AppSense, a provider of user virtualization technology to enterprise computing environments, has upgraded its flagship platform to enable workers to use a customized, personalized virtual desktop but with management features that give IT professionals the control they need.
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AppSense Upgrades User Virtualization Platform In 8.1 Release
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Nefsis Delivers Video Conferencing Infrastructure From The Cloud
Nefsis has begun offering, as a cloud-delivered service, the network connectivity and bandwidth management tools necessary to send video over corporate networks. Nefsis says that its cloud offering includes tools to maintain quality of service (QoS) standards for video conference feeds and to help network administrators set traffic priorities that, when necessary, give video traffic right-of-way over other applications like e-mail.
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vKernel Boosts Virtualization Data Management Capabilities
Virtualization Management vKernel has added an application programming interface to its Capacity Analytics Engine family of software, which allows developers, vendors, and users to write programs that take advantage of the data that is provided by the software. The vOPS API was announced at the recent Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference and is available now.
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Partners And HP Make News At Cisco Live 2011
Cisco Live was not just about Cisco: the huge exposition included a broad assortment of partners, many of whom had their own announcements to make at the event, which drew over 15,000 attendees and another 40,000 that dropped in virtually. Even HP, which was not in attendance, nonetheless had something to say in response to Cisco’s claims about its switches.
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What You Should Know About the Apple Apps Volume Purchase Program
IT admins at businesses of all sizes have been forced to grapple with the consumerization revolution led by the Apple iPhone and iPad. Now, Apple is making it simpler, and more cost effective for organizations to rely on iOS devices with discounted apps in a new volume purchasing program.
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Hybrid: It’s Not Just About Cars
Making the decision to move forward with a private cloud doesn’t mean you should rule out public cloud services–you can have your cake and eat it, too. The technical and business drivers that were used to decide on private cloud may not be applicable to every service and deployment model. In most cases, the greatest benefits will be found in a mixture of private and public cloud services.
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Cisco Announces UCS Enhancements
Cisco made a number of Unified Computing System-related announcements at its annual customer event, Cisco Live, including new Fabric Interconnects, Virtual Interface Card, Chassis I/O Module and version 2.0 of the UCS Manager software. There are currently more than 5,400 UCS customers, with more than a thousand being added quarterly.
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EMC Gives Storage Management A Cloud Facelift
Storage leader EMC Corporation has created a new solution with a federated architecture that delivers an end-to-end view of all storage assets, single-pane management and host-through-storage performance monitoring and analysis. ProSphere features agent-less discovery, ‘Smart Groups’ policy management and tight integration with the latest EMC and VMware storage and virtualization technologies.
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HP, Cisco Dispute Meaning Of Latest Networking Market Share Numbers
HP is touting a new set of market share numbers as evidence that it is drinking Cisco Systems’ milkshake by winning network routing and switching sales away from its more established rival. But a Cisco spokesman responds that with the proper perspective, HP’s boast amounts to less than meets the eye.
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VMWare Goes Crazy For The Cloud With vSphere 5
Virtualization giant VMware has launched a new version of its vSphere platform and a new cloud infrastructure suite that should help SMBs build cloud based solutions. At a media event in San Francisco, Dr. Stephen Herrod, VMware’s Chief Technology Officer, said that this is VMware’s “largest coordinated release of software we’ve ever done.”
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