Virtualization & Cloud Computing News
Freescale Targets Data Center Market with Latest QorIQ AMP Series Processors
As cloud computing provides processing capabilities for a growing number of popular services targeting consumers and businesses, the world’s public and private data centers are evolving quickly to keep up with demand. Virtualization and other processing advancements have helped data center servers keep pace with performance requirements, while complementary embedded multicore communications processors have begun [...]
Virtualization and Cloud Drive IT Jobs, IT Leaders Expect IT Hiring to Increase
TEKsystems, a leading provider of IT staffing solutions, human capital management expertise and IT services, today announced findings from its quarterly IT Executive Outlook survey, conducted in partnership with the Inavero Institute. While nearly half of IT leaders anticipate their temporary (55%) and permanent (57%) IT headcount to stay the same in the first quarter [...]
Citrix CloudStack 3 Brings the Power of Amazon-Style Clouds to Customers of All Sizes
Today at Cloud Connect 2012, Citrix announced the general availability of Citrix CloudStack™ 3, the first release of the market leading open source cloud platform under the Citrix brand. CloudStack is already the world’s most successful platform for public clouds, powering over $1B in revenue for more than 85 large scale production clouds, including some [...]
Red Hat Introduces Virtual Storage Appliance for Amazon Web Services
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the availability of the Red Hat Virtual Storage Appliance for Amazon Web Services (AWS) that is built on the former Gluster technology that the company acquired in October 2011. As the leading enterprise-ready scale-out NAS offering for the public cloud [...]
F5 Enhances VDI offerings from Citrix, VMware, and Microsoft
F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), today announced support for leading virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solutions, including Citrix XenDesktop, VMware View, Microsoft Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, and others. For customers using VDI technologies, F5 offers a unified and comprehensive approach to manage and accelerate network traffic, optimize performance, and centralize [...]
Network Virtualization Platform Reinvents Network Operations and Economics
Nicira, the network virtualization company, today publicly unveiled its Network Virtualization Platform (NVP). NVP is a software-based system that creates a distributed virtual network infrastructure in cloud data centers that is completely decoupled and independent from physical network hardware. With Nicira NVP, global market leaders such as AT&T, eBay, Fidelity Investments, NTT and Rackspace are [...]
New Thin Client Features Extend Devon IT VDI Blaster PC Repurposing Software
Devon IT, a leading provider of thin client and VDI hardware and software solutions, today announced the availability of the latest release of its VDI Blaster™ software. VDI Blaster now comes with DeTOS 7.1., the latest version of its Devon Terminal Operating System (DeTOS). The release includes powerful utility upgrades such as local printer support, [...]
ShoreTel Acquires Hosted Unified Communications Pioneer M5 Networks
ShoreTel Inc. (NASDAQ: SHOR), the leading provider of brilliantly simple IP phone systems with fully integrated unified communications (UC), today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire M5 Networks (“M5”), a recognized leader in hosted Unified Communications. As a result of the acquisition, ShoreTel will be uniquely positioned to provide customers a choice [...]


