up.time software, today released a new version of its extremely popular up.time product, which has over 700 customers in 32 countries. up.time is an 'all in one tool' for simplifying the management and monitoring of virtual, physical and cloud environments for mid-enterprise companies. Created to give mid-enterprise IT departments the ability to conduct deep monitoring for services, applications, servers and platforms across multiple datacenters with a single tool, this new version addresses the complex needs and challenges that many companies struggle with today.

Citrix Systems announced today that its popular Citrix NetScaler VPX virtual appliance will add extensive support for business-critical Microsoft datacenter and infrastructure solutions, including Microsoft(R) Hyper-V(TM), Microsoft System Center and key Microsoft enterprise applications like SharePoint 2010 and Exchange Server 2010. As a result, Microsoft datacenter administrators will now be able to apply all the same NetScaler acceleration, load balancing and security features that power many of the world's largest datacenters, as a native Hyper-V workload from directly within System Center -- with no networking knowledge or configuration required.

Today at Citrix Synergy, Citrix announced the availability of the latest version of Citrix XenServer, which delivers additional features across the product line, enhancing the enterprise-ready, cloud-proven virtualization platform with all the capabilities needed to create and manage a virtual infrastructure at a fraction of the cost of competing products. The new XenServer 5.6 delivers enhanced virtualization management capabilities for both the free XenServer, as well as the more advanced Enterprise and Platinum editions.

HP announced today at Citrix Synergy 2010 that they have expanded their client virtualization offerings for businesses to help reduce the costs and complexity of client virtualization while improving the user experience. The new offerings include: a)The HP 4320t Mobile Thin Client is designed to meet the security and reliability needs of remote and mobile workers. b)HP's desk-based thin client line now features expanded multimedia capabilities.

(mt) Media Temple today announces the public release of (ve) Server, a new on-demand, utility VPS system. Servers can now be activated starting at around $1 per day. "VE" stands for Virtual Environment, a term to describe a virtualization method that is lightweight and highly efficient. Offering near-native speeds, (ve) Servers are installed on premium hardware and use uncommonly fast storage. Priced around $1 per day, the new product delivers a tremendous amount of compute-value-per-dollar.

Wanova has opened a beta program for the latest version of Wanova Mirage™ desktop virtualization software, designed to help IT organizations better manage, support and protect remote and mobile PCs. Wanova announced the general availability of Mirage 1.3 on March 16. Wanova Mirage 1.5 expands Wanova's comprehensive desktop management solution to include endpoints running Windows 7, as well as Windows XP. Wanova Mirage 1.5 also includes new features that enhance storage efficiency and provide IT managers with better visibility into their distributed desktop infrastructure.

CiRBA, today announced the imediate release of CiRBA Version 5.3. This new version has advanced data validation reporting and incorporated market-leading relative performance coverage from Ideas International Limited (IDEAS) to further enhance the quality and accuracy of the solution's market-leading analytics. In addition, CiRBA is now the only solution that considers application dependencies in transformation planning processes enabling organizations to confidently consolidate complex, business critical applications.

iTKO, today announced it is teaming with IBM on a new service to help businesses more easily develop, test and deploy applications either on-premise or in a cloud. The new service combines iTKO LISA Virtualize, Test, Validate and Pathfinder application software with IBM Global Business Services consulting to speed up application deployment, without tapping into critical computing resources.

IceWEB™, a leading provider of Unified Data Storage and building blocks for cloud storage networks, announced today that it has chosen the Intel® Xeon® 5600 6-Core processor technology for its Enterprise Virtualization Appliance (EVA), Powered by Google Earth Enterprise™.  The EVA-12000 Appliance comes complete with two Intel 6-Core processors, 24GB DDR 3 Memory and 12TB of Raid protected SAS storage, a full-range 750W 1+1 redundant power supply and Red Hat Enterprise Server.  Each processor contains up to 12 MB of Level 3 cache and the Xeon 5600-series process

Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions, a business segment of Arrow Electronics Inc. unveiled a pan-European virtualization program, the "Five Levels of Virtualization" to assist resellers with expanding their virtualization business.