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4700 visitors made the trip to Cannes in the south of France this February for VMworld Europe 2009. The sunny skies of the Côte d'Azur took some of the edge off the grey economic outlook, contributing to an event that remained cheerful and optimistic. The "full virtual" revolution is under way; business applications are turning into services and a new information systems ecosystem, promising increased productivity and lower costs for the enterprise, is becoming a reality. From the data center, to the desktop to the cell phone, VMware and its partners demonstrated how to transform the enterprise through end-to-end virtualisation. Paul Maritz, VMware CEO, introduced vSphere, VMware's future data center OS, as "a new kind of operating system... a software mainframe" in his keynote speech. The next release of ESX will include storage and network virtualisation features based on partnerships with EMC and Cisco. Meanwhile Double-Take Software continues to enhance its business continuity offerings for both physical and virtual environments, a key element in a dependable cloud infrastructure.

 

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Webinar: No Time for Migration Downtime? Discover an Optimised Approach to Workload Portability.
Date: April 28th, 2009
Time: 5.00pm Paris Time
Time Duration: 1 hour
Speaker: Bob Roudebush, Director of Solutions Engineering - Double-Take Software and Lauren Whitehouse, Analyst, ESG
Join ESG Analyst Lauren Whitehouse together with Double-Take Software for an overview of "Double-Take Move" - the latest of the Workload Optimisation Software suite of products from Double-Take Software. Learn how this product assists with efficient, flexible datacenter consolidation; simple storage migration; P2P / V2P or P2V / V2V migrations. To register, follow this link.

 

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