Public release expected at Tech-Ed Europe 2009 event, which starts November 9
DPM 2010 beta can protect virtual machines moved across cluster shared volumes on Windows Server 2008 R2 using Microsoft's live migration feature
Helps IT professionals at midsize companies automate management of physical and virtual machines and services using a single console
Helps IT maigrate infrstructure to IBM products, use Microsoft's virtualization technology to consolidate servers
Adds new analytics capabilities, real-time views of testing processes
Updates add support for Microsoft's latest operating systems
Includes new APIs, performance boost, .NET support
New enterprise security products
Adds virtualization support, storage enhancements, performance upgrades
Promises to reduce number of late, costly changes to software development projects
Exchange Server 2007 SP2 is required to interoperate with Exchange Server 2010
Company describes as operating system that enables private clouds while virtualizing IT infrastructure
Data monitoring switch lets network managers use existing monitoring tools handle more traffic by intelligently filtering traffic
IT can see value in hours, not months, company says, and realize a 20 to 30 percent cost savings over current monitoring methods
By extending the company’s Application Management 2.0 framework, program improves collaboration, data collection when troubleshooting problems, even in cloud-computing environments.
New and enhanced applications allow IT to find, analyze, and correct performance
issues
IT managers can migrate, backup, and protect physical and virtual IT workloads
Business transaction manager traces, tracks transaction failures
Tracks network, application performance in both virtual and physical environments