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Par 4 Expands Services Expertise With
Flytrap Acquisition
Par 4 had a good three-year run with a sales focus and some
help from sub-contractors, but Flytrap gives it the storage and
virtualization services expertise to help it grow.
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Enterprises are taking it upon themselves to pursue client
virtualization with the technologies they have at hand as they wait
for players such as VMware
and Citrix to come out with
bare-metal client hypervisors and for clear market leaders to
emerge. Intel Corp. is collaborating with Citrix Systems Inc. and
VMware Inc. on bare-metal desktop hypervisors, and experts believe
that a beta of VMware's client hypervisor will appear at this
month's VMworld in San Francisco.
Bare-metal desktop hypervisors would eliminate some of the
drawbacks of VMware's Virtual Desktop Infrastructure by giving
users offline access and the ability to use graphics-intensive
applications. Such apps are bogged down by bandwidth problems when
using VDI.
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Virtualization is a top trend for
2009; Storage Investments Remain Resilient
"With this focus on achieving cost efficiencies, it's perhaps
not surprising that virtualization dominates buyers thinking as the
top trend impacting the technology industry over the next 5 years,
with 69% of enterprise IT decision makers reinforcing this
view."
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Financial IT Budgets Dip for the First
Time, By 3.7%, But Will Quickly Rebound
"Everyone right now is focused on survival and crisis, and a lot
of institutions are looking at the short term, how many cuts can we
make as soon as possible," Garcia says. "But the market doesn't
stop, it continues to evolve, and those institutions that sacrifice
innovation will be stuck in the rain without an umbrella."
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Citi/Morgan Brokerage Merger Presents
Disruption and Opportunity
Though the integration process is bound to be slow and painful,
and the likely layoffs have earned it the moniker 'Citi Morgue,'
Citi and Morgan Stanley's retail brokerage joint venture has an
opportunity to forge a best-of-both-worlds wealth management
platform.
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Company News:
Flytrap Continues to Expand it's
Virtualization Practice
The CT Department of IT announced on May 7th that Flytrap
Technologies has been awarded a contract to provide VMware software
to the CT Department of
Transportation.
'"Flytrap continues to expand it's virtualization practice and
is excited to be supporting the CT DOT's virtualization program"
says Matt Cavanagh, a principal at Flytrap. "The government sector
is an area that we have identified as underserved when it comes to
cost effective business continuity solutions. We have been working
with several State and Local agencies to improve Business
Continuity and Disaster Recovery preparedness"
This is one of several recent State and Local Government
contract awards that Flytrap has seen.
Flytrap Technologies is a leading provider of Information
Technology solutions focused on Consolidation and Business
Continuity. Headquartered at One Technology Drive in Tolland CT,
Flytrap specializes in Virtualization solutions that enable
companies to consolidate their IT infrastructure and improve their
Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery readiness.
Flytrap Partners with
StorMagic
Flytrap to Run Operations in Latin
America
Edwin Leon, a 10 year veteran of EMC Corpration, has joined
Flytrap Technologies to run operations for Latin America. His
primary role will be to extend Flytrap's Virtualization Practice to
Enterprise and Commercial clients in Latin America and South
America. Operations will be run from Puerto Rico, and will
initially be focused on personnel training and certification. All
technical training for Latin American operations will involve not
only classroom training, but ride-alongs with existing Principal
level engineers on actual field engagements.
Edwin, a veteran of the IT world, also hold a Masters in
Business from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.
"Edwin's combination of technical vision and business skills will
be a tremendous asset to Flytrap as we continue our rapid growth",
says Matt Cavanagh a Flytrap partner and long time colleague of
Leon. "Having worked with Edwin for years at EMC, I know what a
talented and hard working individual he is and I look forward to
working closely with him again".
Flytrap Announces Partnership
with
Today Flytrap announced that it will begin packaging VKernel's
certified Capacity Management Virtual Appliance for it's managed
services clients. VKernel's Capacity Bottleneck Analyzer will
complement Flytrap's existing Virtual Infrastructure Assessment
reporting service.
'This tool will not only simplify the procedures required to
collect and anlyze data for our virtual infrastructure clients, it
will also enhance our ability to identify bottlenecks and plan for
growth" says Matt Cavanagh, Flytrap's president. He goes on to say
that these tools are great for simplifying the data collection
process, but there is still no replacement for a qualified engineer
to review the data and determine the required course of action.
As part of this offering, VKernel's product will be installed
into Flytrap's existing and future managed infrastructure clients.
