With
cloud being the hot topic on everybody’s mind, it’s no surprise that the major
trends and news coming out of VMworld in Las Vegas this week have to do with
what VMware has been calling the “journey to the cloud.”
Even
the Solutions Exchange exhibitor area is filled with IT vendors and channel
partners talking about the evolution (or in some cases, revolution) that is
happening as businesses and IT departments are embracing and deploying private,
public and hybrid cloud services and solutions. More than 250 companies showed
off the latest virtualization and cloud products, and more than 19,000 people
in attended VMware’s annual conference.
Here
are a few of the highlights from this week’s VMworld conference:
- VMware
introduced several new and enhanced products to make the transition to a hybrid
cloud computing environment easier. Check out the full story here.
- Following
up on its announced of VirtualSystem for Microsoft and Citrix at HP Discover,
HP introduced a version of VirtualSystem for VMware vSphere 5. See the full
story here.
- F5
Networks built on its two-year-old virtualization strategy by announcing new
technology that enables faster long-distance live migration between data
centers, as well as enhanced desktop virtualization. The full story can be
found here.
- Cisco
Systems and VMware announced
enhancements to desktop virtualization and cloud infrastructure products that
will increase scalability, security and performance.
- Riverbed
Technology, a WAN optimization specialist that has
extended its business beyond its original appliance focus, announced its
Steelhead appliance WAN optimization solution now accelerates VMware vSphere
Replication, a new feature found in VMware vSphere 5. The two companies
collaborated to ensure speedy replication using Riverbed optimization
technology and vSphere’s new replication features. According to Joe Ghory,
senior product marketing manager at Riverbed, the result of the collaboration
is five times faster performance in replication.
- N-able
Technologies () announced its N-central remote monitoring
and management product has attained VMware Ready status. N-central is now
listed in the VMware Partner Product Catalog.
- Trend
Micro released the next generation of its Deep
Security 8 technology at VMworld. With a theme of accelerating the journey to
the cloud, Trend Micro demonstrated the server security platform’s new
capabilities, which includes new features for both physical and virtual
servers.
- Virtual
Computer, an intelligent desktop
virtualization provider, launched the NxTop 4 desktop virtualization product.
According to Virtual Computer, this latest product combines network-based
storage with a stateless client-side hypervisor to deliver a high-fidelity desktop
experience at a fraction of the cost of server-hosted VDI.
- CSC's
CloudCompute and BizCloud offerings are now fully compliant with VMware’s
standards of optimizing VMware vCloud Datacenter Services. In addition, the
company announced it is now offering a complete email solution, CSC CloudMail
for VMware Zimbra enabling enterprises to build a collaboration hub for items
such as email, file sharing, calendars and document management.
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