Virtualization news for the channel community and you !

Products & release news:

• 76 Percent of Surveyed Higher Education IT Pros Interested in Adding Virtual Desktop Delivery to their Institution’s Virtualization Profile (more)

• Virtual Iron Software announced the launch of a new training vignette: “Management Server Deployment Best Practices” (more)

• CA and VMware announced an expansion in their relationship centered around the creation and delivery of integrated management solutions to complement the VMware virtualization platform. As a first step, CA and VMware have signed an agreement to make CA Data Center Automation Manager interoperable with VMware Stage Manager. (more)

• eXludus has announced that it has joined the HP Multi-Core Optimization Program.

• Symantec has announced Veritas Operations Services, a new cloud computing-based online services platform to help organizations identify hidden risks in their data centers (more)

• NetApp named Citrix Ready Solution of the year

• Is Symantec rebranding SVS into SWC – Symantec Workspace Virtualization? (more). 

• Hitachi Data Systems Solution for Site Recovery Manager – presentations of VMworld 2008 now available here.

• Moderro Technologies announced the Xpack Internet Computer. This Computer is an integrated (hardware, operating system and web management) solution for the cloud desktop. It features a clean and friendly user interface and operating system that was written by Moderro specifically for interacting with web-based applications. (more)

• Univa UA announced UniCluster, which is a fully integrated, community-enabled open source cluster software stack with a single support path for all packaged components (more)

• TechTarget acquires The Brian Madden Company

• VMware starts the VMware Referral Program (more) and you can earn … 10 USD/sale !

• DataSynapse announces Federator 1.0.  Federator provides centralized command and control of disparate computing pools managed by the DataSynapse runtime environments (FabricServerand GridServer), across different platforms, versions and locations.

• Akorri adds plug-in for vCenter (more)