ProofPoint has announced a new policy-driven email encryption module that can be added to their Messaging Security Gateway-Virtual Edition virtual appliance. The ProofPoint virtual appliance runs on VMWare.
The new version of Proofpoint Secure Messaging is fully integrated with Proofpoint’s messaging security platform and requires no additional hardware to filter, route and encrypt messages. Powered by […]
Archive for April, 2007
VMWare has released the Beta 3 of VMWare Fusion their virtualization solution for Mac OS X. With this release they also announced that the final product will indeed be called VMWare Fusion. Fusion was originally just a code name.
This release brings a number of improvements, the biggest of which may be the ability to turn […]
ITJungle is running an article that asks the question, “Is the Adoption Rate of Server Virtualization Technology Over Estimated”
According to the survey respondents, 720 of the 808 companies that participated in the CA-commissioned server virtualization study said that they had either deployed virtualization technologies or planned to do so within the next 18 months, with […]
ZDNet has an interesting article looking at how Foster’s is using virtualization for disaster recovery.
Each mobile worker has an image of their laptop computer–a copy of everything stored on that piece of hardware–stored centrally on the virtual infrastructure with this updated automatically every three hours.
This is a fascinating idea and something that would be pretty […]
VirtualAppliances.net has released the latest build of their LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) virtual appliance. Details of the release are below.
VirtualAppliances.net has released build 110 of its popular LAMP
Virtual Appliance. This LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Python/Perl)
server appliance can be downloaded and running within a matter of
minutes.
Quick & Easy […]
CIO Update is running a short article “The Pros and Cons of Virtual Appliances”. The perspective here is for the Enterprise and the conclusion isn’t particularly positive.
While virtual appliances seem like a very good concept, in most instances they actually suffer from the worst problems of both software and appliances, and are really not yet […]

