There has been a significant increase in the interest taken by medium sized enterprises based in US in server virtualization. These statistics are according to the latest MB tracking study conducted by AMI. The percentage of US based medium enterprise that consider server virtualization to be important from the strategic point of view has increased from 46 percent to as many as 75 percent. This clearly indicates that about 50 percent more medium businesses have expressed their interest in server virtualization as compared with last year.

The provider of TOTALLY Open data protection solutions, FalconStor Software, Inc., made an announcement about Austin Powder using FalconStor Network Storage Server (NSS) for the virtualization of primary storage in its Microsoft Hyper-V virtual server environment. The storage efficiency of Austin is improved with the help of FalconStor NSS and that too at reduced costs because of storage virtualization and data protection abilities, which include synchronous mirroring, real-time and volume snapshots.

Red Hat, the global leader in open source solutions, made an announcement about next step in the integration of its enterprise server and desktop virtualization solutions with the availability of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 2.2. Along with the features present in the previous versions of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, the recent update has new migration tools, scalability capabilities and features to enhance the security and performance of the solution.