Enterprise security firm Symantec is offering enterprises an extra layer of protection for their virtualised systems.
The firm has released a Backup Exec management plug-in for monitoring VMware vCenter Server or vSphere, which it said would help firms to improve the way they carry out and monitor backups in a VMware virtualised environment.
“While the move to [...]
As a VMware VSPP Partner, Computacenter is helping our customers move from the traditional perpetual licensing model, to a structured and cost effective pay-as-you-use model to deliver datacentre and desktop virtualisation technologies.
VMware are in the process of annoucning key changes to the program to help better serve our customers, helping you make further savings on [...]
Registration is now closed for the next Computacenter Bootcamp event, taking place in Hatfield on the 26th November 2010.
This one day event is free to Computacenter customers and includes demonstrations of how to design, architect, install and operate a very lean virtualisation infrastructure based on Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS), VMware vSphere 4.0 and Nexus [...]
With VMworld 2010 at the beginning of September almost a distant memory (but VMworld Europe 2010 still to look forward to!) below is an overview of the key product announcements made during the event.
VMware vCloud Director
vCloud Director is a management platform that intergrates with VMware vSphere and enables organisations to leverage existing investments and helps transform an internal datacentre [...]
VMware has recently announced changes to its Volume Purchasing Programme with immediate effect. The new accumulative VMware VPP offering has been designed to be customer centric, providing incremental, tier-based discounts to VMware customers over a rolling two-year period1. The new accumulative VPP offers online point-tracking tools that customers and their authorised affiliates, can use to [...]
Novell and VMware have extended their strategic relationship by establishing an OEM agreement that will see VMware distribute and support SUSE Linux Enterprise Server in VMware vSphere environments. VMware will also look to standardise their virtual appliance-based products offering on the Novell Platform. This offers significant validation of Novell’s Linux Strategy and offers customers more [...]
VMware’s new release of Fusion is available worldwide now!
With more than 20 new features, key highlights of VMware Fusion 3.1 include:
Faster: With faster application launching, more seamless scrolling, quicker resume from suspend, and better overall disk performance, VMware Fusion 3.1 delivers 35% better end-to-end performance compared to its predecessor, VMware Fusion 3.0.
Better 3D Graphics Performance: [...]
In this latest release of their desktop virtualisation product VMWare are further leveraging their delivery protocol PCoIP to deliver ThinPrint Support. Release 4.0.1 is a free upgrade for customers with currently active VMware View Support and Subscription contract.
VMware View 4 is a tightly integrated desktop virtualisation solution purpose-built for delivering desktops as a managed service. The VMware View solution [...]
Accelerate Your Migration with VMWare ThinApp
Windows 7 migration is forcing companies to rethink their desktop delivery. With the combination of aging desktop infrastructures as well as expiring support for Windows XP in 2014, which means that enterprises currently running Windows XP will be looking to migrate to windows 7 before the support ends.
OS Migration is [...]
Computacenter won VMware’s EMEA Partner of the Year Award for Desktop Virtualisation. This award represents Computacenter’s commitment to delivering complete end-to-end customer solutions for the desktop and supporting VMWare’s technology in this area.
The award was presented at VMware Partner Exchange 2010, VMware’s annual partner event, on 9th Feb in Las Vegas, Nev.
“VMware’s partners continue to be the bedrock of [...]
