Isilon seeks virtualisation partners

Storage vendor Isilon Systems is looking to form new channel partnerships as part of a virtualisation push, states ARN.

The vendor has promoted Gary Donin as its new technical director to head up the initiative. He said the vendor's success in the virtualisation space made finding partners in that field the priority.

“We've had success in the US with our virtualisation solution, so we're looking to move into the space here as well,” Donin said. “We'll be looking for partners in the VMware space, and some other areas we'll be identifying over the coming months.

Open source software development, particularly Linux, is seen to have a strong following in Asia-Pacific as companies look to incorporate virtualisation and cloud computing in their IT infrastructure, according to the Inquirer.net.

New approaches to IT infrastructure building include managed services and software-as-a-service, which make use of third-party applications providers.

For end-users, these reduce the need for capital and operational expenditures and allow companies to focus more on their core businesses.

VMware releases vCenter Site Recovery Manager 4, which adds support for VMware vSphere 4 and network file system-based storage replication to the virtualisation vendor's disaster recovery solution, reports Channel Insider.

The software, first introduced in June 2008, and now updated for the first time, offers automated disaster recovery for VMware environments.

VMware's Site Recovery automates the manual process of creating a disaster recovery plan for virtual environments and implementing that plan once a disaster occurs.