One of my favorite pieces of software is from Zimbra (or Yahoo! Zimbra as they call it in some circles), a company that offers a mixture of open source and commercial email products. Zimbra’s desktop is one of my favorite open source products available today- with it I can access my email and schedules from [...]
We take a look back at 2009 and give our opinion of what the most important products for the channel were and a brief reason why.
Unless you’re been away somewhere for a very long time, you’re aware that VMware and Citrix are now locked in mortal combat over which company is going to control the future of desktop virtualization.
Arguably, Citrix is the incumbent because of its long history with terminal services. But VMware has been coming on strong in its [...]
Although the economy may have just started to recover, there have been some fundamental advances in data center technology driven by virtualization that all the major system vendors are in the process of addressing.
Just this past week we saw Cisco line up with VMware and EMC to create pre-packaged sets of offerings for the data [...]
Over the past several years two distinct management cultures have grown up inside the IT organization. The first is the traditional IT organization’s team of people dedicated to the managing on the physical infrastructure. The second group is a raft of highly trained IT professionals focused on virtual machines.
As long as IT organizations view virtualization [...]
NetScout Systems has extended the visibility of its popular performance management tools to include support for virtual machines from VMware.
The addition of virtual machine support means that solution providers in the channel that rely on NetScout management software can use the same tools to track network traffic regardless of whether the application resides on a [...]
From a solution provider’s perspective, desktop virtualization can represent a trip down the proverbial rabbit hole because there are so many different options.
Options include traditional terminal services approaches, new virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) based on virtual machine software running on the server, the deployment of virtual machine software on the client, stream application virtualization and [...]
HyTrust offers managers and administrators of VMware’s ESX virtual infrastructure a centralized, single point of control for hypervisor configuration, compliance, and access management that is both secure and easy to use through ordinary Web browsers.
We tested the RC version of the product in March 2009 by making a remote connection to HyTrust’s own test lab.
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