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By Gennifer Biggs, security, storage, and managed services editor

NetEx CEO Craig Gust shared his excitement about a busy day at VMWorld with me, explaining that NetEx is offering a demonstration featuring an existing channel partner that won a large new customer due to the speed of HyperIP product deployed in a virtual environment. The NetEx HyperIP product is a software solution that enables the migration and acceleration of live VMotion images between VMware servers.

"We're excited, we feel we are bringing a simple software solution that provides a nice enabler to VMware resellers, and at a price point they can take advantage of," says Gust. HyperIP for VMware optimizes available bandwidth to increases efficiency of data movement over a wide area network (WAN) by aggregating TCP data streams. The net result is up to a 600% performance improvement as compared to what is available from VMware.

"It is simple, you just download over the Internet, and then you, as a reseller, can install it, and just like that you get backup and disaster recovery over existing Internet connections," says Gust. One big selling point that NetEx is focusing on is the lower cost of a softward solution ($2,000) versus an appliance to help migrate data between servers.

For those not able to attend the show, you can learn more at YouTube.com, on Twitter, and via Facebook by searching "HyperIP."

Peter Smails, Storwise, shared with me how that vendor is partnering with network attached storage (NAS) vendor, Isilon, to demonstrate the value of the Storwise date reduction technology during VMWorld. Smails, SVP of Storwise, took time out of the first day at VMWorld, which kicked off last night in San Francisco and runs through Wednesday, to chat about a new partnership between his company and Isilon. By layering the Storwise real-time data compression technology with NAS and VMWare in a virtual environment, Storwise guarantees 60%-80% data reduction, extending the savings started when a customer implements a virtual server.

"We are demonstrating 192 virtual machines, with 96 running against Isilon without Storwise, and the other 96 with Storwise," explains Smails. "The test illustrates how our product enables 70% data reduction, which means less physical storage capacity, and better performance in your environment since you have a lighter payload."

What that means for VARs is the opportunity to extend the value proposition of virtualization beyond the server room and into the full network environment, all while tackling the issue of storage CAPEX. "Virtualization created great value propositions on the server side, but then it slowed value on the storage side," says Smails. "This works to resolve that adjacent problem of expensive storage needs." Additionally, the Storwise technology moves data reduction upstream, handling the compression before the data hits the storage infrastructure, and before backup.

Other breaking news from this event includes:

NetEx to Showcase Application Improvements Using HyperIP for VMware

Next-Generation VMware Partner Network Helps Partners Increase Virtualization Expertise

Xiotech Introduces VM Storage Solution Lite at VMworld 2009

APTARE Expands Virtual Component Offering

DataCore Software, VMware “Power the Cloud” at VMworld 2009

VMware and HP Unveil Solution to Simplify Datacenter Management

VMware Introduces VMware Go To Make Virtualization Even Easier for First-Time Users

Symantec Among First To Achieve VMware Ready Data Protection Status