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SANTA CLARA, CA – 4/27/2010 – Today at the Interop 2010 conference in Las Vegas, Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CTXS) announced the availability of three new ultra high-performance NetScaler® MPX™ appliances. Leveraging all the power of the recently released Intel® Xeon® processor 5680 series technology, and the newest NetScaler version 9.2 software with Citrix nCore™ technology, (see link to 9.2 release here), the new NetScaler MPX 17500, 19500 and 21500 appliances offer the ideal blend of scalability, functionality and performance. In stark contrast to other application networking vendors that rely upon proprietary hardware that limits their ability to quickly adapt, the Citrix approach allows for rapid time to market, flexible feature additions and fully leverages the latest Intel CPU advancements as they are released.
Cloud computing offers unparalleled flexibility and agility, but it can also add latency to application traffic and deliver uneven application availability for global users. By pairing NetScaler with Intel® Xeon® processor 5680 series technology, Citrix is providing another simple, yet robust, solution that drives the elasticity of the cloud into the datacenter.  With virtual datacenters delivering ever more complex Web 2.0 applications, these drawbacks are only amplified. The new NetScaler MPX models make virtual datacenters a reality by simultaneously providing application acceleration, intelligent traffic management, and security – all at extreme performance levels demanded at the front-end of virtual datacenters.
The new NetScaler MPX models uniquely scale from 20-to-35-to-50 Gbps performance – all on the same physical appliance, requiring no forklift upgrade. As with all NetScaler solutions, these new MPX appliances support all NetScaler features, including L4-7 local and global load balancing, content caching, data compression, SSL VPN, Web 2.0 server offload, and advanced application firewall security. In addition, these new solutions allow a

REDMOND, Wash. – June 26, 2008 – Following the launch of Windows Server 2008, Microsoft reached another milestone today with the release of Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, the hypervisor-based virtualization technology that is a feature of select versions of Windows Server 2008. The nearly 1.5 million copies of the Hyper-V beta version that have been distributed demonstrate how customer interest in virtualization is moving from evaluation to production environment deployments.
Virtualization can help companies maximize the value of IT investments, decreasing the server hardware footprint, energy consumption and cost and complexity of managing IT systems while increasing the flexibility of the overall environment. Microsoft's strategy and investments in virtualization — which span from the desktop to the datacenter — help IT professionals and developers implement Microsoft's Dynamic IT initiative, whereby they can build systems with the flexibility and intelligence to automatically adjust to changing business conditions by aligning computing resources with strategic objectives.
Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V supports virtual machines with up to four virtual cores, 32-bit as well as 64-bit operating systems, and up to 64 GB of RAM.Click for high-res version.
Hyper-V offers customers a reliable, scalable and high-performance virtualization platform that plugs into customers' existing IT infrastructures and enables them to consolidate some of the most demanding workloads. In addition, the Microsoft System Center product family gives customers a single set of integrated tools to manage physical and virtual resources, helping customers create a more agile and dynamic datacenter.
"Customers who buy Windows Server 2008 are not only getting the scalability benefits, the high performance and reliability, and all the great things that Windows Server is known for; as of today they can benefit from integrated virtualization with Hyper-V," said Bill Hilf, general manager of Win

LAS VEGAS – May 21, 2007 – Juniper Networks Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR) and Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) today announced the companies are working together to provide customers and partners with open standards-based interoperability between Juniper Networks Unified Access Control (UAC) and Microsoft® Network Access Protection (NAP). Interoperability between NAP and the Juniper Networks UAC solution will provide customers with greater choice, flexibility and investment protection for network access control (NAC) deployments. Juniper Networks and Microsoft are demonstrating NAP/UAC interoperability this week at Interop Las Vegas 2007 in the Microsoft Partner Pavilion #1548, Juniper booth #539, Trusted Computing Group booth #211 and at NAC Day, a sold-out education conference taking place on Monday, May 21, 2007, at the Interop show.
Juniper Networks and Microsoft are further demonstrating joint commitment and continuing support for the Trusted Computing Group's (TCG) Trusted Network Connect (TNC) open specifications for network access control. Microsoft has contributed NAP's primary Statement of Health (SOH) client-server protocol to the TCG. The TCG has adopted and published the Microsoft SOH protocol as a new TNC standard (IF-TNCCS-SOH). This will enable interoperability of NAP clients and servers with TNC clients, servers and infrastructure such as the Juniper Networks UAC solution.
The Juniper Networks Infranet Controller, the policy management server at the heart of the Juniper UAC solution, will be able to leverage the built-in security assessment capabilities and the SOH protocol provided by the NAP agent built into the Windows Vista® and Microsoft Windows® XP operating systems. Microsoft Network Policy Server (NPS) brings a rich ecosystem of NAP health agents and will be able to interoperate with the Juniper Networks UAC solution in heterogeneous network environments. Microsoft NPS can either act as a policy server or be leveraged by the Juniper Infranet Controller

SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 12, 2007 – Intel Corporation announced today its entry into solid state drives with the Intel® Z-U130 Value Solid-State Drive. Based on NAND flash memory with industry standard USB interfaces, the Intel Z-U130 Value Solid State Drive offers cost-effective, high-performance storage for a wide variety of computing and embedded platforms. With advantages over hard disk drive (HDD) or removable universal serial bus (USB) storage devices, Intel's Solid State Drives deliver faster boot times, embedded code storage, rapid data access and low-power storage alternatives for value PCs, routers, servers, gaming and industrial applications.
"Solid state drive technology offers many benefits over traditional hard disk drives including improved performance and reliability," said Randy Wilhelm, vice president and general manager of Intel's NAND Products Group. "The Intel solid state drive technology provides robust performance, while offering Intel's industry leading quality, validation and reliability for a wide variety of embedded applications."
The Intel Z-U130 Value Solid State Drive is the company's first solution in the Intel Value Solid State Drive family that will offer different industry standard interfaces and densities. The product comes in 1 Gigabyte (GB), 2GB, 4GB and 8GB densities. With fast reads of 28 megabytes (MB) per second and write speeds of 20 MB per second, this higher performing solid state drive is a faster storage alternative that speeds through common PC or embedded application operations such as locating boot code, operating systems and commonly accessed libraries.
The drives will also be used in a variety of Intel-based computing platforms, such as servers, emerging market notebooks and low-cost, fully featured PCs. In addition, it will be used in Intel embedded solutions for routers and point of sale terminals.
Intel's Z-U130 Value Solid State Drive will be distinguished from other solid state product offerings by its exten

On the heels of taking the No. 1 position in factory revenues and units shipped for blade servers,(1) HP today introduced virtualization technologies that simplify the connectivity and management of its HP BladeSystem c-Class architecture, the company's core solution for the next-generation data center.

HP also announced the launch of its first workstation blade for the c-Class blade portfolio, the HP ProLiant xw460c Blade Workstation, to provide users with increased performance and scalability.
Dramatically simplifying network connectivity and common server management tasks across the data center, the HP Virtual Connect Ethernet and Fibre Channel virtualization modules enable administrators for the first time to wire just once and then add, replace or recover servers on the fly. In addition to lowering capital and operating costs, the modules deliver simplified management capabilities that reduce the time it takes to execute these actions from hours or days to a matter of minutes.
"HP is creating systems that dramatically reduce installation time, cut costs for administration and reduce barriers to change within an IT organization," said Ann Livermore, executive vice president, Technology Solutions Group, HP. "With HP Virtual Connect, CIOs and IT administrators are set to overcome two of the biggest problems of today's data center: administrative productivity and the need to drive rapid change."
The new technologies bolster the HP Adaptive Infrastructure offering, which helps customers move towards 24×7, "lights out" data centers, and will add to the company's momentum in the blade server market. According to analyst firm IDC, HP surpassed IBM to take the lead in factory revenues and units shipped for blade servers in the fourth calendar quarter of 2006.(1)
"Customers are on a treadmill of complexity and cost that limits the value IT is able to deliver to the business," said Zane Adam, director, Windows Server Division, Microsoft Corp. "HP's new Virtual Connect m

Embedded World, Nürnberg, GERMANY — February 13, 2007 –At the Embedded World Exhibition & Conference this week, AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced the next step in the evolution of its embedded business-including the addition of Second-Generation AMD Opteron™ processors and AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 dual-core processors to the AMD64 Longevity Program, plus the release of the new AMD Geode™ [email protected] processor. With a commitment to lowering customers' time to market, AMD is also offering several new Reference Design Kits (RDKs). Spanning high-end to very low power embedded markets, these new AMD solutions are part of a continued focus on delivering a stable, consistent, high-performance architecture for embedded designers.
"Today we are significantly expanding our embedded market support," said Greg White, vice president, Embedded Computing Solutions Division, AMD. "We believe that only AMD can offer embedded designers scalable and powerful, yet energy- and cost-efficient, products and solutions that leverage the most flexible x86 platforms available. Our customer-centric approach to innovation means we offer solutions that not only meet, but also exceed design requirements and performance expectations."
As a testament to the broad adoption of AMD processors by embedded designers and the support of AMD's vision for the future in the embedded market, WIN Enterprises also announced today that it is offering the first Single Board Computer (SBC) embedded design featuring the Second-Generation AMD Opteron processor with DDR2 memory. More information is available at www.win-ent.com.
"WIN Enterprises is excited to be the first AMD embedded industry technology partner to provide a single board computing solution based on the Second-Generation AMD Opteron processor," said Matt Stevenson, Chief Architect of WIN Enterprises. "The use of the processor in embedded designs represents a significant advancement in providing cost-effective, small form factor computing that will serve an ever-

Sophos, a world leader in IT security and control, today announced that its web security appliance, WS1000 has been reviewed by Network Testing Labs and received nearly a perfect score across six categories. The most important criteria in the review was the ability to identify and thwart all or virtually all spyware, followed by reporting capabilities, timely alerts, ease- of- use and ease of deployment.
The WS1000 protects against the full range of web threats, providing a complete infrastructure for secure browsing and eliminating the complexity of administering effective web security. As a managed appliance, WS1000 features automatic updates every five minutes, remote "heartbeat" monitoring and on-demand remote assistance, ensuring it delivers the most dependable web security in the industry.
Network Testing Labs used a grading scale of 1 through 5, with 1 = Failing and 5 = Perfect. The WS1000 was tested in the following categories: identifying and thwarting malware (5), performance (5), ease of use (5), reporting (4), deployment (5) and documentation (5). Sophos WS1000 received an overall score of 4.9 on the Security Report Card.
According to Barry Nance at Network Testing Labs, "Sophos' WS1000 is exactly what companies have been looking for – a high-performance, reliable, effective and easy-to-use answer to keeping malware off their networks. It thwarts virtually all malware without hindering or slowing clients' web access. The WS1000 proved to be an accurate, quick and easy- to- use device. It turned aside virtually all spyware, and its effect on the responsiveness of our clients' web experience was nil."

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ISVs and Hosters using Windows should be interested in new release from Microsoft:
Beta Releases: Windows-based Hosting 4.5 and Windows-based Hosting for Applications 1.5
New in This Release
The Microsoft Solution for Windows-based Hosting version 4.5 improves on previous versions of the solution by introducing a number of new features and technologies. Some of the more significant enhancements are:

Windows Server 2003 R2 – The infrastructure components of the solution now run on Windows Server 2003 R2, which extends the Windows Server 2003 operating system in important ways. Web platform features include support for .NET framework 2.0 and ASP.NET 2.0 applications as well as 64-bit support for Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0. In addition, Windows Server 2003 R2 provides:

Improved identity and access management.
Better control over storage setup and lower management costs due to improved storage management features.
Interoperability with UNIX-based systems, including password synchronization.
A new licensing model that allows customers to get more value out of server virtualization.

SQL Server 2005 -The solution incorporates fundamental advancements in database technology and security with SQL Server 2005. When compared with SQL Server 2000, the latest version of the comprehensive database platform of the solution provides:

Up to 35 percent faster transaction processing, including improved response times on queries.
Higher availability for mission critical applications and five times faster failover.
Up to 40 percent faster development environment through Visual Studio and .NET integration.
Improved analysis and calculation capabilities that allow developers to provide new services.
Improved reporting capabilities as well as the power to create ad hoc reports in multiple formats.
New features to easily support service offerings differentiated by additional capabilities rather than just database size and quantity.
Support for 64-bit platforms so service p