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Virtualization Reality – the Latest Hit Show

Friday, February 5th, 2010

Now going into its 3rd prime time season, Virtualization is definitely a hit show for the IT crowd. The numbers from the recent CDW survey of 400 IT managers show its widespread following. More than 90% of respondents indicated they are implementing virtualization at some level, with 73% saying they started their virtualization efforts in 2007, 2008. Baseline provides a handy slideshow of the main results from the CDW Server Virtualization Survey.

Our experience with virtualization started in November 2007, with the introduction of the Accellion Managed File Transfer virtual appliance.  It was the first time a virtual appliance for secure file transfer had been offered.  Prior to this, 100% of Accellion Managed File Transfer sales were of physical appliances.  Today, more than 75% of new customers request our virtual appliance. Which is great news for them and for us.  We see the benefits of virtualization with every install.  No dedicated hardware to setup, access to top of the line computing resources and quick and easy software installation – the software is delivered via Accellion secure file transfer. Installation was always easy with Accellion but now it’s stupid easy, to quote one of our customers.

If you are interested in reading more about what IT managers think about the Accellion virtual appliance – check out the reviews on the VMware marketplace.

At Accellion, we’re hooked on virtualization. We’ve signed up for next season – we hear they’re calling it Virtualization and the Cloud – the New Reality.

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Seeds being sown for a different kind of IT

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

Interesting article this week in InfoWorld about 2010 CIO priorities. Nope, it wasn’t surprising to read that Virtualization and Cloud Computing top Gartner’s 2010 top ten CIO priorities.  But the article did provide a good read on the role Virtualization and Cloud Computing are playing in re-shaping IT.

At Accellion we see the “seeds being sown for a different kind of IT”. Over the past 12 – 18 months we’ve seen the significant and rapid shift in demand for managed file transfer deployments for Virtual and Cloud environments.  Yes, virtual and cloud deployments are  faster to deploy and scale, and lower cost. And yes it is interesting to read that CIOs and CFOs are getting excited in this shift to scalable technologies that get away from monster IT projects with huge upfront investments and long deployment timeframes.

We like this new kind of IT that allows organizations to quickly get  business solutions into the hands of business users.  With security and compliance regulations placing increasing demands on organizations it’s good to know that at least IT is making it easier and faster to deploy solutions.

Virtualization and Cloud Computing – bring it on.

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FIle Transfer Goes Virtual

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

It’s been a while since my last post, things have got VERY busy at Accellion.

I guess the world is realizing that files aren’t getting any smaller.

Anyway just in case you missed the recent announcement regarding Accellion’s new virtual appliance here’s the link to the news Accellion Introduces Virtual Appliance.

Also had a nice product review of Accellion in Infoworld Accellion Product Review in InfoWorld

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