With the latest release of Symantec's storage management and high-availability products, the company is positioning the technologies as a way to create private cloud-like capabilities without ripping and replacing datacenter infrastructure.
Symantec this week unveiled the version 6.0 releases of 10 products that are scheduled to be available in December. They are Veritas Storage Foundation, Veritas Cluster Server, Symantec ApplicationHA, Veritas Dynamic Multi-Pathing, Veritas Cluster File System, Veritas Replicator, Symantec VirtualStore, Veritas Storage Foundation for Windows, Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC and Veritas Storage Foundation for Sybase ACE. Also included in the launch was Veritas Operations Manager 4.1. More
Posted by Scott Bekker on October 06, 20110 comments
Microsoft recently published the results of its biggest overhaul of the customer- and partner-facing documents that explain licensing since 2005.
The redesigned Product Use Rights (PUR) document and Service Provider Use Rights (SPUR) document were made available on Oct. 1.
"I would say bravo to the centralized licensing team. Someone put a lot of thought into this," Rob Horwitz, an analyst with Directions on Microsoft, said in an interview. "I wouldn't be surprised if hundreds of thousands of dollars or maybe low seven figures went into vetting this design." More
Posted by Scott Bekker on October 05, 20110 comments
By most accounts, Amazon's Kindle Fire looks like a nice piece of hardware.
Shipping Nov. 15, the $199 Android-powered device sports a new Amazon browser called Silk and is optimized for media consumption.
Industry speculation centers on whether this device is the iPad rival that all of Apple's would-be competitors have been trying to produce since the iPad exploded out of the gate in 2010. More
Posted by Scott Bekker on October 05, 20115 comments
Virtualization tools vendor Veeam Software reached a milestone for its partner program this month. The 18-month-old Veeam ProPartner Service Provider (PSP) program now has more than 1,000 cloud and service providers, the Columbus, Ohio-based company announced on Tuesday.
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Posted by Scott Bekker on October 04, 20110 comments
Mobile carriers began rolling out the Windows Phone 7.5 (aka "Mango") update to Windows Phone 7 earlier this week. Last night, I updated the HTC Trophy that I've been using for the last two and half months (the same phone I recently reviewed here against the Apple iPhone 4). It hasn't been long enough to make any definitive conclusions about the new OS, but my experience over less than 24 hours has been pretty positive. I'll have a lot more to say about this later, but here are some first impressions: More
Posted by Scott Bekker on October 03, 20119 comments
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On Wednesday, Zenith Infotech announced that it was spinning off its remote monitoring and management (RMM) business as Zenith RMM, LLC. On Thursday, we caught up with Zenith Infotech's CEO and managing director, Akash Saraf, to get more perspective on the reasons behind selling the majority stake in the RMM side of the business to a private equity firm, and for some insights on his plans for the rest of Zenith Infotech.
At a high level, Saraf, who also sits on the spin-off firm's board, said the move will greatly increase the companies' combined R&D spending, allowing faster and more comprehensive product improvements, and will create the management bandwidth for both Zeniths to expand their businesses. More
Posted by Scott Bekker on September 29, 20110 comments
UPDATE: This entry has been updated throughout with quotes and details from an interview with an investor involved in the deal and an executive from the new company.
Zenith Infotech announced Wednesday that it is spinning off its managed services unit, which is one of the largest remote management and monitoring (RMM) businesses in the industry.
The new company is called Zenith RMM, LLC and is backed by a "sizable growth equity investment" from Boston-based Summit Partners, according to a news release on the deal. Zenith Infotech will be a shareholder of Zenith RMM and Akash Saraf, managing director and CEO of Zenith Infotech, will serve on the board of directors for Zenith RMM. More
Posted by Scott Bekker on September 28, 20111 comments
Insight Enterprises, a distributor and Microsoft Large Account Reseller, is in the process of buying its Tempe, Ariz. neighbor Ensynch, a managed Microsoft systems integrator partner with multiple gold and silver competencies in the Microsoft Partner Network.
The deal was announced last week and is expected to close in 30 days. Terms were not disclosed. More
Posted by Scott Bekker on September 26, 20110 comments
After his command performance at Microsoft Build, there's a drumbeat emerging for Steven Sinofsky to be the next CEO at Microsoft.
Sinofsky oversaw the unveiling of Windows 8 in Anaheim, Calif., this month and his control-heavy, secrecy-focused approach to releasing technical details helped generate excitement around some sneak peeks of the OS in late May and June. More
Posted by Scott Bekker on September 23, 20111 comments
Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 lags badly in the smartphone market with low single-digit share, but a new independent survey that digs into buyers' purchase plans indicates that the platform may be close to breaking out.
The survey released this week by Connected Intelligence, a service from the NPD Group, notes that the Google Android platform remains dominant. More
Posted by Scott Bekker on September 21, 20110 comments
A Microsoft Gold Certified Partner based in India has had its certification stripped by Microsoft based on complaints the partner company was using phone scams to drum up business, according to a report.
The Web site for the U.K.-based magazine PC Pro reported Wednesday that Microsoft had revoked the Gold status of Comantra. More
Posted by Scott Bekker on September 21, 20111 comments