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Free tools for the virtual world

Embotics, Veeam and VKernel get the word out about their virtual monitoring tools with free versions
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Free tools for the virtual world

Denise Dubie By Denise Dubie
IT managers don't need a recession to appreciate free downloads of useful tools, but many vendors today are packaging scaled down applications and utilities as freeware to help customers take on virtual environments. Read full story

Denise Dubie is senior editor with Network World.

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Embotics adds granular policy control to virtual management Managing virtual environments became a dominant theme at a Gartner conference this week, and start-up Embotics took the opportunity to launch the second generation of its policy-based management tool that the vendor says tracks virtual machines throughout their entire life cycle.

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