ResponseLogix Journal

Well, Egenera - which has no market cap at all because it hasn't gone public yet - claims it is. IDC, which coined the term, defines "Virtualization 2.0" as the next step beyond server virtualization replete with faster provisioning, high availability, disaster recovery, resource balancing and ultimately policy-based automation. Egenera says IDC is speaking its name. While VMware and its hypervisor are good at virtualizing one server at a time to improve hardware utilization, Egenera can virtualize the data center, creating networks of virtual and physical servers, and move individual servers, groups of servers or entire systems from one place to another seamlessly and securely with verifiable disaster recovery and uptime. So - convinced that accounts want more than ser... (more)

Ulitzer.com Named Exclusive "New Media" Sponsor of Cloud Computing Conference & Expo

WOODCLIFF LAKE, NJ -- (Marketwire) -- 10/16/09 -- SYS-CON Events (http://events.sys-con.com) announced today that Ulitzer (www.Ulitzer.com) was named exclusive "new media" sponsor of the 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com) which will take place November 2 - 3 - 4, 2009, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. 4th Internationa... (more)

Altor Networks to Exhibit and Speak at 4th Cloud Computing Expo

SYS-CON Events announced today that Altor Networks, a leading innovator and provider of virtual and cloud security will exhibit and present at SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, which will take place on November 2 - 4, 2009, Santa Clara Convention Center, in Santa Clara, California. The event is expected to attract over 1,500 developers, engineers, architects,... (more)

Altor’s Firewall Moves to the Hypervisor

Altor Networks' virtual firewall is finally working inside the VMware hypervisor kernel, solving a problem created by virtual switches. It's reportedly the first security product to land inside the hypervisor complements of the VMsafe APIs network APIs in fast-path mode used to develop it. Security inspections processed in the hypervisor kernel are supposed to improve not only security b... (more)

Amazon's Cloud Covers Europe

Betcha IBM is worried that Amazon is gonna wind up owning the cloud. Betcha other companies are worried about that too. Amazon said Wednesday that it has extended EC2, its Elastic Compute Cloud, to Europe. European developers and businesses can now run their EC2 instances in what Amazon calls "Availability Zones" that are actually in the European Union. By operating closer to Amazon's EU... (more)