1. Citrix High Availabilty

    Published October 16 at 3:53 PM by David Shoffitt

    Some people will try to tell you that the only enterprise class virtualization out there is VM Ware, but I am here to tell you that Citrix is a contender.  Not only is it a contender but it is growing in features and in acceptance.  Citrix XenServer is actually the World's largest Internet Facing Virtualization environment, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).  Because the foundation of XenServer is built on the open source Xen, there is lots of opportunity for developers to to build upon the feautres and functionality of the product.  One such features is Everun by Marathon Technologies.  The product will allow you to even unplug the server that your primary node is running on and the transfer to the secondary server is so seemless that if you were running XenApp on the server your end users would never even know that they swicthed to a different server.

      http://www.marathontechnologies.com/high_availability_xenserver.html)

  2. Strickland Networks - Total Storage SAN

    Published October 15 at 5:51 PM by David Shoffitt

    There are many companies that can benefit from an iSCSI SAN but few can afford the entry level price of a DELL MD3000i with 30 Terabytes of Native Storage would cost roughly $14,000.  That is a good chunk of change to drop for a storage solution.

    We have been able to leverage some of our market contacts and now can deliver an entry level SAN solution with 32 Terabytes of Storage for around $8500.  To be fair, I chose both to have similar hardware and support options.  Sounds compelling, doesn't it?  Give us a call for this entry level solution and get your Virtualization, Cluster, or just storage environment off to a good start. 

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    Entry Tags: Virtualization, Storage