wait. Fifty-seven percent of participants say they expect to wait one year or more to realize savings once a server virtualization solution is fully implemented and operational.

“Virtualization Vacuum: The 2012 Government Virtualization Study” is based on an online survey of 302 government agency CIOs, CTOs, IT directors/supervisors, IT managers, and data center managers conducted in October 2011.

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OEMs need to provide Android apps to their customers but are hesitant to relinquishing control of their branded experience and services. Enterprises want to drive productivity by providing their employees access to slick consumer applications alongside secure enterprise apps on smartphones and tablets of their choice. Virtualization solutions can solve these challenges by creating environments that are independent of the underlying OS or hardware in which to run foreign applications and guest operating systems.

This report analyzes four virtualization technologies that all take different approaches and are designed to address notably different markets. These technologies include:

• Mobile hypervisors
• Secure application containers
• Thin client and cloud solutions
• Application virtual machines

Enterprises that are embracing Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies are looking to virtualization solutions to protect enterprise data on employee owned devices. Over the past few years, mobile hypervisors that have been used to reduce hardware costs are now being repurposed to enable two segregated application operating systems on one device. Containerized application solutions, thin client and cloud solutions are enabling the separation of consumer and enterprise applications within the operating system protecting sensitive enterprise data. The emergence of virtualization technologies to help manage BYOD policies will lead to new competition prompting important strategic decisions for established mobile enterprise software vendors. As this market shifts from managing devices to securing enterprise applications and data, mobile device management vendors and mobile enterprise application platform vendors will have to embrace emerging technologies to stay relevant. With promising technologies such as type 1 hypervisor based solutions still on the horizon, providers will have to weigh their current investments against their long term technical roadmap.

OEMs are deploying application virtual machines, or more specifically, the Devlik virtual machine on non-Android devices to run Android applications. This strategy allows OEMs to leverage the robust Android ecosystems without having to relinquish control of the user experience to Google. These devices will run Android applications side by side with Native and HTML5 applications in a seamless interface, increasing developer flexibility and driving innovation. We are forecasting over 508 million non-Android devices to ship in 2016 which will run Android applications. Beyond traditional mobile devices, Delvik virtual machines are being evaluated to run applications on in-vehicle infotainment systems (IVI) and set top boxes. This trend will have important strategic implications as mobile applications migrate to these new platforms. Internet players are pushing into the TV content distribution market and virtualization solutions will be an important tool for entrenched players defending their market. Separating the Delvik virtual machine from the Android stack will also loosen Google's grip on application distribution and compromise its ability to manage fragmentation in the Android ecosystem. While fragmentation will be a challenge for the industry, creating new cross device opportunities for Android developers will help improve application economics, which in turn will strengthen the ecosystem in the long run.

Companies Mentioned ACL

Alien Delvik

Android

Android Player

Apple TV

Codezero

Delvik VM

Divide

Dynamics

Googe TV

iOS

iPad

Java

Limo/Tizen

Meego

Mobile Horizon

Mobile Virtulization Layer

OKL4

Pocket Cloud

Safezone

Symbian

Toggle

vLogix Mobile

VLX

WebOS

Windows Mobile

Table of Contents Introduction 1

Market Opportunity 1The Enterprise Opportunity 2The Cross Device Opportunity 2

Technology Trends 2

Hypervisors 2Application Containers 4Application or Process Virtual Machines (VM) 5Streaming UI's & Thin Client Solutions 7Cloud Solutions 7

Market Drivers & Barriers 8

Developer Economics 8Emergence of Cloud Computing 8IP Litigation 9

Market Opportunities 9

Enterprise Market 10Cross PlatformSecurityEase of InstallationPerformance and Device Level FunctionalityIT ControlDiverse Enterprise MarketMobile Handset Market 13Other Consumer Mobile Device Market 14IVI-In Vehicle Infotainment Market 15Cable Network Operators 15

Market Strategies 16

Forecast & Strategic Outlook 17 BYOD Market Forecast 17

Type 2 Hypervisors and Container Apps

Type 1 Hypervisors

BYOD Market Strategic Outlook 21

MEAP and MDM Players Will Struggle With Strategic Dilemmas

Cohabitation of MDM, MEAP, and Sandbox Solutions Will Be Short Lived and Players Will Compete 21 In The Long Run Red Bend Wins In BYOD Solutions Market

Virtual Machines Market Forecast 22

Smartphones

Tablets

Automobiles

Set Top Boxes

Virtual Machine Strategic Outlook 26

Changing Dynamics in Developer Ecosystem

Delvik & HTML5 Value Proposition Overlap

OEMs will Focus More on Core Functionality to Differentiate

Fragmentation Will Grow in Android

Android Wins and Looses

Virtualization Trend Strategic Outlook 27

Carrier Opportunities

How Will Apple React to This Trend

Vendor Profiles

Enterproid 28OverviewMobile Virtualization OfferingsCompetitive AdvantagesCompetitive ChallengesGood Technologies 30OverviewMobile Virtualization OfferingsCompetitive AdvantagesCompetitive ChallengesMyriad Group 31OverviewMobile Virtualization OfferingsCompetitive AdvantagesCompetitive ChallengesOpen Kernel Labs 33OverviewMobile Virtualization OfferingsCompetitive AdvantagesCompetitive ChallengesOpen Mobile World Wide 34OverviewMobile Virtualization OfferingsCompetitive AdvantagesCompetitive ChallengesRed Bend Software 35OverviewMobile Virtualization OfferingsCompetitive AdvantagesCompetitive ChallengesResearch in Motion 37OverviewMobile Virtualization OfferingsCompetitive AdvantagesCompetitive ChallengesVMWare 38OverviewMobile Virtualization OfferingsCompetitive AdvantagesCompetitive Challenges

Table of Figures

Table 1 - Mobile Hypervisor Vendors 4 Table 2 - Application Container Vendors 5 Table 3 - Delvik VM Players 6 Table 4 - Thin Client and Streaming Vendors 7 Table 5 - Virtualization Technology Opportunity Matrix 10 Table 6 - Virtualization Technology Business Models 17

Figure 1 - Type 1 Hypervisor Architecture 3

Figure 2 - Type 2 Hypervisor Architecture 3

Figure 3 - Application Containers Architecture 5

Figure 4 - Application Virtual Machines Architecture 6

Figure 5 - Virtualization Implementation Architecture 12

Figure 6 - Total Enterprise Virtualization Users Forecast: 2012-2016 18

Figure 7 - Total Users Application Container and Type 2 Hypervisors Forecast: 2012-2016 18

Figure 8 - Total Revenues Type 2 Hypervisor and Container App Solutions Market Forecast:

2012- 201 20

Figure 9 - Device Shipments with Type 1 Hypervisors Forecast and Install Base 2012-2016 20

Figure 10 - Total Devices Shipping with Delvik VM and Total Addressable Market Forecasts:

2012-2016 23

Figure 11 - Smartphones Shipping with Delvik VM and Total Addressable Market Forecasts:

2012-2016 23

Figure 12 - Tablets Shipping with Delvik VM and Total Addressable Market Forecasts:

2012-2016 24

Figure 13 - Automobiles Shipping with IVI Systems Featuring Delvik VMs and Total Addressable

Market Forecasts: 2012-2016 25

Figure 14 - Set Top Boxes Shipping With Delvik VM and Total Addressable Market Forecasts:

2012-2016 26

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DeTOS 7.1 is available on all Devon IT thin clients and will be available as DeTOS Dell Edition on the Dell OptiPlex FX130 and FX170 thin clients.

“The release of the Devon Zero thin client configuration option was based on customer and partner feedback and will be a key element for us moving forward,” says Joe Makoid, President, Devon IT. “Our customers have always wanted high performance, improved security, and easier IT management, and with the support of RDP 7.1 and other features, we have delivered once again. We are proud of this OS release, and look forward to both Devon IT and Dell thin clients running DeTOS 7.1.”

DeTOS 7.1 features include:

• Devon Zero Client Feature – Enables thin clients to operate in a zero configuration mode through DNS environments, giving IT administrators a valuable tool for managing their users.
• Wireless & VPN – Thin clients running DeTOS can now detect and connect to the available wireless networks. VPN allows users to work remotely while retaining access to the devices and networks normally accessible from their workspace.
• First Boot Wizard – Helps DeTOS users get up and running quicker. Network settings, connection types, terminal settings, and more can be established to prepare for remote sessions.
• Local Printing – Users can identify and employ locally connected printers to print from their virtual desktop as well as from the local Firefox browser.
• Firefox 5.0 Update – Provides users with an updated version of the popular browser. Operators can enjoy Firefox’s features and system administrators can utilize the kiosk mode to provide Internet browsing without giving desktop access to the user.
• Citrix Receiver 12 – The latest Citrix client delivers the full Citrix remote desktop experience that users want.
• RDP 7.1 Client – Offers DeTOS thin clients the benefits associated with this key protocol. RDP 7.1 boasts an impressive array of features that are tailored to make every remote desktop experience exceptional.

All VDI and thin client devices that run DeTOS 7.1 (or Devon IT’s WES operating systems) can be managed by Devon IT’s Echo™ thin client management software. Echo™ management software automates the distribution of settings and connections to the thin client terminals, enabling system and desktop administrators to create or copy new arrangements of settings, connections, and disk images to tailor the IT environment to their needs. Among the many available settings that can be utilized is the ability to apply a password for the DeTOS control panel that prevents the end users from altering or creating connections, giving administrators greater ability to prevent end user error.

“Our customers continue to show an increased interest in deploying thin clients for improved security and management," noted Ian Geiser, Devon IT CTO. "However, they don’t want to compromise on user experience. Devon IT’s support of RDP 7.1, including embedding our latest ICA 12 client, makes the Devon IT and Dell thin client devices ideal Desktop Appliances for many customers. “

“Thin clients continue to advance rapidly, and Devon IT remains committed to advancing the virtual desktop space,” says Makoid. “I look forward to continuing our partnership with industry leaders such as Citrix, Dell, and Microsoft and expanding the use of thin clients and the server-based computing model across our collective customer bases.”

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“Nearly all environments today are a mix of physical and virtual, driving the need for cloud software to manage both physical and virtual resources with equal sophistication. In addition, with the growing acceptance of automation solutions, there is also an increasing demand for cloud automation software to be highly extensible and usable,” said Akhil Sahai, vice president of product management at Gale Technologies. “We are pleased to release GaleForce 6.0, our next generation automation software that is specifically designed for the cloud administrator who wants to quickly and reliably build private or hybrid clouds out of both legacy and new infrastructure, with an advanced, extensible, and yet intuitive tool.”

About GaleForce 6.0

GaleForce Software is used to power private and hybrid clouds within enterprise, government, technology vendor, and service provider markets. In 2011, GaleForce deployments doubled due in most part to its strong differentiated features of dynamic automated provisioning and de-provisioning across both physical and virtual environments.

GaleForce 6.0 is packed with new features that include:

• Expanded Support for Virtualization Platforms: New automated functionality such as the ability to provision base metal servers with VMware hypervisor solutions, for both vSphere 4 and vSphere 5, as well as new virtualization management features for VMware vCenter Server. This release also includes expanded support for Citrix XenServer, and new support for Red Hat KVM.
• New Orchestration Capability: New capability to create custom orchestration workflows that string automation operations in a series of steps that can be executed in sequence and in parallel for both setup provisioning and teardown of complex, heterogeneous environments.
• Feature Enhancements: Enhancements to existing features include new pre-built and customizable reports for resource capacity and utilization, new auto-discovery and inventory management capabilities, and advanced scheduling features including priority-based scheduling of resource templates.
• Platform Extensibility: New support for building language-independent Resource Adapters. Plus, integration with GaleForce core services has been simplified with the publishing of the Application Programming Interface (API) schemas as part of the Resource Adapter Software Development Kit (SDK).
• New Automation Resource Adapters: Building on an already extensive library, new and enhanced Resource Adapters were released, including: NetApp vFiler, Data Fabric Manager (DFM), and Virtual Storage Console (VSC); Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS), Nexus 5000, Nexus 7000, and Nexus 1000v; HP ILO-based servers; Dell DRAC-based servers; Citrix XenServer; VMware vCenter Server and vCloud Director; Red Hat KVM hypervisor; and layer 1 switches that include Curtiss-Wright, Cytec Mesa, and MRV Communications.

Pricing
Pricing for GaleForce 6.0 is based on the number and types of resources used. Price for a single deployment typically starts at $25,000.

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This study covers the state of the cloud infrastructure testing and cloud based application monitoring market examining drivers and restraints for growth, end user trends and geographical trends. Following from these, market growth for regional and market segments are forecasted. In addition, an in-depth analysis of the competitive situation including vendors' market shares is performed, along with detailed profiles and product portfolio of the key vendors in the industry. The base year is 2010 with forecasts running through 2017. Detailed analysis of four geographic regions namely North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Rest-of-World is included.

Enterprise adoption of cloud computing is expected to be the most important factor driving the demand for the market of cloud infrastructure testing and cloud-based application monitoring. Large enterprises and IT organizations prefer to adopt private clouds for primary and backup storage solutions. On the other hand, factors such as data security, privacy concerns, and standard compliance are expected to further drive the demand for test solutions among cloud service providers. Frost & Sullivan performed this research to identify trends and opportunities in the market for test equipment manufacturers to capitalize on this demand for cloud-based test solutions.

Some of the largest end users of cloud computing and cloud service providers have invested significantly in expanding their operations to the Asia Pacific region. Countries such as India, China, and Singapore provide highest security standards with minimal capital expenditure. The Asia Pacific market for cloud infrastructure testing is expected to grow at a faster rate than North American and European markets.

Key Topics Covered:

Executive Summary

Total Cloud Infrastructure Testing Market

• Evolution of Cloud Computing and Virtualization
• Introduction to Cloud Infrastructure Testing
• Importance of Testing the Cloud: User Survey
• Market Engineering Measurements
• Market Drivers
• Market Restraints
• Revenue Forecast
• End-user and Application Analysis
• Geographic Analysis
• Competitive Structure
• Product Portfolio
• Market Share Analysis

Cloud-based Application Monitoring Market

• Market Definition and Overview
• Market Engineering Measurements
• Key Industry Challenges
• Market Drivers and Market Restraints
• Revenue Forecast
• Competitive Structure
• Product Portfolio
• Market Share Analysis
• Key Enablers of Cloud-based Application Monitoring Market

Strategic Recommendations and Conclusions

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/414369/cloud_infrastructu

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“All enterprise IT organizations are concerned with replicating mission-critical data across sites, applications, or data centers for various purposes, such as disaster recovery and geographically distributed operations. The challenges they face are not insignificant – data must be kept consistent no matter how large the volumes being handled, without affecting performance, while zero-downtime and security are non-negotiable,” says Nati Shalom, GigaSpaces CTO. “GigaSpaces Multi-Site Data Replication provides the means to synchronize data across the enterprise, in an extremely simple and reliable way.”

The GigaSpaces Multi-Site Data Replication technology uses GigaSpaces’ in-memory data grid (IMDG) to ensure superb performance. While no disk access is involved, the data is highly available and there is no risk of data loss. The system enables easy scaling by adding partitions and distributing its gateway across several hosts.

Data replication using the GigaSpaces solution works in three easy steps: Data is mirrored to the GigaSpaces data grid using standard APIs; replication gateways are configured; and then, gateways are deployed at each site, enabling sites to bootstrap remotely without introducing data consistency issues. This means that once your data is stored in the GigaSpaces IMDG, replicating it across the WAN is merely a matter of adjusting some configuration files.

The GigaSpaces Multi-Site Data Replication solution is especially effective for the following use cases:

• Disaster Recovery: Any mission-critical system must have a disaster recovery environment in a remote data center. GigaSpaces data replication ensures that data is always up to date at both sites, so that it is possible to continue from an exact point of failure. Unlike database replication solutions that are limited to read-only synchronization, GigaSpaces replication supports Active/Active sites, ensuring maximum utilization when both sites are active.
• Multi-Site Operations: Large sites often serve users across geographies. To ensure consistently low latency, it is common to maintain a copy of the data close to the users in each location. The content delivery network (CDN) handles the distribution of static data. GigaSpaces data replication handles the synchronization of the dynamic data across sites.
• Integration of Data Across Applications: Enterprises often run multiple applications that use the same data. Rather than sharing data between applications in batch mode, which bears a cost in terms of expense and accuracy, GigaSpaces data replication gives businesses real-time access to up-to-date information for all their applications.
• Cloudbursting: Cloudbursting is economically appealing to enterprises that want to increase capacity on demand using the public cloud pay-per-use model rather than investing in additional on-premise computing resources. True cloudbursting requires the ability to burst both processes and their associated data. The GigaSpaces replication solution provides a secure private data cloud between the primary data center and the remote site. Processes can be spawned quickly when needed and get local access to their data.

“Part of the GigaSpaces vision is making it easy to resolve tomorrow’s technology challenges today,” says Shalom. “Our Multi-Site Data Replication technology is a perfect example of this – we have built into the technology all the most advanced features, such as data filtering, transactionality, management and monitoring, high availability and self-healing, and more... But for the enterprise, the whole process is completed with just a few clicks.”

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Awarded the Prestigious Technology Pioneer Award in 2009 by the World Economic Forum, nivio is bringing the magic back to computing with easy to use, inexpensive software for any device.

“2012 won't be like any other year; it will be the year your desktop moves to the cloud; the year you find your freedom,” said nivio Co-Founder & Chief Wizard, Sachin Dev Duggal. “nivio is a global start-up that's bringing the cloud down to earth. With trusted, world class cloud platform partners such as Rackspace and Wyse, we are able to offer a cloud desktop solution unlike any other to our customers around the globe.”

With nivio, users gain access to their applications, data and desktop in the cloud, ubiquitously from any device. Using nivio, there is no need to worry about what’s under the hood; nivio eliminates concerns about software upgrades, viruses and storage. Users can access nivio through a range of optimized, downloadable client applications or directly using HTML 5 browsers, including the Google Chromebook. nivio’s patent-pending cloud delivery model matches each device to the most efficient client, so performance is fast and reliable.

“Leveraging the power of nivio's pioneering platform and business model along with our Cloud Servers and hybrid delivery model will enhance nivio’s ability to rapidly scale in the emerging desktop as a service market, while helping them set the pace for innovation," said Lew Moorman, President of Rackspace. "The nivio platform truly pushes every part of the Rackspace infrastructure to a new level and we are thrilled to work with such an exciting team and unique service – this is definitely a growing space to watch.”

On the nivio nDrive, users can create a document using their laptop, save it, then edit it with their iPad at home or work offline and synch the files later. nDrive lets you share files, pictures and other docs with friends and coworkers. The nDesktop allows users to switch on and access a full windows desktop from all their devices in less than 30 seconds. Users also benefit from the nApp Store, nivio's on-demand App-Store that delivers full function productivity of the world’s most popular applications, such as Microsoft Office. With nivio, users pay for the software and storage they need, as they need it.

The company’s strategic partners include Rackspace, the service leader in cloud computing; Wyse, the global leader in cloud client computing; and Quest, which manages IT for more than 100,000 customers worldwide. With the support of these partners, nivio’s cloud infrastructure is powerful, reliable and secure, and ensures each nivio desktop will always be available and efficient when you need it.

“With successful trials in Europe and India, nivio is an experienced provider of cloud desktops, and the only company to launch in the U.S. a complete solution for users to migrate their desktops to the cloud," said Ian Pratt, Chairman of Xen.org, Senior Vice President of Products at Bromium, Inc., and a member of the Advisory Board at nivio. “nivio has pioneered the Cloud Desktop globally, driven by the vision and passion of its founders and an experienced management team. I’m excited to see this new offering come to the United States.”

Currently nivio is offering beta users a special launch promotion of nDesktop for up to 10 hours at $5 per month with an additionally discounted price for students at $2. This promotion also includes 10GB of free storage and nDrive to ensure users can effortlessly synchronize their data across all their devices.

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"The highly dynamic nature of cloud infrastructure has outpaced traditional operations management disciplines, requiring customers to think differently about how to manage their virtual and cloud environments," said Rob Smoot, director, product marketing, Enterprise Management, VMware. "The VMware vCenter Operations Management™ Suite provides customers with greater visibility ‘under the hood’ of their infrastructures, and it provides the actionable intelligence customers need to optimize efficiency, enable compliance and proactively manage service levels."

Unveiled in October 2011, VMware's new management portfolio redefines IT management by embedding and integrating management into the platform, converging disciplines to streamline processes and applying analytics to help customers achieve the agility and economics of cloud computing. Updates to the VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite include deeper integration of capacity and configuration management capabilities and new "application awareness" to enable customers to optimize infrastructure operations based on application needs.

"The next step in our journey to cloud computing is to streamline and automate the operations of our cloud infrastructure," said Matthew Cunningham, Senior Vice President of IT, CareCore National. "The VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite gives us better visibility into key performance, health and efficiency indicators across the operational and infrastructure environments and allows us to achieve higher service levels of our business-critical applications from a single management console."

The VMware vCenter Operations Suite is tightly integrated with VMware vSphere®, and includes the following new features:

• Tighter integration of performance, capacity and configuration management
  VMware continues to deliver on its strategy of converging management disciplines with deeper integration of VMware vCenter Capacity IQ™ and VMware vCenter Configuration Manager™ into the vCenter Operations Management Suite. This helps customers to identify emerging problems, “right size” infrastructure resources, and identify and remediate performance issues caused by configuration changes.
• New dashboard and smart alerts for quicker, more effective health analysis
  Leveraging the deeper integration of capacity and configuration management data, VMware has enhanced the vCenter Operations Management dashboard to provide more comprehensive views into health, risk and efficiency of cloud infrastructure. New smart alerts provide proactive notifications of emerging health, performance and capacity issues. Automated root cause analysis can identify the offending metric across all layers of the infrastructure.
• "Application Awareness" optimizes infrastructure for business-critical applications
  The VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite includes a new application awareness capability that can automatically discover and map the relationships and dependencies between applications and the infrastructure components that support them. This can help customers optimize infrastructure operations such as security management and disaster recovery based on individual application needs.

Pricing and Availability
The updated VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite is available in four editions to meet the IT operations needs of customers of all sizes – from small and midsized businesses (SMBs) to large enterprises. List prices start at $50 per VM. Updates are also available as a free upgrade for current VMware vCenter Operations customers.

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A New Way to Find Solutions for the Private and Public Cloud

• VMware has a robust community of more than 2,000 technology partners who have built more than 3,500 applications and 6,000 infrastructure products that are compatible with VMware’s portfolio of products.
• The VMware Solution Exchange offers partners and developers who complement, integrate or interoperate with VMware's portfolio of products a one-stop location to market and sell their solutions to potential customers.
• The proliferation of social media tools has evolved the way many people use the Internet to search, share and discover information, with user-generated feedback and community engagement playing an important role.
• The VMware Solution Exchange looks to provide this familiar experience, by empowering customers to utilize search tools, explore rich multimedia content, and directly engage with partners and developers to help ease the process of finding the right solution for their businesses.

Additional VMware Solution Exchange features include:

• Partners and developers can feature their solutions and supplement their listings with rich multimedia content, including the ability to embed YouTube videos, provide product overviews, select technology categories, downloadable trial software, screenshots of their products, downloadable whitepapers, architecture blueprints and other marketing collateral.
• Each partner and developer will be able to provide an overview of their solution, with VMware and third party software version compatibility, VMware certification details, including their VMware Ready logo and contact information.
• Customers of all sizes, from small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), to enterprise buyers, will be able to discover new solutions and directly engage with partners and developers with inquiries for licenses, trials, support and sales requests.
• In addition, the VMware Solution Exchange provides customers with the opportunity to use a five-star rating system and provide a written review about their experience with the solution. They can also vote on a particular version of a partner’s solution.

User interface
The home page of the VMware Solution Exchange showcases featured and popular listings from VMware partners and developers.
Solutions from partners and developers are categorized by technology type and industry type, along with the VMware product with which they are compatible or integrated with.

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