Littleton, Mass. — March 24, 2008 — Marathon Technologies Corporation announced everRun VM, the world's first fault-tolerant, high availability software for server virtualization. Based on the same everRun® automated availability software employed by over 1800 organizations, everRun VM prevents outages and data loss in Citrix XenServer virtual infrastructures. The significance of this new software for the IT industry is threefold: Companies can now reliably run high value production applications in virtual machines, gaining the benefits of virtualization across a much broader range of applications It will now be practical to make high availability and DR a standard part of the IT infrastructure for midsize and larger companies A key component is in place to accelerate the next wave of server virtualization adoption Enabling Virtualization of Production Applications To date, companies that have deployed virtualization have not migrated many of their highest value, business critical applications to virtual servers. This is due to a variety of reasons, primarily performance concerns and a lack of true high availability. everRun VM delivers reliable protection for virtual workloads by providing redundant virtual machines and synchronized mirroring of the whole system. The integration of XenServer's superior "bare-metal" performance and everRun VM's unique architecture gives IT professionals the confidence to virtualize business critical and other production applications. "Marathon has a superb software product that is seamlessly integrated with XenServer. The combination allows companies to virtualize a range of applications that they wouldn't even consider previously," said Peter Levine, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Citrix Virtualization and Management Division. Making Availability Mainstream Availability solutions have remained a niche application because they are complex and expensive. Through tight integration with Citrix XenServer, everRun VM brea
NetworkWorld published a list of the 20 most useful Microsoft sites for IT professionals. WindowsNetworking.com is rated as number one!!! MSExchange.org and ISAServer.org are also included in the list reaching number 2 and 6 respectively. It is great to receive this rating from such respected resource as NetworkWorld. The TechGenix team is happy to appear on this list of useful sites and will continue to provide fantastic content for our visitors.
HANOVER, Germany-March 4, 2008-Seagate Technology (NYSE:STX) announced it will begin shipping its new Cheetah® 15K.6 hard drive this month. Designed for the world's most demanding enterprise storage environments, the Cheetah 15K.6 drive is Seagate's highest-performance hard drive ever in a 3.5-inch form factor, with a 28% increase in sustained data transfer rates compared to previous generations. With this new performance on tap, the Cheetah 15K.6 drive remarkably consumes significantly less power, using up to 61% less watts/GB at idle. Major OEM system builders, including HP, are working to design in the new Cheetah series hard drive, equipped with its leading Fibre Channel interface for HP's SAN storage systems. "HP's Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA), incorporating Seagate's latest Cheetah 15K.6 drive will fulfill the needs of our most demanding customers running mission-critical business applications," said Kyle Fitze, director of Storage Works SAN Marketing, at HP. "The improvements in performance, reliability, power savings, and capacity will collectively help enable our own EVA systems to deliver greater overall value to our customers." The Cheetah 15K.6 drive also ships in Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), which has become the mainstream enterprise interface of choice for companies including Super Micro Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI). "Many of our customers require top-of-the-line performance and system efficiency," said Charles Liang, CEO and president of Supermicro. "Integrating Seagate's Cheetah 15K.6 drive into our 85%+ high-efficiency, earth-friendly SuperServers™ and Server Building Block Solutions® delivers not only superior performance, but also power savings, scalability and significantly reduced TCO." About the Cheetah 15K.6 drivesUsing second-generation perpendicular recording technology and available in capacities of 450GB, 300GB, and 147GB, the new Cheetah 15K.6 drive provides an unprecedented blend of storage capacity and performance. Add to this the
Microsoft announced availability of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1. This version is primarily for web developers to test new technologies available in IE8. Also it is great to check your existing sites against IE8 new rendering engine. However, nothing stops anybody from testing new IE. There are versions available for Microsoft Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1), Windows Vista, Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2). You can select your version on this page: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/ie8/readiness/Install.htm More on new features here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/ie8/readiness/NewFeatures.htm
Office 2003 SP3 has been available interactively on MU for many months now, but, as you may remember from our post last month, today marks the beginning of automatic distribution to MU users. We've heard great feedback from customers who've already installed SP3, and feel confident in distributing it to the many users who rely on MU to keep their PCs secure, reliable, and up-to-date. Note: The automatic distribution process will be gradual, so some users may see it install today, and for others, it may take a little longer. If you'd like more info on Office 2003 SP3, check out the Download Information and KB articles on Office 2003 SP3 or the Office 2003 SP3 Whitepaper. Thanks! The Office & MU Teams Source: Microsoft Update Product Team Blog