VMware ESX 3.5 Approaching End of Availability

On May 21, 2010 VMware ESX 3.5 will reach End of Availability. How will this affect VMware support for your VMware environment?

Click here for more details

Entisys Establishes Infrastructure Architecture Group

Strengthening its position as the West Coast’s leading consultant and integrator of virtualization solutions from the data center to the desktop, Entisys Solutions, announced the launch of its Infrastructure Architecture Group. This team of dedicated professionals will focus on providing products and services that support the integration ofHP Enterprise products and virtual infrastructures;providing clients with a complete spectrum of virtualization solutions.

For more information, visit our web-site athttp://www.entisys.com

Whitepaper: Entisys Solutions helps Best, Best and Krieger, LLP virtualize 98% of their server infrastructure

Read how Entisys Solutions virtualized the server infrastructure of Best, Best and Kreiger, LLP and reduced the server infrastructure from 60+ servers down to 6 while lowering their power and cooling costs.

ABCNews.com features Citrix Chief Security Strategist Kurt Roemer discussing the privacy and security issues with digitizing medical records. 

Watch the video. 

Community Service: Doing our part for Haiti relief

Entisys Solutions donates $7,000 to Haiti relief via D G Educational Services, a nonprofit organization based in Northern California. 

Citrix Delivers the Citrix NetScaler VPX Virtual Appliance

As further proof to Citrix’s commitment to virtualization and optimization, the Citrix NetScaler VPX can lower your TCO for testing, development and deployment of small environments with NetScaler solutions. 

Click here to download the Citrix NetScaler VPX Express Edition for Free (MyCitrix.com account required).

Data Regulatory Compliance Issues? E-mail Archiving Getting You Down? Mimosa Systems Can Help!

Enterprises and organizations of all sizes are considering content archival systems for eDiscovery litigation support and storage optimization, as well as for meeting regulatory requirements for industries such as financial services, healthcare, government, and others. Mimosa Systems provides solutions for your data retention, and e-mail archiving needs and built on a highly scalable and cost-effective grid architecture designed for global deployments of hundreds of thousands of users with high data volumes. 

Contact your Entisys Solutions Account Representative or sales@entisys.com for more information.

 

Citrix, VMware or NetApp Training Needs? We have you covered.

Contact your Entisys Solutions Account Executive concerning your training needs for Citrix, VMware and NetApp solutions.

Know someone who might be interested in the email? Why not forward this email to them. 

Forward this message to a friend

VMware View 4.0.1 was released for download on Feb. 18, 2010.

Localization of VMware View

The View Client and online help for View Client are now available in Japanese, French, German, and simplified Chinese.

VirtualCenter 2.5 Update 6 and ESX 3.5 Update 5 Support

View Manager 4.0.1 includes support for VirtualCenter 2.5 Update 6 and ESX 3.5 Update 5.

Enhancements to the PCoIP Display Protocol

PCoIP now supports the following features:

• Virtual Printing, which allows end users to use local or network printers from a View desktop without requiring that additional print drivers be installed in the View desktop.
• Single sign-on support for third party providers such as Sentillion and Imprivata.
• View Client supports international keyboards when using PCoIP.

Link to the entire Release Notes for VMware View 4.0.1

Akamai has been accelerating Web Based applications and content delivery since its founding in 1998. Services like iTunes Adobe, and Amazon utilize Akamai to deliver their content, and you may not have even known it. But I bet you didn’t know they can also accelerate your Application and Desktop Virtualization solutions?

Akamai’s IP Acceleration Accelerator (IPA) managed service accelerates your Application and Desktop Virtualization initiatives over the internet with no Capital expenditure, and no software changes. While WAN accelerators have recently began to address display protocols used by the Application and Desktop Virtualization solutions, they can do very little for users accessing your systems over the internet. Not enough data is repeated to the single user to leverage caching and that is where most WAN accelerators obtain their biggest savings. Akamai IPA managed service accelerates the display protocol by leveraging the Akamai network to quickly deliver packets and provide a better user experience for end users. Since it doesn’t require a WAN, your users can realize these benefits from non-corporate locations. If you have users utilize Application and Desktop Virtualization display protocols from across the oceans, then you really need to see this.

Flash video explaining the solution and showing a demo
http://www.akamai.com/vdi_demo/ 

Tolly Group whitepaper on Akamai and Citrix XenDesktop
http://www.akamai.com/tolly (Registration required)

For more technical information on this solution, see our Tech Corner article below.

Call your Entisys Solutions representative or e-mail sales@entisys.comfor more information.

Microsoft released Windows Server 2008R2 late last year and with it came Hyper-V R2. Microsoft focused on 3 areas for this release: Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, Scalability and Availability. Full article is linked here.

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure: Microsoft has provided the ability to make a Virtual Desktop available within a user’s object in Active Directory. Combined with Windows 7, users can leverage multiple monitors, Aero Glass, multimedia redirection and audio input/recording.

Scalability: The free version of Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 now supports up to 8 Processors and up to 1TB of memory. Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V (the ones you pay for) are now support up to 64 logical processors.

Availability: Live Migration is now supported on all editions along with the previously supported Quick Migrations. Live Migration Clustering is also now supported on Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 (Free).

If you're interested in seeing if you're eligible for a funded Proof of Concept of Microsoft’s Virtual Desktop solution, call your Entisys Solutions representative or e-mail sales@entisys.com for more information.

Think of Akamai’s IPA managed service like a freeway system. The internet is the standard freeway system, and Akamai’s IPA managed service is like a toll road.

• The toll road is purpose built for speed and moving traffic from one location to another.
• The toll road has entry points and exit points for the most common locations.
• While the freeway system can run efficiently at times, it does not provide assurance since a single accident can affect the entire freeway infrastructure.

Akamai’s IPA managed service is the toll road for IP based application by providing a network built for speed and efficiency with a level of assurance for traffic delivery. 

First of all, the IPA managed service leverages Akamai’s network as its foundation. The user enters the Akamai network by working as normal. The user doesn’t change how they work at all. From an IT Administrator perspective, instead of the FQDN referencing your network directly, it references the Akamai network. The Akamai network responds by providing the user with the closest entry point to the Akamai network. 

Once on the Akamai network, the data travels to your network utilizing the best path (and most often with much less hops) and is then delivered to your data center via the closest exit point from the Akamai network.

That’s it. No changes to your application. No additional network bandwidth. No hardware for you to purchase.

Sounds simple right? Sounds like it can speed up your Application and Desktop Virtualization display protocols?

For more technical informationhttp://www.akamai.com/dl/feature_sheets/FS_IPA.pdf

For an evaluation of this solution using your existing infrastructure, contact your Entisys Solutions representative or e-mailsales@entisys.com for more information.