Desktop Virtualization Journal

VMTurbo, the two-year-old start-up doing application performance-directed intelligent workload management software, has hired former Citrix Xen Products Group general manager Louis Shipley as president and CEO. He replaces VMTurbo founder Shmuel Kliger, who will now focus on product and technology strategy as well as strategic partnerships. The outfit claims thousands of organizations worldwide, including British Telecom, NASA and Colgate-Palmolive, are using its year-old widgetry. It's supposed to deliver Quality of Service (QoS) for virtualized mission-critical apps, using an economic scheduling engine to dynamically adjust resource allocation to meet business goals. Shipley has done the CEO gig a couple of times before. VMTurbo is backed by Bain Capital Ventures and Highland Capital Partners. ... (more)

Quest Answers the Need for Complete Virtualization Management Solution Set

The IT landscape has changed dramatically. Virtualization has moved from proof of concept to mainstream production and now spans the organization, requiring a complete management solution that ensures application availability, performance, and reliability at high production volumes. Virtualization management in this new landscape is serious business, and IT no longer can depend on disparate point products from multiple niche vendors to successfully implement and manage virtual environments.  Quest Software recognizes this need and meets the challenges presented by today's mature ... (more)

ConVirt Enterprise Cloud Provides Management of Virtualized Datacenters

Convirture on Tuesday announced new software that enables enterprises to easily and effectively manage private clouds, hybrid clouds and traditional virtualized infrastructures with a single, sophisticated set of tools. ConVirt Enterprise Cloud manages virtualized datacenters and enterprise cloud deployments from a single console. It provides full visibility into the datacenter environment and enables fast response to changing business demands by enabling IT administrators to manage the mix of how datacenter resources are allocated between traditional enterprise applications, priv... (more)

Wanna Be Like Google? Then Screw SANs

After shedding its stealth cocoon back in the spring when it announced it got a $13.2 million A round, two-year-old Nutanix finally launched its Google-like Complete Cluster on Tuesday. It's supposed to make virtualization simple and cheap. The thing is a modular plug-and-play building block appliance that puts storage and compute in the same box so virtualized data centers can be built without a SAN or NAS just like Google has been doing all these years. The start-up says that aside from contributing pain-in-the-neck complexity and pricey overhead to whatever it touches, pre-Inte... (more)

Online Data Backup Expert Tips: To Virtualize or Not to Virtualize?

Often times one mental hurdle that can hold businesses back from the modernization of their IT infrastructure through the use of the relatively new phenomenon of cloud computing is the simple feeling of being afraid to "jump on the bandwagon" too early. After all, there have been many trends in business and technology that seemed unstoppable at one time, only to be eclipsed by something else and then subsequently forgotten. How is one to judge where exactly the current cloud computing data revolution is headed? What Does the Research Say? There have been several recent surveys reg... (more)