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2 Online TOC FEATURES 12 The 2012 Virtualization Review Readers Choice 20 Virtualization Management & Optimization UPFRONT Awards and Ultimate Q&A Buyers Guide 6 Ratmir Timashev, president & CEO, There’s one thing we never 24 Veeam Software forget here at Virtualization Business Continuity Review: Readers rule, and this 28 Review is your chance to reign supreme 10 Virtualization Automation Atlantis ILIO Enables 10X by rating the virtualization and 29 Performance Hike cloud products that matter. We’ll Storage Virtualization hold up our end of the bargain 29 by providing you with the most 30 Network Virtualization COLUMNS comprehensive guide to all those Hoard: BRUCE HOARD off erings. 4 30 Virtualization Security The Merry Prankster of Storage 14 Application Virtualization 31 Virtualization Training 32 Take 5: BRUCE HOARD 16 Server Virtualization Memorable Analyst 31 Mobile Virtualization Quotes from 2011 16 Desktop Virtualization/ Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

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actually going to be something Veeam Software Chief Timashev that’s happening, as opposed to Opening Financial Kimono being fairly limited and something Profitable firm aiming for $200 million in 2012 revenues. that’s still talked about more than it’s actually implemented? By Bruce Hoard Timashev: We have to wait a few years, at least two, three, four years until we reach the same point as we have already passed in virtualiza- tion. Many people look at the cloud as describing different things. For example, Salesforce.com is also de- scribed as cloud, but I think the true cloud is enabled by virtualization, where you can move the workloads more freely than Salesforce.com. So if in the cloud something is based on virtualization—the ability to fl exibly move and use the computing pow- er—we are far from the tipping point Ratmir Timashev is in that defi nition of the cloud. thinking big for Veeam. VR: Veeam has no chief technology eeam Software President and VR: What are the biggest challenges offi cer by name. Do you fi ll that bill? CEO Ratmir Timashev is no you face in the data protection market? Timashev: No, this function is Vstranger to success. Before Timashev: Our competitors have performed by my partner, Andrei starting Veeam, he created Aelita done a good job educating the mar- Baronov. He’s the chief technology Software and sold it to Quest Soft- ket but, still, there’s a lot we have offi cer, but by his nature he’s not ware Inc. Virtualization Review Editor to continue doing in educating the a public fi gure. He’s the product in Chief Bruce Hoard recently spoke people and the market about how visionary. I think he’s one of these to him about his plans for Veeam, to take full advantage of virtualiza- unique people that combines a very which include making the privately tion, especially in the space. brilliant technical mind with very held Veeam behave more like a pub- Sometimes people ask me if virtual- strong common sense, and what he lic company. ization makes IT less expensive—is calls very strong pragmatism. He virtualization backup less expensive really truly understands what the VR: What are the market forces than physical ? My answer people need, and what administra- shaping Veeam’s product strategies? to this is a question: Is the iPhone tors of VMware really need, so he Timashev: Virtualization is the less expensive than a regular cell can create those products exactly. most disruptive technology. Virtual- phone? Probably not, but with the ization backup is the hottest spot of iPhone you can do 10 times more, VR: Describe how Veeam is the hottest market, so our product and some things that were not even customer-driven. strategy is to capitalize on this huge possible with a rotary phone, so Timashev: That’s an excellent change that’s going on in virtualiza- virtualization—and specifi cally vir- question. I just started reading an tion, because IT is dramatically be- tualization backup—is changing how interesting article that discussed ing transformed with virtualization, things are done. how sometimes you shouldn’t be which is also the foundation for the customer-driven. Look at it this way, cloud. So our product strategy is to VR: How far away are we from a all sales people are trained to ask stay on top of this technology. tipping point, where the cloud is the question, “What is it that keeps PHOTO PROVIDED BY VEEAM SOFTWARE

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you up at night?” And the customer small users are familiar with the companies do, and I think we’ll start doesn’t know what keeps him or her Windows environment that Hyper- doing that soon—maybe in the next up nights, so sometimes—especially V comes from. However, I would 12 to 18 months. Our company is in virtualization—when there are think that Microsoft has to simplify already watching a lot of other small many things that nobody has done Hyper-V even more, but we think it’s companies that are doing IPOs, and before, you should be both, cus- ready today, that it’s good enough to normally technology companies go tomer-driven as well as innovative. take a substantial market share in that route when they reach some- By innovative, I mean let’s think VS and small markets. thing like $50 million, maybe $100 for the customer—what they might million. We’ll be over $100 mil- need—so we think sometimes for the VR: Veeam products are designed for lion this year. Not in [gross profi t customer, and in that sense we’re virtual infrastructures only. Why not margin] revenue, where we will do customer-driven. cover physical environments as well? about $80 million, but in what we Timashev: That’s an excellent call invoicing or revenue bookings. VR: Why are you now off ering Veeam question, and our competitors use So there’s nothing to be ashamed Backup & Replication for Hyper-V? that against us because they say of when our competitors cannot say Timashev: We think that Hyper-V Veeam is a niche vendor. We say, that Veeam is a small company. At will be a substantial market, espe- “Exactly. We want to be the niche the same time, we’re growing over cially in what we call the VS—very because virtualization is the niche. 100 percent per year, and we’ll dou- small—market, which is even below And this niche has become already ble again, going from $100 million to SMBs [small to midsize businesses] the mainstream, the foundation.” $200 million. in size. Today, very small customers don’t do virtualization at all because VR: Is Veeam profi table? VR: What about the cons of they have between fi ve and 15 serv- Timashev: Very profi table. going public? ers, and they don’t see a lot of ben- Timashev: When it comes to the efi ts in virtualizing. For them, vir- VR: What are the pros and cons of cons of going public, it’s more com- tualization is too expensive, not just taking the company public? pliance, more regulations by the Se- from the licensing perspective, but Timashev: First, we’re not thinking curity Exchange Commission, which more from the perspective of the yet about taking the company pub- means more rules and less fl exibility time and energy required to run new lic, at least in the next two or three in many things. Plus, these days it technology, to buy the storage, and years. Our goal is to build the tech- costs probably a few million dol- to implement more sophisticated nology leader and the market share lars just to comply with all the rules and regulations. It would be some distraction for us, and we don’t need “Our competitors say Veeam is a niche the pros that I mentioned. We don’t need to get on the cover of Forbes or vendor. We say, ‘Exactly. We want to be the Fortune. We don’t need the liquidity, niche because virtualization is the niche.’” because we can provide this liquidity Ratmir Timashev, President and CEO, Veeam Software internally to our employees and the founders through dividends and so on. As for more visibility in the in- things like shared storage and net- leader in virtualization backup, in dustry, as I said, we can achieve that working. So the VS user is managing virtualization technology, but com- by providing the fi nancial results maybe10 servers in a small company ing back to your question, what are openly, which we might just start with between 50 and 100 employees, the pros and cons? Starting with doing at any point. However, nobody and they don’t see a lot of benefi t the pros, going public provides the should dictate, or can dictate to us from virtualization. We think that in liquidity for founders, investors and when we should do that because this VS market, Hyper-V will take a employees through the stock op- we’re still a private company. VR substantial market share, as it will tions plan, and you get more visible in the SMB market, especially in in the industry. I think you can also Bruce Hoard is editor in chief of the small segment of that market. achieve visibility by publishing your Virtualization Review. He can be This is because these very small and fi nancial results the way the public reached at [email protected].

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ILIO Enables 10X Performance Hike The Atlantis Computing system saves lots of storage space. By Logan G. Harbaugh

n most situations, the biggest bottleneck to implementing a Ivirtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) is Input/Output Operations Per Second, or IPOS. Many organizations fi nd themselves buying expensive storage-area network (SAN) systems to get enough IOPS for good perfor- mance, and in fact may purchase much more capacity than they need to get enough disks in an array to generate the required performance. At the same time, when implement- Figure 1. The Atlantis ILIO Web console provides reporting tools for monitoring disk IO as well as network IO. ing persistent clients, total storage consumed can also be a major issue, especially at the high cost of Tier 1 2 Modes, 1 System IOPS and bandwidth will support storage on SAN systems. The system can work in one of two the total number of clients, setup modes—as a disk is little different than with an (VMDK) running on a VMware server internal appliance. to accelerate VDI running on that The Atlantis ILIO system costs Configuration of system, or as a top-of-rack system $120 to $150 per user for the the Atlantis ILIO that can serve VDI storage requests software, plus the cost of the software is a very for VMware, Hyper-V or Citrix stor- additional RAM (the minimum age. A typical scenario for the inter- standard confi guration calls for simple process. nal acceleration involves using four about 16GB of RAM, with the number or more internal disks in the server, increasing with the number of users rather than an external SAN. Inter- to about 32GB for 100 users with Atlantis ILIO addresses this issue nal SAS disks or even SATA disks multiple OSes). According to Atlantis by using a large amount of RAM can provide suffi cient performance Computing Inc., most of their to serve disk requests, enabling a in conjunction with the RAM cach- customers see a 50 percent to 75 VMware server to handle most disk ing, which reduces costs substan- percent ROI because of the reduced requests from memory rather than tially versus a high-end SAN. requirement for high-performance from disk, thus creating a 10-fold The top-of-rack model is intended storage, and the space savings improvement in performance. The to support larger numbers of clients produced by the deduplication system also deduplicates the storage than a single server may allow, or function, along with more-responsive used, which means persistent clients to support other types of VDI clients, which makes users happy. can be created that use no more besides VMware. With the top-of- storage than non-persistent ones, rack model, storage would typically Installation and saving lots of storage space while be SAN-connected, or might be Performance keeping users happy with the ability set up on a server with lots of For my testing, I fi rst set up a vSphere to confi gure their client as they like. internal disk storage. In either case, 4.0 server with eight Windows 7 other than assuring that the overall persistent clients, using a Synology

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DS509+ 10-disk network-attached The number of IOPS hitting the Once set up, Atlantis ILIO can be storage (NAS) system connected via a DS509+ dropped from 3206 IOPS monitored through a Web console dual gigabit iSCSI. I ran IOmeter from to 290—the 10-fold improvement (see Figure 1, p. 8), which provides the eight clients and recorded the predicted by Atlantis. In addition, access to reports on disk and IOPS generated on the DS509+. I then boot times for each client were network usage, allows you to start installed the VMDK fi le supplied by reduced from an average of 126 and stop NFS or iSCSI services, and Atlantis and confi gured the Atlantis seconds to 24 seconds. The total to tune settings for caching. There’s ILIO software to use the DS509+. number of IOPS reported by IOmeter little that most users will need Confi guration of Atlantis ILIO is on the clients went up very slightly, or want to do here, as the default a very simple process, consisting of indicating that this number was settings will work fi ne, and other deploying the open virtualization most likely limited by network than initially setting the amount of RAM and network to use, nothing needs to be changed from the default. This is very much a drop- The top-of-rack model is intended to in appliance model that shouldn’t support larger numbers of clients than need tuning unless you increase the a single server may allow, or to support number of clients you’re supporting. While I was unable to test with other types of VDI besides VMware. the hundreds of clients that Atlantis talks about in its case studies, extrapolating from the results I format (OVF)—installing the VMDK bandwidth. Given that the data obtained confi rms that the system fi le to a vSphere server—then setting being moved to and from disk was should work as well at higher the network to use, the amount of random, this represents a worst- numbers of clients, and Atlantis has RAM to use for caching, and which case scenario for cache, and still case studies of implementation of disk storage to use for the volume, indicates that around 90 percent thousands of VDI clients to back up followed by booting the virtual of disk requests were being served the company’s claims. machine (VM). Once booted, there from the RAM on the server. In a Providing users with an experience are a couple of additional simple real-world environment with normal as good as—or better than—they’d confi guration steps to complete, user tasks, I’d expect the numbers get with local PCs is critical to the which includes setting a static to be better. Further latency on the long-term success of a VDI project. IP address and choosing how the clients went down substantially, Atlantis ILIO provides a means to storage is presented to the sSphere with average time for disk requests remove the storage bottleneck from server (as NFS or iSCSI, with NFS dropping from 72ms to 26ms. the equation when creating a large recommended). Finally, the new Deduplication also functioned VDI implementation, which should volume needs to be mounted by as claimed by Atlantis. With eight substantially reduce the cost to the vSphere server, and the VMs clients installed, the total space used duplicate or improve on local desktop are migrated to the new volume, or on the system for the eight clients performance with a VDI system. created if they don’t already exist. was less than one gigabyte per client In fact, by providing boot times The store was connected to the after the fi rst client was installed. substantially faster than even fast vSphere server, and the Atlantis ILIO That is, the fi rst client was set up desktop systems, Atlantis ILIO could software was confi gured to use the with a 40GB disk, of which 22GB make a VDI system more attractive to iSCSI disk and present it as an NFS was in use with the OS, Microsoft users than having their own PCs. VR volume. The clients were migrated Offi ce and other applications, along from the NAS storage to the Atlantis with IOMeter, a 5GB folder for disk Logan Harbaugh is a freelance reviewer ILIO volume, which converted them testing. The fi rst client used 23GB and IT consultant located in Redding, to the optimized, deduplicated of storage on the DS509+, and the Calif. He’s been working in IT for almost storage. I then ran IOmeter from the second through eighth each used 20 years, and has written two books on eight Windows 7 clients to generate about 1GB of additional space, so networking and a number of articles for lots of traffi c between the server that eight Windows 7 clients used a different IT publications. You can reach and the storage. total of 30GB. him at [email protected].

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elcome to the combined 2012 Regarding the Ultimate Buyer’s Guide, we Virtualization Review Reader’s spared no effort in fi nding and listing every Choice Awards and Ultimate vendor and product that seemed relevant to WBuyer’s Guide issue. This is the you, and I urge you to let me know how we place to peruse the virtualization and cloud did, so we can improve even more next year. products that interest you and see what your Contact me at [email protected]. fellow readers think about them. This time around we hiked the number of products Application Virtualization For the second year in a row, VMware Inc. beats Citrix—which from 211 to 274, and the number of vendors most of the “experts” believe is stronger than VMware in from 106 to 177, in an effort to provide the this category due to its many years of application expertise. Perhaps the more intriguing story is the emergence of maximum amount of useful information. Microsoft, which is raising its virtualization profi le in the eyes The results of the voting were hardly of the IT pros who go down in the trenches with this stuff every day. ISV Winner Spoon sports nifty technology that surprising, as VMware Inc. once again ran makes it easy to get started quickly and deploy apps in a wide roughshod over all challengers by tallying the range of environments. most votes in nine of the 14 categories. That’s Winner NNE WI R VMware ThinApp 4.6.1 – VMware Inc. the big story, but there’s also an interesting $5,000; also bundled in View Premier for $250 subplot to consider: the rise of Microsoft, per concurrent user ■ http://vmware.com ■ 877-4VMWARE ■ 650-427-5000 which took fi rst place in the increasingly Preferred Product

EFERRE Citrix XenApp 6 – Inc. important Virtualization Automation R D P Advanced Edition – $350 per concurrent user; Enterprise Edition – $450 per concurrent user; category, as well as four Preferred Product P R T Platinum Edition – $600 per concurrent user O D U C awards in Application Virtualization, Server http://citrix.com ■ 800-424-8749 Virtualization, Virtualization Management FERRE RE D Preferred Product P and Optimization, and Cloud Computing. Microsoft Application Virtualization

P (App-V) 4.6 SP1 – Microsoft Corp. R O C T VMware may not be shaking in its boots, D U Call for price ■ http://microsoft.com ■ 800-642-7676 but you can bet the company’s paying ISV attention to developments in Redmond. And ISV Winner

W Spoon Server – Spoon Microsoft wasn’t the only platform vendor IN N E R Call for price ■ http://spoon.net ■ 877-223-3551 to make a breakthrough. Oracle Corp. won two Preferred Product awards in the 2X ApplicationServer XG 1 – 2X Software $1,190 ■ http://2x.com ■ 866-970-6262 Server Virtualization and Thin/Zero Client AccessNow – Ericom Computing categories. Call for price ■ http://ericom.com ■ 888-769-7876 You’ll also notice the addition of awards for Application Jukebox – Endeavors Technologies Call for price ■ http://endeavors.com ■ 949-833-2800 ISV Winners. We added them to the mix in AppTitude 5.1 – App-DNA Call for price ■ http://app-dna.com ■ 847-230-0020 an attempt to highlight some of the smaller AppZero 4.7 – AppZero vendors who are cranking out really cool and Starts at $500 per instance per year ■ http://appzero.com ■ 866-980-2770 innovative products. ElectricCommander – Electric Cloud Call for price ■ http://electriccloud.com ■ 408-419-4300

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Invincea Browser Protection v2.4.0 – Invincea Inc. Recover2Cloud for Server Replication – SunGard Call for price ■ http://invincea.com ■ 703-352-7684 Availability Services Invincea Document Protection v2.4.0 – Invincea Inc. Call for price ■ http://sungardas.com ■ 800-468-7483 Call for price ■ http://invincea.com ■ 703-352-7684 ScaleMP vSMP Foundation – ScaleMP Inc. LISA Platform - Service Virtualization 2011 – ITKO Call for price ■ http://scalemp.com ■ 408-342-0330 Call for price ■ http://itko.com ■ 877-289-4856 Tintri VMstore v1.0 – Tintri Inc. Netuitive 5.5 – Netuitive Inc. $65,000 ■ http://tintri.com ■ 650-209-3900 Call for price ■ http://netuitive.com ■ 877-492-9672 Virtual Server Rapid Recovery 1 – Geminare Inc. Oracle Secure Global Desktop 4.61 – Oracle Corp. Approximately $89 per month per server plus setup fees (sold exclusively through channel partners) ■ http://geminare.com ■ 888-593-4443 $150 per named user for Windows applications only or $250 per user for Windows, Unix, Solaris, Mainframe, Midrange applications ■ Virtuozzo Containers – Parallels http://oracle.com ■ 800-633-0738 Call for price ■ http://parallels.com ■ 425-282-6400 rtoTScale – RTO Software Call for price ■ http://rtosoft.com ■ 866-987-2900 Desktop Virtualization/Virtual Symantec Workspace Streaming 6.1 SP7 – Symantec Corp. Call for price ■ http://symantec.com ■ 800-745-6054 Desktop Infrastructure Citrix must be wondering what it takes to overhaul VMware in this category, where it again falls short of VMware despite Server Virtualization the plaudits it receives from the pundits. Maybe its enhanced Life, death, taxes and VMware fi nishing fi rst in the Reader’s version of VDI-in-a-box, which was acquired along with Kaviza, Choice Awards Server Virtualization category are all will push it over the top next year. In the meantime, Oracle is virtual certainties, as it were. While nobody builds a better slowly becoming a player, and Nutanix is impressing users with virtualization environment than vSphere 5, Microsoft is its SAN-free approach to enhanced virtualization performance. still gaining a lot of traction with Hyper-V, which is making Winner INNER signifi cant inroads based on its relative affordability and its W VMware View 4.6 – VMware Inc. Enterprise Edition: $150 per concurrent connection; future prospects with Windows 8. Oracle is another platform Premier Edition: $250 per concurrent connection ■ player making its presence felt in this core category, while http://vmware.com ■ 877-4VMWARE underdog Red Hat continues to raise its performance bar while Preferred Product

expanding its cloud ecosystem. FERRE RE D P Citrix XenDesktop 5 – Citrix Systems Inc. VDI Edition: $95 per user or device and $195 per NNE WI R concurrent user; Enterprise Edition: $225 per user or P R T Winner O D U C device; Platinum Edition: $350 per user or device ■ VMware vSphere 5 – VMware Inc. http://citrix.com ■ 800-424-8749 Call for price ■ http://vmware.com ■ 877-4VMWARE

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FERRE Oracle VM VirtualBox – Oracle Corp. RE D Preferred Product P P ■ ■ R T Free and open source http://oracle.com Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V R2 SP1 – O D U C 800-633-1058 P R T Microsoft O D U C Call for price ■ http://microsoft.com ■ 800-642-7676 ISV

FERRE ISV Winner RE D P Preferred Product W Nutanix Complete Cluster – Nutanix Inc. Oracle VM 3.0 – Oracle Corp. IN N E R Call for price ■ http://nutanix.com ■ 510-579-8883 P R T Zero license cost. Support starts at $599 per year per O D U C server ■ http://oracle.com ■ 800-633-1058

ISV Winner AppSense User Virtualization Platform Version 8.1 – AppSense ISV Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers 2.2 – Red Hat Inc. $119 per named user with license percentage for maintenance and support; license covers all desktop and application delivery mechanisms $499 per socket for Standard support (12x5), ■ http://appsense.com ■ 866-277-7367 W ■ IN N E R $749 per socket for Premium support (24x7) http://redhat.com ■ 919-754-3700 AppTitude 5.1 – App-DNA [Recently Acquired by Citrix] Call for price ■ http://app-dna.com ■ 847-230-0020 EnergyCenter v2.0 – Viridity Software Atlantis ILIO 2 – Atlantis Computing Inc. Call for price ■ http://viridity.com ■ 877-837-4357 Starts at $150 per desktop ■ http://atlantiscomputing.com ■ 877-310-2224 PROMISE VTrak S3000 - 2010 – PROMISE Technology Inc. Starts at $36,000 in a 32TB, single node confi guration. Also available in BareMetal – MokaFive Inc. a dual node confi guration ■ http://promise.com ■ 408-228-1400 Call for price ■ http://mokafi ve.com ■ 650-980-0960

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Ceedo Enterprise – Ceedo Technologies Ltd. VERDE 5.5 – Virtual Bridges Inc. Call for price ■ http://ceedo.com ■ 972 (7) 322-322-00 Call for price ■ http://vbridges.com ■ 512-343-1100 ClearCube VDI Solution Bundle – ClearCube Technology Virsto VDI 3.1 – Virsto Software Call for price ■ http://www.clearcube.com ■ 866-652-3500 $2,800 per host - no limits on number of cores or virtual desktop images ■ http://virsto.com ■ 408-899-5694 Connection Broker – Leostream Call for price ■ http://leostream.com ■ 781-890-2019 Wyse PC Extender – Wyse Technology $40 per seat ■ http://wyse.com ■ 800-GET-WYSE Desktone Cloud – Desktone $30 per month per desktop ■ http://desktone.com ■ 866-691-5660, Xangati VDI Dashboard 1 – Xangati Inc. 978-710-0170 Call for price ■ http://xangati.com ■ 408-252-0505 Dynamic Virtual Desktop (DVD) 2.0.0 – DeskStream XLR8r 2.02 – WhipTail Tech $40 per month per seat ■ http://deskstream.com ■ 949-278-1712 $49,000 ■ http://whiptailtech.com ■ 888-550-8136 Frontline Performance Intelligence – Aternity Inc. Call for price ■ http://aternity.com ■ 508-475-0414 Thin/Zero Client Computing Hyper ISE – XIO Storage Wyse Technology is a company that just keeps on innovating $100,000 ■ http://xiostorage.com ■ 866-472-6764 when it comes to thin and zero client computing, which is Konect Elite 7.2 – desktopsites Inc. why it’s such a sought-after business partner at companies $35 per user per annum ■ http://desktopsites.com ■ 866-280-8292 such as Cisco and Citrix. The Citrix connection is especially Liquidware Labs Profi leUnity v4.8.1 – Liquidware Labs Inc. signifi cant because it brings the Citrix high-defi nition HDX Call for price ■ http://liquidwarelabs.com ■ 866-914-9665 technology to a wide variety of applications, devices and Liquidware Labs Stratusphere v4.8.1 – Liquidware Labs Inc. networks. Here’s another category where Oracle Corp. has Call for price ■ http://liquidwarelabs.com ■ 866-914-9665 a growing presence. For its part, Pano Logic Inc. is an up- Mirage 2 – Wanova Inc. and-comer that touts its zero client devices that contain no Call for price ■ http://wanova.com ■ 866-611-9685 processor, OS, storage or moving parts.

NxTop 4.0 – Virtual Computer NNE WI R Call for price ■ http://virtualcomputer.com ■ 978-399-1512 Winner Wyse Z-90 – Wyse Technology Inc. Oracle Sun Ray Software 5.2 – Oracle Corp. Starts under $250 per unit ■ http://wyse.com ■ $100 per named user ■ http://oracle.com/virtualization ■ 800-GET-WYSE 800-633-0738

Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure 3.3 – Oracle Corp. EFERRE R D Preferred Product $150 per named user ■ http://oracle.com/virtualization ■ 800-633-0738 P Wyse Xenith Pro – Wyse Technology Inc.

P ■ ■ RES Automation Manager 2011 – RES Software R T Starts under $200 per unit http://wyse.com O D U C Call for price ■ http://ressoftware.com ■ 800-580-0786 800-GET-WYSE

RES Baseline Desktop Analyzer 2011 – RES Software Preferred Product EFERRE Free ■ http://ressoftware.com ■ 800-580-0786 R D P Oracle Sun Ray 3 Series Clients – RES Dynamic Desktop Studio 2011 – RES Software Oracle Corp. P ■ R T $249 per Sun Ray Client device Starts at $45 per named user for Dynamic Studio Lite; $120 per named O D U C user for the full suite including three modules of RES Workspace http://oracle.com/virtualization ■ 800-633-0738 Manager and RES Automation Manager ■ http://ressoftware.com ■ 800-580-0786 ISV RES Vitrual Desktop Extender – RES Software ISV Winner $15 per named user ■ http://ressoftware.com ■ 800-580-0786 W Pano System 4.5 – Pano Logic Inc. IN N E R RES Workspace Manager 2011 – RES Software Call for price ■ http://panologic.com ■ 877-677-7266 $30 per named user ■ http://ressoftware.com ■ 800-580-0786 Teradici Apex 2800 PCoIP Server Offl oad Card – NoTouch Desktop 2.3 – Stratodesk Corp. Teradici Corp. $31.49 per seat ■ http://stratodesk.com ■ 831-252-5011 Call for price ■ http://teradici.com ■ 604-628-1200 Pano Remote – Pano Logic Inc. ThinPrint Server Engine Version 8.6 – Cortado AG $35 per seat ■ http://panologic.com ■ 877-677-7266 Starts at $24.95 per user for a perpetual license with several options UD2, UD3, UD5, UD9 – IGEL Technology available for volume pricing ■ http://thinprint.com ■ 303-487-1302 Call for price ■ http://igel.com ■ 877-438-5435 VDI-in-a-Box from Citrix – Citrix Systems Windows Embedded Standard 7 Thin Client – Call for price ■ http://citrix.com ■ 888-350-5801 10ZIG Technology VDIworks Fast Remote – VDIworks Call for price ■ http://10zig.com ■ 866-865-5250 Call for price ■ http://vdiworks.com ■ 800-264-7150

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FERRE RE D Preferred Product P Grid Engine – Univa System Center Call for price ■ http://univa.com ■ 800-370-5320

P R T 2008 R2 SP1 – Microsoft Corp. O D U C Hitachi Command Suite (HCS) Version 7 – Call for price ■ http://microsoft.com ■ 800-642-7676 Hitachi Data Systems Starts at $10,000 for enterprise packages depending on capacity.

FERRE ■ RE D Starts at a few thousand dollars for mid-market packages P Preferred Product Veeam ONE v5 – Veeam Software http://hds.com ■ 888-234-5601

P ■ R T Starts at $550 per socket - North American MSRP HotLink SuperVISOR for VMware – HotLink Corp. O D U C http://veeam.com ■ 614-339-8200 Starts at $25,000 ■ http://hotlink.com ■ 408-463-6130 HyperIP 05/05/2003 – Network Executive ISV ISV Winner Software Inc. (NetEx) SolarWinds Virtualization Manager 4 – 2MB versions are free for fi rst year subscription. No cap on quantity. After the fi rst year, $2,100 annual subscription for a single copy of W SolarWinds IN N E R $2,995 ■ http://solarwinds.com ■ 866-530-8100 the software. A minimum of two copies is required for end-to-end connectivity ■ http://netex.com ■ 763-694-4300

3X Remote Backup – 3X Systems HyTrust Appliance – HyTrust Inc. Call for price ■ http://hytrust.com ■ 650-681-8100 Call for price ■ http://3x.com ■ 866-478-3131 Accelio Software 1 – IO Turbine Inc. iCloudRecovery 1 – Geminare Inc. Free iPhone app – works in conjunction with Cloud Recovery ■ $1,495 per server ■ http://ioturbine.com ■ 855-333-8659 http://geminare.com ■ 888-593-4443 AccelOps – AccelOps Inc. ioSphere – Fusion-io Inc. Call for price ■ http://accelops.net ■ 408-490-0903 Call for price ■ http://fusion-io.com ■ 801-424-5500 AppTitude 5.1 – App-DNA [Recently Acquired by Citrix] Isilon Scale-out Storage Platform – Isilon Systems LLC Call for price ■ http://app-dna.com ■ 847-230-0020 Call for price ■ http://isilon.com ■ 206-315-7602 APTARE Storage Console Platform – APTARE Inc. JetMirror Data Management – BlueArc Call for price ■ http://aptare.com ■ 866-927-8273 Call for price ■ http://bluearc.com ■ 866-864-1040 Argent for VMware – Argent Software MozyPro – Mozy Call for price ■ http://argentsoftware.com ■ 212-222-9868 Call for price ■ http://mozy.com ■ 877-669-9776 Asigra Cloud Backup v11 – Asigra Inc. NetApp OnCommand Management Software - Call for price ■ http://asigra.com ■ 416-736-8111 System Manager, Unifi ed Manager, Insight – NetApp AutoVirt – AutoVirt Inc. Call for price ■ http://netapp.com/us ■ 877-263-8277 Call for price ■ http://autovirt.com ■ 603-546-2900 NetIQ AppManager for VMWare 7.8 – NetIQ Corp. Carbonite Business – Carbonite Inc. Starts at $1,795 per ESX server ■ http://netiq.com ■ 888-323-6768 Call for price ■ http://carbonite.com ■ 877-334-7621 NetWrix Change Reporter for System Center Virtual CiRBA Data Center Intelligence (DCI) 6.2 – CiRBA Inc. Machine Manager 2 – NetWrix Corp. Call for price ■ http://cirba.com ■ 866-731-0090 Starts at $100 per socket for 10 managed sockets. $12 per socket

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for 1000 managed sockets. Freeware edition is also available ■ vFoglight Storage 1.5 – Inc. http://netwrix.com ■ 888-638-9749, 201-490-8840 $499 per socket ■ http://quest.com ■ 800-306-9329 Novell PlateSpin Recon by NetIQ 3.7 – NetIQ Corp. VIO-4001 – Virtensys Inc. Starts at $47.60 per processor core ■ http://netiq.com ■ $33,999 ■ http://virtensys.com ■ 503-210-5190 800-529-3400 VIO-4008 – Virtensys Inc. Omnience Storage Management – Cleversafe Inc. $29,999 ■ http://virtensys.com ■ 503-210-5190 Call for price ■ http://cleversafe.com ■ 312-423-6640 Virtual Placement and Balancing – CA Technologies OneCommand Manager for VMware vCenter (OCM for Call for price ■ http://ca.com ■ 800-225-5224 VMware) – Emulex Corp. Virtualization Services – Datalink Corp. Included with any LightPulse HBA or OneConnect UCNA purchase ■ Call for price ■ http://datalink.com ■ 800-448-6314 http://emulex.com ■ 800-368-5393, +44 1189-772929 PAN Manager Software – Egenera VirtualWisdom Virtual Infrastructure Optimization Call for price ■ http://egenera.com ■ 978-206-6300 Solution 2.1 – Virtual Instruments Call for price ■ http://virtualinstruments.com ■ 408-579-4081 Precise Transaction Performance Management (TPM) v9.0.1 – Precise Virtustream Advisor Version 1 – Virtustream Inc. There are a variety of ways to purchase Precise: Managed Service Price is based on the number of servers ■ http://virtustream.com ■ Provider option, Transaction Performance Management-as-a-Service 240-252-1007 (TaaS) option, and the standard software licensing option based on CPU V-locity: Virtual Platform Optimizer 2.0 – Diskeeper Corp. deployment ■ http://precise.com ■ 877-693-1886 Call for price ■ http://diskeeper.com ■ 800-829-6468 Refl ex Virtualization Management Center (VMC) 2.16 – VMTurbo Enterprise Operations Manager – VMTurbo Inc. Refl ex Systems LLC $399 per socket or $49 per VM ■ http://vmturbo.com ■ 781-373-3540 In the enterprise pricing model, the Refl ex VMC platform can be purchased with any combination of modules—vWatch monitoring, vOperations Suite 3.5 – Corp. vTrust security, and vProfi le confi guration. Pricing for each module is $299 per socket ■ http://vkernel.com ■ 866-370-2733 about $595 per socket ■ http://refl exsystems.com ■ 888-696-5725, 404-924-2400 vOptimizer Pro 2.2 – Quest Software Inc. $299 per socket ■ http://quest.com ■ 800-306-9329 Sanbolic Melio – Sanbolic Inc. Web Application Accelerator – Akamai Technologies Call for price ■ http://sanbolic.com ■ 617-833-4242 Call for price ■ http://akamai.com ■ 877-425-2624 Simplify Desktop – triCerat Inc. Wyse Virtual Desktop Accelerator (VDA) – Call for price ■ http://tricerat.com ■ 800-582-5167 Wyse Technology Splunk – Splunk Inc. $59 per seat ■ http://wyse.com ■ 800-GET-WYSE Call for price ■ http://splunk.com ■ 866-438-7758 Xangati for vSphere (formerly Xangati for ESX) 3 – Stratusphere 4.81 – Liquidware Labs Inc. Xangati Inc. ■ ■ Call for price http://liquidwarelabs.com 678-397-0450 Free ■ http://xangati.com ■ 408-252-0505 SysTrack v6.1 – Lakeside Software Inc. Call for price ■ http://lakesidesoftware.com ■ 800-969-7717, 248-686-1701 Cloud Computing VMware vCenter Operations is critical to the company’s cloud Unidesk Management Software – Unidesk Corp. quest because it’s an automated operations management Call for price ■ http://unidesk.com ■ 508-573-7800 solution that provides integrated performance, capacity and Unifi ed Management Portal – Virtacore Systems Inc. confi guration management for highly virtualized and cloud Call for price ■ http://virtacore.com ■ 888-5-SERVER infrastructures. Windows Azure, the Microsoft Platform up.time 5 – Uptime Software Inc. as a Service (PaaS) offering, has made a name for itself $765 per physcial server—all-in-one suite, price includes everything ■ http://uptimesoftware.com ■ 866-735-4304 with its cloud-based application development capabilities. Despite the cloud prominence of VMware, EC2, the fi rst high- V-Commander 4 – Embotics Corp. $399 per socket annual subscription including maintenance or $640 profi le Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering, has been per socket plus 20 percent maintenance for perpetual license ■ synonymous with cloud computing since its 2006 beta. Not to http://embotics.com ■ 877-599-0494 be outdone, Eucalyptus claims to be the world’s most widely vDirect Plug-In – Radware Ltd. deployed software platform for private IaaS clouds. Call for price ■ http://radware.com ■ 888-234-5763

NNE Veeam nworks v5.6 – Veeam Software WI R Winner Starts at $450 per socket ■ http://veeam.com ■ 614-339-8200 VMware vCenter Operations Standard 1.0 – VMware Inc. vFoglight 6.5 – Quest Software Inc. $50 per VM ■ http://vmware.com ■ 877-4VMWARE $799 per socket ■ http://quest.com ■ 800-306-9329

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P ■ to tens of petabytes. System cost will depend on the type and quantity R T diff erent options; call for details O D U C http://microsoft.com ■ 800-642-7676 of HDS storage used with the HCP system ■ http://hds.com ■ 888-234-5601 Preferred Product EFERRE R D I/O Director VP780/VP560 – Xsigo Systems Inc. P Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon Starts at $22,500 ■ http://xsigo.com ■ 408-329-5600 EC2) – Amazon Web Services Inc. P R T Call for price ■ http://aws.amazon.com ■ O D U C iland Hybrid Cloud 1 – iland 206-266-1000 Call for price ■ http://iland.com ■ 800-697-7088 iland vCloud Services 1 – iland ISV ISV Winner Call for price ■ http://iland.com ■ 800-697-7088 Eucalyptus IaaS – Eucalyptus Systems Inc. Lenovo Secure Cloud Access 2011 – Lenovo Call for price ■ http://eucalyptus.com ■ W I R Starts at approximately $80 per user for commercial customers ■ N N E 866-456-3822 http://lenovo.com ■ 866-968-4465 Netuitive 5.5 – Netuitive Inc. ADC-VX OS28 – Radware Ltd. Starts at $10,000—based on size of the infrastructure ■ Call for price ■ http://radware.com ■ 888-234-5763 http://netuitive.com ■ 703-464-1500 AppFog Beta – AppFog Inc. Nirvanix Cloud Complete Portfolio – Nirvanix Inc. Call for price ■ http://appfog.com ■ 888-974-7364 Call for price ■ http://nirvanix.com ■ 619-764-5650 Apprenda v2.5 – Apprenda Inc. Novell Cloud Manager by NetIQ 1 – NetIQ Corp. Call for price ■ http://apprenda.com ■ 877-722-7932 Starts at $25,000 ■ http://netiq.com ■ 800-529-3400 Citrix NetScaler Cloud Bridge – Citrix Systems Panzura Alto Cloud Controller 2 – Panzura Inc. $5,000 – NetScaler Cloud Bridge VPX 10; $10,000 – NetScaler Cloud Call for price ■ http://panzura.com ■ 855-PANZURA Bridge VPX 200; $32,000 – NetScaler Cloud Bridge MPX 7500 ■ http://citrix.com ■ 800-424-8749 Platform ISF 2.2 – Platform Computing Corp. Call for price ■ http://platform.com ■ 877-710-4477 Cloud Lifecycle Management (CLM) – BMC Software Inc. Call for price ■ http://bmc.com ■ 800-877-6325 ScaleXtreme – ScaleXtreme Call for price ■ http://scalextreme.com ■ 877-972-2539 Cloud OnRamp Enablement (CORE) 1 – Geminare Inc. Pricing is determined on a per-case basis and depends on functionality ScoutCloud 1.2 – InMage Systems chosen and applications/services enabled ■ http://geminare.com ■ Call for price ■ http://inmage.com ■ 800-646-3617 888-593-4443 SolidFire SF3010 1 – SolidFire Cloud Solutions – Amax Information Technologies Call for price ■ http://solidfi re.com ■ 720-523-3278 Call for price ■ http://amax.com ■ 800-800-6328 SuiteCloud – NetSuite Inc. CloudLink 1.0 – AFORE Solutions Inc. Call for price ■ http://netsuite.com ■ 877-638-7848 Call for price ■ http://aforesolutions.com ■ 613-224-5995 SunGard Enterprise Cloud Services – SunGard CloudStack – Cloud.com Inc. Availability Services Call for price ■ http://cloud.com ■ 877-349-7564 Call for price ■ http://sungardas.com ■ 800-468-7483 CloudSwitch Enterprise – CloudSwitch Inc. Tier 3 Enterprise Cloud Platform - VMware vCloud Call for price ■ http://cloudswitch.com ■ 866-578-6127 Powered – Tier 3 Inc. DynamicOps Cloud Automation Center 4.1 – Call for price ■ http://tier3.com ■ 877-388-4373 DynamicOps Inc. vCloud Express 1 – Virtacore Systems Inc. Starts at $100 per machine ■ http://dynamicops.com ■ 781-328-9222 $0.04 per hour ■ http://virtacore.com ■ 888-5-SERVER DynamicOps Cloud Development Kit (CDK) 4.1 – VMTurbo Cloud Operations Manager – VMTurbo Inc. DynamicOps Inc. $799 per socket or $99 per VM ■ http://vmturbo.com ■ 781-373-3540 $10,000 per developer ■ http://dynamicops.com ■ 781-328-9222 VMware Cloud Foundry Beta – VMware Inc. eCloudManager Product Suite – fl uid Operations Free beta version ■ http://vmware.com ■ 877-4VMWARE (fl uidOps) Call for price ■ http://www.fl uidops.com ■ 49 (0) 6227 3849-567 Be sure to log on to VirtualizationReview.com and Equalizer OnDemand v10.0 – Coyote Point Systems Inc. download the expanded Ultimate Virtualization $1,499 ■ http://coyotepoint.com ■ 877-367-2696 Buyers Guide, which includes descriptions for every product listed here. You can access the PDF directly from VirtualizationReview. com/2012RCABG.

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Xsigo Management System (XMS) 3 – Xsigo Systems Inc. Cloud Recovery Enterprise Edition – Geminare Inc. Starts at $5,000 ■ http://xsigo.com ■ 408-329-5600 Approximately $400 per month per server plus setup fees. Sold exclusively through channel partners ■ http://geminare.com ■ xStream Platform Version 1 – Virtustream Inc. 888-593-4443 Priced on a subscription basis ■ http://virtustream.com ■ 240-252-1007 Double-Take Availability – Vision Solutions Inc. Zetta Data Protect 2.5 – Zetta Inc. Call for price ■ http://visionsolutions.com ■ 888-674-9495 $0.45 per GB ■ http://zetta.net ■ 877-469-3882 FalconStor Continuous Data Protector (CDP) Version 7.0 – FalconStor Software Business Continuity Starts at $3,000. Available as a Virtual Appliance, a preconfi gured Business continuity has been around for a long time as integrated Storage Appliance, or a Gateway Appliance for use with certifi ed SAN Storage ■ http://falconstor.com ■ 866-669-3252 a mission-critical concept, and it has only become more important as IT operations have become extended beyond Novell PlateSpin Forge by NetIQ 3.1 – NetIQ Corp. Starts from as low as $39,395 ■ http://netiq.com ■ 800-529-3400 conventional boundaries. This is just one more essential piece in the VMware puzzle. Veeam Software has won Novell PlateSpin Protect by NetIQ 10.1 – NetIQ Corp. Starts at $1,495 per workload ■ http://netiq.com ■ 800-529-3400 critical acclaim for its expertise in this area, and Acronis offers backup and recovery from a single console, which is Quest vRanger Version 5.2 – Quest Software Inc. a competitive requirement. AppAssure offers backup and $499 per socket ■ http://quest.com ■ 949-754-8000 recovery with fast local recovery and total bare metal restores Rapid Response Version 2 – iland from remote replication sites. Call for price ■ http://iland.com ■ 800-697-7088, 713-868-2267 Winner rCloud – Doyenz Inc. NNE WI R VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager Call for price ■ http://doyenz.com ■ 206-707-8250 4.0 – VMware Inc. Scout 6 – InMage Systems $13,613 for 25 VM pack plus support ■ Call for price ■ http://inmage.com ■ 800-646-3617 http://vmware.com ■ 877-4VMWARE, 650-427-5000 ShadowProtect Virtual 04/01/2005 – StorageCraft Preferred Product FERRE Technology Corp. RE D P Veeam Backup & Replication 5 – $995 for 3 licenses – virtualization bundle ■ http://storagecraft.com ■ Veeam Software 801-545-4705 P ■ ■ R T Starts at $599 per socket http://veeam.com O D U C 614-339-8200 Stratus ftServer – Stratus Call for price ■ http://stratus.com ■ 800-787-2887 Preferred Product FERRE RE D SunGard Business Continuity Management Software – P Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Virtual Edition – Acronis Inc. SunGard Availability Services ■ ■ P ■ ■ Call for price http://sungardas.com 800-468-7483 R T $1,799 per license http://acronis.com O D U C 877-669-9749 Symantec NetBackup 7 – Symantec Corp. ISV Winner Starts at $7,595 for complete VMware protection; includes Enterprise Server and Enterprise Client licenses ■ http://symantec.com ■ AppAssure Backup and Disaster ISV 800-745-6054 Recovery 4.6 – AppAssure Software Inc. Software agent-based pricing per physical machine or Symantec System Recovery 2011 – Symantec Corp. W ■ IN N E R host. Off -site hosting also available. Call for pricing Starts at $495 for the Small Business Server Edition and $795 for the http://appassure.com ■ 703-547-8686 Server Edition ■ http://symantec.com ■ 877-294-5255 vContinuum 1.2 – InMage Systems ActiveImage Protector for Hyper-V with ReZoom 3.1 – Call for price ■ http://inmage.com ■ 800-646-3617 Rectiphy Corp. VMware vSphere ESXi / ESX Backup and Recovery – $1,499 - Backup Hyper-V Host and all guest VMs ■ PHD Virtual Technologies http://rectiphy.com ■ 951-200-5911 Call for price ■ http://phdvirtual.com ■ 866-710-1882 ApplicationHA 5.1 SP2 – Symantec Corp. Zerto Virtual Replication (ZVR) Version 1.0 – Zerto $350 per license ■ http://symantec.com ■ 877-294-5255 Call for price ■ http://zerto.com ■ 781-478-6806 Arkeia Network Backup Version 9 – Arkeia Software Inc. $2,000 per server; unlimited sockets and CPUs ■ http://arkeia.com ■ Methodology 888-431-1319 This year’s Virtualization Review Reader’s Choice Awards survey Backup Exec 2010 R3 – Symantec Corp. was sent out to approximately 20,000 of our readers on Sept. 15 and Starts at $995. Backup Exec Small Business Server starts at $895 ■ they had two weeks to vote. Job titles for that group ran the gamut http://symantec.com ■ 877-294-5255 from C-level executives to help desk technicians. Vendors were not Citrix XenServer Backup and Recovery Solution – allowed to vote for themselves, nor to solicit votes. We carefully PHD Virtual Technologies examined the voting results, and nullifi ed illegal votes that were Call for price ■ http://phdvirtual.com ■ 866-710-1882 cast in an effort to stuff the ballot box. —B.H.

28 | December 2011/January 2012 | Virtualization Review | VirtualizationReview.com DataCore fi nished a respectable third, while Tintri has been Virtualization Automation opening a lot of eyes with its focus on network storage within In the new, virtualized world of IT, there’s no time for human virtualized datacenters. error and intervention. That’s why Microsoft acquired IT Winner INNER process automation software maker Opalis in December W EMC VNX Series or VNXe Series – EMC Corp. 2009. Now System Center Opalis has become a major cog in Under $50,000 and under $10,000 ■ Redmond’s management suite. Despite its travails, Novell http://emc.com ■ 866-438-3622 also saw the value of automation, as did Tripwire. Refl ex

Systems is gaining recognition by integrating various IT tools EFERRE R D Preferred Product P into a single confi guration. NetApp V6200 Series / V3200 Series –

Winner P R T NetApp O D U C NNE ■ ■ WI R Opalis 6.3 – Microsoft Call for price http://netapp.com 877-263-8277 Opalis is licensed only as part of the suite. You can only download and use this software if you’re a Preferred Product

licensed holder of a qualifying license. Qualifying FERRE SANsymphony-V 8.1 – DataCore Software RE D licenses must have active Software Assurance P Starts at under $5,000 for two redundant coverage on or between Dec. 10, 2009, and April 30, 2012. Call for SANsymphony-V nodes. The price scales up for P qualifying licenses ■ http://microsoft.com ■ 800-642-7676 R T ■ O D U C midrange and large enterprise environments http://datacore.com ■ 877-780-5111 Preferred Product FERRE RE D P Novell PlateSpin Migrate by NetIQ 9.1 – NetIQ Corp. ISV P ■ ■ R T Starts at $295 per workload http://netiq.com ISV Winner O D U C 800-529-3400 W Tintri VMstore T445 – Tintri Inc. IN N E R Call for price ■ http://tintri.com ■ 650-209-3900

FERRE RE D P Preferred Product Actifi o Protection and Available Storage (PAS) – Actifi o

P ■ ■ R T Tripwire VIA – Tripwire Inc. Call for price http://actifi o.com 877-282-5373 O D U C Call for price ■ http://tripwire.com ■ 503-276-7500 AssuredUVS Datacenter – Dot Hill Systems Corp. ISV Winner Call for price ■ http://dothill.com ■ 800-872-2783 ISV Refl ex vProfi le 2.16 – Refl ex Systems Inc. AssuredUVS Standard – Dot Hill Systems Corp. In the enterprise pricing model, the Refl ex VMC Call for price ■ http://dothill.com ■ 800-872-2783 platform can be purchased with any combination of W IN N E R modules—vWatch monitoring, vTrust security and Cloud Storage Assurance (CSA) 2.0 – Geminare Inc. vProfi le confi guration; pricing for each module is Approximately $3-4 per month per mailbox plus storage as per about $595 per socket ■ http://refl exsystems.com ■ 888-696-5725 vendor of choice. Sold exclusively through channel partners ■ http://geminare.com ■ 888-593-4443 AppTitude 5.1 – App-DNA [Recently Acquired by Citrix] Coraid EtherDrive SRX Version 5.2 – Coraid Inc. Call for price ■ http://app-dna.com ■ 847-230-0020 Starts at under $600 per TB ■ http://coraid.com ■ 877-548-7200 Arista EOS with VM Tracer – Arista Networks Inc. Coraid EtherDrive VSX Version 1.3 – Coraid Inc. Call for price ■ http://aristanetworks.com ■ 866-497-0000 Call for price. Priced per appliance with no limit on the number of SAN appliances under management ■ http://coraid.com ■ 877-548-7200 GaleForce – Gale Technologies Call for price ■ http://galetechnologies.com ■ 408-213-4900 F5 ARX1500/ARX2500 – F5 Networks Inc. Call for price ■ http://f5.com ■ 206-272-5555 UC4 Automation Engine – UC4 Software GmbH Call for price ■ http://uc4.com ■ 877-284-2121 FalconStor Network Storage Server (NSS) Version 7.0 – FalconStor Software V-Commander 4.0 – Embotics Corp. Starts at $3,000 - available as a Virtual Appliance, a preconfi gured Starts at $399 per socket per year ■ http://embotics.com ■ integrated Storage Appliance or a Gateway Appliance for use with 877-599-0494 certifi ed SAN Storage ■ http://falconstor.com ■ 866-669-3252 GlusterFS 3.3 – Gluster Inc. Storage Virtualization $4,000 to $5,000 per server per year ■ http://gluster.com ■ Say what you will about the costs and complexity of EMC 800-805-5215 storage products, the company’s VNX and VNXe Series Unifi ed Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) Version 1 – Storage systems for both small to midsize businesses and Hitachi Data Systems enterprises don’t seem like they’re all that hard to digest by Starts at $232,000 for a single Hitachi Virtual Storage Director pair controller with 16 FC host ports, 48GB of cache, no disk capacity and Virtualization Review readers. Once again, NetApp fi nished in a Basic Operating System software, which includes Hitachi Dynamic not-unfamiliar position—just a hair behind the market leader. Provisioning software and Device Manager. Software support for 12 Based on the strength of its storage approach, months is also included ■ http://hds.com ■ 888-234-5601

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NetApp Syncsort Integrated Backup (NSIB) – NetApp Syncsort ISV Starts at $9,000 per TB of source-side capacity including all features and ISV Winner an unlimited number of clients ■ http://syncsort.com ■ 201-930-9700 W Steelhead Appliance – Riverbed IN N E R onQ 3.0 – QuorumLabs Inc. Call for price ■ http://riverbed.com ■ 415-247-8800 Less than $15,000 ■ http://quorumlabs.com ■ 510-257-5227 Scale Computing S-Series Starter Cluster – BlackDiamond X Series – Extreme Networks Scale Computing Call for price ■ http://extremenetworks.com ■ 408-579-2800 $12,000 for 3TB (usable) cluster with 3 S1 nodes ■ IBM BNT RackSwitch G8264 with Vmready – IBM Corp. ■ http://scalecomputing.com 877-SCALE-59 $29,999 ■ http://ibm.com ■ 800-426-4968 Scale Computing M-Series Starter Cluster – Netronome Network Flow Processor (NFP-3240) – Scale Computing Netronome Systems Inc. ■ ■ $15,000 http://scalecomputing.com 877-SCALE-59 $275 for large volume orders of 25,000+ ■ http://netronome.com ■ StarWind iSCSI SAN Software – StarWind Software Inc. 877-638-7629 Call for price ■ http://starwindsoftware.com ■ 617-449-7717 OneConnect OCe11000 Universal Converged Network StarWind Native SAN for Hyper-V – StarWind Software Inc. Adapters (UCNAs) – Emulex Corp. ■ ■ Call for price ■ http://starwindsoftware.com ■ 617-449-7717 Starts at $769 http://emulex.com 800-368-5393 Storage Services Network – Nasuni Corp. Call for price ■ http://nasuni.com ■ 800-208-3418 Virtualization Security StorSimple 5000 & 7000 – StorSimple Inc. There’s no way that VMware wouldn’t have a signifi cant Call for price ■ http://storsimple.com ■ 408-550-2300 number of its highly talented engineers working on security, Veritas Operations Manager 4.0 – Symantec Corp. and its runaway victory here underlines that fact. Juniper Free for customers who have Veritas Storage Foundation and Cluster Networks Inc. is targeting security in the cloud and mobile Server ■ http://symantec ■ 877-294-5255 Internet markets, while veteran Check Point Software Virsto VSI 3.1 – Virsto Software Technologies Ltd. offers a broad line of security gateway $2,800 per host – no limits on number of cores or VMs ■ appliances. Catbird Inc. offers security services for virtual, http://virsto.com ■ 408-899-5694 cloud and physical environments. vSTOR S200 – NextIO Inc. ■ ■ NNE Call for price http://nextio.com 512-439-5350 WI R Winner Network Virtualization VMware vShield Suite 5 – VMware Inc. Call for price ■ http://vmware.com ■ 877-4VMWARE Cisco is all over virtualization in its own backyard, and with a growing number of like-minded business partners, so this Preferred Product vGW Virtual Gateway 5 – Juniper FERRE victory comes as no surprise. Ditto Citrix Systems Inc.’s Preferred RE D P Networks Inc. Product Award for the venerable NetScaler. F5 Networks Starts at $3,000 per CPU. Annual IDS and AV P can celebrate its award along with its announcement that it R T ■ O D U C subscriptions are additional to the base cost surpassed the $1 billion mark in FY 2011 sales. Filling out a stellar http://juniper.net ■ 866-298-6428 fi eld, Riverbed is a proven company with a solid reputation. Preferred Product Check Point Security Gateway Virtual INNER FERRE W RE D P Edition (VE) R71 – Check Point Software Winner Technologies Ltd. P Cisco Nexus 1000V 4.2 – Cisco Systems R T Starts at $2,00 ■ http://checkpoint.com ■ O D U C $695 per CPU ■ http://cisco.com ■ 408-526-4000 866-488-6691

FERRE SV RE D I P Preferred Product Citrix NetScaler SDX – Citrix Systems Inc. ISV Winner P $90,000 to $395,000 – 5 instances included ■ R T Catbird vSecurity – Catbird Inc. O D U C W I R ■ N N E http://citrix.com 800-424-8749 Call for price ■ http://catbird.com ■ 866-682-0080

FERRE RE D Preferred Product P Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall – Barracuda Networks Inc. Big-IP Local Traffi c Manager Virtual Call for price ■ http://barracudanetworks.com ■ 888-268-4722

P R T Edition 11 – F5 Networks Inc. O D U C Deep Security v7.5 – Trend Micro Inc. Call for price ■ http://f5.com ■ 206-272-5555 Starts at $150 per VM for agentless anti- at 500 VM band. Additional security modules cost extra ■ http://trendmicro.com ■ 877-218-7363

30 | December 2011/January 2012 | Virtualization Review | VirtualizationReview.com EpiForce – Apani Call for price ■ http://apani.com ■ 714-577-1600 Virtual PC NetWrix VMware Change Reporter 3 – NetWrix Corp. The VMware desktop virtualization product fully supports Starts at $100 per socket for 10 managed sockets and $12 per socket Windows 7 and Windows XP Mode VMs, along with 3-D graphics. for 1,000 managed sockets. Freeware edition is also available ■ The Wyse PocketCloud app enables users to securely access any http://netwrix.com ■ 888-638-9749 physical or virtualized infrastructure anytime, anywhere from Panda Cloud Protection – Panda Security their iPhones, iPads, iPod Touch or Android devices. Call for price ■ http://pandasecurity.com ■ 800-603-4922

NNE Refl ex vTrust 2.16 – Refl ex Systems WI R Winner In the enterprise pricing model, the Refl ex VMC platform can be VMware Workstation 7.0 – VMware Inc. purchased with any combination of modules—vWatch monitoring, vTrust $189 new license, $99 upgrade ■ http://vmware.com security and vProfi le confi guration; pricing for each module is about ■ 877-4VMWARE $595 per socket ■ http://refl exsystems.com ■ 888-696-5725

Trend Micro Offi ceScan 10.5 – Trend Micro Inc. FERRE RE D $38.36 per user for 250 users; includes perpetual license and one year P Preferred Product of basic support ■ http://trendmicro.com ■ 877-218-7363 Wyse PocketCloud – Wyse Technology Inc. P ■ ■ R T Up to $4.99 http://wyse.com 800-GET-WYSE, O D U C Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Plug-In for 408-473-1200 Offi ceScan 10.5 – Trend Micro Inc. $15.34 per user for 250 users. Price includes perpetual license and one year of basic support ■ http://trendmicro.com ■ 877-218-7363 Mobile Virtualization Websense Triton – Websense Inc. VMware is staking its claim in this potentially huge market, Call for price ■ http://websense.com ■ 800-723-1166 where it has introduced several new clients. Citrix Receiver XTM Series – WatchGuard Technologies Inc. enables users to access apps and Windows desktops at Call for price ■ http://watchguard.com ■ 800-734-9905 their offi ces, homes or on the road. Using the new 2X MobileDeviceManager, admins can secure and manage their Virtualization Training corporate mobile device networks by supporting authentication TrianSignal has assembled a crew of topfl ight instructors who with SSL connections from Android and other mobile and smart have developed vSphere video training tools at a time when devices. Red Bend Software is a player to watch. Its VLX 4.1 such tools are sorely needed by IT pros who are considering or mobile virtualization software comprises a hypervisor that de- making the jump from vSphere 4 to the sophisticated environs couples hardware management and application environments, of vSphere 5. Global Knowledge Training, Netcom and Intense enabling separation of design and functionality in smartphones. Winner School are also established training fi rms with quality offerings. NNE WI R VMware View Clients for iPad and Android –

NNE VMware Inc. WI R Free download ■ http://vmware.com ■ Winner 877-4VMWARE vSphere Video Training – TrainSignal Inc. $397 ■ http://trainsignal.com ■ 888-229-5055 FERRE RE D P Preferred Product Preferred Product Citrix Receiver – Citrix Systems Inc. FERRE RE D P Cloud Computing – Global Knowledge P R T Free software client for any XenApp or XenDesktop O D U C Training LLC customer ■ http://citrix.com ■ 800-424-8749 P ■ ■ R T Call for price http://globalknowledge.com O D U C 800-268-7737 EFERRE R D Preferred Product P Preferred Product 2X Mobile Device Manager 1 – EFERRE R D Microsoft SharePoint Certifi cation – P P R T 2X Software Ltd. O D U C NetCom Learning Call for price ■ http://2x.com ■ 866-970-6262 P Call for price ■ http://netcomlearning.com ■ R O C T D U 888-563-8266 ISV ISV Winner ISV ISV Winner Boot Camp Training – Intense School and VLX 4.1 – Red Bend Software W InfoSec Institute IN E R N Call for price ■ http://redbend.com ■ 781-890-2090 ■ ■ W Call for price http://intenseschool.com IN N E R 877-290-9507 Cortado Corporate Server Version 5.2 – Cortado AG Starts around $100 per user including maintenance ■ http://cortado.com ■ 303-487-1302

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TAKE Simon Bramfi tt, Founder and Principal Analyst for Entelechy Associates (April-May Issue) There’s a lot of doubt in my mind that Microsoft really is doing any more with desktop virtualization than the barest minimum. [Their] own desktop virtualization solution is excessively 2 complex; it doesn’t meet the needs of anything but the smallest percentage of Microsoft customers, and their unwillingness to support any level of innovation when it comes to service delivery is a little disappointing. They were basically pushed into a corner with desktop virtualization through VMware’s early initiative around [Virtual Desktop Infrastructure] and have been spinning Memorable ever since. Analyst Quotes TAKE Dave Bartoletti, Senior Analyst and Virtualization Lead, Taneja Group (June-July Issue) I do have to give credit from 2011 to Microsoft because they have absolutely realized the A bunch of really smart guys opine. importance of virtualization, and they didn’t throw it out like a market-killing technology. They threw it out as a competitor. 3They listened to their customers and they’re making it better. I think if you talked about this three years ago, a lot of analysts in the community thought that Hyper-V was just a way to kill virtualization while they fi gured out how to lock us all into Windows [OSes] for the rest of our lives. Give it away for free just like the browser wars, right?

Mark Bowker, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group (August-September Issue) The thing that VMware is doing right is they’re innovating amazingly. I think from an overall technology innovation perspective, they’ve TAKE 4 built a community, and they’ve got that community to really align with what they can offer. I hear very few, if any, There’s nothing like good analyst quotes to perk complaints about VMware—the technology or the company. I think up a story, and here are fi ve of the best from their biggest challenge is taking where customers are today and the cover stories I’ve written this year. advancing them. We’ve seen a massive wave of people achieving that fi rst 20 percent to 30 percent level of virtualization, but that 20 to 30 percent isn’t necessarily going to double in the next 12 months. TAKE Chris Wolf, Research Vice President, That doubling is going to take a long time. Gartner Inc. (April-May Issue) Mark Templeton’s a great CEO. He gets the TAKE Jon Toigo, CEO of Toigo Partners International (October- market extremely well. He said several November Issue) What I’ve seen in the marketplace around years ago that the desktop space is mainframes is that maybe fi ve years ago, just about everybody Citrix’s to lose. He thought that they 1 that I visited who had a mainframe was thinking about were a bit ahead of their time with some of the migrating off of it. They were concerned about the dearth technologies Citrix had built historically, and now, of folks to manage them going forward and the high cost Citrix’s core value-add is becoming mainstream, 5 of software and so forth. But now it’s turning out that what the cloud and in some places, the de facto option for new guys and the virtualization guys have done is underscore the real value desktop deployments. Acquiring XenSource and proposition of mainframes, and many companies that were considering getting the hypervisor, of course, was extremely migrating their x86 workloads off mainframes are actually migrating x86 important for Citrix in the long term, and they’ve IMAGE FROM SHUTTERSTOCK workloads onto there instead. done a nice job of starting to build the ecosystem for XenServer and making the case to get XenServer in the datacenter, mostly as the back- What was the most interesting quote about virtualization you came end for XenDesktop workloads. across this year? Bruce Hoard can be reached at bhoard@1105 media.com.

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