VMware and Cisco announced new technology innovation and enhancements to their combined virtualization solutions that help customers accelerate their journey to the cloud. Expanding on a strategic relationship and engineering collaboration that spans more than four years, the companies, in conjunction with industry partners, unveiled a breakthrough in network virtualization that will broaden the mobility range of virtual machines across multiple datacenters and cloud environments.

Xsigo Systems has announced the Xsigo Server Fabric, the industry's first fully virtualized infrastructure for cloud-optimized data centers. The Xsigo Server Fabric enables one-click network connections from virtual machines to any data center resource -- including servers, networks, storage, and other virtual machines -- to accelerate the management of virtualized data centers. Xsigo's Server Fabric technology eliminates the last remaining hardware constraints on the agility and scalability of the cloud.

Wyse Technology, the global leader in cloud client computing, today announced that it will be exhibiting, speaking, and demonstrating its integration of unified communications and virtualization as part of the Cisco Virtualization Experience Infrastructure (VXI) at Cisco Live US at Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, NV from July 10-14.

Queplix has announced the Virtual Data Manager SuiteApp for the NetSuite SuiteCloud Computing Platform. Queplix Virtual Data Manager automates the process of integrating enterprise applications. Built using NetSuite's SuiteCloud development platform, the SuiteApp can help NetSuite customers connect to any non-NetSuite enterprise applications in a matter of days or even hours. This can cut implementation costs significantly and deliver rapid return on investment (ROI).

To enhance and optimize service delivery across its large managed hosting infrastructure as well as offer new virtualization and cloud monitoring services to its customers, Fasthosts Internet Ltd. has chosen the ScienceLogic Inc. IT operations and cloud management platform.

To provide customers with added choice for virtualization and cloud-based solutions, BMC Software and Red Hat, Inc. today announced an expanded partnership, including plans to deliver a comprehensive cloud architecture combining solutions from both technology leaders. The solution will offer a tightly integrated and optimized turnkey platform that will include the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management solution running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager.

Fox IT, the independent Service Management specialists and wholly owned subsidiary of 365 iT plc, announces the launch of ITSM 2.0, a new ITSM framework designed for the cloud era. The framework, which has been developed leveraging VMware, technology and expertise, bridges the gap between new technologies and current management best practices, enabling organisations to successfully transform and integrate IT service delivery into the cloud.

ConteXtream is offering network operators grid networking solutions that radically modernize their networks by virtualizing and globalizing service delivery, today they introduced their virtualization solution for content delivery networks (CDNs). ConteXtream’s Service Delivery Grid (SDG) revolutionizes the construction of carrier-grade, scalable CDN solutions by offering a distributed application fabric to which CDN components can connect as though they were connected to a large virtual switch.

SYNNEX Corporation has announced that the company’s first Cloud offering to the channel, CLOUDSolv UC, a private-branded Unified Communications Cloud solution that is unrivaled in both technology and scale. Unlike other solutions, CLOUDSolv UC encompasses full voice integration through a complete, hosted UC solution, including VoIP and Desktop services which work off the Microsoft/Broadsoft platform that can be delivered nationwide in an “easy to sell, easy to deploy, easy to use” format.

4PSA, a leading innovative Cloud Computing software technology company, well-known for its award-winning VoipNow® Unified Communications solution, has announced today the availability of Cloud Licensing, a licensing methodology that brings cloud computing flexibility and scalability to software licensing.