Riverbed Technology unleashed a volley of new product announcements at this week’s VMworld, including integration of its Stingray Traffic Manager with VMware’s vFabric Application Director.  [Full Story]

Quest Software joined a growing number of vendors offering a single tool to back up and recover data on both physical and virtual servers with the release this week of its vRanger 6.0. [Full Story]

SIP and IPv6 will get along, but the transition from IPv4 will be a challenge, as running a dual-stack environment will not always work on devices with limited memory and operating systems that support only one version of IP. [Full Story]

Two companies have partnered to deliver what they claim is a unique method for keeping a lid on temperatures while conserving water and electricity. Inertech and Skanska’s Mission Critical Center of Excellence have developed an energy-efficient cooling platform called eOPTI-TRAX that extends a data center’s “free cooling” zone.  [Full Story]

Dell Inc. announced today it’s buying enterprise management software firm Quest Software Inc. The company said the $2.4 billion move will expand its software portfolio and better position it to meet the end-to-end IT infrastructure needs of enterprises of all sizes.

Aliso Viejo, Calif.-based Quest was started in 1987 and serves more than 100,000 customers worldwide, including 87% of the Fortune 500. The company has approximately 3,850 employees and operates 60 offices in 23 countries. [Full Story on Network Computing]

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Who needs an operating system when you have Chrome?

That’s the question Pano Logic hopes to answer with Pano System for Cloud, a desktop computing platform for organizations moving to Web-based applications. The system leverages the Google browser as the interface, bypassing the local operating system and central processing unit to enable deployment of a virtual desktop interface (VDI). [Full Story on Network Computing]

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Hewlett-Packard announced Tuesday its next phase for Project Moonshot, opting to lead with server cartridges featuring the Intel Atom Processor code-named “Centerton” for its initial production. However, it will be a while before enterprises will be able to take advantage of the extreme low-energy servers, dubbed “Gemini.”

Launched last November, Project Moonshot is designed to help customers significantly reduce server complexity, energy use and cost by reinventing the traditional approach to hyperscale computing. [Full Story on Network Computing]

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With more than 1.1 billion mobile appliances in use worldwide, organizations of all sizes are challenged by the need to access, manage and secure mobile devices and the data generated by them. Hewlett-Packard today announced a suite of services aimed at helping small- and midsize enterprises (SMEs) prepare their technology infrastructures for a growing mobile workforce.[Full Story on Network Computing]

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Is it the server or the network? The latest version of Fluke Networks’ Network Time Machine (NTM) can tell you where the bottleneck is.

Fluke Networks introduced the latest edition of its Network Time Machine at Cisco Live this week in San Diego, boasting the first auto multisegment analysis capability for both portable and rack-mount 40-Gbps stream-to-disk products. [Full Story on Network Computing]

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Fusion-io has struck up an OEM relationship with Cisco that will see its ioMemory flash platform architected into the Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS) Server, which the companies say will reduce latency and ultimately improve productivity for enterprises. [Full Story on Network Computing]

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