During 2011, companies across the globe increasingly embraced open source
virtualization and cloud tools - turning to Convirture, maker of
virtualization and cloud management software, to manage them.
Convirture announced its fifth consecutive quarter-over-quarter growth,
including increasing its customer base ten-fold for its commercial product,
ConVirt Enterprise. The company now has customers in every global region,
including North and South America, EMEA and Asia. The open source version of
ConVirt has now been downloaded more than 60,000 times. In total, ConVirt
software, which is available for most major Linux distributions including
Debian, OpenSUSE and Ubuntu, is now being used by more than 8,000 businesses.
"Linux-based virtualization is here, it's real and clearly there is an
appetite for something other than VMware when it comes to managing cloud
computi... (more)
Convirture announces that its ConVirt virtualization and cloud management
software, which is used by companies worldwide to manage large variety of
virtual and cloud environments based on the KVM and Xen hypervisors, is now
certified to run on the following operating systems:
CentOS 6.0 RedHat Enterprise Linux 6.0 Ubuntu 10.04 LTS SUSE SLES 11 SP1
In addition, ConVirt now supports management of cloud services including:
Amazon EC2 OpenStack 1.0 Eucalyptus 2.0.2
A complete list of all the virtualization and cloud platforms that can be
managed using ConVirt can be found at:
www.convi... (more)
Convirture has released ConVirt Enterprise Cloud - software that manages
virtualized datacenters and cloud deployments built on KVM and Xen virtual
machines.
ConVirt Enterprise Cloud provides a set of sophisticated tools capable of
managing an entire virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single console,
including private clouds, hybrid clouds, traditional virtual machines as well
as public cloud resources such as Amazon EC2.
"As we developed this product and worked with our beta customers, we kept
hearing the same thing again and again: customers are concerned about the
poten... (more)
Red Hat Session at Cloud Expo
IBM has launched a new service that lets outside enterprises indulge in
software development and testing on its Cloud Platform.
IBM currently hosts services on the web like Lotus Live along with a Private
cloud option that it launched in 2009. Since then it has steadily expanded
its cloud portfolio to include hosted test environments, storage and other
associated services.
Now along with Product testing and development, IBM is targeting the whole
Infrastructure space offered as a service on the cloud (IAAS). Big Blue has
clearly ventured into commer... (more)
Red Hat has announced the availability of JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 5.1,
which includes new extensions for data services integration.
JBoss Enterprise Data Services Platform 5.1, a superset of JBoss Enterprise
SOA Platform 5.1, is an open source data virtualization and integration
platform that includes tools to create data services out of multiple data
stores with different formats, presenting information to applications and
business processes in an easy-to-use service.
These data services become
reusable assets across the enterprise.
We're beginning to see a real marketplace... (more)
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