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PlateSpin Helps Essent Consolidate Three Data Centers Into One, Saves Company EUR 2 Million
Essent, the leader in the Dutch energy market, recently completed a major data center consolidation effort that involved the physical-to-physical migration of 260 server workloads from HP to IBM servers and the physical-to-virtual migration of an additional 50 workloads to a VMware virtual environment. Using PlateSpin, Essent was able to easily migrate all workloads in one month with a team of fewer than eight people.

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Many organizations are turning to Application Virtualization to address business challenges that in turn will impact IT operations. What is application virtualization? How can it help my organization align IT with changing business priorities? Today's enterprises are always trying to stay one step ahead of their competitors and any type of program, promotion or are pushing to close more deals or reduce costs – all of these initiatives inevitably place a burden on the data center and the applications that support them. Application virtualization provides organizations the needed competitive edge. This newsletter will feature Gartner's Extreme Transaction Technologies report and explore how a Real-Time Infrastructure (RTI) and Application Virtualization impact your organization – including DataSynapse client case studies.

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Download: Real-Time Infrastructure (RTI) A Resource to Understand How Application Virtualization Aligns IT with Business

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Egenera, Inc., a leader in datacenter virtualization architecture, delivers enterprise computing solutions that simplify datacenter operations and infrastructure. The Egenera® BladeFrame® system simplifies the datacenter with an innovative server architecture specifically designed to reduce complexity and enable IT to respond rapidly to business requirements. Market-leading enterprises around the world trust the Egenera BladeFrame system to run their most important business applications and achieve higher resource utilization, faster application time to market and lower total cost of ownership. Headquartered in Marlboro, Mass., Egenera has offices worldwide.

Learn more: http://www.egenera.com/, call 508-858-2600 or send email to info@egenera.com.

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The 3Leaf Virtual Compute Environment in the Data Center
February 2007

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In November 2006, Microsoft and Novell announced a series of agreements to jointly build, market and support new solutions to improve interoperability, deliver powerful new virtualization capabilities, and make Microsoft and Novell products work better together. Novell and Microsoft are bridging the worlds of proprietary and open source technology and have built this bridge based upon a foundation of mutual respect for intellectual property. The partnership has produced early results, including a detailed technical roadmap unveiled in February 2007. The roadmap details the key areas of technical collaboration, which include virtualization, standards-based systems management, directory and identity federation, and document format compatibility. AIG Technologies, Deutsche Bank AG, Credit Suisse, HSBC, and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. are among the first customers taking advantage of the benefits of this agreement www.moreinterop.com

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vThere™ is the first virtualized, serverless solution for remote access.  The flagship product of Sentillion vBusiness, vThere extends the corporate domain to deliver exactly the same security, policies, application access and experience as if the user were physically in the enterprise.

 vThere’s virtual security model protects the enterprise from exposure to viruses, worms, or spyware, which may be present on a remote user’s PC.  In addition, IT departments can extend the reach of the enterprise and manage remote users in the same manner as if they were physically in the enterprise.

Sentillion vBusiness is a division of Sentillion, Inc., the largest freestanding provider of identity and access management solutions.

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