Avistar Communications debuted the industry's first fully comprehensive virtual desktop videoconferencing experience designed for IBM Sametime. With the growing demand for unified communications (UC) solutions, and with businesses aggressively adopting virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI), technology executives are faced with the challenge of deploying UC solutions within a VDI environment.

eG Innovations, the provider of intelligent service performance management solutions for physical, virtualized and cloud environments, has announced that it has joined the Open Virtualization Alliance (OVA), a consortium of companies committed to fostering the adoption of open virtualization technologies including Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM).

Red Hat and IBM today announced that they are working together to make products and solutions based on KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) technology the open virtualization choice for the enterprise. Together, the companies are driving adoption of the open source virtualization technology through joint development projects and enablement of the KVM ecosystem.

Tributary Systems, an IBM Solution Reseller and a global leader in storage solutions, has entered the IBM mainframe market. With the introduction of Storage Director/ViTAL Backup Virtualization solution for the zOS IBM mainframe. The zOS IBM mainframe solution extends the Tributary Systems portfolio, which already includes virtual storage solutions for HP NonStop (Tandem), HP Open VMS, IBM iSeries (AS/400, Power i), Power Systems AIX, Linux, UNIX, and Windows.

iTKO, a leading provider of virtualization and validation solutions for enterprise cloud applications, today announced further integrations of their LISA(TM) software with the IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform based on the IBM Jazz platform.  The combined products help to ease the challenges of developing and testing modern applications, including cloud-based services, integration platforms such as IBM WebSphere/MQ, DataPower and many more enabling technologies.

Wyse has announced that they will be collaborating with IBM through their Virtual Infrastructure Access service. Wyse is already a global leader in thin computing solutions will work with IBM Global Services division – also a world leader in IT services.

"Wyse has been a customer of IBM for some time, but this is a much more formal relationship," David Angwin, director of marketing for Wyse EMEA”.