Trend Micro announced the industry's first hypervisor "agnostic," virtualization-aware endpoint security offering - Trend Micro OfficeScan 10.5, the company's endpoint security solution for medium businesses and enterprises.

According to a recent study by the Enterprise Strategy Group, 60 percent of enterprises have a desktop virtualization strategy and 45 percent of them will have virtualized 50 percent of their desktops within the next three years.¹ But despite the smaller economic impact of cleaning or rebuilding infected virtual endpoints, most usage scenarios of virtual desktops have a risk profile nearly identical to that of physical desktops.

Lymeware Corporation has announced the availability of their first IAgent3 SUSE-Powered Appliance, a software appliance-based virtualized version of Lymeware's IAgent3 Interactive Agent product. This new version of the popular IAgent3 Secure Messaging Interactive Agent (IA) gateway product now supports VMware's ESX and ESXi hypervisors and offers the same network capability and security features of their past IAgent3 product releases but in a more cost-efficient manner by leveraging the benefits of a virtualized environment.

Oracle today announced the release of a range or Virtual Desktop Infrastructure softwares. Demonstrating its commitment to desktop virtualization, Oracle introduced Oracle's Sun Ray 3 Plus Client, the latest addition to the Sun Ray Client family, and the latest release of Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure software. These products add to Oracle's desktop virtualization portfolio, which also includes Oracle Secure Global Desktop and Oracle VM VirtualBox.

Digitiliti, a leader in Operational Business Intelligence for small to midsized enterprises, today announced Northland Systems, a global provider of innovative data center and network products and solutions, will be offering Digitiliti's DigiLIBE(TM) Virtual Corporate Library, a comprehensive solution for managing, controlling and accessing unstructured data, to their worldwide customers.

McAfee, Inc. today announced its strategy to advance the security options for virtualised environments that will provide stronger and optimised security controls helping customers maximise their current and future investments in virtualisation. McAfee is currently developing a platform and application programming interface to provide a framework that will accelerate and address the specific needs of security for virtualised environments.

VM6 Software, Inc., provider of the only all-in-one IT virtualization infrastructure software, today announced the general availability of its latest product release, VM6 VMex 2.1, the only solution that combines virtualization with shared storage, advanced clustering and intuitive management and monitoring. Based on industry and customer feedback, VM6 VMex 2.1 continues to make virtualization more easily accessible for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and remote offices worldwide.

ScaleMP, a leading provider of virtualization solutions for high-end computing, today announced a technology preview of its VM-on-VM technology, which consolidates multiple servers running KVM and Xen virtualization software on a virtual system allowing the virtualization software to use the aggregated virtual server resources. Virtual machine (VM) consolidation provides improved VM management, hardware cost-savings and decreased operational costs.

3PAR, the leading global provider of utility storage, announced today support for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers, a comprehensive server virtualization solution that includes a standalone Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor and server management tools. With this announcement, 3PAR InServ(R) Storage Server customers can choose the enterprise-class Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor to build and deploy a virtualization environment on a scale necessary for public or private cloud datacenters.

Infoblox Inc. today announced it has expanded its portfolio of solutions for virtualised network environments with Infoblox IPAM for Virtualization, an advanced IP address management (IPAM) solution specifically designed to track IP addresses assigned to virtual machines.

They have also announced the availability of Infoblox vNIOS for VMware, the company’s operating system optimised for VMware, which allows deployment of a virtualised instance of an Infoblox appliance. This solution, in conjunction with Infoblox physical appliances in a datacenter, is ideal for enterprise branch offices, where footprint, power and other resources are often limited.

Certeon, announced that Mosaic Technology, is partnering with Certeon to provide virtualized WAN optimization solutions for storage and disaster recovery environments. Mosaic will resell Certeon’s aCelera virtual appliances to improve the performance and reduce the cost of its customers’ backup and recovery operations.