Marymount University receives award

Xythos Software has announced that its customer, Loyola Marymount University Los Angeles (LMU), is a recipient of CIO magazine's annual CIO 100 award, given to 100 companies that exemplify the highest level of operational excellence in IT, according to eMediawire.

Abbie Lundberg, editor in chief of CIO magazine, said: "The CIO 100 award recipients serve as industry role models for business and IT excellence. This year's winners demonstrate extraordinary results in a variety of important areas, including business transformation, collaboration, customer innovation and top line contributions."

Balancing the need for improved collaboration, security, and service reliability has been an objective of our team's initiatives at LMU. Xythos has provided a key technology component to help us begin to achieve these goals.

InMage Systems has released its Linux VX Client for DR-Scout software, which provides true block-level continuous data protection, says Linux Mag.

"With the rapid adoption of Linux in a variety of markets, the need for continuous business protection becomes even more critical," said John Ferraro, president and CEO of InMage Systems.

"InMage's DR-Scout allows companies using Linux to start with a very basic configuration and scale upward to the most complex of installations.

XenSource has signed an OEM agreement with Symantec to embed Veritas Storage Foundation, Symantec's industry-standard storage management software into XenEnterprise, and collaborate on delivering enterprise-class HA/DR and backup technology to XenSource customers, says Data Storage Connection.

By unifying the industry's leading storage virtualisation software with the industry's leading open source hypervisor, customers can implement a scalable, high-performance virtualisation platform that leverages their current storage investments, processes and environments.

"The combination of Symantec and XenSource can deliver an integrated server and storage virtualisation solution that is fast becoming a requirement for many IT organisations," said John Humphreys, programme VP of IDC's Enterprise Virtualisation research.