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Quoting InternetNews 3Leaf Systems today announced it has obtained a license for Intel’s QuickPath Interconnect , which will allow it to build… Read more at VMblog.com.

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The French Security Incident Response Team (FrSIRT) has issued this latest advisory: VMware Security Update Fixes Libxml2 Denial of Service… Read more at VMblog.com.

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Crossbeam and Trend Micro launched the Next Generation Content Gateway Solution for Messaging Security. This solution couples the virtualization, consolidation and performance benefits of Crossbeam’s X-Series Next Generation Security Platform with Trend Micro’s gateway messaging security to provide a high performance email security solution for the market.

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3Leaf announced that Intel Corporation has granted the company with a license to the Intel QuickPath Interconnect. 3Leaf will use Intel QuickPath Technology to enable advanced virtualization solutions for the growing x86 server market. The Intel QuickPath Interconnect license allows 3Leaf to support servers in a fully virtualized data center that allocates server resources on demand. The license is a major milestone in 3Leaf’s strategy to enable the ‘Dynamic Data Center,’ allowing businesses to allocate resources on demand to meet business needs while at the same time reducing costs.

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Mellanox announced that drivers for its ConnectX EN 10GigE NIC adapters are now included with Citrix XenServer 4.1, enabling plug-and-play integration of NIC adapters that boost I/O performance for virtual machines (VMs) while enabling I/O consolidation. ConnectX EN 10GigE NIC adapters offer I/O virtualization features such as support for hardware-assisted direct guest access, VM-to-VM switching, advanced memory management, filtering, QoS and receive side scaling. These features improve overall server utilization, especially in multi-core CPU environments.

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Virtutech announced Simics 4.0, the new release of the company’s flagship VSD platform. Simics 4.0 embraces a new approach to delivering performance and scalability improvements to simulation capabilities as well as additional APIs to support more use cases and a repository that leverages the thousands of models accrued since Simics’ first release. With Simics 4.0, Virtutech is providing widespread simulation adoption by delivering the speed and scalability necessary to enable software development not only well ahead of hardware availability but throughout the complete development cycle to realize quality, productivity and time-to-market advantages.

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NetApp announced that the deduplication adoption rate among its customers has tripled since November 2007, with more than 3,500 systems and 100 petabytes (PB) of raw storage capacity, solidifying NetApp’s standing in deduplication technology. NetApp now has more than 1,000 customers who have deployed NetApp deduplication across all tiers of data, including primary, backup, and archival data, making it a vendor that offers end-to-end deduplication.

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Mosaic Technology announced it has expanded and enhanced its virtualization and VMware professional service offerings in response to customer demand. The portfolio of services now includes free initial discovery sessions, packaged flat rate service packages, and customized engagements. The expanded service offerings facilitate the assessment, planning, and implementation of an integrated virtualization solution built around VMware.

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In the world of open source software Red Hat’s crossed over from exciting leader to respectable elder statesman. The action is among the new batch of up-and-coming open source software companies who are not yet venture backed but are developing interesting technologies and services. Here are some of the companies that may well be the new open source superstars.

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Why am I writing about Phoenix Technologies? You probably know them as one of the makers of the PC BIOS firmware that operates many of today’s computer systems. However, back in November of last year, we talked about Phoenix in terms of virtualization and hypervisor technology. The company has created something called HyperSpace which they claim will offer highly-efficient, instantly available applications with new levels of security, system reliability, remote management and ease-of-use to PC users. It is enabled by a lightweight virtualization engine, the Phoenix HyperCore, which can be embedded in the core system firmware or BIOS. In trying… READ MORE

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