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Virtualization Lifecycle Management Company Selected to Join Microsoft Startup Accelerator Program
Virtualization News Desk Ajax World Magazine April 30, 2008
Embotics announced its membership in the Microsoft Startup Accelerator Program. Stewarded by the Emerging Business Team (EBT) at Mi...
Virtual server sprawl highlights security concerns
By:Jon Brodkin Network World April 30, 2008
Think server sprawl is bad now? Just wait till you experience virtual server sprawl. When users can clone a virtual machine with the click of a mous...
Virtualization Lifecycle Management Company Selected to Join Microsoft Startup Accelerator Program
Virtualization News Desk Ajax World Magazine April 30, 2008
Embotics announced its membership in the Microsoft Startup Accelerator Program. Stewarded by the Emerging Business Team (EBT) at Microsoft, the program is designed to connect high-potential startups committed to the Microsoft platform to an extensive support network. "This validates our position in the virtualization lifecycle management and automation market,” said Jay Litkey, CEO and founder of Embotics, "and solidifies our stance in the industry as a company to watch."
Virtual server sprawl highlights security concerns
By:Jon Brodkin Network World April 30, 2008
Think server sprawl is bad now? Just wait till you experience virtual server sprawl. When users can clone a virtual machine with the click of a mouse, or save versions of applications and operating systems for later use, you're asking for trouble if IT doesn't maintain tight control, virtualization management vendor Embotics warned in a session at Interop Las Vegas Tuesday.
Virtualization is not just about server consolidation
By: Rafael Ruffolo April 04, 2008
Gartner is bullish on the virtualization market, forecasting more than four million
virtual machines will be installed on x86 servers next year, and 660 million virtualized
machines in total by 2011. But one developer thinks that’s a bit too
optimistic. Find out why …
Managing Virtual Sprawl: VirtualCenter to the Rescue
By: Jeff James Windows IT Pro March 26, 2008
VMware’s answer to SCVMM is VMware VirtualCenter, a VM management product that has been on the market far longer than Microsoft’s solution. That market seniority shows, as VirtualCenter provides a number of features that SCVMM lacks, including the ability to live migrate virtual machine disks from one storage device to another with VMware VMotion. …
The Virtualization Challenge, Part 5: Virtualization and Security
By Richard Adhikari
March 19, 2008
Guest "break-out" attacks, where the bad guys break out of a guest
virtual machine to attack the hypervisor and gain control of the host,
are also being tried, said David M. Lynch, vice president of marketing
at Embotics, adding that "the only question is, when, not if, a viable
attack will occur?" There may be such an attack this year, Lynch added.
Computer Reseller News Reports on Embotics Global Reseller Program
By Michele Masterson, CMP Channel
February 28, 2008
Expanding its global footprint, virtualization management provider Embotics has launched a partner program for solution partners in the U.S., Europe and Asia.
By signing up with the Embotics Partner Program, Embotics Value Added Resellers (EVARs), Embotics Technology Alliance Partners (ETAPs), OEMs and vertical-market solution providers can employ the company's control software which is designed to identify, track, secure and manage enterprise-wide virtual machines, according to the company. Read more
Video: Product Demo from Jean-Marc Seguin, Chief Architect with Embotics
By Robin Wauters
February 27, 2008
This video interview was recorded at VMWorld Europe 2008 in Cannes, France, and features Jean-Marc Seguin, Chief Architect with Embotics. The interview is part of the Virtualization Video Series, a recurring theme on Virtualization.com featuring interviews with key players from the industry, event reports, etc.
The promise of virtual machines is that operators don’t need to worry
about where their servers are. You can have one big server running on
five physical computers, or a hundred tiny servers running on one
physical machine. This makes it easy to adjust capacity; it also means
creating a new server is as simple as dragging and dropping.
VMware sees future in IT service delivery software
By Alex Barrett, News Director
February 25, 2008
On the eve of
the VMworld Europe show in Cannes,
France, VMware has trumpeted its growing family of IT service delivery products,
including its new Lifecycle Manager automation tool derived from VMware's
acquisition of Dunes Technologies in September.
Top Ten Virtualization Risks Hiding in Your Company
Laurianne McLaughlin
February 12, 2008
What are the management risks and problems hiding inside your
virtualization effort? That's a question that David Lynch, VP of
marketing for Embotics, tries to help IT groups answer. Embotics, part
of CIO's recent list of 10 virtualization vendors to watch, provides
what it calls VM lifecycle management. The company's V-Commander
software (which integrates with VMware's VirtualCenter management
suite) promises to help you track VMs from cradle to grave. The tool
lets IT groups apply policies and automation to that tagging and
tracking work.
Despite the growing prominence of server virtualization in data
centers, many IT managers are concerned about their ability to manage
virtual environments effectively.
According to a new study sponsored by Islandia, N.Y.-based CA Inc. of
300 IT managers worldwide, 54% of large enterprises rate virtual
machine management as a critical or high IT priority, but only 45% said
that their companies are doing an effective job in managing the
technology.
Virtual Machine Supply Chain Management (VMSCM): Managing the Virtual Infrastructure
By
Terry Singh, Blogs.ITToolbox.com
January 11, 2008
Undocumented, unlabeled Virtual Machines are capable of terrorizing your infrastructure. A lot of firms are using, given the current horizontalized global market which is not an easy place to be around if you have a weak stomach, more "Adventurous or Exploratory Research Designs". I have spoken to one firm called Embotics and they are really very much into this, doing it closely with their partners, so a lot of things are happening behind closed doors..
Does virtualization need specialized management tools?
By
Megan Santosus, Features Writer
SearchServerVirtualization.com
January 8, 2008
If server virtualization has a dark side, it may be virtual machine (VM) sprawl. The principal problem created by sprawl is that IT administrators can't certify that all deployed VMs meet an organization's policies and procedures just as they would certify physical servers. Solving -- or preventing -- the problem of VM sprawl may necessitate automated management tools for such activities as inventory, authorization and configuration management. But while such tools have been a mainstay in managing and taking inventory of physical servers.
This past year was a important year for the virtualization industry. For the first time Virtualization became a household name with the VMware IPO and the acquisition of XenSource by Citrix. It was easy to see that virtualization had infiltrated the production environment and was here to stay as companies were now more concerned with the management issues around virtualization rather than the technology itself. VSM asked some of the notable players within the virtualization industry, including Embotics' VP of Marketing David Lynch, this question: In your opinion, what was the most remarkable event, announcement or product of 2007...and why? Here’s what they had to say.
Embotics Selected by "CIO Magazine" as One of the Top 10 Virtualization Companies to Watch for 2008
By Tarry Singh December 1, 2007
CIO.com is carrying this news while a lot of other virtualization vendors are totally ignored: In my opinion, the ones you really have to watch out of these are:
Now that you're knee-deep in virtualization, what products will help you manage and secure it? These 10 virtualization vendors should be on your radar screen.
News and Events 
January 7, 2008 
By Charles Babcock 
