SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif., Jan. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Catbird, the pioneer in
comprehensive security and compliance for virtual, cloud and physical
networks, today announced the next generation of its award-winning
vSecurity®. vSecurity 5.0 will empower IT managers with the control and
assurance they need to capitalize on the benefits and cost-savings of
virtualized and cloud computing.
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Security and compliance are the principal objections affecting virtual and
cloud rollouts. Legacy security monitoring and compliance tools cannot
reliably protect increasingly complex and dynamic IT environments created by
virtualization. Catbird has pioneered a new class of automated security that
is context-aware and adaptive to the fluid and mobile nature of virtualized
data centers. vSecurity 5.0 integrates directly w... (more)
The business case for storage virtualization software isn’t new. System
administrators have always sought best of breed data storage from a choice of
storage vendors and a centralized management framework. With a variety of
data storage devices available today, ranging from high-performance SSD and
Flash cards to low-cost SATA arrays, a seamless way to automatically tier
data across the diversity of storage devices and purpose-built arrays can
maximize utilization and cost-efficiency. Hardware interchangeability and
auto-tiering empower consumers with greater cost controls and bu... (more)
Server application virtualization pioneer AppZero has announced the
appointment of Jim Noschese as Global VP of Sales. As Vice President of
Global Sales, Jim Noschese will combine strategy, staffing, and customer
satisfaction levels to drive AppZero revenue growth and customer loyalty.
Jim comes to AppZero with more than 25 years of experience in
technology-based solution sales management experience spanning companies such
as CIMTEK, Inc, Open Ratings, Emptoris, and Parametric Technology (PTC).
His record of success is marked by consistent and frequently explosive growth
in key... (more)
Cloud Expo Early Bird Savings
A robust ecosystem of solutions providers is emerging around cloud computing.
Here, SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal expands its list of most active
players in the fast-emerging Cloud Ecosystem, from the 'mere' 100 we
identified back in January of this year, to half as many again - testimony,
if any further were needed, to the fierce and continuing growth of the
"Elastic IT" paradigm throughout the world of enterprise computing.
Editorial note: The words in quotation marks used to describe the various
services and solutions in this round-up are in e... (more)
We were all there at the beginning when, "The Internet changed everything,"
morphed into the paradigm buster we now call "The Cloud." As an industry, we
watched Amazon (AWS) break the $100M revenue mark in 2008; scanned Gartner's
first cloud computing vendor list in 2009; and heard Microsoft declare itself
"all in" in 2010.
The cloud-as-infrastructure journey from promise to powerhouse has been at
once exciting and disappointing. Exciting for obvious reasons and
disappointing because the reality of cloud usage has largely remained the
purview of development. To date, the predomi... (more)