AMD A10-7850K And A8-7600: Kaveri Gives Us A Taste Of HSA

We've spent the days following CES benchmarking two of AMD's new Kaveri-based APUs. Do the Steamroller x86 architecture, GCN graphics design, and HSA-oriented features impress, or do they come up short against Intel's value-oriented Haswell-based parts?

This year’s CES was my most insane to date. I showed up in Vegas two days earlier, stayed a day later, and managed to fit close to 50 different meetings into a schedule that started early in the morning and didn’t end until late at night. But by the end, I had a solid grasp on the technologies we’ll be seeing in 2014. Some of them are decidedly evolutionary. Others, like Oculus’ Crystal Cove prototype, will fundamentally change PC gaming for the better.

For AMD’s part, it spent CES talking about Kaveri—a design that, on paper, should be interesting stuff for enthusiasts. There are the Steamroller-based x86 cores, giving us a new processor architecture to talk about. This is also the first time AMD’s vaunted Graphics Core Next design finds its way into an APU. The company did a ton of work enabling Heterogeneous System Architecture features for better interplay between computing resources and software developers. And it’s using a new 28 nm manufacturing process from GlobalFoundries.

But although this week's introduction focused on the top-end 95 W A10-7850K, the real emphasis of Kaveri is down in the lower-power segments. Company representatives say engineers designed for the 35 to 45 W range, scaling as high as 95 and as low as 15 W. AMD wants to see APUs in desktops, notebooks, embedded environments, and servers. So, it took the middle road in order to better optimize for those targets. AMD also had to make some compromises on the manufacturing side, better balancing transistor density to enable a 512-shader Radeon graphics core, while ultimately sacrificing CPU speed.

Gigabyte Announces Quad-Core J1900-Based Motherboard

Gigabyte's new J1900-based motherboard is even more feature-rich.

Not long ago, Gigabyte announced its J1800-based motherboard. Now, it brings us the J1900N-D3V board, which carries a quad-core Celeron J1900 chip. Alongside this upgrade, the motherboard also features a number of other improved goodies.
The Celeron J1900 chip is a Bay Trail-based chip, operating four cores at a clock speed of 2.0 GHz. The integrated Intel HD graphics runs at 688 MHz, though it can boost up to 854 MHz. The TDP of all of this is just 10 W, allowing Gigabyte to have the chip passively cooled.

Internal connectivity consists of two DDR3-SODIMM slots, two SATA2 ports, a single PCI port, and a Mini-PCIe slot. Rear I/O connectivity is handled by a pair of PS/2 ports, a pair of serial COM ports, DVI, VGA, four USB 3.0 ports, stereo audio jacks, as well as dual Gigabit Ethernet. Gigabyte has also equipped the board with its DualBIOS, which is a very nice addition for a budget board.
There was no word on pricing or availability yet.

Intel to Shut Down AppUp Store Meant for Netbooks, Ultrabooks

Intel is shutting down its app store.

Intel announced on Wednesday that it's shutting down its AppUp store on March 11. The service was originally launched in January 2010 and focused on netbooks, but eventually expanded out to include Ultrabooks, laptops and desktops. Now its days are numbered.

"At Intel, we're always thinking about the future, which often means making changes today," reads the notice on the AppUp website. "That's why, on March 11, 2014, Intel AppUp center will come to a close as we focus on developing new and exciting PC innovations that will continue to shape your world."
According to the FAQ, customers will still need to keep the client installed in order for their apps to work. Intel suggests that users launch and update the client software after the service shuts down in March. Customers can also continue to download apps until the March 11 shutoff date.

"Most applications should work as normal," reads the FAQ. "However, they must be launched directly from a desktop icon or through the Program menu rather than through the storefront. Please note that some applications do require communication with the AppUp client and may not work after May 15, 2015."
That's because some of the apps use a special technology (read: DRM) that protects the app from being pirated. As long as customers update to the latest AppUp client, these apps will work until the May 2015 date.

The FAQ also reveals that customers can get refunds for paid apps. These refunds will be granted for the actual transaction price, and will be available for a limited time only: January 28, 2014 to December 19, 2014.

The FAQ addresses the issue of Intel storing personal information. For the most part that's not going to happen, as it's all purged save for a few exceptions such as purchase information for the apps that are downloaded, and all orders and invoices will be archived for financial accounting and audit purposes.
"Closing Intel AppUp was a tough decision," reads an email to all registered users. "Of course, Intel AppUp would not have been possible without loyal users like you. Thank you for participating in the experience. It's been a fun ride."

We asked Intel for a comment, and the company provided this letter:

Intel continually assesses its business objectives to ensure we are meeting the needs of the market and our customers. In the recent months the company has been public about its intent to re-focus the business to address the mobile market and to move faster. Intel’s Software and Services Group will play a key role in this growth strategy.

Intel is sharpening its focus around services, specifically business services that address the market needs of the enterprise, service provider and developer. To accelerate this focus, Intel will be making some changes to existing services that fall outside of the new scope.

Ongoing analysis and reprioritization is a normal course of action that all businesses go through.

All existing agreements with customers will be honored (as per its contracts).

What do you think of Intel closing its app store? Is Intel better off leaving app distribution to the experts?

Fujitsu Ultrabook Has Shift Hinge to Enable 4 Orientations

Fujitsu's Lifebook TH90/P will have four modes.

Shopping around for a convertible laptop? Fujitsu could have what you're looking for: the Lifebook TH90/P. This notebook has a special "Shift Hinge" that allows the user to position the notebook's screen in four ways: Theater for watching movies, Presentation for sharing content, Tablet for pen input and classic Laptop. The device launches later this month for an unknown price.

"It has been designed to instantly adapt to the best mode for any use without being limited by its shape. With support for styluses that can detect 1,024 gradations of pressure sensitivity, users can jot down memos or make sketches with the feeling of writing on paper," reads the company's press release.
The company didn't provide a full list of specs, but reports that the notebook features a durable chassis with an "ultra-compressed, solid core" and machined aluminum construction. The notebook also has an IGZO panel with a 2560 x 1440 resolution that's protected by a high-strength Dragontrail display, which can handle bumps and scratches.

In addition to the screen, the new convertible laptop packs a fourth-generation Intel Core i5-4200U processor, a 500 GB hybrid drive, and a "long running" 12.5 hour battery. Unfortunately, that's it in regards to the hardware details. We expect to see more information arrive before the laptop ships later this month.
The company also updated two additional laptops late last month. The Lifebook AH42/M is now offered with an Intel Haswell processor, the Pentium 3558U, whereas the Esprimo FH52/M comes equipped with Microsoft Office Home and Business.

Fujitsu has also launched Personal Computer Norikae Cloud Service in Japan. This new service aims to make it easy to migrate a customer's data and settings from an old computer, such as one running Windows XP, to a new one by way of My Cloud Library. Customers signing up by the end of April 2014 will receive up to two months of My Cloud Library's 100 GB plan free of charge.

"Starting in mid-February, Fujitsu will be giving away a limited number of a free Touch New FMV migration-assistance DVDs," reads Fujitsu's announcement. "The first 100 thousand customers buying FMV or ARROWS Tab computers installed with Windows 8.1 or Windows 8(6) at stores will receive the Norikae Ouen DVD, which helps migrate data to a new computer. In addition to helping with data migration, the DVD also includes tips on using Windows 8.1, the photo-oriented My Cloud, and the updated Windows 2013."

Toshiba's convertible Lifebook TH90/P is scheduled to launch on February 21. Prices were not announced. The updated Lifebook AH42/M and Esprimo FH52/M are already available on the market.

Toshiba Ships 13.3-inch Chromebook

As promised in January during CES 2014, Toshiba has launched its very first Chromebook, costing either $279.99 or $299.99, depending on where you look. This Chrome OS laptop, which is the first in this category to provide a 13.3-inch screen, can now be purchased from Amazon, Adorama, or directly from Toshiba.

"We see great potential in Chrome OS as it offers both consumers and educators a simple and easy-to-use computing experience," said Carl Pinto, vice president of marketing, Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc., Digital Products Division. "We believe that bringing a more versatile 13-inch model to market will help drive the entire category forward."

The specs reveal a 13.3-inch TrueBrite LED-lit display with a native 1366 x 768 resolution. This screen is backed by an Intel Celeron 2955U processor clocked at 1.4 GHz, 2 GB of DDR3-1600 RAM and a battery promising up to nine hours on a single charge. Storage is provided by a 16 GB SSD, a microSD card slot, and 100 GB of Google Drive storage free for two years.

Toshiba's new Chromebook also includes two USB 3.0 ports, a full-size HDMI port, a security lock slot, Wireless N and Bluetooth 4.0 connectivity, and a full-size Chrome optimized keyboard. The "Sunray Silver" Chrome OS laptop measures just 0.8 inches thin and weighs a very light 3.3 pounds.

As a comparison, over on Google Play the HP Chromebook 11 shares the same $279 USD price tag. The device sports an 11.6-inch 300 nit screen with 178 degree viewing angles, backed by a Samsung Exynos 5250 SoC, 2 GB of DDR3L memory, and a 30 Wh li-Polymer battery promising up to 6 hours on a single charge. Other features include 16 GB of internal storage, Wireless N and Bluetooth 4.0 connectivity, a VGA webcam and more.

For another comparison, HP also has the Chromebook 14, which costs $299. This Chrome OS laptop has a 14 inch BrightView screen with a 1366 x 768 resolution, an Intel Celeron 2955U "Haswell" processor, 2 GB or 4 GB of DDR3L memory, 32 GB of internal storage, Wireless N and Bluetooth 4.0 connectivity, and a 4-cell 51 Whr battery promising up to 9.5 hours on a single charge. This Chromebook also has an HP TrueVision HD webcam and an island-style Chrome OS keyboard.

For more information about Toshiba's Chromebook that's now available, head here.

GeForce GTX 780M, 770M, And 765M: Scaling Vs. Radeon HD 8970M

We already have a really good idea how desktop-bound graphics cards perform. But what about the mobile hardware typically derived from those same GPUs? We test four identically-configured notebooks and show how they scale in six popular games.

Sometimes it's hard to know how a mobile graphics processor will perform based on its name alone. Both AMD and Nvidia refer to their mobile solutions using branding very similar to their desktop parts. To help us nail down expectations of its fastest laptop GPUs, Nvidia sent over ten grand worth of Origin PC notebooks armed with GeForce GTX 780M, GeForce GTX 770M, and GeForce 765M cards.
I also wanted a bit of relativity, though. So I called up the folks at Eurocom for something comparable based on AMD's top-end graphics processor.

Origin PC recently unveiled its Genesis and Millennium cases, which were custom-designed for the company's gaming-oriented desktop PCs. Fortunately for us, though, Origin's Eon17-S uses Clevo’s P177SM chassis, which meant that Eurocom could send over a comparable system with a Radeon HD 8970M-based module with the same cooling system. An identical thermal solution is one more way we can give you benchmark results that are truly apples-to-apples.

Comparing Mobile GPUs

GPU-Z reports lower clock rates for Nvidia’s mobile GeForce modules than the manufacturer specifies, though that's likely a result of running at lower idle frequencies. Similarly, we had to load down the Radeon module with a 3D task to get its clock settings to show up at all.

Apple Looking at Solar Power Converters

Getting "green" is going to be one of the tech trends that defines the next generation of hardware. As more customers are getting power conscious, the race is on to maximize performance and cut down on power consumption – especially for portable devices where the ability to run all day on a charge can make or break an entire product line.

That in mind, the U.S. Patent office has published a patent application from Apple Inc. titled "Power management systems for accepting adapter and solar power in electronic devices." In short, it details a mechanism that would allow solar power to be put into a device directly, without the need for a secondary converter. This basically would act as a power supply in a desktop does and directly scales the electrical input to the proper voltage and amperage to help ensure compatibility.

From the patent: "The power management system includes a system microcontroller (SMC) and a charger. During operation, the power management system accepts power from at least one of a power adapter and a solar panel. Next, the power management system supplies the power to components in the electronic device without using a converter circuit between the solar panel and the power management system."
If the patent is awarded, hopefully Apple will spread the love around, because having a cheaper, streamlined system for charging my stuff would be awesome.

Apple Marketing Head Says Samsung Made Job a Lot Harder

Apple's head of marketing, Phil Schiller, said Samsung's devices resembling the iPhone made it "much harder" to effectively distinguish between the two lines of products. Schiller spoke in front of a court hearing a retrial for damages Samsung allegedly owes Apple for design patent infringement.
Schiller went on to claim that Samsung's infringing products made customers "question our design skills in a way they never used to." These comments came on the fourth day of trial, following the decision in March removing over $450 million from the damages that originally totaled over $1.5 billion.
Responding to Samsung criticisms stating that even Apple adapted in the face of competition in the tablet market, Schiller said, "We were not trying to respond to competition… We were simply trying to make our product better."

How to Transfer files from a Windows PC to Mac using an Ethernet Cable.

Have you ever wanted to share files that are on your Mac with your Windows PC but have no USB or external storage, well look no further because all you need is any Ethernet Cable and you will be good to go.

PLEASE CLICK BELOW!!
VIDEO TUTORIAL

This is what you will need:

Ethernet Cable.
Windows PC.
Apple Mac Computer.
Basic understanding of both Operating Systems.

WINDOWS

Step 1
Plug one end of your Ethernet Cable into your Windows PC, and the other end of your cable into your Mac.

Step 2
Press Start, and type Network and Sharing Center and press enter. Once in Network and Sharing Center Go to the left column and click Change Adapter Settings.

Step 3
You should see a range of Network connections, There should be a network named Local Area Connection, double click on Local Area Connection and a window should come up with the general information. Click on the Details Button.

Step 4
There should be a line that says "Autoconfiguration IPv4 add" for now, just remember that. At this point you should choose the file or folder that you would like to share with your Mac. Right Click on the File/Folder and go down to "Share With" > "Specific People" in the Area for the name you are going to have to type "Guest" and now click "Add." You will now have to go over to Permission Levels and Change the Guest permissions from "Read" to "Read/Write" Press Next and we are now Ready to Continue.

MAC

Step 5
First off, open up Finder. whilst in finder press "cmd + k" at the same time. At this time another window should pop up saying "Connect to a Server" all you need to do is enter "smb://YOUR AUTOCONFIGURATION IPV4 ADDRESS" Now press "Connect" and log on as Guest.

Step 6
You should now be able to access and share files between both Computers. but
if your Mac says "this file server does not allow Guest access." Here's what you have to do on the Windows side:
1. Control Panel/User Accounts/Manage Another Account. Then turn on Guest account.
2. Control Panel/Network and Sharing Center/Change advanced sharing settings. Then scroll down, select "Turn off password protected sharing." Save Changes.
Restart your Windows computer. Then follow the previous instructions.

iPhone 6: All The Hardware Rumors So Far

Apple's next iPhone is always a heavily rumored affair. We gather all the whispers here and make sense of it.

With Mobile World Congress just around the corner, rumors about new and upcoming devices are as thick as San Francisco fog. However, one company that won't be in Barcelona next week is Apple. The Cupertino-based company prefers to steer clear of these big conferences and mass launch events, choosing instead to host their own exclusive events. That way, its news never gets lost in the flood of announcements (as if that could happen to the Apple of today).
What you may wonder, after hearing about all the new phones that are going to arrive through the spring and into the summer, is if the iPhone 6 is will match up to the MWC debutantes. Apple hasn't announced the device yet, and it's not expected to announce anything for a while. After all, the iPhone 5C and iPhone 5S were just announced and released in September. Though Apple has traditionally announced new phones at WWDC in June, it's thought the switch to September refresh will carry through to this year. So what can we expect come fall?

iPhone Screen

Arguably one of the most important features of a smartphone, given it's what you'll spend all your time looking at. Apple pays special attention to its displays, adding its famed Retina Display with the introduction of the iPhone 4. Talk of the iPhone 6 display Recent rumors suggest Apple is going to use a sapphire display in the iPhone 6. The company’s new Arizona plant will produce sapphire glass, that much we know. Tim Cook confirmed it while speaking to ABC. Now, Apple already uses tiny amounts of sapphire glass for the home button and to keep the camera safe from scratches, and though it’s technically possible that this is all the company needs the new plant for, that seems highly unlikely. Word on the street says Apple will kick things up  a notch and make the entire display out of this tough material. This week, Canonical’s CEO complained that Apple had bought up a three year supply of a display Canonical wanted for the Ubuntu Edge. Apple’s either has a huge need for sapphire glass or is stockpiling for a future product while keeping the product away from its competitors.

SolarWinds Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2013 Results

SolarWinds, a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software, today reported results for its fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2013.

• Total revenue for the fourth quarter of $97.1 million, representing 32.0% year-over-year growth.
• Combined maintenance and subscription revenue for the fourth quarter of $57.6 million, representing 42.2% year-over-year growth in recurring revenue.
• License revenue for the fourth quarter of $39.5 million, representing 19.6% year-over-year growth.
• GAAP diluted earnings per share of $0.29 and non-GAAP diluted earnings per share of $0.41 for the fourth quarter.
• GAAP operating income of $30.4 million, or a GAAP operating margin of 31.3%, and non-GAAP operating income of $43.6 million, or a non-GAAP operating margin of 44.9% for the fourth quarter.

Financial Results SolarWinds reported total revenue for the fourth quarter of 2013 of $97.1 million, a 32.0% increase over total revenue for the fourth quarter of 2012. Total recurring revenue, comprised of subscription revenue of $3.9 million and record maintenance revenue of $53.7 million, reached $57.6 million, increasing by 42.2% over the fourth quarter of 2012 and now represents over 59.3% of total revenue. License revenue increased to a record $39.5 million for the fourth quarter of 2013.
On a GAAP basis, diluted earnings per share were $0.29 for the fourth quarter of 2013, in line with $0.29 for the fourth quarter of 2012. Non-GAAP diluted earnings per share were $0.41 for the fourth quarter of 2013 compared to $0.36 for the fourth quarter of 2012.
Net cash provided by operating activities was $49.7 million for the fourth quarter of 2013 compared to $47.2 million for the fourth quarter of 2012, representing a year-over-year increase of 5.3%. Free cash flow was $49.2 million for the fourth quarter of 2013 compared to $48.0 million for the fourth quarter of 2012.
The financial results included in this press release are preliminary and pending final review by the company and its external auditors. Financial results will not be final until SolarWinds files its annual report on Form 10-K for the period. Information about SolarWinds' use of these non-GAAP financial measures is provided below under "Non-GAAP Financial Measures."

Recent Business Highlights
"I am pleased to report that we delivered a strong performance in the fourth quarter. After a challenging start to the year, we implemented a number of improvements in our business focused on the ways in which we generate and respond to demand within our marketing and sales organizations. We believe those improvements, along with the continued efforts of the entire SolarWinds team, translated into a solid level of license and recurring revenue outperformance relative to our outlook for the fourth quarter," said Kevin Thompson, SolarWinds' President and Chief Executive Officer.
"Although we have a number of initiatives we are working on in order to enhance our execution, we believe the investments that we made in sales and marketing have already started to pay dividends. We feel positive about the momentum we have created in our business exiting 2013 and we are focused on driving strong growth in new business, both license and subscription, in 2014," added Thompson.

Recent SolarWinds business highlights include:

• SolarWinds announced a strategic partnership with AppNeta, a leading provider of cloud-based application performance management solutions. The partnership will enable the two companies to explore opportunities to meaningfully connect IT infrastructure to application delivery to drive an improvement in the overall performance and value of mission-critical business applications.
• SolarWinds continues to receive honors from the IT community for its portfolio of IT management products. Fourth quarter accolades included the 2013 Windows IT Pro Community Choice Awards which recognized SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM), Server & Application Monitor (SAM), Database Performance Analyzer (formerly Confio Ignite(R)), Patch Manager, Virtualization Manager, and Mobile Admin(R) with top honors. Awards from TechGenix, Government Security News, and SC Magazine also recognized NPM, SAM, Network Topology Mapper (NTM), Log & Event Manager (LEM), and Network Configuration Manager (NCM).
• SolarWinds maintained its track record of delivering a wealth of new features and functionality to customers via several product updates. Fourth quarter updates included increased flow processing speed and granularity into network utilization for SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA). SolarWinds also made key enhancements to its security management product portfolio including SolarWinds Log & Event Manager (LEM), Firewall Security Manager (FSM), and Patch Manager. LEM now offers improved automation features to help ensure security and compliance monitoring practices are met on an ongoing basis. Patch Manager now ships with improved setup wizards speeding time to value while FSM is now integrated with SolarWinds' centralized management console providing a single pane of glass between firewall change and configuration management and SolarWinds products for managing networks, systems, and security.

"We are excited about our accomplishments in the fourth quarter and are encouraged by the trajectory of our business. We believe our fourth quarter results reflect an acceleration in our business, but also show a significant increase in investment in an effort to capitalize on the opportunity we see before us," said Jason Ream, SolarWinds' Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. "For 2014, we plan to continue to pursue that opportunity through a number of initiatives intended to improve our rate of new business growth while maintaining a go-to-market approach that is consistent with SolarWinds' efficient business model," added Ream.

AppSense Enhances DesktopNow Suite to Deliver Unparalleled Scale and Flexibility in Enterprise Workspace Management

AppSense, the leading provider of enterprise workspace management solutions, today announced updates to DesktopNow- its industry-leading software suite for virtual and physical desktop management. The enhancements include support for heterogeneous enterprise architectures, an even better user experience, and improved scalability and performance. AppSense customers will benefit from leveraging existing and anticipated infrastructure investments, enhanced user productivity and acceptance, and streamlined workspace management upgrades.
“At AppSense, we understand the complex challenges our customers face delivering a secure, productive workspace,” said Ravi Khatod, SVP Marketing of AppSense. “The upgraded DesktopNow suite delivers unparalleled scale, flexibility and performance for enterprise environments.”
These updates follow a highly successful year for AppSense. The company delivered record bookings in the first half of its fiscal year, with a 50% increase in the number of customers spending over $1 million vs. prior year. In addition, over 500 enterprise customers purchased AppSense software for the first time in 2013.

Extended Heterogeneous Support for Microsoft, VMware, and Citrix
The DesktopNow suite includes enhanced support for Microsoft and VMware desktop deployments. As enterprise IT becomes more diverse, AppSense is expanding its offerings to ensure that its customers can continue to deliver seamless and personalized user experiences, regardless of the various vendors they use in their environments.
DesktopNow now integrates with Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8.1, with full integration and support for System Center 2012. The built-in connection to System Center allows customers to save AppSense configurations directly to SCCM for deployment.
The updates also include support for VMware ThinApp, AppSense’s latest application virtualization partner.
DesktopNow also extends integration with Citrix XenDesktop®- including the latest release XenDesktop 7.5. When used in conjunction with XenDesktop and XenApp, the AppSense DesktopNow suite delivers increased user density per server, seamless, personalized roaming between physical desktops, virtual desktops and virtual sessions (Terminal Server/RDSH), control of users admin rights, and granular control of application performance to deliver an optimized experience for all user types.

Improved Policy and Efficiency Controls for Workforce Productivity
The new DesktopNow suite also includes improved granular policy controls, allowing business owners to provide a tailored set of resources and tools specific user groups need to be most productive without impacting the experience of users in other departments, or conflicting corporate security practices. For example, in a financial services environment DesktopNow helps ensure traders have access to trading applications taking financial feeds from their nearest servers, but can provide a different set of options in the same application for researchers. In healthcare, policy controls ensure that clinicians and caregivers are able to print at the printers closest to their location, fulfilling privacy regulations.
AppSense has also expanded replication options to make sure users across locations can access the applications and resources they need. DesktopNow includes improved support for replicated databases across multiple sites and locations, and added support for highly distributed Active Directory infrastructure, as well as for federated IT teams.

Solving the Challenges of Desktop Deployments at Scale
AppSense has invested significant resources to help meet and exceed customer performance demands at scale. As a result, the baseline AppSense Enterprise Readiness Environment can support hundreds of thousands of endpoints. In real world environments, individual AppSense customers have already deployed over 146,000 endpoints and counting.
In addition, enhanced deployment options improve compatibility and performance. With .MSP files and patching support, users have the ability to patch agents and provide incremental updates when deploying service packs and hotfixes. The additional support allows customers to deploy and rollback the product, while enabling the software to be updated in a more agile way, helping to mitigate risk and improve efficiencies.

Availability and Pricing
The latest version of the DesktopNow suite – including Environment Manager 8.4, Performance Manager 8.2, and Application Manager 8.7 - is immediately available at no charge to customers with a current AppSense DesktopNow subscription. For new customers, pricing is available on a per seat basis.

Pluribus Networks Integrates Netvisor Software and Freedom Server-Switch Platforms With Oracle Solaris

Pluribus Networks, the company that brings together compute, network and storage into a single platform, announced today a relationship with Oracle to integrate its innovative network hypervisor software, Netvisor®, with Oracle Solaris 11 to power the Pluribus Freedom Server-Switch product line. Oracle customers can now deploy turnkey cloud solutions with a compute, network, storage and virtualization infrastructure operated under Oracle Solaris’ consistent cloud automation. Pluribus Networks is a Gold level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN).
“As a sponsor of the OpenStack Foundation, we are committed to offering our customers the ability to manage Oracle cloud products and services using OpenStack,” said Markus Flierl, vice president, Oracle Solaris. “By integrating Pluribus Networks’ innovative network hypervisor and Freedom Server-Switch platform into the Oracle Solaris ecosystem, our joint customers will soon be able to use OpenStack as a common cloud management infrastructure across compute, network and storage.”
“We are delighted that Oracle will be leveraging Pluribus Networks’ open platform to deliver an unparalleled level of cloud infrastructure integration where compute, network, storage and virtualization can operate as an extension of each other under the Oracle Solaris architecture,” said Kumar Srikantan, CEO of Pluribus Networks.
This relationship between Oracle and Pluribus Networks will have many benefits for the growing number of more than 4,000 Oracle Solaris 11 customers who have gone into production since the release of Oracle Solaris 11. Some of these benefits are:

• The ability to use OpenStack to manage Oracle Solaris 11 running on compute nodes via the Nova plug-in, as well as Pluribus Network switches via the Neutron plug-in, and Oracle Solaris-based ZS3 Series storage via the Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance Cinder Driver, allowing joint customers to take advantage of the stability, efficiency, performance, scalability and security of Oracle Solaris
• Turnkey OpenStack-based cloud architecture to help eliminate costly integration and testing work for enterprise private clouds
• Elastic provisioning of virtual networking services: running Oracle Solaris 11 on the Pluribus Network Freedom Server-Switches means that virtual networking services can be dynamically re-provisioned from a compute node to a networking node in order to maximize throughput performance while minimizing latency
• Advanced OpenStack integration with the unique ability to provision virtual services along with virtual networks with the Pluribus Networks Cloud Underlay virtualization technology, which allows customers to manage physical and virtual workloads without complex underlay-overlay network operations

Effective today, Oracle customers can order directly from Pluribus Networks the Freedom Server-Switch platforms with the Oracle Solaris operating system.

Kaspersky Lab Discusses the Future of Virtualization Security at Annual North American Partner Conference

At the company’s annual North American Partner Conference, Kaspersky Lab is previewing the newest additions to its portfolio of virtualization security applications.  The Kaspersky Security for Virtualization | Light Agent application is scheduled to be released within the Kaspersky Security for Virtualization solution in Q2 2014, and will include light agent support for the VMware, Citrix and Microsoft virtualization platforms.

Kaspersky Security for Virtualization | Light Agent will provide advanced anti-malware and network protection for virtual machines through a combination of a dedicated virtual appliance and small software agents.  By off-loading the anti-malware processing to the dedicated virtual appliance, the host network’s performance will not be affected, a clear improvement over deploying multiple redundant security agents on each virtual machine. In addition to advanced anti-malware protection, Kaspersky Security for Virtualization | Light Agent will also feature the company’s award-winning endpoint controls to apply easily-managed policies, such as application control, device control, and web content filtering, to virtual machines.

Kaspersky Lab’s virtualization security offerings have recently focused on providing agentless anti-malware and network security for virtual environments based on the VMware platform.  But with the addition of Kaspersky Lab’s new light-agent capabilities, the solution is now applicable to Citrix and Microsoft environments for the first time, in addition to VMware environments.  Kaspersky Security for Virtualization |Light Agent delivers benefits that offer clear advantages to the traditional agent-based approach, such automatic protection for all virtual machines to avoid the “instant-on” security gap associated with most agent-based protection.  Moreover, the unique architecture of Kaspersky Lab’s specialized virtualization security solutions offer dramatic performance benefits over traditional “physical” protection being applied to virtual machines.
With Kaspersky Security for Virtualization | Light Agent added to the company’s solution portfolio, Kaspersky Lab can offer a more complete and effective range of security solutions for specialized virtual environments than other vendors. The competitive advantages of Kaspersky Security for Virtualization | Light Agent, which will be proven by independent testing in the coming weeks, include lower performance impact on virtual infrastructure, and superior overall protection fueled by the individual Kaspersky Lab technologies — including exploit prevention and application control components — found within the solution.  For more information about how Kaspersky Lab’s current virtualization prowess compares to the competition, read the results of a group test conducted by The Tolly Group here.

Opportunities for Partner GrowthBy making light agent solutions available, Kaspersky Lab partners will be able to offer a variety of support options for all three of the primary virtualization providers – VMware vSphere, Citrix XENServer, and Microsoft Hyper-V – significantly expanding revenue opportunities for channel partners and protection options for end-users.  Investments in virtual infrastructure – at both the server and virtual desktop level - are set to be key area of spending across the IT industry for 2014, and as more mission-critical applications and data move to virtual machines, the need to secure this data will increase as well.  By integrating seamlessly within the Kaspersky Security Center administration console, Kaspersky Security for Virtualization can be managed from the same screen as Kaspersky Lab’s security for physical devices.

Kaspersky Lab’s virtualization security solutions offer a combination of security technologies, ease-of-management, and platform compatibility that is unmatched by any other vendor.  Kaspersky Lab will also offer financing options, marketing support, and flexible product licensing that allows partners to sell based on either the “per virtual machine” – which is based on knowing the exact amount of server and desktop licenses needed – or “per core” licensing based on the number of cores found in a customer’s virtualization hardware, which provides the end-users with flexible room to expand their network as needed.
More information about Kaspersky Lab’s virtualization security roadmap will be shared at the North American Partner Conference breakout sessions, and additional details will be shared prior to the formal availability of Kaspersky Lab’s new virtual security applications.

Netrepid To Award Over $5K In Virtual Servers And More To Winners At Startup Weekend Lancaster

Netrepid announced today that it will be providing over $5,000 in virtual private server hosting services to three Lancaster-area entrepreneurial teams as part of the 2nd annual Startup Weekend Lancaster, scheduled to be held February 21-23 at the Lancaster Chamber Of Commerce & Industry.

The three winning teams will each be awarded the same prize package, with different subscription lengths based on the order of finish. Specifications for the virtual private servers include:

• Windows Server 2008R2 or 2012 (winners will be automatically upgraded to 2012 if available)
• 4Gb of RAM
• Single Processor
• 200Gb of Storage

The winning startup team will receive subscription to Netrepid's virtual private server hosting services for a period of 12 months following the setup of their account. The second place and third place teams will receive subscriptions for 6 months and 3 months once they setup accounts with Netrepid, respectively.

"Our virtual server solutions are great for startups and small businesses because they can be customized to meet the demands of any business," said Sam Coyl, President and CEO of Netrepid. "Successful startups generally start small and scale quickly. Since virtual servers can operate in a similar fashion, they are the ideal platform to build the technology of their business upon because it grow with them."

Coyl will be one of five Central PA-based entrepreneurs who will serve as coaches during the Startup Weekend event, where aspiring entrepreneurs get hands-on experience building the various areas of a new venture to determine if their startups are viable. In addition to offering a prize to the top startups from the weekend, Netrepid will also serve as an event sponsor.

"Sam did an awesome job of getting teams to focus on what was important during Startup Weekend Harrisburg last year, and we look forward to having him coach again at Startup Weekend Lancaster, as well," said Ben Donahower, one of the organizer's of this year's Startup Weekend Lancaster.

In addition to the donation of the virtual servers, Netrepid will also be offering the top two finishers the opportunity to present their startups before a Board of Advisors for admission into the Netrepid Virtual Incubator's March 2014 program. If either of those startups are then accepted into the Incubator, they would also receive:

• Up to $500 per month in hosted technology services from Netrepid for a period of 12 months
• Business consulting from the Board of Advisors for a period of 12 months
• Branding and design consulting from Phalanx Digital
 

Full details about the Netrepid Virtual Incubator can be found at startup.netrepid.com . For more information on virtual private server hosting from Netrepid , please visit netrepid.com.

Anyone interested in participating in Startup Weekend Lancaster can go to lancaster.startupweekend.org  to learn more about the event and register. Use promo code SPONSOR at checkout to SAVE 50% off the ticket price.

QLogic FabricCache Accelerates Virtual Desktops and Extends Infrastructure Lifecycles for Titusville School District

QLogic, the industry leader in Fibre Channel adapters, today announced that the Titusville, Pa. School District has implemented a QLogic FabricCache solution to maximize the performance and scalability of the district's virtual desktop initiative and overall IT infrastructure, and realize immediate and long-term savings on current and future IT investments.

The Titusville School District supports 2,200 students from elementary through high school across six campuses. The core IT infrastructure delivers applications through leased lines and a private fiber optic network connecting the campuses' 1,400 desktop PCs, laptop PCs, netbooks and tablet computers. Despite aggressive replacement and upgrade policies at the district, aging equipment coupled with a growing number of devices was hampering classroom productivity, slowing application response times and frustrating students and faculty.

The Titusville IT team launched a virtual desktop initiative and quickly realized that architecting a district-wide deployment took more resources than they had in-house. The district turned to Cross IT, a QLogic Advanced Solutions Partner specializing in virtualization technology and the education market, to help develop and implement a plan. QLogic Advanced Solutions Partners receive well-rounded business, technology and consultancy training to help ensure customers improve business results by reaping maximum benefit from technology investments.

"To bridge the gap between fast application performance and aging PCs, we recommended virtual desktop software from VMware and FabricCache adapters from QLogic," said Thomas Breakiron, manager of technical services at Cross IT. "Virtual desktop implementations require storage solutions with a large number of high performance hard disk drives (HDD) to effectively replace desktop PCs. With the need for such a large investment in storage, the overall savings would have been minimal. By adding FabriCache adapters with flash memory, we reduced PC replacements and cut down on the number of expensive drives required. This subsequently reduced power usage and significant cooling and maintenance costs, resulting in substantial savings."

QLogic FabricCache is the industry's first caching storage area network (SAN) adapter, combining the market-leading QLogic Fibre Channel adapter, intelligent caching and I/O management with a server-based PCIe flash card. The FabricCache solution massively exceeds the performance possible from traditional SAN-based technology with a design breakthrough that enables acceleration of virtualized and clustered applications without changes to existing server software or infrastructure. With a FabricCache adapter capable of 300,000 IOPS of performance versus only 180 IOPS for a hard disk drive (HDD), the district was able to increase performance and drive down costs for Titusville by using a handful of FabricCache adapters instead of multiple trays full of disk drives.

With VMware Horizon View desktop virtualization software, old PCs became dumb displays and no longer needed beefy processing power and memory capacity to run the resource-intensive applications used by the schools. Virtual desktop servers send individual screens over the network, which are painted on each user's PC, netbook or tablet.

"Virtual desktops and FabricCache made old PCs blazing fast again, and the useful life of computers was doubled - slashing replacement costs," said John Frye, director of technology, Titusville Area School District. "The lower cost of FabricCache delivered immediate cost-savings for the Titusville School District, versus a multi-year return-on-investment approach using disk drives for storage. The cost savings resulted in freeing substantial funds for network and server infrastructure improvements and other important initiatives."

Asus' New Eee Box Runs Silently Thanks to Being Fanless

Asus' new Eee Box doesn't have any fans, which means it'll be very silent.

Asus has announced its new Eee Box, which is fanless. It'll be known as the EB1037.

The unit comes packed with the new Bay Trial Celeron J1900 processor, as well as an Nvidia GeForce 820M graphics card. The CPU is one with 4 cores, each clocked at 2.0 GHz with a Turbo frequency of 2.42 GHz. It has a TDP of 10 W. The graphics card comes with 512 MB of memory and carries a TDP of 25 W.

All the units ship with an 802.11ac WiFi adapter, Gigabit Ethernet, and Bluetooth 4.0 support.

The unit will come in two versions: one with a 320 GB hard drive, 2 GB of RAM and no OS, which will sell for €299; and another with a 500 GB hard drive, 4 GB of RAM and Windows 8.1, which will cost €399. Through select channels they will also be available with up to 1 TB hard drives, up to 128 GB SSDs, and up to 8 GB of RAM.

Bioscape Digital Buys Medication History Specialist PictureRx

The acquisition will help Bioscape’s broader strategy to enable integration of tablet-based technology into a better patient experience.
Patient engagement platform developer Bioscape Digital announced it would acquire Chattanooga-based Picture Rx, a developer of intuitive patient-centric medication tools.

The combined entity will be headquartered in Atlanta, with an office in Tennessee.

Bioscape Digital, founded in 2012, is a patient engagement service enabler that delivers relevant information into health systems utilizing tablet-based technology.

The addition of PictureRx’s industry relationships and expertise in medication management will help Bioscape’s broader strategy to enable integration of tablet-based technology into a better patient experience, the company said.


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"The acquisition of PictureRx is a milestone for Bioscape. PictureRx’s technology and subject matter experts will accelerate the development of our visionary platform," Stuart Bracken, CEO of Bioscape Digital, said in a statement. "As a result, Bioscape will re-empower both patient and provider, while at the same time, saving the health care system millions of dollars."

PictureRx’s founders will remain active participants in Bioscape to support both the strategic vision of Bioscape and the execution of medication-specific tools and technologies.

"We are excited to enter into this acquisition to provide PictureRx with a pathway to grow to its full potential. Garnering over $2 million in NIH grants has allowed us to develop PictureRx into a dynamic technology for improving patient health," Sheila Boyington, co-founder of PictureRx, said in a statement. "When combined with Bioscape’s innovate health care platform, we will be able to provide health systems an unbeatable complete solution for medication and health care information delivery."

PictureRx grew out of research that indicates using pictures helps both children and adults remember what medicines to take, what they are for and how to take them.

The platform uses cloud-based software to help customers get started, and the company can integrate the software with most electronic health records and pharmacy management system.

In addition, having access to PictureRx can help health care facilities meet regulatory requirements for medication information that is sensitive to patients' level of health literacy and language preference.

"For our patients with complex medication regimens due to multiple chronic conditions, PictureRx provides them with an easy-to-understand guide to taking their medications properly," Dr. Anne Monroe, assistant professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University, said in a statement. "It can also help reduce medication errors when they visit another health care facility. Easy-to-use, patient-friendly tools like this one can help improve care and outcomes for our patients."

The acquisition will help Bioscape’s broader strategy to enable integration of tablet-based technology into a better patient experience.

Patient engagement platform developer Bioscape Digital announced it would acquire Chattanooga-based Picture Rx, a developer of intuitive patient-centric medication tools. The combined entity will be headquartered in Atlanta, with an office in Tennessee. Bioscape Digital, founded in 2012, is a patient engagement service enabler that delivers relevant information into health systems utilizing tablet-based technology. The addition of PictureRx’s industry relationships and expertise in medication management will help Bioscape’s broader strategy to enable integration of tablet-based technology into a better patient experience, the company said.

 

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"The acquisition of PictureRx is a milestone for Bioscape. PictureRx’s technology and subject matter experts will accelerate the development of our visionary platform," Stuart Bracken, CEO of Bioscape Digital, said in a statement. "As a result, Bioscape will re-empower both patient and provider, while at the same time, saving the health care system millions of dollars."

PictureRx’s founders will remain active participants in Bioscape to support both the strategic vision of Bioscape and the execution of medication-specific tools and technologies. "We are excited to enter into this acquisition to provide PictureRx with a pathway to grow to its full potential. Garnering over $2 million in NIH grants has allowed us to develop PictureRx into a dynamic technology for improving patient health," Sheila Boyington, co-founder of PictureRx, said in a statement. "When combined with Bioscape’s innovate health care platform, we will be able to provide health systems an unbeatable complete solution for medication and health care information delivery." PictureRx grew out of research that indicates using pictures helps both children and adults remember what medicines to take, what they are for and how to take them. The platform uses cloud-based software to help customers get started, and the company can integrate the software with most electronic health records and pharmacy management system. In addition, having access to PictureRx can help health care facilities meet regulatory requirements for medication information that is sensitive to patients' level of health literacy and language preference. "For our patients with complex medication regimens due to multiple chronic conditions, PictureRx provides them with an easy-to-understand guide to taking their medications properly," Dr. Anne Monroe, assistant professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University, said in a statement. "It can also help reduce medication errors when they visit another health care facility. Easy-to-use, patient-friendly tools like this one can help improve care and outcomes for our patients." - See more at: http://www.eweek.com/it-management/bioscape-digital-buys-medication-history-specialist-picturerx.html#sthash.8nKzVof8.dpuf

Citrix XenApp 7.5 – New Generation of Windows App Delivery Designed for Mobility and Cloud

Citrix today announced the next generation of the Citrix XenApp product, the market-leading app virtualization solution. As the workforce becomes increasingly mobile, businesses are struggling with how to deliver core Windows apps to an ever wider variety of devices. While re-architecting and re-writing these apps for mobile platforms may take months or years, customers can use XenApp to mobilize Windows apps today and deliver a native, high-performance, multi-touch-enabled experience as a result of the latest enhancements to Citrix HDX technologies.
In addition, enterprise IT can now burst and grow their virtual applications to the cloud in real-time with hybrid cloud provisioning, built into the new simplified and streamlined XenApp management console. With out-of-the-box support for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and CloudPlatform powered by Apache CloudStack clouds, and Microsoft Azure cloud support under development, XenApp is the only solution that can be easily deployed both in the cloud and on-premises with the same management interfaces and skillsets. This offers IT an unprecedented ability to reduce capital expenditures by leveraging the elasticity of the world’s largest public clouds. All these capabilities enable the new XenApp 7.5 to dramatically reduce the costs and complexity of virtualizing Windows apps and helping to drive the Citrix vision of the mobile workspace to securely deliver apps, desktops, files and services seamlessly to any user, on any device, over any network.
Driving Down Cost and Complexity
The new XenApp 7.5 is built on the FlexCast Management Architecture used in the Citrix XenDesktop solution, which provides a single console from which customers can deliver both virtual apps and desktops. Competitors that can only deliver entire virtual desktops often force users to open multiple desktops just to access apps that conflict with each other or run on different versions of Windows. With 25 years of delivering virtual apps to 330,000 customers, XenApp allows users to simply see a selection of available apps at their disposal. These apps might originate from any of five generations of Windows, all hosted and managed from the same infrastructure.
XenApp Platinum edition now includes the full power of Citrix AppDNA application migration technology, which can reduce time and overhead of application virtualization and platform migrations by as much as 90 percent. The inclusion of all the AppDNA capabilities helps IT address a variety of migration issues, including how to virtualize applications ahead of Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 end-of-life milestones.
Leveraging the Elasticity of Public Clouds
XenApp 7.5 provides the ability for hybrid cloud provisioning directly to AWS or CloudPlatform-powered clouds without having to learn new management consoles and skillsets. This allows customers to instantly add new capacity to handle seasonal requirements, address incremental growth, and add on-demand capacity for disaster recovery or business continuity. Unlike competitors, XenApp supports an “any cloud” strategy and does not lock customers into a proprietary cloud, but instead allows them to leverage any of the large public clouds on the market. Initially, hybrid cloud provisioning will be supported for AWS or any CloudPlatform-powered public or private cloud. Over time, new support will be added including the previously announced support for Windows Azure cloud platform.
Delivering a True Mobile Experience
To ensure a true mobile experience of Windows apps, enabling them to function intuitively and transparently on mobile devices, XenApp includes Citrix HDX Mobile. HDX Mobile optimizes Windows apps for mobile devices including touch-enabled smartphones and tablets. It enhances performance by intelligently coping with the variability and packet loss of mobile networks and improving graphics and multimedia with hardware acceleration on tablets and smartphones. With the HDX Mobile SDK, developers can completely transform Windows apps into mobile-native experiences by re-factoring the look and feel and enabling multi-touch gestures, native menu controls, camera and GPS support from within the virtual app.
Extending Security to Mobile Devices
For a limited time, XenApp and XenDesktop Platinum edition customers can add mobile device management (MDM) or enterprise mobile management (EMM) capabilities at a discount. The Platinum Mobility Promotion enables these customers to get Citrix XenMobile® MDM edition for the price of Software Maintenance, or XenMobile Enterprise edition at a 20 percent discount off the product price. This offer expires September 30, 2014; restrictions apply.
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Brett Waldman, Research Manager, Client Virtualization Software at IDC
“When end users first started to bring their mobile devices into work, the simple ability to access corporate Windows applications and desktops gave them the flexibility and agility they wanted. However, as these mobile devices start to become their primary device, they are demanding these virtual apps to have a consistent user experience with the device they using at the time. The vendors that can provide the best mobile experiences in a scalable and cost effective manner are positioning themselves to succeed in this dynamic market.”
Rakesh Narasimhan, Group VP and GM, Desktops and Apps at Citrix
“Increasingly, the mobile workforces of today demand a great experience with Windows applications. The new release of XenApp not only delivers on the Citrix vision of mobile workspaces for customers, with a powerful user experience, but allows companies to take full advantage of the flexibility of hybrid public and private clouds to optimize their IT infrastructures for the rapidly changing business environment.”
Mark Ciprietti, Vice President of Sales, Gibraltar Solutions
“Our clients want to deploy a truly mobile workforce. XenApp enables clients to deliver any Windows application to any device securely and a key part of our Citrix based mobility strategy. We are thrilled with Citrix’s announcement and the decision to strengthen their industry leading position.”
Availability
XenApp 7.5 will be available in March 2014

VMTurbo's Disruptive Software-Driven Control Expands across Storage and Fabric to Help Customers Achieve the Full Promise of Virtualization

VMTurbo, provider of the only Software-Driven Control for virtualized environments, today announced a new version of its flagship product, VMTurbo Operations Manager, enhanced with control modules for storage and fabric to drive virtualized environments to their desired state and maintain control in that state across the data center and IT stack.  These new solutions enable 30% improvement in utilization while providing greater control over all aspects of the environment the application workload touches – from compute and storage to fabric and cloud.
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One of the major advancements in this release is management of the Converged Fabric layer with Cisco (CSCO) UCS support. Not only does VMTurbo provide unprecedented visibility into UCS from the fabric interconnect down to individual blades, it also enables control of UCS to manage real demand for UCS ports to maximize port utilization and avoid unnecessary port licensing costs.
VMTurbo is also disrupting enterprise software with its model of “easy to try, buy, deploy, and use.” Customers download VMTurbo Operations Manager and realize value instantly – unlike traditional management software that takes several months to install and perform after significant integration costs.  In fact, VMTurbo offers customers a free health check assessment of their virtual environments.  With VMTurbo, customers can break free from expensive, monitoring solutions that fail to eliminate reactive and labor-intensive IT fire fighting.
“I learned more about my data center in 15 minutes with VMTurbo than I did in the last five years,” said Chuck Green, CIO, AlphaMaxx Healthcare, Inc., the premiere NCQA-accredited perinatal population health management firm.  “It’s truly a paradigm shift.”
90% of customers that have implemented VMTurbo’s Software-Driven control system to manage their virtualized data centers and cloud infrastructures report a return-on-investment of less than three months from purchase – an unparalleled breakthrough disrupting traditional enterprise management software (Source: TechValidate 426-2A4-D05).
VMTurbo was recently recognized by Forbes as one of America’s Most Promising Companies, leaping 63 places from its 2013 position at #89 to rank #26 in 2014.  In late 2013, VMTurbo also received the JP Morgan Hall of Innovation award, after being named one of the most innovative technologies in the data center.
“VMTurbo’s technology is helping JPMorgan Chase optimize the utilization of virtual environments and thereby supporting a move from reactive to predictive workload management,” said George Sherman, Head of Compute Services, JPMorgan Chase. “Automation will enable our support teams to focus on higher value activity by preventing incidents and dynamically optimizing virtual environments.”
VMTurbo Operations Manager
VMTurbo Operations Manager is the only product on the market that understands application workload performance, resource utilization and constraints in virtualized datacenter and cloud deployments to drive an organization’s environment to its desired state – that state of perpetual health where application performance is assured while maximizing efficiency – and providing control over all aspects of the environment the application workload touches, from compute and storage to fabric and cloud. While competitive solutions focus on viewing – monitoring systems to send alerts requiring operational staff to troubleshoot and remedy issues – VMTurbo Operations Manager ties the viewing with the doing, so IT Operations staff can elevate their focus from reactive to strategic. To try VMTurbo Operations Manager in your own environment, visit www.vmturbo.com/download or for a free health check assessment, call 1-877-978-8818.
For more detailed information on VMTurbo Operations Manager, visit www.vmturbo.com/operations-manager.
VMTurbo Storage Control Module
VMTurbo’s Storage Control Module ensures applications get the storage performance they require to operate reliably while enabling efficient use of storage infrastructure – thus preventing unnecessary over provisioning.  This module helps users solve their pressing storage performance and cost challenges, maximize their existing storage investments and embrace the adoption of advanced features and packaging such as NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP (cluster mode) and FlexPod. For more detailed information on VMTurbo Storage Control Module, visit www.vmturbo.com/storage-resource-management.
VMTurbo Fabric Control Module
Modern compute platforms and blade servers have morphed to fabrics unifying compute, network, virtualization and storage access into a single integrated architecture.  Furthermore, fabrics like Cisco (CSCO) UCS form the foundation of a programmable infrastructure for today’s private clouds and virtualized data centers, the backbone of converged infrastructure offerings from VCE vBlock and NetApp FlexPod.
With the addition of this Fabric Control Module, VMTurbo’s software-driven control system ensures workloads get the compute and network resources they need to perform reliably while maximizing the utilization of underlying blades and ports. For more detailed information on VMTurbo Fabric Control Module, visit www.vmturbo.com/ucs-management.