Atlantic Digital Announces Award of Contract in partnership with Jacobs Engineering Group by the U.S. Special Operations Command to provide Information Technology Service Management (ITSM)
TAMPA, Florida Oct. 31, 2011 – Atlantic Digital, Inc. announced today that it has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) through Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE:JEC) to provide information technology (IT) service management. This award is part of the Special Operations Forces Information Technology Enterprise Contracts (SITEC) delivery framework.
The award includes a two-year base period, four one-year options and represents a potential maximum value of $125 million.
Under the contract, Atlantic Digital, as part of the Jacobs team, will provide ITSM services for developing, documenting, structuring, implementing, coordinating and monitoring delivery of USSOCOM’s innovative IT service management processes, procedures, governance and performance, including continuous improvement of all USSOCOM’s IT service areas. Contract execution is expected to include supporting USSOCOM in coordinating, integrating, and synchronizing the services from IT service area providers.
In making the announcement, Atlantic Digital Chief Executive Officer Gordon Jackson stated, “Atlantic Digital considers our relationship with Jacobs to be of the highest importance, and we look forward to working with them to support USSOCOM in the execution of their global mission. We are pleased to have the opportunity to bring our expert staff and their collective skills to bear on USSOCOM’s critical IT challenges.”
Atlantic Digital is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned information technology consulting firm specializing in virtualization and unified communications solutions for Government and Fortune 500 clients.
10 / 31 / 2011 | USSOCOM, Jacobs, SITEC, ITSM
VMware Announces General Availability of VMware vSphere 5
PALO ALTO, Calif. Aug. 25, 2011 —VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced the general availability of VMware vSphere 5, delivering nearly 200 new and enhanced capabilities to help customers transform IT by driving greater efficiency from existing investments and improving operational agility.
"With the release of VMware vSphere 5, VMware is helping customers accelerate their journey toward a more efficient and automated cloud infrastructure," said Bogomil Balkansky, senior vice president, cloud infrastructure products, VMware. "The enhancements and new innovations we've introduced in VMware vSphere 5 provide a robust, reliable platform for business applications, enabling customers to effectively respond to the growing needs of their business and giving them confidence in their IT transformation."
The foundation of VMware's cloud infrastructure suite, VMware vSphere 5, includes new features and enhancements to deliver better application performance and availability for all business-critical applications. It also introduces advanced automation capabilities to free IT from manual processes and allow it to be more responsive to changing business requirements.
VMware vSphere 5 supports virtual machines (VMs) that are up to four times more powerful than previous versions - VMs can now be configured with up to 1 terabyte of memory and 32 virtual CPUs. When combined with VMware vSphere 5's enhanced High Availability, these gains in VM scalability and performance enable customers to virtualize any business-critical applications with confidence in the application's continued performance and availability.
VMware vSphere 5 also introduces three key new flagship features – Auto-Deploy, Profile-Driven Storage and Storage DRS – that extend the platform's unique datacenter resource management capabilities, delivering intelligent policy management to support an automated "set it and forget it" approach to managing datacenter resources, including server deployment and storage management. Customers can define policies and establish the operating parameters, and VMware vSphere 5 does the rest.
VMware vSphere 5 and the cloud infrastructure suite are supported by more than 25,000 partners, including technology partners, independent software vendors (ISVs), solution providers, service providers, and systems integrators, as well as every major global hardware manufacturer. VMware's partner community continues to mature as the company consistently sets the bar for innovation in virtualization and cloud technologies. Read more about ecosystem support for VMware vSphere 5.
VMware vSphere 5 is currently available in packages and prices that address the widest range of customer requirements, starting at $83 per processor. Visit the VMware vSphere Upgrade Center for more information on licensing and editions. Learn more...
08 / 25 / 2011 | VMWare, vSphere 5
Veeam Unveils Veeam Backup & Replication Version 6
Columbus, Ohio, August 22, 2011 – Veeam Software, innovative provider of VMware data protection, disaster recovery and VMware management solutions for virtual datacenter environments, today unveiled major enhancements in Veeam Backup & Replication v6. With this new release, Veeam becomes the first vendor to deliver capabilities for image-based data protection that organizations have come to expect with traditional file-based backups, taking virtual data protection to the next level. Learn more...
08 / 22 / 2010 | Veeam, Backup, Replication, vPower,
U.S. Government Agencies Embrace Desktop Virtualization with VMware View to Accelerate Their Mission
DISA CUSTOMER & INDUSTRY FORUM, Baltimore, Md., Aug. 17, 2011, – VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced growing momentum for desktop virtualization in U.S. Federal agencies with VMware View. With nearly all federal agencies working towards deploying secure mobile and cloud computing solutions, VMware View enables personnel to securely access their desktops and applications at any time from a variety of devices, such as government-furnished PCs or laptops, personal computers, thin clients, and tablet computers.
The dynamic nature of the federal workforce – including the military – involves field-based, office-based, remote, deployed, and contractor personnel. This mix of environments, devices and worker roles present challenges for desktop management. VMware View, the industry’s leading desktop virtualization solution, can empower federal IT to manage desktops as a cloud-based service. With VMware View agencies can quickly provision, deploy, secure and protect sensitive data, by centrally storing desktop images and data on servers behind agency firewalls. This enhanced security helps to eliminate the risk of data breaches due to laptop theft or data loss – a huge benefit for federal agencies that manage and maintain such confidential data. Learn more...
08 / 17 / 2011 | VMware, Desktop Virtualization, DISA, VMware View
VMware Partners Embrace VMware vSphere 5 and Comprehensive Cloud Infrastructure Suite
SAN FRANCISCO, July 12, 2011 — VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced broad industry support for VMware vSphere 5 and the company's comprehensive cloud infrastructure suite announced today. VMware and the VMware Partner Network – composed of more than 25,000 technology partners, solution providers, distributors, service providers, systems integrators, as well as every major global hardware manufacturer – have helped shape an industry centered on virtualization and cloud computing, delivering integrated technology solutions, programs and services offerings that provide customers with the collaborative capabilities, expertise and domain knowledge to solve the widest range of IT challenges.
With nearly 200 new and enhanced capabilities, VMware vSphere 5 will continue to set the standard in virtualization, delivering better application performance and availability for all business-critical applications while automating the management of an increasingly broad pool of datacenter resources – providing partners with a robust platform for delivering complementary offerings and services optimized for virtual environments. Learn more...
07 / 12 / 2011 | VMware, Partner, vSphere 5
VMware Unveils VMware vSphere 5 and Comprehensive Cloud Infrastructure Suite
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., July 12, 2011 — At a live event today, VMware CEO Paul Maritz unveiled VMware vSphere 5 and a comprehensive suite of cloud infrastructure technologies built to help customers transform IT to drive greater efficiency of existing investments and improve operational agility.
With nearly 200 new and enhanced capabilities, VMware vSphere 5 will continue to set the standard in virtualization, delivering better application performance and availability for all business-critical applications while automating the management of an increasingly broad pool of datacenter resources. VMware today also announced VMware vShield 5, VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5 , and VMware vCloud Director 1.5 , products that together with VMware vSphere 5 will amplify the value customers can realize from virtualized resources by enabling cloud-scale operations. Learn more...
07 / 12 / 2011 | VMware, vSphere, vShield, vCloud, New Release
Clarus Systems' IPC Plus+ Version 4.0 Enhances Automated Testing and Monitoring Capabilities for IP Telephony and Unified Communications Across the Enterprise
REDWOOD CITY, CA – Jan. 10, 2011 — Clarus Systems, Inc., a leading provider of integrated Voice over IP (VoIP) management software and services for Unified Communications, today announced a new version of its flagship product, ClarusIPC Plus+ (Version 4). The feature-rich ClarusIPC Plus+ incorporates essential testing and monitoring features for UC and supports leading vendors such as Cisco and HP.
Available for immediate release, users will be able to monitor the performance of critical enterprise Unified Communications applications, including:
• Cisco Unity Connection
• Cisco Unified Presence Server
• Cisco Contact Center Express
• The latest version of Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM v8.5)
ClarusIPC Plus+ 4.0 has the capability to integrate with major network management systems. In particular, Clarus Systems was recently certified by HP for deep integration with Network Node Manager i version 9 permitting users to seamlessly move through a combined suite of HP and Clarus network management tools.
"Enterprises want a comprehensive management solution to test and monitor IP Telephony / VoIP capabilities as well as critical Unified Communications applications," said Gurmeet S. Lamba, Senior Vice President, Product Development, Clarus Systems. "With this release, we add support for the most widely deployed UC applications. We will continue to follow the lead of our customers and support additional UC apps, from Cisco and others as they are deployed and implemented."
Since its debut, the comprehensive capabilities of ClarusIPC Plus+ for UC stability have been authenticated by its rapid adoption by Fortune 100 Enterprise customers, managed service providers and system integrators. Enterprises that depend on voice and data as mission-critical, have been relying on Clarus Systems product capabilities. Most notably, these industry verticals include financial services, healthcare, energy, government and education. With the release of ClarusIPC Plus+4.0, the company's product line expands management capabilities beyond pure voice into additional UC applications and includes Automated Testing, Performance Monitoring, Configuration Management and Business Intelligence.
ClarusIPC Plus+ version 4.0 utilizes newly designed and customer-proven algorithms which permit IT professionals to do more testing faster during new deployments, upgrades, or continuous regression testing. Clarus is well known for identifying and helping resolve network issues before end users perceive the problem. Whether it is the most requested and relevant tests such as Direct Inward Dialing (DID), Call Permissions, Forward to Voice Mail, Conferencing or something of an exception in nature, the end result is that the enterprise customer can completely validate whether a branch office or headquarters location is ready for business, ensuring availability of communication services to the end user.
"ClarusIPC Plus+ version 4.0 mirrors our corporate value proposition – and that is to ensure the highest quality of voice services for end users," said Brendan Reidy, CEO, Clarus Systems. "With enterprises continually monitoring resources and costs, we design our offerings by listening to customer feedback and then taking it up a notch with our development team. One consistent request we hear centers on keeping all the voice management features in one package. By integrating the unified communications suite of capabilities, we make the process easy to manage for all IT professionals tasked with keeping the UC environment up and running."
01 / 10 / 2011 | Clarus Systems, ClarusIPC Plus, Automated Testing, Performance Monitoring, CUCM v8.5
Cisco and VMware to Deliver Integrated Virtual Desktop Solution
Cisco and VMware this week announced a desktop virtualization solution based on the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) and VMware View 4.5. The solution is aimed at helping customers deploy virtual desktop solutions that scale to meet business needs and regulatory requirements while reducing risk and total cost of ownership.
The Cisco Desktop Virtualization Solution with VMware View will simplify the physical and virtual infrastructure and management associated with desktop deployments with a foundation optimized for performance and availability. The solution will provide consistent security policy implementation and administration through UCS Manager and VMware View integration, enabling the deployment of virtual desktops to users in minutes. The goal is to deliver consistent access to the desktop environment across locations and devices, with exceptional application responsiveness and graphics performance. With fewer components to purchase and manage, the solution offers lower cost per seat and reduced storage costs.
Two new Cisco Validated Designs (CVDs) based on Cisco UCS and VMware View 4.5 will help customers mitigate some of the risks to successful virtual desktop implementations, and will be pre-tested to help customers and channel partners accelerate the deployment of the combined solution. The new Cisco Validated Designs are scheduled to be available in December.
"This solution builds on Cisco's relationship with VMware in accelerating the adoption of our virtualization solutions. By combining our innovation in unified computing with VMware View™ desktop virtualization we are helping our customers quickly benefit from the operational savings of desktop virtualization," said Soni Jiandani, vice president, Server, Access and Virtualization Technology Group, Cisco.
"VMware is committed to providing customers with secure, scalable and high-performance virtual desktop solutions that deliver the best user experience while lowering costs and management overhead.", said Chris Young, Vice President and General Manager, End User Computing for VMware. "We're excited to work with Cisco on new channel initiatives to provide partners the support they need to help get these solutions into customers' hands faster."
Along with the announcement, Cisco and VMware have also introduced new channel initiatives designed to help partners accelerate virtual desktop deployments for customers.
11 / 16 / 2010 | Cisco, VMware, Desktop Virtualization, VXI, Virtual Desktop, VMware View, Unified Computing, UCS
New Veeam Backup & Replication™ V5 Encourages Organizations to Virtualize Enterprise Applications on VMware vSphere™
Veeam Software, innovative provider of VMware data protection, disaster recovery and VMware management solutions for virtual datacenter environments, today released Veeam Backup & Replication 5.0, whose added functionality gives organizations compelling reasons to virtualize their critical enterprise applications, such as CRM, ERP and email systems.
Version 5.0 provides 2-in-1 backup and replication for virtual machines (VMs) running on VMware ESX(i) and performs functions not possible with traditional physical backup solutions or other virtual backup tools. With patent-pending technology, Veeam Backup & Replication 5.0 can run a VM in production or in an isolated virtual lab directly from a compressed and deduplicated backup file on regular backup storage. As a result, it’s now possible to instantly recover a VM directly from a backup, restore individual objects (email messages, database records, etc.) from any virtualized application, and automatically verify the recoverability of every backup without additional hardware or staff. This technology also enables organizations to gain additional value from their investments in backup storage by using backups to create an “on-demand sandbox” for troubleshooting, testing and development/QA.
“By virtualizing enterprise applications on VMware vSphere™ and using Veeam Backup & Replication v5, organizations can overcome the limitations of traditional backup and gain fast, flexible and reliable recovery of critical applications,” explained Ratmir Timashev, Veeam President and CEO. “This includes databases such as Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server and email systems such as Microsoft Exchange. Learn more...
10 / 20 / 2010 | Veeam, Backup, Replication, VMware, New Release
VMware Announces General Availability of VMware View™ 4.5
PALO ALTO, Calif. – Sept. 13, 2010 — VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced the general availability of VMware View™ 4.5, the first enterprise-class desktop virtualization solution that delivers rich virtual desktop experiences to end-users online or offline. VMware View 4.5 is a complete, virtual desktop solution that enables enterprises to improve security, lower operating costs, and simplify desktop administration and management by establishing a modern, end-user computing architecture.
VMware’s vision for end user computing helps organizations evolve their legacy desktop computing environments to a more modern, user-centric application and data delivery model. The company’s strategy seeks to free users and IT from more than two decades of complex, device-centric computing and deliver a more consumer-focused cloud experience for the enterprise.
“The release of VMware View™ 4.5 establishes a clear path to the modern desktop and our vision for a user-centric application and data delivery model,” said Vittorio Viarengo, vice president, End User Computing Products for VMware. “VMware View 4.5 provides the best of both worlds – end user mobility and IT manageability. VMware View 4.5 dramatically expands the number of use cases for virtual desktop technology by offering the first offline solution in the market allowing users to check out their virtual desktop from the data center and take it on the road with them.” Learn more...
09 / 13 / 2010 | VMware, View, Desktop Virtualization, New Release
VMware Advances Foundation for Cloud Computing With VMware vSphere 4.1 and Expanded Virtualization Management Portfolio
PALO ALTO, Calif., July 13, 2010 — VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter and to the cloud, today announced VMware vSphere™ 4.1, the latest version of the award-winning VMware virtualization platform, as well as an expanded portfolio of virtualization management solutions. VMware once again sets the bar in virtualization, coupling dramatic scalability and performance enhancements with new management capabilities to deliver the most powerful foundation for cloud computing.
“Strategically, server virtualization is an IT modernization catalyst that will change how IT is acquired, consumed, managed, sourced and paid for. Virtualization will even change how businesses innovate and grow,” said Thomas Bittman, VP Distinguished Analyst at Gartner. “Done well, server virtualization makes fundamental changes that can lead an organization down the path of private and public cloud computing.”
Cloud computing represents a new model for the way IT services are developed, provisioned and consumed. VMware virtualization enables enterprises and service providers to lay the foundation for cloud computing by aggregating an elastic pool of computing resources that can be accessed on-demand while enabling policy-based automation and management to increase efficiency. VMware vSphere 4.1 and the VMware vCenter™ product family are cornerstone solutions for customers and service providers building private and public cloud environments. As such, these technologies have attracted a broad partner ecosystem of industry leaders that support and extend this foundation. Learn more...
07 / 13 / 2010 | VMware, vSphere, New Release
Cisco Introduces IP-Based Dispatch and Brings Mobile Video to First Responders
SAN JOSE, Calif. – March 10, 2010 – Further extending its Connected Physical Security portfolio, Cisco today announced the Cisco® IP Interoperability Collaboration System (IPICS) 4.0 to provide those on the front lines of safety and security with a new way to view, assess and coordinate action for an emergency situation. An intelligent network system that integrates disparate push-to-talk radio together with voice, video, and data networks, Cisco IPICS 4.0 now puts the power of live mobile video and multimedia-enhanced communications into the hands of public safety officials and security personnel from universities and schools, critical infrastructure agencies, businesses, and other first-responder organizations.
Featuring newly integrated IP-based dispatch console and mobile client applications, IPICS 4.0 allows multiple safety and security organizations to quickly share vital incident information, including live mobile video, across previously isolated radio networks. Cisco IPICS is tightly integrated with Cisco Connected Physical Security solutions with extensive built-in support for interoperability. Its Web services APIs can easily trigger or receive communications from Cisco Video Surveillance and Cisco Physical Access Control or third-party applications, further enhancing situational awareness, response time, operational efficiency and cross-agency collaboration during a critical event. Learn more...
03 / 10 / 2010 | Cisco, IPICS, IP-based dispatch, emergency response, public safety
Cisco Introduces Foundation for Next-Generation Internet
SAN JOSE, Calif., March 9, 2010 – Cisco today announced a major advancement in Internet networking - the Cisco® CRS-3 Carrier Routing System (CRS) - designed to serve as the foundation of the next-generation Internet and set the pace for the astonishing growth of video transmission, mobile devices and new online services through this decade and beyond.
With more than 12 times the traffic capacity of the nearest competing system, the Cisco CRS-3 is designed to transform the broadband communication and entertainment industry by accelerating the delivery of compelling new experiences for consumers, new revenue opportunities for service providers, and new ways to collaborate in the workplace. Learn more...
03 / 09 / 2010 | Cisco, 100G, Carrier Routing System, CRS-3
Cisco Delivers "Security Without Borders"
SAN FRANCISCO, CA and HANNOVER, GERMANY – March 2, 2010 – Cisco is tackling today's enterprise security challenges with a new architecture that will help enable business users to access information from any device and any location with a high degree of ease and security. The company announced the Cisco© Secure Borderless Network architecture, which evolves enterprise security by focusing on four critical anchors: enterprise endpoints (mobile or fixed), the Internet edge, the data center, and policy that is context- and location-aware.
As the first proof point of this architecture, Cisco is releasing the Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility solution and expanding Cisco TrustSec™ to provide businesses with identity and granular control over policy to maximize persistent security and protection. This is especially important as workforces are increasingly mobile and are using new forms of Web-based collaboration and communication, making traditional security approaches insufficient. Learn more...
03 / 02 / 2010 | Cisco, ScanSafe, IronPort, VPN, AnyConnect, TrustSec, secure mobility, SaaS, security as a service
Atlantic Digital Expands Strategic Partnerships with Veeam
Atlantic Digital, Inc. is proud to announce that we have expanded our strategic partnerships to include Veeam Software. Atlantic Digital, Inc. is now a Veeam Silver ProPatner and can provide customers with a full range of Veeam products and the consulting expertise to implement them.
Veeam’s popular FastSCP freeware is used by more than 100,000 VMware professionals, making it the most widely used free tool to help manage VMware vSphere.
Veeam offers an award-winning suite of products to better manage VMware vSphere, including #1 for VMware backup: Veeam Backup and Replication; Veeam Reporter Enterprise, for VMware performance, storage, capacity reporting and chargeback; Veeam Monitor, for VMware performance monitoring and alerting across multiple vCenters; Veeam Configurator, offering complete host configuration management; and Veeam Business View, a free add-on that works with other Veeam products to provide business categorization for the VMware vSphere environment. With its acquisition of nworks, Veeam's products include the nworks Smart Plug-in and the nworks Management Pack that allow customers to monitor and manage their physical and virtual infrastructures from a single screen by incorporating VMware state and performance data into enterprise management consoles from HP and Microsoft.. Read more...
12 / 23 / 2009 | Veeam, Partner, FastSCP, Veeam Monitor, Veeam Configurator, Veeam Business View
Cisco Introduces Unified Communications System Release 8.0
SAN JOSE, Calif., November 9, 2009 – As part of today's portfolio announcement at Cisco's Collaboration Summit, the company introduced a ground-breaking version of its industry-leading unified communications platform, featuring innovations and enhancements designed to reduce costs and increase operating efficiencies between and within global enterprises. Cisco Unified Communications System Release 8.0 enables organizations to collaborate in new ways that remove barriers to communications with partners, suppliers and customers through integrated voice, video, presence, instant messaging and Web sessions.
Cisco Unified Communications System 8.0 includes advanced integrated Internet Protocol (IP) applications that allow businesses to extract more value from their communications through federated presence across devices and platforms, and through instant messaging, customer care, conferencing, video and mobility capabilities. These help enable:
• Rich, highly secure business-to-business communications.
• Innovative and interoperable communications, including enterprise instant messaging, Cisco Unified IP Phones as collaborative endpoints, and advanced mobile solutions.
• Flexible deployment models, including virtualized environments that allow customers to use Cisco Unified Communications solutions in a hybrid deployment on-premises and in the cloud as-a-service.
• Compelling integrated user experiences that incorporate video throughout the solution and that recognize the importance of simple and efficient collaborations with customers.
11 / 09 / 2009 | Cisco, collaboration, unified communications, video conferencing, IP phones, Cisco IP telephony
VMware Gives Desktop Virtualization a New View
VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) today announced VMware View 4, enabling rapid adoption of virtualized desktops and establishing a desktop as a managed service model. VMware View 4 is the industry’s only purpose-built desktop virtualization solution, setting a new quality, cost and scale standard for desktop virtualization environments. Built on VMware vSphere, the industry’s leading virtualization platform, VMware View 4 is a complete desktop virtualization solution featuring a rich, flexible desktop user experience while delivering dramatic efficiency, security, performance, scalability and management improvements – all while reducing desktop total cost of ownership by as much as 50 percent.
Desktop virtualization has long remained a top IT goal because of the added security, manageability and compliance capabilities delivered. Adoption, however, has been limited due to high acquisition costs, insufficient user experience, scalability issues and limitations on the use cases that could benefit from virtualized desktops. With VMware View 4, VMware eliminate these barriers, enabling broader, mainstream enterprise adoption of desktop virtualization.
VMware View ™ 4 provides:
• Simplified desktop provisioning and management
• User flexibility and rich user experience
• Differentiated desktop SLAs
• Improved security and compliance
VMware View 4 will be generally available on November 19, 2009. Learn more...
11 / 09 / 2009 | Desktop Virtualization, Managed Service, PCoIP, VMware View 4, SRM
VMware Expands Enterprise Class Automated Disaster Recovery
VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) today announced the availability of VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 4, enabling automated, reliable and affordable disaster recovery. VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager provides automated disaster recovery for virtual environments. Now, with added support for Network File System (NFS) based storage replication, compatibility with VMware vSphere™ 4, and simplified “many-to-one” failover using shared recovery sites, VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager makes it even easier for customers to confidently protect all of their virtual environments.
Disaster recovery is critical for companies to protect corporate data, but has typically been difficult to achieve due to costs and complexity. Disasters in the datacenter–whether they are caused by hurricanes, earthquakes, power outages, or other unexpected events–can result in downtime for business critical applications. Extended downtime significantly impacts revenues, service level agreements (SLAs) and business operations. Traditional solutions for disaster recovery require complex, manual recovery processes, and can be very difficult to set up, test and keep up-to-date. Regulatory requirements can also present challenges to disaster recovery solutions. As a result, organizations only provide disaster recovery plans for the most critical applications.
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager addresses these challenges by centralizing management of recovery plans and automating the testing and recovery process, resulting in rapid, reliable, affordable disaster recovery. VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager, originally released in 2008, has become the defacto standard for automating disaster recovery, with more than 2,000 customers and support from 12 leading storage vendors. Learn more...
10 / 05 / 2009 | Business Continuity, COOP, Disaster Recovery, VMware Site Recovery Manager, SRM
Disaster Recovery - Are You Prepared?
Whether your organization refers to it as Business Continuity Planning (BCP), Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP) or Continuity of Operations Planning (COOP), most organizations are ill-prepared for a data center/data/network destroying disaster. Even organizations that have a documented plan, have not exercised and/or validated the plan. VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager provides a cost effective, readily manageable means of implementing, administering and effectively testing your true DR capabilities; a capability you can bet your business on. Read more...
09 / 30 / 2009 | Business Continuity, COOP, Disaster Recovery, VMware Site Recovery Manager, SRM
Atlantic Digital - Salesforce.com Referral Partner
Atlantic Digital is now an Authorized Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) Referral Partner. As a Referral Partner, Atlantic Digital is able to offer its customers the opportunity to purchase salesforce.com's web-based software as a service (SaaS). Salesforce.com's portfolio of CRM applications has revolutionized the ways that companies collaborate and communicate with their customers. The company's Force.com Platform enables customers, partners and developers to quickly build powerful business tools to run every part of the enterprise in the cloud. Salesforce CRM and Force.com offer the fastest path to customer success with cloud computing.
07 / 28 / 2009 | salesforce.com, Authorized Referral Partner, Force.com
Go Green - Green IT and Energy Efficiency
Rising energy costs and consumption in data centers are climbing the list of corporate priorities. Atlantic Digital can provide your organization with tailored “Green IT” solutions, whether you care about saving money, deploying new services, keeping the data center running or helping the environment. Read more...
07 / 27 / 2009 | Green, Energy, Efficiency, Environment
Transform your Data Center
Transforming your data center through the implementation of today's highly capable technologies will enhance your business' performance. Getting the fundamentals right is critical. Atlantic Digital provides your business with the expertise, product portfolios and industry partners to ensure your business is prepared for the future now. Read More...
07 / 20 / 2009 | Data Center Transformation, Future Computing
Atlantic Digital joins the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce
Atlantic Digital has recently joined the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce, one of Tampa's oldest and largest business organizations. Established in 1885 and representing over 2,000 businesses, the Chamber is a not-for-profit business membership organization that helps promote the businesses and interests of its members with the goal of contributing to the success of its members and the economic growth of our community.
Atlantic Digital is an enterprise-class IT services and solutions consulting firm in Tampa, Florida and is a proud member of the Chamber. We hope to facilitate growth and prosperity of local businesses by helping them take control of enterprise computing with solutions that encompass business and technical consultancy, design, project management, and implementation.
Our services include:
• Virtualization and cloud computing including VMware solutions
• Unified communications solutions utilizing Cisco VoIP technologies
• Core infrastructure and network transport design and integration
• Data & network security consulting and solutions
• Enterprise application/CRM consulting services utilizing salesforce.com
07 / 06 / 2009 | Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce, Business, Community
Atlantic Digital joins the Tampa Bay Technology Forum
Atlantic Digital has joined the Tampa Bay Technology Forum (TBTF). Founded in 2000, the Tampa Bay Technology Forum (TBTF) is a professional association whose members work together to make the Bay area a place where technology and innovation thrive. TBTF’s 450+ member organizations represent more than 45,000 employees include technology entrepreneurs, business and community leaders, investors, government representatives, researchers and educators.
06 / 30 / 2009 | Tampa, TBTF, Tampa Bay Technology Forum, Community
VMware Delivers VMware vSphere™ 4
VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop through the data center and to the cloud, today announced the general availability of VMware vSphere™ 4, delivered ahead of schedule and with the support of an extensive partner ecosystem and customers around the globe.
“With VMware vSphere 4, we are once again raising the bar significantly for businesses that desire to dramatically improve IT performance,” said Raghu Raghuram, vice president and general manager, server business unit, VMware. “The cost savings associated with virtualization are undeniable, and as more customers standardize on VMware to drive 100 percent virtualization, they are realizing the additional benefits that our solutions deliver, including increased flexibility and agility.”
VMware vSphere 4 extends the previous generation VMware platform – VMware Infrastructure 3 – along three dimensions: it delivers the efficiency and performance required to run business critical applications in large scale environments, it provides uncompromised control over application security and service levels, and it preserves customer choice of hardware, OS, application architecture and on-premise vs. off-premise application hosting.
VMware vSphere 4 enables transformative capital and operational expenditure cost savings over and above what was previously achievable, including 30 percent increase in consolidation ratios, 50 percent storage savings, and 20 percent additional power savings. With VMware vSphere 4, even the most resource intensive business critical applications will benefit from the built-in service level assurance capabilities for availability, security and scalability.
Customers are already harnessing VMware vSphere 4 to bring the benefits of cloud computing to their data centers, creating a practical approach to their own private clouds – cloud computing infrastructures that span internal IT with external cloud service providers.
“VMware vSphere 4 is the core of our cloud computing initiative because it gives us the cost savings and scalability benefits of cloud computing, with the choice to deploy any application or OS without getting locked into any particular architecture,” said Christopher Rence, CIO, FICO.
For more information on how customers such as Alstom, Campbell Clinic, Defense Contract Management Agency, FICO, Harley Davidson Motor Company and Melbourne IT are using the VMware vSphere 4 platform, please visit: http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vsphere-customers.html.
05 / 20 / 2009 | VMware, vSphere, New Release