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The 451 Group
Convirture creates cloud path from open source virtualizationThursday, September 13h, 2011 | Download The 451 Group's report on Convirture. Analyst Jay Lyman explains why The 451 Group thinks Conviture is uniquely positioned to benifit from Xen and KVM hypevisors.
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ZDNet
Convirture ConVirt Enterprise Cloud - KVM and Xen virtual data centersWednesday, September 7th, 2011 | Dan Kusnetzky at ZDNet covers ConVirt Enterprise Cloud and concludes that "Private, public and hybrid clouds are of interest to many organizations. Some, however, believe that VMware, Citrix, and Microsoft’s license fees are too high and the terms too restrictive. Conviture is working to address their concerns".
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Network World
Convirture unveils enterprise cloud management consoleMonday, August 29th, 2011 | Chris Nerney at Network World covers the annoucement of Convirture's ConVirt Enterprise Cloud. A "new software designed to allow enterprises to manage private clouds, hybrid clouds and virtualized infrastructures from a single console".
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ReadWriteCloud
Convirture Sets Sights on Cloud ManagementWednesday, August 24th, 2011 | Joe Brockmeier of RearWriteCloud writes that "It does seem that Convirture has identified one of the key problems facing enterprise IT departments right now." and shows how Convirture addresses the issue with ConVirt Enterprise Cloud.
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Silicon Angle
Convirture Unveils vCenter for the Open-source CloudWednesday, August 24th, 2011 | Silicon Angle's Maria Deutscher notes how Convirture's ConVirt Enterprise Cloud "means things are being simplified for the end user" allowing clients to use a single "web-based console to administrate infrastructure clouds built on top of open-source software".
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ZDNet
So, want to manage a cloud with open-source software?Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011 | ZDNet's Steven Vaughan-Nichols outlines why Convirture's recently announced ConVirt Enterprise Cloud product deserves your attention.
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The Register
Convirture does Amazon, Eucalyptus, OpenStackTuesday, August 23rd, 2011 | Cade Metz at The Register covers the announcement of ConVirt Enterprise Cloud, noting that "The new ConVirt lets administrators manage their Xen and KVM hypervisors as well as Amazon EC2 accounts and private services they've built with Eucalyptus and OpenStack".
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ITBusinessEdge
Exploring VMware OptionsTuesday, August 23rd, 2011 | Michael Vizard notes that "The challenge many of these alternatives face, however, is that the management tools for these environments, until recently, were not as robust as what could be had with VMware. But that too is changing" with the introduction of ConVirt Enterprise Cloud.
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ZDNet
Is now the time for KVM?Wednesday, June 29th, 2011 | Dan Kusnetzky at ZDNet outlines some of the reasons he thinks that KVM is now taking its place on virtualization’s world stage. "My recent discussion with Arsalan Farooq, CEO & Founder of Convirture, was really interesting", Dan said "and served to crystallize my thoughts on KVM".
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CTO Edge
ConVirt 2.0 named one of "10 Most Important Enterprise IT Products of 2010"Monday, January 3rd, 2011 | Calling Convirture an "[important] upstart," CTO Edge notes that ConVirt 2.0 "highlights how heterogeneous virtualization management will evolve.".
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eWeek
Convirture 2.0 Unlocks Virtualization Potential of Linux Operating SystemsMonday, December 27th, 2010 | Jason Brooks of eWeek shows how "Convirture's vCenter workalike builds on the virtualization foundation offered by Linux server operating systems such as those from Red Hat and Ubuntu, with an easy-to-use Web-based management interface and separate open source and enterprise product options.".
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eWeek
eWeek's in depth test and review of ConVirt 2.0.Thursday, December 23rd, 2010 | eWeek's review of ConVirt 2.0 concludes that "Convirt Enterprise worked as advertised in my tests, and is well worth evaluating sites in search of management solutions for Linux-based virtualization hosts." .
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ZDNet
ZDNet profiles a Convirture customerMonday, August 2nd, 2010 | Dan Kusnetzky at ZDNet speaks to the Principal Architect at an E-commerce company and finds out why they chose ConVirt 2.0 over solutions such as VMware's vCenter, Citrix XenServer and Oracle's VM Manager.
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The Register
Shuttleworth's Ubuntu makes like Space ShuttleThursday, November 25th, 2010 | [ConVirt] now comes in an Enterprise Edition that has some closed-source features that Ubuntu shops probably want.
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VMBlog
Convirture and Canonical to Team Up to Provide Virtual Machine and Private Cloud ManagementTuesday, November 16th, 2010 | [Convirture and Canonical to Team Up to Provide Virtual Machine and Private Cloud Management.
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The VAR Guy
Canonical and Convirture Partner on Ubuntu VirtualizationWednesday, November 17th, 2010 | As much as I've tried to love VirtManager, I've never been particularly satisfied with it due to lack of stability and general bugginess. The application remains in development and may well work better at a future date, but for the time being, I'm happy to have ConVirt 2.0 as an alternative..
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Softpedia
ConVirt 2.0 Now Available in the Ubuntu Partner Repositories.Tuesday, November 16th, 2010 | ConVirt 2.0 Now Available in the Ubuntu Partner Repositories..
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CTO Edge
Cloud Computing and the Cost of Virtualization.Friday, November 19th, 2010 | Canonical this week partnered with Convirture to add an open source virtualization management platform to its Ubuntu distribution of Linux..
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CTO Edge
Canonical Partners with Convirture.Wednesday, November 17th, 2010 | The alliance effectively provides the Ubuntu community with an open source management platform similar to the vSphere management platform that VMware developed..
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VMBlog
Convirture Announces Partner Program.Monday, October 25th, 2010 | Convirture Announces Partner Program..
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The VAR Guy
Convirture Launches Virtualization Management Partner ProgramMonday, October 25th, 2010 | Convirture hopes their pull of vendor-agnostic platform management will put many partners at ease with building virtual and private clouds..
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Search Systems Channel
Convirture launches channel program for VM management toolsWednesday, October 27th, 2010 | ConVirt Enterprise is viewed as an open source and less pricey analog to vCenter from the VMware universe..
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eChannelLine
Convirture seeks partners for Linux-based virtualization management platformTuesday, October 26th, 2010 | "...we are absolutely committed to bringing on a healthy worldwide partner community to deal with all this bottled-up demand.".
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virtualization.info
Convirture ConVirt 2.0.1 Enterprise EditionThursday, October 14th, 2010 | Convirture ConVirt 2.0.1 Enterprise Edition.
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RedMonk
The Virtualization Landscape - IT Management & Cloud PodcastFriday, September 24th, 2010 | Michael Cote of RedMonk sits down with Convirture's CEO Arsalan Farooq for a broad discussion around the virtualization landscape. Their conversation covers a wide range of topics including the advantages of open source vs closed source solutions, the penetration and use of private clouds in enterprise and how Convirture is addressing the needs of various market segments.
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The Register
Convirture aims around VMware to hit Xen and KVMMonday, August 23rd, 2010 | Dan Olds of The Register investigates the statistics surrounding the usage of x86 virtualization packages in the market, and finds that "that the large majority of customers haven't settled on a single solution". According to the study, Dan states that "there are a lot of enterprise customers using Xen and KVM. Many of them would love to see advanced management features and functions."
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InfoWorld
Convirture makes good on its promise!Thursday, July 29th, 2010 | David Marshall at Infoworld looks at how ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise offers "more advanced automation, improved scalability, and extensive enterprise integration necessary to manage a large-scale or mission-critical virtualization environment" and concludes that "ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise edition addresses the management gap in open source virtualization platforms" in order to "compete on the level of VMware vCenter".
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eWeek
ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise plugs a major hole in managing open source Xen, KVM virtualization and private cloud deployments.Friday, July 30th, 2010 | Chris Preimesberger at eWeek notes "There hasn't been a go-to toolbox for open source hypervisors" and concludes that "ConVirt (2.0) Enterprise edition addresses this gap".
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The Register
The Register covers the ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise launch!Wednesday, July 28th, 2010 | Timothy P. Morgan of The Register declares that "With ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise, Convirture is ready to bring some order to the Xen and KVM server hypervisor stack", and calls ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise "vCenter for KVM and Xen".
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Network World
Convirture delivers enterprise grade management for Linux virtualizationFriday, August 6th, 2010 | Linda Musthaler at Network World delves into the state of the enterprise grade virtualization management market for Linux and describes how "Convirture is bringing a higher value product to the marketplace" with ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise.
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Computer Business Review
CBR covers the ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise release!Friday, July 30th, 2010 | The Computer Business review covers the new features of ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise, such as "high availability, backup and recovery, storage and network automation, and enterprise-grade security" in addition to "an extensive cloud management feature set".
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Server Watch
The Rise of Virtual Server Management VendorsWednesday, August 4th, 2010 | Amy Newman at Server Watch speaks of the reach of Convirture as well as ConVirt's evolution, and talks about how ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise's new capabilities allow it to be "the Linux world's equivalent of VirtualCenter".
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The Var Guy
ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise, the tool designed to use a company's infrastructure in the most efficient wayFriday, July 30th, 2010 | Dave Courbanou at The Var Guy looks at ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise's already "extensive list of services" and mentions the addition of "backup and recovery, private cloud management, storage and network automation that's streamlined along with Enterprise integration for open repository, command line interfaces and of course APIs".
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CTO Edge
CTO Edge covers the ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise launch!Wednesday, July 28th, 2010 | Mike Vizard at CTO Edge notes the need of "many IT organizations want(ing) the benefit of virtualization without incurring the expensive of VMware's offerings" and sees ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise as the solution to that need.
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