Dell Planning New Storage Tech for 2013

Days after announcing its converged infrastructure platform, the Active System 800, Dell is already dropping hints about its future development path; confirming its intention to use the tech it acquired with RNA Networks to deliver new storage options.

News: Browsium Catalyst Multi-browser Management Tool Released to Beta

While multi-browser environments are often needed to address compatibility and security problems, they come with several management challenges. Browsium are developing Catalyst to allow the most compatible and secure browser for each website on every PC in an organization to be centrally managed. A free beta trial is available.

Liquidware Labs ProfileUnity v5.2: does it out sense AppSense or haze Mirage?

ProfileUnity FlexApp is capable of presenting organisations with a comprehensive user environment management solution encompassing both user virtualization and a virtualized software distribution system. v5.2 adds user rights elevation, machine settings support and profile migration reporting. How does ProfileUnity stand against key competitors in the market with this new release?

Defense in Depth: Hardware Security

On the last Virtualization Security podcast our guest was Robert Rounsavall, CEO of Trapezoid. Trapezoid is looking into how to alleviate supply chain security issues. In essence the security of the hardware. At many a presentation I have asked “do you trust the hardware and many times the answer is that they do another time is they do not. This depends entirely on your thoughts with respect to hardware security. But what can you do about hardware security? What is the worst that can happen if the hardware is infiltrated?

Dell Delivers UCS Beater (Dude, It’s a Converged Infrastructure!)

Dell was in San Francisco last week to host its Enterprise Strategy Update, staking its claim to the x86 top spot with the announcement of its big converged infrastructure platform, the Active System 800.