I was in San Francisco at the VMworld conference this week. Lots of activity, good sessions, and many vendor announcements being made. SF has a great downtown, and we had great weather there making it very enjoyable.
VMworld reminded me of the energy people using VMware products have, it was a great show this year as it was last year. When I compare it to the 2009 RSA show, held at the same location, VMworld just felt much more active with people there to learn and create new solutions. The VMworld show floor was always busy, even the last hour of the last day which is rare for a trade show.
Check out the new video showcasing VMware Go, the new web-based service from VMware. VMware Go enables first-time virtualization users to fly through the ESXi setup process with just a few mouse clicks. VMware Go was developed in partnership with VMware and Shavlik Technologies. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQd6PM5TMDA this is a new area for us as we extend our simplification models to new areas. Go of course contains our patching technologies, for both ESXi itself and VMs running on it. Thank you to the VMware and Shavlik teams for working so hard on this release. It was a busy summer. This our 2nd partnership with VMware, the other one is with the UpdateManager with also uses our patching technology.
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The team at Shavlik has announced this week that we have added asset management capabilities in the Shavlik Security Suite, making it the only solution available that manages IT operations for both physical and virtual worlds, including offline virtual patches. The Shavlik Security Suite allows organizations to apply a single process to ensure machines – physical or virtual -- are identified, secured, and managed across their lifecycle from a single viewpoint. From patching, to AV, to VMware asset inventory to agent-less inventory scanning for physical computers.
The significant benefit of the new asset management capabilities in the Shavlik Security Suite is to leverage our agent less approach to thoroughly and dynamically discover and catalog IT assets including software assets, hardware assets, and virtual machine assets. Now organizations will be able to discover physical and virtual machines they didn’t know they had and uncover software applications they didn’t know were installed. By consolidating this information in one Shavlik console, the organization has all the relevant information about its IT assets at its finger tips so they can make informed decisions with confidence and accuracy. They can then take the information and filter their view in machine centric view and filter their reports using any of the collected inventory data, AV state, patch state, Compliance state and configuration state. the Suite also provide end-point security protection. All at great integrated prices.
The Shavlik Security Suite is in public beta today. We encourage you to sign up for our beta program, give the products a test drive, and let us know what you think. To join the beta program, sign up on our web site at www.shavlik.com/netchk-beta.aspx. We look forward to your feedback.
The Security Suite will be generally available for public download and customer upgrades on September 29th.
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