August 2009
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Inside This Issue
Several exciting things have been happening at eG Innovations and we are pleased to share the news with you:
eG Achieves VMware Ready Optimized Status
Enhanced VDI Monitoring Capabilities
We Need Your Help to Repeat as Winners of Virtualization Review's Readers Choice Award
Events
Customer Spotlight
 
eG Positioned in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Event Correlation and Analysis
Support for VMware vSphere and vCenter
eG Featured in Virtual Strategy Magazine
Partner Close-Up
Industry Articles

Industry Recognition

eG Enterprise Achieves VMware Ready Optimized Status
The eG Enterprise SuiteTM management software solution has achieved VMware ReadyTM Optimized status. This designation indicates that eG Enterprise has passed a detailed evaluation and testing process managed by VMware and is now listed on the VMware Partner Product Catalog.
Passing the extensive VMware Ready Optimized testing helps ensure that eG Enterprise is architected, tuned or integrated to best leverage VMware platform functionality and is ready for deployment in customer environments. Click here for details >>

eG Innovations Positioned in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Event Correlation and Analysis
eG Innovations has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Niche Players quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for IT Event Correlation and Analysis (ECA), 2009. Gartner’s Magic Quadrant covers products that help IT organizations consolidate, analyze, and respond to component-level IT infrastructure events, improve their event-to-incident problem resolution process, and achieve better alignment between events and business-oriented IT services. Click here for details >>
 
Product Announcements

Enhanced VDI Monitoring Capabilities in eG Enterprise
eG Innovations has strengthened its leadership position in the virtualization management market by announcing significant enhancements in the area of virtual desktop infrastructures (VDIs) to its award-winning eG VM MonitorTM server-based monitoring solution, which is part of the company's eG Enterprise SuiteTM. The new VDI capabilities are compatible with XenDesktopTM from Citrix and ViewTM from VMware and, as part of its broad desktop coverage, also include the ability to monitor SunRay Terminal ServicesTM. Click here for more>>

Support for VMware vSphere and vCenter
The latest version of eG Enterprise (v 4.2.2) is shipping with support for the VMware vSphereTM, the cloud operating system, and the new VMware vCenterTM suite of management products for VMware vSphere.

“eG Innovations is delighted to announce support for VMware vCenter to solve the problem of ensuring optimum performance of key business services and applications in complex virtualized and physical IT infrastructures," said Srinivas Ramanathan, president & CEO of eG Innovations. "Our eG Enterprise Suite enables customers to monitor their IT infrastructures end to end from a central web console, and to quickly identify the true root cause of any performance issue. As a result, eG Innovations is delivering significant value to customers with innovative technology that, combined with VMware virtualization technologies, provides documented improvements in end-to-end performance management of multi-tier services running on virtualized and non-virtualized infrastructures."
 
Awards
We Need Your Help to Repeat as Winners of Virtualization Review's
Readers Choice Award

eG has entered a total of three categories in this year's awards program:

Best Virtualization Management Tools (eG won this last year)
Best Virtualization Platforms Monitoring & Reporting (eG won this last year)
Best VDI - Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
Beginning September 1,
please click here to select
eG in every category entered
that you feel merits your vote.
 
Events

VMworld 2009, Booth #2501
Our award-winning eG VM MonitorTM takes center stage at one of the industry's most important events. Booth demos will include the new VDI monitoring capabilities and key components of VMware vCenter and vSphere. Please be sure to stop by and say hello!
 
In the News

eG Featured in Virtual Strategy Magazine
Read Do You Know Your Virtual Infrastructure “Inside and Out?” by Srinivas Ramanathan, eG's founder, president & CEO.
 
Customer Spotlight

Henrico County Public Schools, one of Virginia's largest school districts, is using eG Enterprise to manage key elements of its virtual and physical IT infrastructure. Click here for details >>

 
Partner Close-Up

Net Consulting Ltd., an independent IT consultancy based in the UK, is offering the eG Enterprise SuiteTM to its consulting clients as an on-demand service or as a perpetual use product.
Click here for more >>
 
Industry Articles

Application performance management: Keeping an eye on the end-user prize

RIP Sun xVM Server, Virtual Iron; Long Live Oracle VM?
 
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