VMware Lays Foundation for Broader Market Penetration by Giving Customers Access to Support for Software For All Major Microsoft Applications such as Microsoft Exchange Server, SQL Server, SharePoint Server and others across Virtualized Environments . PALO ALTO, Calif. – Sept 3, 2008 -- VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter, today announced it has qualified its industry-leading VMware ESX hypervisor under the Microsoft Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP). VMware ESX 3.5 update 2 (ESX 3.5u2) is the first hypervisor to be listed under the program, providing VMware customers who run Windows Server and Microsoft...

Vigilant Technologies (Chandler Automated Systems)provides integration of Windows-based servers,Terminal Servers, Virtual servers, MSSQL clusters, Exchange 2007 clusters and loadbalanced web application servers using Bladecenter Blade Servers and both IP SAN and FC SAN storage arrays. We specialize in SCON (server consolidation), workload based server migrations and server virtualization. We used advanced networking technologies and software to enable LAN and WAN based server and data replication to meet any RPO/RTO, disaster recovery and business continuity needs. We provide both hosted and onsite integration for these solutions.

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This article is specifically written for any small to medium size business that wants to implement a continuity plan (CP).Norm Koehler, CBCP, CRP

Remember Y2K? Though the millennium bug was not an IT disaster, it was a near disaster that affected the most number of people and businesses. Thus, Y2K made a list of the top 10 historic IT disasters.

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CRN Test Center engineers evaluated server virtualization and management products from SWsoft, Virtual Iron Software, VMware and XenSource. For testing, engineers used Intel Duo core and Quad core servers along with two Hewlett-Packard notebooks. Engineers evaluated the products based on ease of deployment, management consoles, features geared toward development, price/performance and profit potential.