German telcos step up convergence

Vodafone Germany has unveiled software allowing users to prioritise available broadband connections, namely 3G, WiFi or fixed, says Re-think Wireless.

In addition, Telef'onica is unifying its fixed and mobile sales and marketing operations, initially for the business market, as well as the landline wholesale business.

This mirrors the recent moves by Deutsche Telecom/T-Mobile and Vodafone Germany to offer fully bundled services to German businesses.

Emulex has revealed that its LightPulse host bus adapters (HBAs) and converged network adapters (CNAs) are supported with VMware vSphere 4, VMware's operating system for building the internal cloud within data centres, reports Market Watch.

Shekar Ayyar, vice-president of infrastructure alliances, VMware, says: “Emulex LightPulse HBAs and CNAs complement VMware's next-generation virtualisation platform as customers continue to increase asset utilisation through virtualisation and move toward cloud infrastructures."

The new release of HBAnyware provides enhanced virtualisation features, support for converged networks and enterprise scalability features that improve management efficiencies and maximise SAN availability.

Brocade has been signed up as a manufacturing and marketing partner for the new HP Virtual Connect 8Gbps 24-port fibre channel module, states Earth Times.

The Virtual Connect module will provide storage area network connectivity within the HP BladeSystem Matrix offering, a pre-integrated platform for server, storage, power, and network capacity that can be divided and allocated to applications across up to 1 000 physical or virtual servers.

Marc Randall, senior vice-president of products and offerings at Brocade, says: “By working closely with HP on the Virtual Connect and BladeSystem Matrix initiatives, we are enabling customers to achieve their business objectives of increasing infrastructure convergence in a virtualised environment in the most cost-effective, easiest-to-deploy manner possible.”