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Emulex announced that its LightPulse family of 8Gb/s and 4Gb/s Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) support Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 and its new Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO) feature. PRO, coupled with Emulex’s management pack for PRO, enables administrators to monitor and control the allocation of virtualized servers connected to a storage area network (SAN). This enables customers to manage the performance of their virtualized infrastructure. Emulex’s management pack for PRO provides Virtual Machine Manager with the I/O connectivity information needed to improve the placement and migration of virtual machines based on storage requirements and available resources.

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Egenera announced the availability of VMware virtualization on Egenera systems with full support from Egenera and its resellers. Under the companies’ original equipment manufacturing (OEM) agreement announced in 2007, customers can purchase VMware Infrastructure 3, the data center virtualization and management platform, with the Egenera BladeFrame system, a platform designed to support large-scale virtualized deployments of critical applications with high levels of availability and scalability.

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Parallels announced that Solar Virtualization Technologies Group (VTG), a Platinum partner in the Parallels Service Provider Partner Program, is using Parallels technologies to launch new software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions for small and medium businesses (SMBs). Parallels Automation datacenter software provides a centralized operations and business management system, which enables Solar VTG to offers its customers integrated mobile and messaging services that include Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint and Blackberry Enterprise Server. Solar VTG provides a single interface to its customers who are actually accessing services that rely on several internal and external application servers and systems.

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IGEL announced a broad range of thin client models supporting the important Citrix XenDesktop virtualization standard. With all of its 22 models now supporting Citrix XenDesktop, IGEL’s digital services approach allows organizations to offer the best user experience combined with desktop resilience and remote management.

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VKernel announced the launch of its Global Channel Partner Program for value-added resellers (VARs), systems integrators, and consulting firms. The program enables channel partners to broaden their solution offerings and grow revenue opportunities with VKernel’s innovative systems management solutions for VMware virtual server environments.

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Embotics announced its membership in the Microsoft Startup Accelerator Program. Stewarded by the Emerging Business Team (EBT) at Microsoft, the program is designed to connect high-potential startups committed to the Microsoft platform to an extensive support network. This program provides access to Microsoft people and programs, guidance on future directions and support to accelerate their success.

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DataCore Software announced that Woodgrain Millwork has purchased and deployed its flagship SANsymphony software from DataCore authorized partner Right! Systems (RSI). RSI is a solution provider of virtualization solutions. ‘SANsymphony allowed us to add a new EMC array and make it work effectively with our existing HP EVA storage, improving and harnessing the combination to run in tandem and support our mix of database, ERP and VMware server systems,’ said Chip Olsen, senior systems engineer, Woodgrain Millwork. ‘With SANsymphony now in place, we have been able to significantly improve performance and address the uptime and availability issue for our SQL servers and ERP application - something mission-critical to our operations.’

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Marathon Technologies announced the general availability of everRun VM , the fault-tolerant software for server virtualization. With the release of everRun VM, Marathon is eliminating one of the major barriers to broader server virtualization adoption - the lack of reliable high availability for virtual servers - and providing customers with the assurance that critical data, networks and applications will be protected in virtual server environments.

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‘Until 2008, VMware was the only choice, their hypervisor cost thousands of dollars, and they had the market to themselves,’ says Citrix CTO Simon Crosby in this Exclusive Q&A in the run-up to the 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo next month in New York. ‘In 2008, Citrix and Microsoft bring customers an open architecture, a price/performance and feature set that is difficult to beat, and a powerful channel that can deliver customers a real choice for their virtual infrastructure for the first time,’ he adds.

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Qumranet wants you hooked on SolidICE

Qumranet, a rather small software company, wants to make a very large play in the virtualization market with a new product. It’s looking for Solid ICE to go up against the desktop virtulization wares from VMware, Citrix, Microsoft and a host of start-ups.…

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