SANTA CLARA, CA, Jan 25, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Cisco MARS customers and resellers that replaced their Cisco MARS security appliances with AccelOps virtual appliance have experienced more than 50 percent productivity improvement and smarter capabilities built for today’s highly dynamic virtualized and cloud-based data centers. To address the strong demand created by the success of its next generation SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) product, AccelOps today announced the expansion of its Cisco MARS replacement program.

Under a limited time trade-in program that includes discounted pricing and one year of free maintenance and support, Cisco MARS customers can upgrade to the next-generation AccelOps virtualized solution. The upgrade package includes free assessment services to help customers migrate their data and other IP built over time such as rules, reports and dashboards. With this aggressive move, AccelOps fills a crucial void in this market.

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The latest BriefingsDirect podcast discussion centers on how new data and analysis approaches are significantly improving IT operations monitoring, as well as providing stronger security.

The conversation examines how AccelOps has developed technology that correlates events with relevant data across IT systems, so that operators can gain much better insights faster, and then learn as they go to better predict future problems before they emerge. That’s because advances in big data analytics and complex events processing (CEP) can come together to provide deep and real-time, pattern-based insights into large-scale IT operations.

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AccelOps, Inc., the only provider of end-to-end monitoring solutions built for virtualized cloud-generation data centers, finished a strong fiscal year 2011 growing bookings 350 percent and more than tripling its customer base across multiple sectors including Cloud Service Providers (CSPs), financial services, healthcare and manufacturing.

AccelOps is ramping up to meet fast growing market demand. The company has expanded into a new, larger facility, and has expanded its sales and channel presence in the U.S., Europe and Latin America.

In fiscal year 2011, AccelOps won industry awards based on competitive benchmarks by independent third parties, including Frost and Sullivan’s Global New Product Innovation of the Year Award in Enterprise and Service Provider Infrastructure/Cloud Monitoring. AccelOps was also recognized as one of CRN’s Top 20 Cloud Software and Apps Vendors of 2011.

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RALEIGH, N.C., Sep 19, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — The Open Virtualization Alliance (OVA), a consortium committed to fostering the adoption of open virtualization technologies, including Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM), today announced that it is experiencing rapid growth in participation from companies focused on cloud computing and emerging markets around the globe.

KVM provides unique advantages for companies looking for an open alternative for building cloud deployments and in emerging markets where cost and freedom from vendor lock-in are key criteria in selecting a virtualization solution. With these advantages offered by KVM, the OVA has gained particular traction and participation from cloud and emerging markets-focused technology companies in the recent months since its establishment.

More than 50 percent of OVA members are focused on cloud computing, and virtualization is a key component of every cloud. Efficiency, flexibility and reliability are key attributes that cloud providers need to deliver to their customers. By supporting open virtualization and KVM, cloud companies can reduce costs, increase virtual machine density, improve performance, harden security and deploy highly scalable and reliable clouds.

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(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data center monitoring software provider AccelOps (www.accelops.com) announced on Wednesday it has named Robert Yusin vice president of worldwide sales.

In the past four months, AccelOps has announced a series of senior-level appointments, includingMahesh Kumar to vice president of marketing, William Delaney to CFO, Richard Kagan to board member, and Elie Antoun to president and CEO.

In this position, Yusin will lead the company’s global sales growth in the rapidly growing cloud-monitoring marketplace.

“We are very happy to welcome Robert to AccelOps,” said Elie Antoun, president and CEO of AccelOps. His experience in building sales organizations and taking companies to the hyper-growth phase is a perfect fit for AccelOps. Robert’s emphasis on delivering value to customers complements AccelOps’ relentless focus on customer delight.”

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Cisco® announces the end-of-sale and end-of life dates for the Cisco Security Monitoring, Analysis and Response System (MARS) 20R/20/50 Appliances. The last day to order the affected product(s) is November 3, 2008. Customers with active service contracts will continue to receive support from the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) as shown in Table 1 of the EoL bulletin. Table 1 describes the end-of-life milestones, definitions, and dates for the affected product(s). Table 2 lists the product part numbers affected by this announcement. For customers with active and paid service and support contracts, support will be available until the termination date of the contract, even if this date exceeds the Last Date of Support shown in Table 1.

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Jul 14, 2011 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) — AccelOps announced its data center monitoring software has been named as a value leader for CMDB service impact management by Enterprise Management Associates, an IT and data management research and consulting firm.

According to a release, the EMA Radar report, CMDB/CMS Use Cases – Innovation through Diversity: Q2 2011, focuses on how configuration management database and change management system technologies add value as enablers as opposed to as a separate market segment in and of themselves. The AccelOps solution got top marks in deployment and cost efficiency and functionality.

AccelOps’ native CMDB is a building block of the AccelOps monitoring solution. As details about an entire IT infrastructure are automatically discovered and relationships between elements understood, this information is stored in the AccelOps CMDB. When infrastructure changes occur the AccelOps CMDB is updated in real time. The AccelOps solution draws upon real-time information, cross-correlating performance and availability metrics with security logs, and enabling IT managers to define business services and manage incidents from a business service perspective.

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SANTA CLARA, CA–(Marketwire – Jul 11, 2011) – AccelOps, Inc. today announced its data center monitoring software has been distinguished as a value leader for CMDB service impact management by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), a leading IT and data management research and consulting firm. AccelOps is the only provider of integrated monitoring solutions built from the ground up for cloud-generation enterprise and service provider data centers.

The newly published EMA Radar™ report, CMDB/CMS Use Cases – Innovation through Diversity: Q2 2011,focuses on how configuration management database (CMDB) and change management system (CMS) technologies add value as enablers as opposed to as a separate market segment in and of themselves. Top marks in two categories — deployment & cost efficiency and functionality — distinguished the AccelOps solution as leading quickly to value and as well optimized for the dynamic conditions of virtualized and cloud-based environments.

AccelOps’ native CMDB is a foundational building block of the AccelOps discovery-driven monitoring solution. As details about an entire IT infrastructure are automatically discovered and relationships between elements understood, this information is stored in the AccelOps CMDB. When infrastructure changes occur — for example, a virtual machine is added, a firewall configuration is changed, or user permissions are modified — the AccelOps CMDB is updated in real time so that it always contains the most current and cohesive view of truth about a network. The AccelOps solution draws upon this rich store of real-time information, cross-correlating performance and availability metrics with security logs, and enabling IT managers to define business services and manage incidents from a business service perspective.

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Chicago State University improved IT quality, efficiency and responsiveness by adopting an integrated data center monitoring solution. Chicago State University started as a small teachers college and is now a full-fledged state university composed of five colleges, servings more than 7,200 students.

To support the school and its students, CSU’s IT department runs a central data center consisting of HP and Cisco infrastructure connecting more than 150 Microsoft, Linux and Solaris servers.  The datacenter also utilizes VMware and maintains a SAN.  Beyond the datacenter, our infrastructure includes campus computing resources distributed among Health Sciences, Arts and Sciences, Business, Education, Pharmacy and an extended learning division. Key applications used across the University are email, web, Microsoft and a SunGard integrated collegiate administrative suite running on Oracle.

Everything from infrastructure to applications and from management tools to processes must be updated periodically to keep up with increasing demands.  By 2009, we realized it was time to revitalize IT, and in 2010 the University was in the process of upgrading its IT infrastructure, building out virtualization, and centralizing operations and support. One of the core challenges the CSU IT department faced was its disparate set of IT management tools. Rather than a cohesive management system, we were using a loose collection of popular IT management applications and open source utilities.  We had not only outgrown this approach, we wanted to advance its infrastructure monitoring capabilities.

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Elie Antoun to lead data center and cloud monitoring startup into next era of growth.

AccelOps, Inc., a data center service management provider, today announced that Elie Antoun has joined the company as President and Chief Executive Officer. Antoun will shape its strategy and business operations to scale and fully capitalize on the rapidly expanding IT monitoring market opportunity.

The company says that Antoun has been entrepreneur-in-residence at El Dorado Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California, since 2008. Antoun holds a Master of Business Administration from Stanford University Graduate School of Business and both a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles. He also serves on the boards of several venture-backed startups.

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