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GreenPages Targets Fortune 500 with Veeam Virtualization Tools
Consulting firm and software reseller GreenPages plans to expand its enterprise-level virtualization management offerings with Veeam Business View and the recently released Veeam Monitor 4.5. GreenPages expects the tools will help strengthen its value proposition and broaden its reach into its growing enterprise customer base. Virtualization and cloud computing are now out of its infant…
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Citrix Touts Virtual Desktops
Citrix Systems, Inc. has made a series of announcements that it says will make virtual desktops a mainstream reality for the first time for hundreds of millions of corporate employees. It has announced Citrix XenDesktop 4, the first product in the industry to support every major desktop virtualization model in a single, integrated solution. It…
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VMware Updates Disaster Recovery Software for Virtualization
Adding support for its most recent product update VMware vSphere 4 and for Network File System (NFS)-based storage replication, VMware is now offering an updated version of its VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 4. The software, first introduced in June 2008 and now updated for the first time, offers automated disaster recovery for VMware environments.…
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Virtualization’s Impact on Managed Services
I’ve been giving a lot of thought to what virtualization means to managed services. Evolve, my company, recently moved our virtualized server infrastructure to a hosted cloud, which I detailed this in my own blog. We did the math and found we could save money on our hardware investment by not buying more and instead…
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MSPs ID Lack of Network Visibility as Top Problem
Is the latest cat video that’s gone viral on YouTube clogging your customer’s network? Got more than a few employees listening to their own private radio stations on Pandora? A new survey of managed service providers reveals that more than half of them spend 13 percent of their time troubleshooting sluggish networks—sluggishness that can be…
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VMworld Marked by Partnership Announcements
There’s been some controversy about the legitimacy of the desktop virtualization market, and even VMware CEO and president Paul Maritz said it’s more a journey than a destination. The company has more than a million desktops virtualized across 7,000 customers, but with more than 500 million desktops globally, that’s just a drop in the bucket.…