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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

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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

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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 POWELL TERRY BY PHOTO 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.

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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. universe. We hope you enjoy this In the Reader’s Choice Awards sumptuous feast and fi nd it as useful (RCAs) voting results (see as it is comprehensive. I welcome “Methodology,” p. 6), VMware Inc. your feedback with ideas on how we came through with yet another strong can make this issue even better next performance, taking home six RCAs year. You can contact me at and one Preferred Product award [email protected].

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Scense - Scense B.V. Application Virtualization Call for price ■ http://scense.com VMware wins the Reader’s Choice Award for the third straight Spoon Server - Spoon.net year in this hotly contested category that pits the market leader Call for price ■ http://spoon.net against Citrix and its many years of application experience baked into XenApp. Citrix does win the Preferred Product award here, while the second Preferred Product award goes to Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V), which makes Server Virtualization Someplace very hot is likely to freeze over before anyone a strong showing in this category for the second year in a knocks VMware vSphere 5.0 off its well-earned—and dominant— row. Rounding things out, the Editor’s Choice award goes to perch in this category, from which it wins the RCA. Still, Symantec Workspace Virtualization, which reduces application Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, which garnered a Preferred confl icts, testing requirements and support calls while helping IT Product award, has transitioned from a gathering storm to a organizations improve management and control over endpoints. major force as it rides a powerful and still-growing wave of popularity in this most venerable of virtualization markets. The RCA WINNER second Preferred Product award goes to Citrix XenServer, a true VMware ThinApp - VMware Inc. survivor that’s available via a free download. The free, open Call for price ■ http://vmware.com source Oracle VM gets the Editor’s Choice award. PREFERRED PRODUCT Citrix XenApp 6.5 - Citrix Systems Inc. RCA WINNER Standalone pricing starts at $350 per concurrent vSphere 5.0 - VMware Inc. user and includes one year of Subscription VMware vSphere Standard starts at $995 for one Advantage. XenApp is also included in XenDesktop processor with up to 32GB vRAM entitlement per Enterprise or Platinum ■ http://citrix.com processor ■ http://vmware.com PREFERRED PRODUCT PREFERRED PRODUCT Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V - Microsoft Application Virtualization Microsoft (App-V) - Microsoft Corp. See bit.ly/TpnLQ0 for licensing details ■ Call for price ■ http://microsoft.com http://microsoft.com PREFERRED PRODUCT EDITOR’S CHOICE Citrix XenServer 6.0 - Citrix Systems Inc. Symantec Workspace Virtualization 6.1 Pricing ranges from free to $1,000 per server for the Advanced Edition; $2,500 per server for the SP8 - Symantec Corp. Enterprise Edition; and $5,000 per server for the ■ $44 per node http://symantec.com Platinum Edition ■ http://citrix.com 2X ApplicationServer XG 10.1 - 2X Software $1,190 for one server supporting up to 80 connections and one EDITOR’S CHOICE gateway ■ http://2x.com Oracle VM - Oracle Corp. 2X LoadBalancer 10.1 - 2X Software Oracle VM has no license fee, only a support fee ■ $449 for a two-server license ■ http://2x.com http://oracle.com AccessNow - Ericom Software Dell vStart 100 - Dell Inc. Call for price ■ http://ericom.com Call for price ■ http://dell.com AdminStudio Suite 11.5 - Flexera Software LLC FlashArray 300 Series 2.0 - Pure Storage Inc. Call for price ■ http://fl exerasoftware.com Call for price ■ http://purestorage.com Application Delivery Solution - Radware Ltd. HC3 - Scale Computing Call for price ■ http://radware.com $25,499 for 15-30 Virtual Workloads Compute Resources, 96GB RAM, three Quad-Core Intel CPUs, 6x1GbE or 3x10GbE Storage Resources, 12 SATA or Application Jukebox - Numecent SAS drives, 6TB to 24TB RAW storage ■ http://scalecomputing.com Call for price ■ http://numecent.com Proxmox Virtual Environment - Proxmox Server AppZero Cloud 5 - AppZero Solutions GmbH Call for price ■ http://appzero.com Call for price ■ http://proxmox.com Cameyo 2.0 - Cameyo Free ■ http://cameyo.com Methodology eG Enterprise 5.6 - eG Innovations Inc. This year’s Virtualization Review Reader’s Choice Awards survey was ■ Call for price http://eginnovations.com sent out to approximately 20,000 of our readers on Oct. 2, 2012, and ElectricCommander - Electric Cloud they were given two weeks to vote. Job titles for the group ran the Call for price ■ http://electric-cloud.com gamut from C-level executives to help desk technicians. Vendors Quest Workspace ChangeBASE 5.0 - Quest Software, a were not allowed to vote for themselves or solicit votes. We closely Division of Dell Inc. examined the voting results, and threw out illegal votes that were Call for price ■ http://quest.com cast in an effort to stuff the ballot box.

6 | December 2012/January 2013 | Virtualization Review | VirtualizationReview.com Better backup for all.

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Copyright © 2012 Symantec Corporation. All rights reserved. Symantec, the Symantec Logo, the Checkmark Logo, Backup Exec, and NetBackup are trademarks or registered trademarks of Symantec Corporation or its affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. VMware is a trademark of VMware, Inc. Hyper-V is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. COVER STORY | 2013 RCAs/BG

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers 3.0 - Connection Broker 7.6 - Leostream Red Hat Inc. Call for price ■ http://leostream.com Free, fully supported 60-day trial; $2,994 Standard Subscription for Desktop Cloud Computing Appliance Gen 2 - V3 Systems one year ■ http://redhat.com Call for price ■ http://v3sys.com ScaleMP vSMP Foundation 4.0 - ScaleMP Inc. Desktop Cloud Platform 5 - Desktone Call for price ■ http://scalemp.com Call for pricing ■ http://desktone.com Splunk App for VMware 1.0.1 - Splunk Inc. Invicta - Whiptail Free ■ http://splunk.com $269,000 ■ http://whiptail.com Virtuozzo Containers - Parallels IP Holdings GmbH Konect Elite - desktopsites Call for price ■ http://parallels.com From $490 per annum for a fi ve-user pack to $17,500 per annum for V-locity 3 - Condusiv Technologies Corp. 250-user pack ■ http://desktopsites.com Call for price ■ http://condusiv.com NexentaVSA for View 1 - Nexenta Systems Inc. $35 per seat license, 100 seat minimum ■ http://nexenta.com Nimble CS Series CS260 - Nimble Storage Desktop Virtualization & VDI Starts at $38,000 ■ http://nimblestorage.com The RCA Winner and still champion: VMware View. Citrix can’t Pano System for VDI 6.0 - Pano Logic Inc. be happy about this, and is no doubt tired of being a runner-up $1,399 for fi ve-seat starter kit, includes software and fi ve endpoint zero-client devices ■ http://panologic.com to VMware in this category—a category that’s still trying to achieve meaningful liftoff. Citrix wins two consolation prizes in P10PS Series Desktop Touchscreen - GVision USA Inc. Call for price ■ http://gvision-usa.com the form of Preferred Product awards for XenDesktop and VDI- in-a-Box. The Editor’s Choice award goes to Quest Workspace Profi leUnity FlexApp - Liquidware Labs Inc. Desktop Virtualization, which only makes Dell look better and Call for price ■ http://liquidwarelabs.com better as it continues to acquire value-adding companies. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops 3.0 - Red Hat Inc. RCA WINNER Free 60-day trial; $4,494 Standard Subscription for one year ■ http://redhat.com VMware View 5.1- VMware Inc. $1,815 for VMware View 5 Enterprise Bundle: RES Automation Manager 2012 - RES Software Starter kit plus basic (12x5) one-year support ■ Call for price ■ http://ressoftware.com http://vmware.com RES Baseline Desktop Analyzer - RES Software PREFERRED PRODUCT Call for price ■ http://ressoftware.com Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 - Citrix Systems Inc. VDI Edition, $95 per user or device, $195 per RES Dynamic Desktop Studio - RES Software concurrent user; Enterprise Edition, $225 per user or Call for price ■ http://ressoftware.com device; Platinum Edition, $350 per user or device ■ RES Virtual Desktop Extender - RES Software http://citrix.com Call for price ■ http://ressoftware.com PREFERRED PRODUCT RES Workspace Manager 2012 - RES Software Citrix VDI-in-a-Box 5.1 - Call for price ■ http://ressoftware.com Citrix Systems Inc. Perpetual license $160; annual license $55; SmartVDI Host Platforms - ClearCube Technology Inc. Call for price ■ http://clearcube.com software maintenance $35 per year ■ http://citrix.com StorageCraft ShadowProtect Desktop 4.2.5 - EDITOR’S CHOICE StorageCraft Technology Corp. Quest Workspace Desktop Virtualization $89.95 per license ■ http://storagecraft.com 7.6 - Quest Software, a Division of Dell Inc. Symantec Workspace Streaming 6.1 SP8 - Symantec Corp. Desktop Edition starts at $99; VDI only sold per $68 per node ■ http://symantec.com concurrent user ■ http://quest.com SysTrack 6.1 - Lakeside Software Inc. Accela - Whiptail Call for price ■ http://lakesidesoftware.com $49,000 ■ http://whiptail.com Teradici APEX 2800 Server Offl oad Card - Teradici Corp. AMAX Virtual Desktop Series - AMAX Information $1,995, available through distributors worldwide as well as from Technologies Inc. Hewlett-Packard Co. and Dell Inc. ■ http://teradici.com Call for price ■ http://amax.com Thin Browse 2.2 - ThinLaunch Software LLC BareMetal - moka5 Inc. $39 per user ■ http://thinlaunch.com Call for price ■ http://mokafi ve.com Thin Desktop 3.1 - ThinLaunch Software LLC Ceedo Enterprise - Ceedo Technologies Ltd. $39 per device ■ http://thinlaunch.com Call for price ■ http://ceedo.com ThinPrint Server Engine 8.6 - Cortado AG Centrix WorkSpace iQ 5.3 - Centrix Software Ltd. Starts at $24.95 per user for a perpetual license; options available for $32 per user per year ■ http://centrixsoftware.com volume pricing ■ http://thinprint.com

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Unidesk 2.0 - Unidesk Corp. Dell Wyse Enterprise Mobility Management 1 - Dell Wyse Starts at approximately $150 per managed desktop and decreases with Starts at $42 per device per year ■ http://wyse.com quantity ■ http://unidesk.com MokaFive for iOS - MokaFive Inc. V3 Desktop Cloud Orchestrator 1 - V3 Systems Call for price ■ http://mokafi ve.com Call for price ■ http://v3sys.com PocketCloud Explore Premium 1.0.32 - Dell Wyse Login VSI - Login VSI B.V. Premium version is $2-$5 per month; regular version is free ■ http://wyse.com Call for price ■ http://loginvsi.com Quest Management Xtensions for Mobile and Mac 4.0.5 - Verde 6.5 - Virtual Bridges Inc. Quest Software, a Division of Dell Inc. ■ Call for price http://vbridges.com Call for price ■ http://quest.com Virtual Desktop Platform - VDIworks vLogix Mobile - Red Bend ■ Call for price http://vdiworks.com Call for price ■ http://redbend.com vSpace Server - NComputing Call for price ■ http://ncomputing.com vSTAC VDI Appliance - Pivot3 Inc. Thin-Client & Zero-Client Computing Call for price ■ http://pivot3.com The Dell acquisitions of Wyse and Quest have dramatically WorldDesk for Enterprise - WorldDesk expanded Dell’s reach into client computing. This is directly Call for price ■ http://myworldesk.com refl ected in the Dell RCA victory for the Wyse T10 product and Quest’s Preferred Product award for its Quest Workspace Desktop Virtualization ThinShell product, an application designed Mobile Virtualization & to replace the Microsoft Windows shell and provide a better logon Bring Your Own Device experience for users. Teradici, best known for its PCoIP work with Citrix breaks through for its fi rst RCA win in this category with VMware View, takes home the second Preferred Product award its mobility lynchpin, Citrix Receiver, a free, downloadable piece for its PCoIP Zero Clients. The Editor’s Choice award is captured of client software that enables users to access their docs, apps by Devon IT DeTOS Terminal Operating System, a Linux-based OS and desktops from any device, including smartphones, tablets that links multiple servers running multifarious protocols. and PCs. VMware cops a Preferred Product award for Horizon Application Manager, which unifi es numerous VMware and RCA WINNER competing technologies, while Microsoft takes home the second Dell Wyse T10 1 - Dell Wyse Starts at $299 for Ethernet; $349 with integrated Preferred Product award with System Center Confi guration wireless ■ http://wyse.com Manager. The Editor’s Choice award goes to 2X Software 2X Client for RDP/Remote Desktop, which connects to home or PREFERRED PRODUCT Quest Workspace Desktop Virtualization offi ce PCs from any desktop, laptop or mobile device. ThinShell 2.5 - Quest Software, a Division of Dell Inc. RCA WINNER Free for Quest Workspace Desktop Virtualization Citrix Receiver - Citrix Systems Inc. customers ■ http://quest.com Free with Citrix XenDesktop, Citrix XenApp and Citrix CloudGateway ■ http://citrix.com

PREFERRED PRODUCT PREFERRED PRODUCT Horizon Application Manager 1.5 - PCoIP Zero Clients 1.7.1 - Teradici Corp. VMware Inc. Starts from $299 ■ http://teradici.com $726 for Perpetual Bundle: 10-pack plus basic (12x5) one-year support ■ http://vmware.com

PREFERRED PRODUCT EDITOR’S CHOICE System Center 2012 Confi guration Devon Terminal Operating System - Manager - Microsoft Devon IT ■ Go to bit.ly/Spa7dd for pricing and licensing details ■ Call for price http://devonit.com http://microsoft.com 10ZiG Zero Clients - 10ZiG Technology Call for price ■ http://10zig.com EDITOR’S CHOICE 2X OS 7.1 - 2X Software 2X Client for RDP/Remote Desktop - Free ■ http://2x.com 2X Software AG7600 - ComputerLab International (CLI) Free ■ http://2x.com Call for price ■ http://computerlab.com BYOD - Extreme Networks JC6100C Cloud Computing Model - Computer Lab Call for price ■ http://extremenetworks.com International (CLI) Cortado Corporate Server 6.0 - Cortado AG Call for price ■ http://computerlab.com $100 per user; scalable pricing available for larger environments ■ http://cortado.com

10 | December 2012/January 2013 | Virtualization Review | VirtualizationReview.com SMARTER TECHNOLOGY FOR A SMARTER PLANET FROM MAINSTREAM

How businesses are reinventing A CHANGE IN THE ATMOSPHERE. themselves with IBM SmartCloud: For a technology that’s built to be invisible, cloud computing is making sweeping changes everywhere you look. From the way we work to the way we live, remote IT services are

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So conversations that were once CLOUDS BUILT FOR RETHINK I.T., RAINMAKING. REINVENT BUSINESS. FINANCE held only in IT departments are now happening across the One such example is 3M. These In the trends of an expanding C-suite. And rapidly deployable early movers are using the digital world, we see a perfect resources like IBM SmartCloud cloud to analyze image design storm of innovation forming. In a recent study, 68% of fi rms ’ using the cloud to disrupt markets give decision makers plenty to based on eye movement. And for today s industrious expected to outperform their peers. brainstorm about. Graphic artists everywhere businesses, the cloud is ready can now upload their fi les and to be capitalized on. YESTERDAY THE BACK ROOM, TOMORROW THE BOARDROOM. get instant feedback on what ibm.com/cloudtechnology “ Removing the burden of will most likely grab viewers’ At most companies, the cloud is infrastructure really allows you attention. It’s a radically taken at face value—a conduit to focus on improving your LET’S BUILD A diff erent proposition with for increasing fl exibility and strategy and mission.” SMARTER PLANET. untold, new market potential. reducing complexity. Meanwhile, Marc Hoit, CIO, NC State forward-looking businesses are rethinking the cloud to enable them to profi t from an explosion of new social, mobile and analytics capabilities. They’re transforming business models, disrupting industries and getting to market in no time. 3M Visual Attention Service is a cloud-based tool for analyzing designs like this ad.

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NoTouch Desktop 2.34.0 - Stratodesk Corp. AX Series - A10 Networks Inc. $31.49 per seat, decreasing with volume; call for price for more than Call for price ■ http://a10networks.com 1,000 seats ■ http://stratodesk.com Axxia Network Accelerator - LSI Corp. UD2, UD3, UD5, UD9 Series - IGEL Technology Call for price ■ http://lsi.com Call for price ■ http://igel.com BixData Cluster and Systems Management Professional Userful MultiSeat Linux Zero Clients - Userful Corp. Edition - BixData Call for price ■ http://userful.com Call for price ■ http://bixdata.com Bocada Vision 7.9 – Bocada Inc. $40 per VM ■ http://bocada.com Virtualization Management & Bocada vpConnect 7.9 - Bocada Inc. Optimization $75 per asset, generally a backup server or backup client ■ The RCA for this capacious category is won by VMware http://bocada.com vCenter Operations Management Suite in a repeat of last CA LISA Platform - CA year’s performance. The stately vCenter delivers integrated Call for price ■ http://ca.com performance, capacity and confi guration management Centrix WorkSpace Suite (includes WorkSpace iQ and capabilities for vSphere, physical and hybrid cloud WorkSpace Universal) 5.3 - Centrix Software Ltd. environments. Despite its prominence, however, vCenter is $77 per user per year ■ http://centrixsoftware.com feeling some heat from Preferred Product winner Microsoft CiRBA 7.1 - CiRBA Inc. System Center, which has grown signifi cantly in stature Call for price ■ http://cirba.com during the past year. Cisco Systems wins the second Preferred Cisco Nexus 1010 and 1010-X Virtual Services Product award in this category via its Virtual Network Appliances - Cisco Systems Inc. Management Center product, while the Editor’s Choice award Call for price ■ http://cisco.com is bestowed upon Veeam Software in honor of its multitasking Data Center Manager - Enterasys Networks Inc. Veeam ONE for VMware and Hyper-V. Call for price ■ http://enterasys.com Desktop Central 8 - ManageEngine RCA WINNER Call for price ■ http://manageengine.com vCenter Operations Management Suite dsNet Manager - Cleversafe Inc. 5.0 - VMware Inc. Call for price ■ http://cleversafe.com Standard Edition starts at $1,250 per 25-VM pack ■ http://vmware.com EMC Isilon Scale-Out Storage Platform - EMC Corp. Call for price ■ http://isilon.com PREFERRED PRODUCT System Center 2012 - Microsoft Emulex OneCommand Vision 2.5 - Emulex Open No Level (NL) License and Software Assurance Call for price ■ http://emulex.com two-year price for the Standard Edition is $1,323; Datacenter Edition is $3,607; more pricing EnhanceIO SSD Cache Software 1.1 - Stec Inc. Call for price ■ http://stec-inc.com information is available at bit.ly/wiQy0Y ■ http://microsoft.com Enterprise Manager Virtual Edition 3.0 - F5 Networks Inc. $9,995 ■ http://f5.com PREFERRED PRODUCT Equalizer OnDemand 2 - Coyote Point Systems Virtual Network Management Center 1.3 - $2,449 ■ http://coyotepoint.com Cisco Systems Inc. Grid Engine - Univa Corp. ■ Call for price http://cisco.com Call for price ■ http://univa.com EDITOR’S CHOICE heleos - Embrane Inc. Veeam ONE for VMware and Hyper-V 6 - Call for price ■ http://embrane.com Veeam Software Hitachi Command Suite 7.3 - Hitachi Data Systems Corp. $450 per socket; also available in a Free Edition ■ Pricing for the midmarket starts at a few thousand dollars; enterprise http://veeam.com packages start at $10,000 ■ http://hds.com 3X Remote Backup Appliance - 3X Systems Hosted Monitoring for In-House IT Departments - Call for price ■ http://trustyd.com LogicMonitor Inc. AppSense User Virtualization Platform - AppSense Ltd. Call for price ■ http://logicmonitor.com Call for price ■ http://appsense.com HP Insight Control for VMware vCenter Server 7 - Aptare StorageConsole Platform - Aptare Inc. Hewlett-Packard Co. Call for price ■ http://aptare.com Free when managing HP Storage under support contract; licensed as Argent for VMware - Argent Software part of HP Insight Control (IC) when managing HP servers; one IC license per HP server; call for price ■ http://hp.com Call for price ■ http://argentsoftware.com Aternity Frontline Performance Intelligence Platform HyTrust Appliance - HyTrust Inc. Call for price ■ http://hytrust.com 5.0 - Aternity Inc. Call for price ■ http://aternity.com

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IgniteVM 8.2 - Confi o Software Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise 8.5 - Quest Call for price ■ http://confi o.com Software, a Division of Dell Inc. Intigua - Intigua Call for price ■ http://quest.com Call for price ■ http://intigua.com StillSecure HIPAA Essential 1 - StillSecure ioSphere - Fusion-io Inc. Call for price ■ http://stillsecure.com Call for price ■ http://fusion-io.com StorageCraft ShadowControl ImageManager 5.0.5 - IP Address Management Freeware - Infoblox Inc. StorageCraft Technology Corp. Free ■ http://infoblox.com ShadowControl ImageManager is included with the ShadowProtect license; additional licensing is required for individual jobs featuring MozyPro - Mozy ShadowStream, intelligentFTP and HeadStart Restore technology ■ Call for price ■ http://mozy.com http://storagecraft.com Netuitive 6.0 - Netuitive Inc. Stratusphere FIT - Liquidware Labs Inc. Call for price ■ http://netuitive.com Call for price ■ http://liquidwarelabs.com NetWrix Change Reporter for System Center Virtual StruxureWare for Data Centers - Schneider Electric Machine Manager 2.0.66 - NetWrix Corp. Call for price ■ http://schneider-electric.us Call for price ■ http://netwrix.com Terra Alta - Akamai Technologies NetWrix VMware Change Reporter 3.1.134 - NetWrix Corp. Call for price ■ http://akamai.com Call for price ■ http://netwrix.com Triton IP Address Management Orchestration - Novell Endpoint Lifecycle Management Suite - Novell BlueCat Networks Call for price ■ http://novell.com Call for price ■ http://bluecatnetworks.com OmniCube - SimpliVity Unifi ed Communications - Avaya Inc. Call for price ■ http://simplivity.com Call for price ■ http://avaya.com OnCommand Management Software Portfolio up.time 7 - Uptime Software Inc. (OnCommand System Manager, OnCommand $99 per element monitoring ■ http://uptimesoftware.com Unifi ed Manager, OnCommand Insight, OnCommand Vblock System 700 - VCE Balance) - NetApp Call for price ■ http://vce.com Call for price ■ http://netapp.com vCapacity 3.3 - Refl ex Systems LLC PAN Manager Software - Egenera Inc. $595 per socket for each module of the Refl ex Virtualization Call for price ■ http://egenera.com Management platform: vCapacity, vTrust security and vProfi le, which can be purchased in any combination ■ http://refl exsystems.com PCI Compliant Hosting - Layered Technologies Inc. Call for price ■ http://layeredtech.com Veeam Backup Free Edition 6.1 - Veeam Software Free, with no expiration and no limit on the number of hosts or VMs ■ PerfectDisk 12.5 Hyper-V - Raxco Software Inc. http://veeam.com $599.99 per host with unlimited guests ■ http://raxco.com Veeam Management Pack for VMware 5.7 - Veeam PerfectDisk 12.5 vSphere - Raxco Software Inc. Software $599.99 per host with unlimited guests ■ http://raxco.com $450 per socket ■ http://veeam.com PHD Virtual Monitor for Citrix 10.3 and PHD Virtual Veritas Dynamic Multi-Pathing for VMware 6.0 - Monitor for VMware 10.3 - PHD Virtual Technologies Symantec Corp. Call for price ■ http://phdvirtual.com Starts at $900 per processor and is licensed based on processor type PlateSpin Migrate (formerly PowerConvert) 9.1 - and number of cores ■ http://symantec.com NetIQ Corp. Virtualization Manager 5 - SolarWinds Call for price ■ http://netiq.com Starts at $2,995 to monitor up to 50 VMs; priced to scale up to Precise Transaction Performance Management - Precise 15,000 VMs ■ http://solarwinds.com Call for price ■ http://precise.com VirtualWisdom 3.3 - Virtual Instruments Inc. Quest Foglight for Virtual Desktops 5.6.3 – Quest Call for price ■ http://virtualinstruments.com Software, a Division of Dell Inc. VMTurbo Operations Manager 3.1 - VMTurbo Inc. Starts at $69 per concurrent user ■ http://quest.com Starts at $499 per physical socket for the Enterprise Edition ■ http://vmturbo.com Silverline - Librato Call for price ■ https://silverline.librato.com vOPS Server Enterprise - vKernel, a Division of Dell Inc. $799 per socket ■ http://vkernel.com Simpana 9 SP7 - CommVault Call for price ■ http://commvault.com vOPS Server Standard 5.1 - vKernel, a Division of Dell Inc. $549 per socket ■ http://vkernel.com Simplify Desktop - triCerat Inc. Call for price ■ http://tricerat.com vOPS Storage Monitor - vKernel, a Division of Dell $499 per socket ■ http://vkernel.com Splunk App for Citrix - Splunk Inc. Free ■ http://splunk.com

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vOPS Storage vOptimizer 3.2 - vKernel, a Division of Arista 7500 Series with EOS 4.10 - Arista Networks Inc. Dell Inc. $68,990 ■ http://aristanetworks.com $299 per socket ■ http://vkernel.com BIG-IP Global Traffi c Manager Virtual Edition 11.2 - Xangati Management Dashboard 5 - Xangati F5 Networks Inc. $150 per socket for server virtualization; $10 per desktop for VDI ■ $23,995 ■ http://f5.com http://xangati.com BIG-IP WAN Optimization Manager Virtual Edition 11.2 - F5 Networks Inc. $4,995 ■ http://f5.com Cloud Infrastructure & Platform BIG-IP WebAccelerator Virtual Edition 11.2 - In a high-profi le, VMware-Microsoft matchup, VMware F5 Networks Inc. wins the RCA victory here with Cloud Foundry, edging out $9,995 ■ http://f5.com Preferred Product award winner and early Platform as a Bluelock Virtual Datacenters 3 - Bluelock Service (PaaS) competitor Windows Azure. Citrix also wins a Call for price ■ http://bluelock.com Preferred Product award with Citrix CloudPlatform, its “cloud BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management - BMC Software Inc. orchestration system” based on Apache CloudStack. Veteran Call for price ■ http://bmc.com cloud provider Amazon Web Services gets the Editor’s Choice Canopy - Canopy nod for its long-standing Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Call for price ■ http://canopy-cloud.com Chef - Opscode Inc. Call for price ■ http://opscode.com RCA WINNER Cloud Computing Services - Expedient Data Centers Cloud Foundry - VMware Inc. Call for price ■ http://expedient.com Call for price ■ http://cloudfoundry.org Cloud Hosting - Hosting.com Call for price ■ http://hosting.com PREFERRED PRODUCT Windows Azure - Microsoft Cloud Intelligent Network - Cisco Systems Inc. Call for price ■ http://cisco.com See bit.ly/x3INk9 for purchase options and pricing information ■ http://microsoft.com Cloud Management Portal - Virtacore Systems Inc. Call for price ■ http://virtacore.com Cloud OnRamp Enablement (CORE) - Geminare Inc. PREFERRED PRODUCT Call for price ■ http://geminare.com Citrix CloudPlatform - Citrix Systems Inc. CloudPhysics - CloudPhysics Call for price ■ http://citrix.com Call for price ■ http://cloudphysics.com CloudBees Platform as a Service - CloudBees EDITOR’S CHOICE Call for price ■ http://cloudbees.com Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud - Amazon Cloudera Enterprise - Cloudera Inc. Web Services LLC Call for price ■ http://cloudera.com Call for price ■ http://aws.amazon.com CloudFrames - CloudFounders 6fusion for Enterprise IT - 6fusion Inc. Call for price ■ http://cloudfounders.com Call for price ■ http://6fusion.com CloudHub - MuleSoft Inc. AppCluster for Public Cloud - Sanbolic Inc. Call for price ■ http://mulesoft.com $8,000 per server ■ http://sanbolic.com Cloudify - GigaSpaces AppFog - AppFog Free ■ http://gigaspaces.com Free with 2GB of RAM; visit bit.ly/JvRyyS to create a free account; monthly plans for additional RAM are $100/4GB, $380/16GB, CloudSwitch Enterprise - CloudSwitch Inc. $720/32GB; for those requiring more RAM, pricing is $22.50 per 1GB ■ Call for price ■ http://www.cloudswitch.com http://console.appfog.com CumuLogic Cloud Application Platform for Enterprises - Application Services - AT&T CumuLogic Inc. Call for price ■ http://att.com/hosting Call for price ■ http://cumulogic.com Aria Subscription Billing Platform - Aria Systems Data Center Fabric - Xsigo Call for price ■ http://ariasystems.com Call for price ■ http://xsigo.com Arista 7050 Series with EOS 4.10 - Arista Networks Inc. Datacenter Transformation and Outsourcing - $13,495 ■ http://aristanetworks.com Cloud Solutions - Unisys Arista 7100 Series with EOS 4.10 - Arista Networks Inc. Call for price ■ http://unisys.com $12,995 ■ http://aristanetworks.com DynamicOps Cloud Suite 4.5 - DynamicOps by VMware Arista 7150S Series with EOS 4.10 - Arista Networks Inc. $133 per machine under management ■ http://dynamicops.com $12,995 ■ http://aristanetworks.com Engine Yard Cloud - Engine Yard Inc. Call for price ■ http://engineyard.com

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enStratus - enStratus Networks Inc. Nimbula Director 2.0 - Nimbula Inc. Call for price ■ http://enstratus.com Free for deployment on infrastructures of up to 40 cores; call for price on deployments with more than 40 cores ■ http://nimbula.com Enterprise Cloud - Terremark, a Verizon Company Call for price ■ http://terremark.com Open Platform as a Service - Apprenda Inc. Call for price ■ http://apprenda.com Enterprise Cloud Computing - Savvis, a CenturyLink Company OpenShift Enterprise PaaS Solution - Red Hat Inc. Call for price ■ http://savvis.com Call for price ■ http://redhat.com Enterprise Cloud Services - Hewlett-Packard Co. OpSource Managed Hosting - OpSource Inc. Call for price ■ http://hp.com Call for price ■ http://opsource.net Enterprise Cloud Services 11.3 - OS33 for SMBs - OS33 Inc. SunGard Availability Services Call for price ■ http://os33.com Call for price ■ http://sungardas.com PAN Cloud Director - Egenera Inc. Eucalyptus Cloud - Eucalyptus Systems Inc. Call for price ■ http://egenera.com Call for price ■ http://eucalyptus.com Parallels Automation for Cloud Infrastructure - GaleForce - Gale Technologies Parallels IP Holdings GmbH Call for price ■ http://galetechnologies.com Call for price ■ http://parallels.com GoGrid Big Data Solutions - GoGrid Rackspace Open Cloud: Public, Private and Hybrid Call for price ■ http://gogrid.com Clouds - Rackspace US Inc. Call for price ■ http://rackspace.com Hitachi Content Platform 4.1 - Hitachi Data Systems Corp. Price will depend on the type and quantity of Hitachi Data Systems Real Time Big Data - GridGain Systems Inc. (HDS) storage used with the Hitachi Content Platform system; starts at Call for price ■ http://gridgain.com 4TB and scales up to tens of petabytes ■ http://hds.com Sales Cloud - Salesforce.com Inc. Hybrid Clouds - Virtacore Systems Inc. Call for price ■ http://salesforce.com Call for price ■ http://virtacore.com SoftLayer Private Clouds - SoftLayer Technologies Inc. IBM Platform HPC Cloud - IBM Platform Computing Call for price ■ http://softlayer.com Call for price ■ http://ibm.com Software as a Service - Savvis, a CenturyLink Company iCloudRecovery - Geminare Inc. Call for price ■ http://savvis.com Call for price ■ http://geminare.com Stackato 2.0 - ActiveState Software Inc. iland Cloud Services - iland Call for pricing ■ http://activestate.com Call for price ■ http://iland.com Stratosphere Cloud Computing Platform - Datapipe Inc. iland LabCloud - iland Call for price ■ http://datapipe.com Call for price ■ http://iland.com Tier 3 Enterprise Cloud Platform - Tier 3 Inc. Intalio|Create - Intalio Inc. Call for price ■ http://tier3.com Call for price ■ http://intalio.com Unifi ed Infrastructure Controller - Cloupia Inc. Joyent SmartDataCenter - Joyent Inc. Call for price ■ http://cloupia.com Call for price ■ http://joyent.com VM6 Manage Cloud Platform - VM6 Software Inc. Leostream Cloud Desktops 2012 - Leostream Corp. Call for price ■ http://vm6software.com $20 per desktop ■ http://leostreamdesktops.com XAP Elastic Application Platform - GigaSpaces LongJump Platform as a Service - LongJump Call for price ■ http://gigaspaces.com Call for price ■ http://longjump.com xStream Enterprise Cloud - Virtustream Inc. Managed Hosting Service - Terremark, a Verizon Company Call for price ■ http://virtustream.com Call for price ■ http://terremark.com mCloud Helix - Morphlabs Inc. Call for price ■ http://morphlabs.com Moab Cloud Suite - Adaptive Computing Inc. Call for price ■ http://adaptivecomputing.com NaviCloud Platform - NaviSite Inc. Be sure to log on to VirtualizationReview.com Call for price ■ http://navisite.com and download the expanded Ultimate Nebula - Nebula Inc. Virtualization Buyer’s Guide, which includes Call for price ■ http://nebula.com descriptions for every product listed here. You can access the PDF directly from NephoScale Cloud Services - NephoScale Call for price ■ http://nephoscale.com VirtualizationReview.com/2013RCABG.

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Hitachi Cloud Storage Solutions - Hitachi Data Cloud Storage Systems Corp. RCA Winner Dropbox is getting at least as much attention Call for price ■ http://hds.com for its corporate misuses as it has for its intended uses. iCloud - Apple Inc. Either way, it has made a lasting impact on IT users and IT Call for price ■ http://apple.com organizations. Amazon Web Services picks up one Preferred MagFS - Maginatics Product award here with its user- and developer-friendly Call for price ■ http://maginatics.com Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), while the EMC Atmos NexentaStor - Nexenta Systems Inc. cloud delivery platform takes the other, based on its cost- Call for price, which is based on storage capacity needed ■ http://nexenta.com effi cient scaling capabilities. The Editor’s Choice award goes to relative newcomer NexGen Storage for its n5 Storage System, Nirvanix CloudComplete Portfolio - Nirvanix Inc. Call for price ■ http://nirvanix.com an innovative SAN for midsize organizations. Riverbed Whitewater Cloud Storage Gateway - RCA WINNER Riverbed Technology Dropbox - Dropbox Call for price ■ http://riverbed.com Free edition from 2GB to 18GB; Pro Edition starts at SF6010 - SolidFire $9.99 per month for 100GB, 200GB or 500GB plans; Call for price ■ http://solidfi re.com Team Edition plans start at 1TB for fi ve users, call for price ■ http://dropbox.com Symform Cloud Storage Network - Symform Inc. Call for price ■ http://symform.com

PREFERRED PRODUCT Amazon Simple Storage Service - Amazon Web Services LLC Cloud Security ■ Call for price http://aws.amazon.com Trend Micro SecureCloud takes home the RCA Winner in this all-important category by protecting public and private clouds— as well as vSphere environments. It can be deployed as a hosted PREFERRED PRODUCT service or an on-premises software app. Symantec receives a Atmos - EMC Corp. Preferred Product award for its O3 Cloud Identity and Access Call for price ■ http://emc.com Control product, which provides a single, secure access point to numerous cloud and Web apps and services. McAfee Cloud EDITOR’S CHOICE Security wins the second Preferred Product award by enabling n5 Storage System - businesses to extend and apply their own access and security NexGen Storage Inc. policies into the cloud. The Editor’s Choice winner here is Check $55,000 ■ http://nexgenstorage.com Point Software Technologies and its affordable (starting at $19 Abiquo 2.0 - Abiquo per month) Check Point SMB Cloud-Managed Security Service. Call for price ■ http://abiquo.com AcerCloud - Acer Inc. Call for price ■ http://us.acer.com RCA WINNER Aryaka - Aryaka SecureCloud - Trend Micro Inc. Call for price ■ http://aryaka.com Call for price ■ http://trendmicro.com Ayrris/BIO - Appistry Inc. PREFERRED PRODUCT Call for price ■ http://appistry.com Symantec O3 Cloud Identity and Access Box - Box Control - Symantec Corp. Price is based on hardware appliances or service Call for price ■ http://box.com subscriptions on a per-user schedule ■ Carbonite Business - Carbonite http://symantec.com Call for price ■ http://carbonite.com Cloud-Integrated Enterprise Storage - StorSimple Inc. Call for price ■ http://storsimple.com PREFERRED PRODUCT Cloud Storage - AT&T McAfee Cloud Security - McAfee Call for price ■ http://att.com Call for price ■ http://mcafee.com

CloudAlly - CloudAlly EDITOR’S CHOICE Call for price ■ http://cloudally.com Check Point SMB Cloud-Managed CloudArray 3 - TwinStrata Inc. Security Services - Check Point Software $4,995 for perpetual license; Professional Subscription includes cloud Technologies Inc. storage and starts at $0.19 per gigabyte ■ http://twinstrata.com Starts at $19 per month ■ http://checkpoint.com CloudFS File System - Panzura Call for price ■ http://panzura.com

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Access Manager 3.2 - NetIQ Corp. Call for price ■ http://netiq.com Cloud Software Chalk up another RCA win for Citrix via ShareFile, its cloud- Acronis Cloud Solution - Acronis International GmbH based data storage, sharing and collaboration product that Call for price ■ http://acronis.com dovetails with the company’s “personal cloud” mentality. BIG-IP Access Policy Manager Virtual Edition 11.2 - Preferred Product award winner No. 1 is the IaaS Cloud F5 Networks Inc. Manager offering from NetIQ. Preferred Product award winner $5,995 ■ http://f5.com No. 2 is Fusion Tables from Google, which enables users to BIG-IP Application Security Manager Virtual Edition visualize data via various graphic means. Puppet Enterprise, 11.2 - F5 Networks Inc. $9,995 ■ http://f5.com from Puppet Labs, is the Editor’s Choice award winner, and has collected kudos for simply managing physical, virtual and BIG-IP Edge Gateway Virtual Edition 11.2 - cloud-based systems. F5 Networks Inc. $7,995 ■ http://f5.com CA CloudMinder - CA RCA WINNER Call for price ■ http://ca.com ShareFile - Citrix Systems Inc. Cloud Backup Services and Recovery Off erings - EVault Inc. Call for price ■ http://citrix.com Call for price ■ http://evault.com CloudLink - Afore Solutions Call for price ■ http://aforesolutions.com PREFERRED PRODUCT CloudPassage Halo - CloudPassage Inc. Cloud Manager 2 - NetIQ Corp. Call for price ■ http://cloudpassage.com Call for price ■ http://netiq.com Dome9 Business Cloud - Dome9 Security Ltd. Call for price ■ http://dome9.com IBM Cloud Security and Infrastructure Management PREFERRED PRODUCT Services - IBM Corp. Fusion Tables - Google Inc. Call for price ■ http://ibm.com Call for price ■ http://google.com KONA Security Solutions - Akamai Technologies Call for price ■ http://akamai.com Nimbula Director - Nimbula Inc. EDITOR’S CHOICE Call for pricing ■ http://nimbula.com Puppet Enterprise - Puppet Labs Call for price ■ http://puppetlabs.com Okta Enterprise - Okta Inc. Call for price ■ http://okta.com Acumatica Cloud ERP - Acumatica Call for price ■ http://acumatica.com Oxygen Cloud Enterprise - Oxygen Cloud Call for price ■ http://oxygencloud.com Asigra Cloud Backup 11.2 - Asigra Inc. Contact channel partner for price ■ http://asigra.com Panda Cloud Protection - Panda Security Call for price ■ http://pandasecurity.com Centrix WorkSpace Universal 5.3 - Centrix Software Ltd. $70 per user per year ■ http://centrixsoftware.com QualysGuard Cloud Platform 7.4 - Qualys Inc. Annual subscription pricing varies based on number of users, IPs and Cloud Cruiser Enterprise Edition - Cloud Cruiser QualysGuard Scanner Appliances ■ http://qualys.com Call for price ■ http://cloudcruiser.com QualysGuard Private Cloud Platform - Qualys Inc. Cloud Monitoring - Zenoss Inc. Annual subscription pricing; additional per-IP fees apply based on the Call for price ■ http://zenoss.com size of the IT environment being scanned ■ http://qualys.com CloudTest Platform - Soasta Security Solutions for Cloud Providers - Fortinet Inc. Call for price ■ http://soasta.com Call for price ■ http://fortinet.com Dell Wyse WSM - Wyse Technology Inc. StillSecure Cloud NSA 1 - StillSecure Call for price ■ http://dellwyse.com Call for pricing ■ http://stillsecure.com Embotics V-Commander 4.5 - Embotics Call for price ■ http://embotics.com Enterprise Cloud for HR and Finance - Workday Inc. Call for price ■ http://workday.com HotLink Hybrid Express - HotLink Corp. Call for price ■ http://hotlink.com Intacct Financials - Intacct Corp. Call for price ■ http://intacct.com Komodo IDE 7.1 - ActiveState Software Inc. Call for pricing ■ http://activestate.com

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NetSuite ERP - NetSuite Inc. Call for price ■ http://netsuite.com

Oracle Cloud Application Foundation - Oracle Corp. PREFERRED PRODUCT Call for price ■ http://oracle.com IBM Tivoli Storage Manager - IBM Corp. Oracle Taleo Enterprise Cloud Service - Oracle Corp. Call for price ■ http://ibm.com Call for price ■ http://oracle.com Pano System for Cloud 1.0 - Pano Logic Inc. EDITOR’S CHOICE $999 server license for up to 200 users; $149 each for Pano Zero Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 - Client ■ http://panologic.com Acronis Inc. Piston Enterprise OpenStack - Piston Cloud Computing Inc. $1,799 per server ■ http://acronis.com Call for price ■ http://pistoncloud.com Altaro Hyper-V Backup 3 - Altaro Software QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions Hosting Service - $345 for Standard Edition; allows backups for up to fi ve VMs ■ http://altaro.com Intuit Inc. $54.99 per user per month ■ http://intuit.com Backup Exec 2012 V-Ray Edition - Symantec Corp. $1,615 per hypervisor socket for processors with one to six cores; rPath Cloud Engine - rPath $2,895 per hypervisor socket for processors with eight or more cores ■ Call for price ■ http://rpath.com http://symantec.com SAP Cloud Business Applications - SAP AG CA ARCserve Backup - CA Call for price ■ http://sap.com Call for price ■ http://ca.com xStream 2.0 - Virtustream Inc. Cloud Recovery/Auto Failover - Geminare Inc. Resources are priced based on pooled MicroVM (μVM) usage: $5-$75 per Call for price ■ http://geminare.com μVM depending on the μVM attributes and levels of commercial SLAs ■ http://virtustream.com CrashPlan PROe 3.3 - Code 42 Software Inc. SaaS pricing starts at $2 per device per month plus storage; perpetual Z-Business Enterprise Editions - Zuora Inc. licenses start at $69 per seat plus storage; volume and education/non- Call for price ■ http://zuora.com profi t discounts also apply ■ http://code42.com Zoho Business Apps - Zoho Corp. Pvt. Ltd. Data Mobility Switch 1 - Infi neta Systems Inc. Call for price ■ http://zoho.com Starts at $80,000 ■ http://infi neta.com Dell AppAssure 4.7 - Dell Inc. Call for price ■ http://appassure.com Business Continuity Dell AppAssure 5 - Dell Inc. In a critical category such as this, you expect a company such Call for price ■ http://appassure.com as VMware to compete strongly, which is what it does with DocRetriever for SharePoint - Dell Inc. vCenter Site Recovery Manager, winning the RCA. It builds Call for price ■ http://appassure.com on vSphere Replication and requires vCenter Server to power Double-Take Availability - Vision Solutions Inc. its assortment of recovery capabilities. Always strong in this Call for price ■ http://visionsolutions.com category, Veeam takes home a Preferred Product award for EVault Data Backup Software - EVault Inc. Veeam Backup & Replication, which is now at version 6.5. Also Call for price ■ http://evault.com copping a Preferred Product award is IBM Tivoli Manager, everRun MX - Marathon Technologies Corp. touted by IBM for its centralized, policy-based, enterprise-class Call for price ■ http://marathontechnologies.com data backup and recovery prowess. Acronis earns the Editor’s EX Series - ExaGrid Systems Inc. Choice award with its Acronis Backup & Recovery product that Call for price ■ http://exagrid.com works with companies of all sizes. FalconStor Virtual Tape Library (VTL) - FalconStor Software RCA WINNER Call for price ■ http://falconstor.com vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.0 - VMware Inc. FarStone Total Backup Recovery Server 8 - Standard Edition pricing starts at $195 per VM ■ FarStone Technology Inc. http://vmware.com Call for price ■ http://farstone.com

PREFERRED PRODUCT iland Continuity Cloud - iland Veeam Backup & Replication 6.1 - Call for price ■ http://iland.com Veeam Software IM4200-G 3.5.2u16 - Opengear Inc. Starts at $699 per CPU socket and includes fi rst- $2,045 ■ http://opengear.com year maintenance; pricing is the same for VMware and Hyper-V, and customers can swap licenses MailRetriever for Exchange - Dell Inc. between hypervisors at no charge ■ http://veeam.com Call for price ■ http://appassure.com NetBackup 7.5 - Symantec Corp. NetBackup for protection of VM hosts ranges from $595 to $2,595 per socket, and optional application/database support is an additional $412 to $1,295 per socket; NetBackup for VM protection supports

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both VMware vStorage APIs for Data Protection and Microsoft Hyper-V; pricing includes Bare Metal Restore (P2V), client encryption, and V-Ray features including granular recovery of fi les and applications. NetBackup Virtualization Automation Server pricing ranges from $1,500 to $5,000 per socket, and supports Virtualization automation is something of a Holy Grail that has both physical and VM backups with optional integrated de-duplication yet to be fully realized, but BMC VaraLogix wins the RCA for ■ http://symantec.com this category with its VaraLogix Q product that adds a stimulus onQ - QuorumLabs Inc. to the DevOps movement. ManageIQ wins a Preferred Product Call for price ■ http://quorumlabs.com award with EVM Automate and its multiplicitous automation Ontrack Data Recovery Services - Kroll Ontrack Inc. features, while Refl ex Systems does the same with vProfi le. Call for price ■ http://krollontrack.com rPath closes out this category with the Editor’s Choice award Paragon Drive Backup 11 Server - Paragon for rPath Cloud Engine, which is IaaS-to-PaaS conversion Technologies GmbH software for cloud stack vendors and services providers. Call for price ■ http://paragon-software.com PHD Virtual Backup and Replication for Citrix XenServer 6.0 - PHD Virtual Technologies RCA WINNER Call for price ■ http://phdvirtual.com VaraLogix Q - BMC VaraLogix Call for price ■ http://varalogix.com PHD Virtual Backup and Replication for VMware 6.0 - PHD Virtual Technologies Call for price ■ http://phdvirtual.com PlateSpin Forge 3.1 - NetIQ Corp. PREFERRED PRODUCT Call for price ■ http://netiq.com EVM Automate - ManageIQ Call for price ■ http://manageiq.com Protection and Availability Storage (PAS) 5 - Actifi o Call for price ■ http://actifi o.com Quest vRanger Pro 5.5 - Quest Software, a Division of PREFERRED PRODUCT Dell Inc. vProfi le 3.3 - Refl ex Systems LLC Pricing is about $595 per socket ■ $769 per CPU ■ http://quest.com http://refl exsystems.com rCloud - Doyenz Inc. Call for price ■ http://doyenz.com

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DNF Storage - Dynamic Network Factory Inc. Storage Virtualization Call for price ■ http://dynamicnetworkfactory.com Storage is increasingly playing a front-and-center role in Drobo B1200i iSCSI SAN Storage Array 1.1.1 - Drobo Inc. virtualization environments, and RCA Winner NetApp is Call for price ■ http://drobo.com carving out market share with its NetApp V-Series Open FalconStor Network Storage Server (NSS) 7.0 - Storage Controller by enhancing the value of legacy storage FalconStor Software systems without forklift upgrades. The venerable Brocade wins Call for price ■ http://falconstor.com a Preferred Product award for its DCX 8510 Backbones, while Hyper ISE - X-IO Technologies Hitachi Data Systems Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) 1 takes the Call for price ■ http://x-io.com other Preferred Product award for its compatibility with a wide InMage Scout - InMage Systems range of products. The Editor’s Choice award goes to the Tintri Call for authorized reseller and pricing ■ http://inmage.com VMstore T540 Storage Appliance and its beefed-up fl ash capacity. Melio 3.5 - Sanbolic Inc. Starts at $999 for Melio Private Cloud ■ http://sanbolic.com RCA WINNER Nasuni Storage 3.5 - Nasuni Corp. NetApp V-Series (V6200 Series/V3200 Call for price ■ http://nasuni.com Series) Open Storage Controller - NetApp Call for price ■ http://netapp.com Nimbus E-Class Second Generation - Nimbus Data Systems Inc. $150,000 ■ http://nimbusdata.com PREFERRED PRODUCT Nimbus S-Class Third Generation - DCX 8510 Backbones - Brocade Nimbus Data Systems Inc. Communications Systems Inc. $25,000 ■ http://nimbusdata.com Call for price ■ http://brocade.com NST5000 - Nexsan Corp. PREFERRED PRODUCT Call for price ■ http://nexsan.com Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) 1 - Hitachi Data Systems Corp. Promise VTrak S3000 - Promise Technology Inc. Starts at $232,000 for a single Hitachi Virtual Call for price ■ http://promise.com Storage Director pair controller with 16 FC host Pure Storage FlashArray FA-320 - Pure Storage Inc. ports, 48GB of cache, no disk capacity and basic OS $150,000 ■ http://purestorage.com software ■ http://hds.com SANsymphony-V 9.0 - DataCore Software EDITOR’S CHOICE Prices start at under $5,000 ■ http://datacore.com Tintri VMstore T540 Storage Appliance with Tintri OS 1.4 - Tintri Inc. ShareCenter 1 - Sanbolic Inc. $95,000 for 13.5TB storage appliance and Tintri OS Starts at $999 ■ http://sanbolic.com ■ http://tintri.com Solidarity 1 - GreenBytes Inc. 6000 Flash Memory Array - Violin Memory Inc. Call for price ■ http://getgreenbytes.com Call for price ■ http://violin-memory.com SSDNow E100 Enterprise SSD - Kingston Technology Corp. Arkeia Network Backup v10 - Arkeia Software Call for price ■ http://kingston.com For perpetual licenses, protection of the fi rst terabyte of source volume StarWind iSCSI SAN and NAS - StarWind Software Inc. costs $5,000 with unlimited agents; prices of subsequent terabytes Call for price ■ http://starwindsoftware.com start at $2,500 per terabyte, descending to $1,250 per terabyte; subscription licensing is also available ■ http://arkeia.com StarWind Native SAN for Hyper-V - StarWind Software Inc. Call for price ■ http://starwindsoftware.com AssuredSAN Pro 5000 Series Automated Tiered Storage System - Dot Hill Systems Corp. STEC PCIe Solid State Accelerator (SSA) - STEC Inc. Call for price ■ http://dothill.com Call for pricing ■ http://stec-inc.com Atlantis ILIO - Atlantis Computing Inc. StoneFly IP SAN - StoneFly, a subsidiary of Dynamic Call for price ■ http://atlantiscomputing.com Network Factory Inc. Call for price ■ http://dynamicnetworkfactory.com Avere FXT Series Edge Filer 1 - Avere Systems Inc. Starts at $25,000 ■ http://averesystems.com StorSimple 5020, 7020, 5520 Appliances - StorSimple Inc. Call for price ■ http://storsimple.com BrickStor - RackTop LLC Call for price ■ http://racktopsystems.com Unitrends Enterprise Backup 6.3 - Unitrends Enterprise Edition starts at $995; Free edition includes up to four Cloud Storage Assurance - Geminare Inc. VMs free forever; Free Not-For-Resale (NFR) program for certifi ed Call for price ■ http://geminare.com professionals ■ http://unitrends.com Complete Cluster - Nutanix VeloBit HyperCache 2 - VeloBit Inc. $120,000 ■ http://nutanix.com $1,250 per CPU ■ http://velobit.com Coraid EtherDrive SRX Storage Arrays - Coraid Inc. Virsto for vSphere 1.5 - Virsto Software Call for price ■ http://coraid.com Starts from $5,000 per TB ■ http://virsto.com Coraid EtherDrive VSX Storage Appliance - Coraid Inc. Call for price ■ http://coraid.com

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ViSX G4 - Astute Networks Inc. IBM RackSwitch G8264 with VMready and IBM Complete solutions start under $20,000 and support 64 host servers Networking OS 7.2 - IBM System Networking and their VMs ■ http://astutenetworks.com $24,999 ■ http://ibm.com/networking vmPRO Software 3 - Quantum Corp. IBM RackSwitch G8316 with OpenFlow and IBM Call for price ■ http://quantum.com Networking OS 7.2 - IBM System Networking vmPRO 4000 3 - Quantum Corp. $35,999 ■ http://ibm.com/networking Call for price ■ http://quantum.com Netronome NFP 6xxx - Netronome vSTOR S200 - NextIO Inc. $300 for large-scale, volume-production OEMs ■ http://netronome.com Call for price ■ http://nextio.com QLogic 8200 Series Converged Network Adapters - Zebi Storage Array 2 - Tegile Systems QLogic Corp. $49,000 ■ http://tegile.com Starting at $1450 ■ http://qlogic.com Safe Access 6.0 - StillSecure For 1,000 IPs: $2,300 for the appliance, $36/IP for software, $7.20/IP for yearly maintenance; volume discount available for quantities in excess Network Virtualization of 1,000 IPs ■ http://stillsecure.com Networking technology is critical to future virtual, cloud- ShadowProtect Virtual 4.2.5 - StorageCraft based datacenters, and it comes as no surprise that Cisco wins Technology Corp. the RCA in this category on the technological strength of its $395 (one-pack); $995 (three-pack bundle) ■ http://storagecraft.com Nexus 1000V Virtual Switches. The Citrix NetScaler SDX family of virtual appliances builds on NetScaler’s well-established technical networking chops to take a Preferred Product award Virtualization Security here, and Riverbed also wins a Preferred Product award for its This is a top-of-mind topic as virtualization becomes ever Steelhead appliances that drive WAN optimization. BIG-IP Local more pervasive. Cisco is the RCA Winner here with its Cisco Traffi c Manager Virtual Edition from F5 Networks captures the Virtual Security Gateway for Nexus 1000V Series Virtual Editor’s Choice award. Switch, a virtual appliance that delivers security and compliance for virtual computing environments. The fi rst RCA WINNER Nexus 1000V Virtual Switch 1.5.1a - Preferred Product award goes to Trend Micro Deep Security, Cisco Systems Inc. which works in physical, virtual and cloud environments. The Call for price ■ http://cisco.com/go/1000v second Preferred Product award belongs to Symantec Endpoint Protection, which is a powerful antivirus endpoint software. Kaspersky Lab, in business since 1997, wins the Editor’s Choice PREFERRED PRODUCT award for its Kaspersky Security for Virtualization product. Citrix NetScaler SDX - Citrix Systems Inc. RCA WINNER Call for price ■ http://citrix.com Cisco Virtual Security Gateway 1.3.1 for Nexus 1000V Series Virtual Switch - Cisco Systems Inc. PREFERRED PRODUCT Call for price ■ http://cisco.com Steelhead Appliances - Riverbed Technology Call for price ■ http://riverbed.com PREFERRED PRODUCT Deep Security 8 - Trend Micro Inc. EDITOR’S CHOICE Call for price ■ http://trendmicro.com BIG-IP Local Traffi c Manager Virtual Edition 11.2 - F5 Networks Inc. PREFERRED PRODUCT $7,995 ■ http://f5.com Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.1 - Symantec Corp. aCelera VA - Certeon Inc. $30.96 to $54.18 per user license with discounts for Call for price ■ http://www.certeon.com volume and multi-year purchase ■ http://symantec.com Adtran Virtual Wireless LAN (vWLAN) Controller and Management Software - Adtran EDITOR’S CHOICE Free ■ http://adtran.com Kaspersky Security for Virtualization - BlackDiamond X Series - Extreme Networks Kaspersky Lab ZAO Call for price ■ http://extremenetworks.com Call for price ■ http://kaspersky.com Ethernet Switch Systems - Mellanox Technologies Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall - Call for price ■ http://mellanox.com Barracuda Networks Inc. IBM Distributed Virtual Switch 5000V with IBM Call for price ■ http://barracudanetworks.com Networking OS 7.2 - IBM System Networking Bitdefender - Bitdefender $819 per socket ■ http://ibm.com/networking Call for price ■ http://bitdefender.com

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BreakingPoint Actionable Security Intelligence - BreakingPoint Systems Inc. Virtualization Training Call for price ■ http://breakingpointsystems.com The demand for virtualization training is only going up as Catbird vSecurity 5.1 - Catbird Networks Inc. virtualization becomes more sophisticated and integrated $1,999 per socket ■ http://catbird.com with cloud and other core datacenter technologies. Based on Certes TrustNet Manager - Certes Networks Inc. its efforts in this area, Global Knowledge Training LLC Cloud Call for price ■ http://certesnetworks.com Computing Courses is the RCA Winner, followed by Preferred Check Point Security Gateway Virtual Edition - Check Product award winners TrainSignal with its VMware Video Point Software Technologies Ltd. Training Library, and NetCom Learning with its Microsoft Call for price ■ http://checkpoint.com Technical Certifi cation Training. Intense School and InfoSec Cisco ASA 1000V Cloud Firewall - Cisco Systems Inc. Institute takes the Editor’s Choice award for its IT Security Call for price ■ http://cisco.com/en/US/products/ps12233/index.html Training and Certifi cation Boot Camp. Digital Guardian - Verdasys Call for price ■ http://verdasys.com RCA WINNER ESET Endpoint Solutions - ESET North America Cloud Computing Courses - Call for price ■ http://eset.com/us/business/eset-for-business Global Knowledge Training LLC Call for price ■ http://globalknowledge.com FortiGate-3950B - Fortinet Inc. Call for price ■ http://fortinet.com GigaVUE-HD8 - Gigamon PREFERRED PRODUCT Call for price ■ http://gigamon.com VMware Video Training Library - TrainSignal Inc. Porticor Virtual Private Data System 1.12 - Porticor Ltd. Call for price ■ http://trainsignal.com Pricing starts at $65 per month per Porticor Virtual Appliance ■ http://porticor.com PowerBroker - BeyondTrust Inc. PREFERRED PRODUCT Call for price ■ http://beyondtrust.com Microsoft Technical Certifi cation Training - NetCom Learning QualysGuard Virtual Scanner Appliance - Qualys Inc. Call for price ■ http://netcomlearning.com $995 per year, includes updates and support ■ http://qualys.com EDITOR’S CHOICE Security Pro Edition - Invincea Inc. IT Security Training and Certifi cation Call for price ■ http://invincea.com Boot Camp - Intense School and Symantec Critical System Protection 5.2 - Symantec Corp. InfoSec Institute $597 to $1,044.75 per user license with discounts for volume and multi- Call for price ■ http://intenseschool.com year purchase ■ http://symantec.com Hatsize 3.13 - Hatsize Corp. Tripwire VIA Platform - Tripwire Inc. Pay-as-you-Go starts at $40 per day; Reserve-and-Grow fl at-fee model; Call for price ■ http://tripwire.com subscription ■ http://hatsize.com Ultra Protect (Netilla) - Ultra Electronics AEP Networks Ltd. Virtualization Courses - Learn iT! Call for price ■ http://aepnetworks.com See Web site or call for price ■ http://learnit.com VR vGW Virtual Gateway 5 - Juniper Networks Inc. Call for price ■ http://juniper.net VM Fortress - Tresys Technology LLC Call for price ■ http://tresys.com vTrust 3.3 - Refl ex Systems LLC Pricing is about $595 per socket ■ http://refl exsystems.com WatchGuard XTMv Series - WatchGuard Technologies Inc. Call for price ■ http://watchguard.com Websense Triton - Websense Inc. Call for price ■ http://websense.com

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© 2012 Splunk Inc. All Rights Reserved. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. VIRTUALINSIDER on the host. This effort is in collaboration with NVIDIA and only a limited number of GPU models are supported. It’s worth noting that while this feature is now available in vSphere 5.1, as of this writing VMware View can’t take advantage of it. VM hardware also receives a boost with the new version 9, which unlocks more powerful virtual hardware capabilities such as 64 vCPU and 1TB of RAM per VM—pretty impressive for those monster workloads. By Elias Khnaser vSphere Replication This is an attractive addition to vSphere 5.1 that allows host-based VM replication, a feature previously made available with VMware Site What’s New in Recovery Manager 5.0, and now available at the hypervisor level for customers with Essentials Plus licensing or higher. Small businesses VMware vSphere will fi nd this a welcome feature that saves on array- or software-based replication that they and vCenter 5.1 previously had to purchase. Large enterprises might fi nd value in expanding virtualization There’s usually little enthusiasm when a software company to branch offi ces with the ability to implement releases a minor version update to its fl agship product, because some form of disaster recovery. it’s always expected that “star” features will be withheld for major version releases. This is not the case with VMware. It seems the vSphere Data Protection company insists on making the point that innovation is the norm A newcomer to the vSphere 5.1 product is and part of its DNA, and that every version—minor or major—will be vSphere Data Protection. This joint collaboration packed with important features. with EMC is based on Avamare and provides VMware vSphere and vCenter 5.1 are most defi nitely jam-packed for backup and de-duplication capabilities with features and innovations. Let’s explore the most important ones. leveraging vSphere APIs for Data Protection. This serves as a replacement to the vSphere vSphere Platform disaster recovery appliance, but also throws First up, let’s take a look at what’s new in the vSphere platform. VMware into the competitive space of virtual Most notable here is the very welcome integration of VMware backup and recovery solutions. vShield Endpoint, which is now bundled within the hypervisor. This is a huge value-add that could offer signifi cant scalability vSphere Web Client enhancements by leveraging agentless antivirus and anti-malware, While vSphere 5.1 has many new or enhanced and offl oading that out of the VM and onto host-based virtual features, if I were to rank the one that steals appliances. The savings here lie in fewer storage requirements and the spotlight, it would without a doubt be the the avoidance of antivirus scan storms and bulk defi nition updates. vSphere Web Client, a framework for the future The features keep coming. Another popular one is Enhanced that allows administrators ready access to vMotion, which enables live migration of VMs between hosts information, and delivers a more robust and without the need for shared storage. Of course, no new hypervisor fl exible platform for expanded development. VR update would be complete without support for the latest guest OSes, primarily from Microsoft. In this case, vSphere 5.1 extends support Elias Khnaser offers professional services from for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012. The Elias Khnaser Company. He’s an expert on VMware ESX, Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix VM Enhancements XenServer. Khnaser is also the author of many ILLUSTRATION BY MAX GREGOR The VM enhancements are also numerous, most notably with the new books, and publisher of computer-based training and very cool hardware-accelerated 3D graphics support. This is a videos on the subjects of virtualization and platform enhancement intended for VMware View and aimed at VMs server-based computing, primarily Citrix and that require heavy graphics-intensive applications leveraging vGPU Terminal Services. He has been a blogger for technology, and offl oading specifi c processes to the hardware GPU Forbes.com and eWeek.com.

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■ De-duplication and compression: Ensure that backup data doesn’t consume excessive storage. ■ Application-consistent backups: Utilize the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS), and backup tools to back up your data so that application data is quiesced and has integrity. ■ Verifi cation and automated recovery testing: Ensure that VM OSes and applications will truly function, once restored, in an By David Davis automated fashion. Many of the backup tools today offer one or more of these features, but they’re executed 5 Tips for Mastering differently. My recommendation is to ensure that Virtualization Backup I strongly believe that

At too many companies today, getting reliable and 100 percent companies shouldn’t have recoverable virtualization backup for the entire infrastructure is multiple backup tools. more art than science. You might get a daily message saying that backups have only partially completed, but you’ve come to accept it. your backup tool offers all the features you can Or maybe you get a message saying that backups have successfully afford, and that they’re as effi cient as possible. completed, but you don’t trust them. Backup and recovery should be a core function your IT department offers—and one you can perform 4. Make Sure It’s Fast entirely. Unfortunately, there are too many companies where this Companies make claims about how fast and isn’t the case. Now is the time to master your virtualization backups. reliable their backup products are, but have To help you, I’ve compiled a list of my top fi ve tips for mastering you ever tested your backup product? How fast virtualization backup. can it get your largest server running again if it’s lost? How fast can it restore 20 servers at 1. Select the Right Tool once? After all, speed is always relative to your So much of your success in backup and recovery is dependent servers, storage and data. on selecting the right tool for the job. If you have physical (non- virtualized) servers in your infrastructure, you need a tool that can 5. Future-Proof It back them up. If you’re 100 percent virtualized, a virtualization-only What if you want to move vSphere VMs to backup tool might be the best answer. However, if you’re like most Hyper-V, recover your physical servers to companies out there—which are, let’s say, 90 percent virtual and 10 vSphere or recover your vSphere VMs to a public percent physical—then you need a tool that’s able to back up both infrastructure cloud? Will your backup tool your physical servers and your VMs. For the sake of simplicity (and support cross-hypervisor backup and recovery? licensing costs), I strongly believe that companies shouldn’t have What about off-site backup to a cloud? Ensure multiple backup tools. It just doesn’t make sense. that your backup tool is innovative and has a history of launching new features that give you 2. Plan to Get Your Data Off -Site the greatest fl exibility possible. You can’t just stop at successfully backing up your data. You need to Bottom line: Look for a tool that covers all get that data off-site. Too many virtualization-specifi c backup tools the bases for both physical server and virtual stop at the point of backing up your data and offer few options to infrastructure backup, while offering numerous get data off-site. Not every company has the bandwidth to perform advanced features. VR replication. You need a controlled and automated way to move data from your backup repository to a portable device (tape or disk) for David Davis is the author of the best-selling off-site storage in the event of a disaster. VMware vSphere video training library from TrainSignal. He has written hundreds of 3. Utilize Advanced Features virtualization articles on the Web, is a vExpert, The backup tool you select should offer advanced features. VCP, VCAP-DCA and CCIE #9369 with more than Examples include: 20 years of enterprise IT experience. ILLUSTRATION BY MAX GREGOR BY ILLUSTRATION

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