Posted by Gina Bollenback
Global Alliance Marketing
Communications Manager

 This week’s News Around the Network highlights new areas of integration between VMware and its partners and product announcements:

Cisco Enhances Its Collaboration Tools (ReadWriteWeb)
This week Cisco announced new enhancements to a variety of its collaboration tools, including WebEx and Jabber.

ProLiant Gen8 Support for VMware is Now Available on the Web (HP Connect)
The software components that are required to support VMware on the new ProLiant Gen8 servers are now live on the web, learn more by reading this blog post.

Storage Replication Adapter for VMware SRM4 for IBM V7000/SVC 6.3 (Storage CH Blog)
The IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller Storage Replication Adapter for VMware SRM Installation and Users Guide provides information that helps you install and configure Storage Replication Adapter. Download it today.

Symantec Announces Backup Exec 2012 (IT Online)
This week Symantec announced Backup Exec 2012 to help users eliminate complexity, perform backups in 100% virtualized environments and deliver instantaneous and cloud-based recovery through a single solution. Check out this article to get more details on the integration with VMware environments.

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