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December 2012/January 2013 | Vol. 6 No. 1 VirtualizationReview.com The 2013 Virtualization Review Reader’s Choice Awards & Ultimate Buyer’s Guide A guide to the best READERSREADERS companies and products in the virtualization CHOICECHOICE market. PLUS > What’s New in VMware vSphere and vCenter 5.1 > 5 Tips to Mastering Virtualization Backup > SimpliVity CEO Doron Kempel VISIT VIRTUALIZATIONREVIEW.COM contents We spared no effort in our pursuit of the maximum number of READERSREADERS products and companies CHOICECHOICE that are germane to the virtualization universe. 4 DECEMBER 2012/JANUARY 2013 | VIRTUALIZATION REVIEW | VOL. 6, NO. 1 COLUMNS FEATURES 16 Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Virtualization Review 2 Hoard: BRUCE HOARD 4 The 2013 19 Cloud Storage Following a Process that Reader’s Choice Awards & Keeps on Working Ultimate Buyer’s Guide 19 Cloud Security A guide to the best companies and 20 Cloud Software 30 Virtual Insider: ELIAS KHNASER products in the virtualization market. What’s New in VMware vSphere 22 Business Continuity 6 Application Virtualization and vCenter 5.1 23 Virtualization Automation 6 Server Virtualization 26 Storage Virtualization How-To Guy: DAVID DAVIS 32 8 Desktop Virtualization & VDI 5 Tips for Mastering 27 Network Virtualization Virtualization Backup 10 Mobile Virtualization & Bring Your Own Device 27 Virtualization Security 10 Thin-Client & 28 Virtualization Training Zero-Client Computing 12 Virtualization Management & Optimization ID STATEMENT Virtualization Review Magazine (ISSN 1941-2843) is published fi ve times a year (April, July, August/September, October, and December/January) by 1105 Media, Inc., 9201 Oakdale Avenue, Ste. 101, Chatsworth, CA 91311. Complimentary subscriptions are sent to qualifying subscribers. Annual subscription rates payable in U.S. funds for non-qualifi ed subscribers are: U.S. $39.95, International $64.95. 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COVER IMAGE SHUTTERSTOCK.COM VirtualizationReview.com | Virtualization Review | December 2012/January 2013 | 1 HOARD VIRTUALIZATIONREVIEW.COM ED NOTE DECEMBER 2012/JANUARY 2013 ■ VOL. 6 ■ NO. 1 EDITORIAL STAFF Editor in Chief Bruce Hoard Managing Editor Wendy Hernandez Associate Managing Editor Katrina Carrasco COLUMNISTS David Davis Elias Khnaser ART STAFF Creative Director Scott Shultz Art Director Brad Zerbel PRODUCTION STAFF Bruce Hoard Director, Print Production Jenny Hernandez-Asandas Production Coordinator Teresa Antonio ONLINE/DIGITAL MEDIA Editor, VirtualizationReview.com Michael Domingo Director, Online Media Becky Nagel Site Administrator Shane Lee Following a Process that Designer Rodrigo Muñoz ADVERTISING AND SALES Keeps on Working Group Publisher Matt Morollo National Sales Manager Al Tiano Microsoft Account Manager Danna Vedder Advertising Sales Associate Tanya Egenolf At the age of 20, Doron Kempel was a commander of Special Forces in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), where it was his responsibility to identify opportunities with cutting-edge technologies that could enhance the intelligence apparatus of his country. In that capacity, he repeatedly followed the same process: identify opportunities, determine if they’re feasible, assemble a team to capitalize on the opportunities, defi ne the mission and then execute on it. President Henry Allain Many years later, Kempel—who has dual citizenship in the United States and Vice President, Publishing Matt N. Morollo Director, Marketing Michele Imgrund Israel—followed that same process to achieve success with numerous civilian Online Marketing Director Tracy S. Cook endeavors. Among them, he was VP of sales and marketing at Imedia, VP and general manager at EMC, and founder and CEO of Diligent Technologies, a pioneer in enterprise data de-duplication that was acquired by IBM in 2008. Kempel is currently applying his entrepreneurial skills as chairman and CEO of President & SimpliVity, which he touts as a provider of simplifi ed IT infrastructure solutions Chief Executive Offi cer Neal Vitale for virtualized environments. The fi rst product from SimpliVity is OmniCube. Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Offi cer Richard Vitale According to Kempel: “Each OmniCube system includes simplifi ed, extensive Executive Vice President Michael J. Valenti scale-out bandwidth; effi cient, duplicated and compressed replication; low-cost, Vice President, Christopher M. Coates easy to manage disaster recovery; and public cloud integration.” Finance & Administration Kempel’s advisors told him OmniCube would work, so he went out in search of Vice President, Erik A. Lindgren Information Technology venture capital. The result of that effort to date is $18 million from Accel Partners & Application Developement and Charles River Ventures. Vice President, Event Operations David F. Myers Kemple declares the initial reaction to OmniCube has been enthusiastic, noting Chairman of the Board Jeff rey S. Klein that following its offi cial introduction at VMworld in late August 2012, “We were bombarded. We had 5,000 people—I’m not exaggerating—visit our booth!” Unabashedly, he goes on to say that 1,000 people participated in 10-minute Reaching the Staff presentations (which he claims is “unheard of”), and 700 people took part in Staff may be reached via e-mail, telephone, fax, or mail. A list of editors and contact information is also available product demos. Everybody wants a demo; some people already want the product. online at VirtualizationReview.com. Never at a loss for words, Kempel is “stunned” by the commotion. E-mail: To e-mail any member of the staff , please use the following form: [email protected] OmniCube is still in the advanced stages of beta testing, which Kempel says is Framingham Offi ce (weekdays, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. ET) Telephone 508-875-6644; Fax 508-875-6633 being done meticulously so the product will be fi nely honed by the time it goes 600 Worcester Road, Suite 204, Framingham, MA 01702 into production, which he was hoping would be before the end of 2012. Irvine Offi ce (weekdays, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. PT) Telephone 949-265-1520; Fax 949-265-1528 PHOTO BY TERRY POWELL Pricing for the new product begins at $54,990. Ever confi dent, Kempel asks: 4 Venture, Suite 150, Irvine, CA 92618 Corporate Offi ce (weekdays, 8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. PT) “Who wouldn’t buy it?” VR Telephone 818-814-5200; Fax 818-734-1522 9201 Oakdale Avenue, Suite 101, Chatsworth, CA 91311 The opinions expressed within the articles and other contents Bruce Hoard is editor in chief of Virtualization Review magazine. herein do not necessarily express those of the publisher. 2 | December 2012/January 2013 | Virtualization Review | VirtualizationReview.com PREFERRED PRODUCT COVER STORY | 2013 RCAs/BG The 2013 Virtualization Review Reader’s Choice Awards & Ultimate Buyer’s Guide A guide to the best companies and products in the virtualization market. By Bruce Hoard READERSREADERS CHOICECHOICE 4 | December 2012/January 2013 | Virtualization Review | VirtualizationReview.com IMAGE FROM SHUTTERSTOCK t’s that time of year again among the 16 categories. Citrix when I have the pleasure of Systems Inc. ran a strong second to welcoming you to the combined VMware, winning two RCAs and six I2013 Virtualization Review Preferred Product awards, while Cisco Reader’s Choice Awards and Ultimate Systems Inc. registered two RCAs Buyer’s Guide issue. This is where and one Preferred Product award. you can check out the prodigious— Microsoft garnered fi ve Preferred and rapidly growing—array of Product awards, while other Preferred virtualization and cloud products Product/Editor’s Choice award that are available to meet your winners include Amazon Web Services specifi c needs. LLC, Quest Software, Symantec Corp. When I say prodigious and and Veeam Software. growing, I’m talking about Insofar as the Ultimate Buyer’s substantially increasing our numbers Guide is concerned, as you can see from last year, when we included 274 from the amount of products we products from 177 companies. This included, we spared no effort in our year, in addition to adding four new pursuit of the maximum number of cloud categories, we dug deep and products and companies that are raised the bar to 466 products and germane to the virtualization 412 companies.