Report on “Virtualization and the Mid-Market” November 18, 2008
Posted by Roel Gydé in Application virtualization, Server Virtualization, Storage Virtualization & Storage, desktop virtualization.Tags: Kace, report
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As 2009 looms around the corner it is report time, following on our post yester day on Endpoint Virtualization yesterday by Symantec, it is KACE Systems Management who have released their November 2008 analysis of Virtualization in the Mid-Market:
Once again the report contains a lot of intersting ifugres: 76% of mid-size companies have deployed some form of virtualization technologies and 9% are planning to. 64% of the participants have already deployed application virtualization and 82% of all of those who have a virtualization technology on board, report financial savings.
As virtualization remains a technology created by people it has to be maintained by people, it is nice to know that 86% of the participants report that the virtualization technology has had a positive impact on them personally.
When looking at KACE, who are playing in the management part, it is nice to see that 71% of the respondent are in favor of a management tool that both manages physical as virtual servers.
Some nice to knows is that fact that Mid-Market is seen as those with 100-5000 employees and that the study was focussed at Technology Professionals, so not the business people !
Full report here.
Virtualization Industry News [18.11.2008] November 18, 2008
Posted by Roel Gydé in Application virtualization, Cloud Computing, Data Center Management, Server Virtualization, Storage Virtualization & Storage, desktop virtualization.Tags: AMD, Arista, Citrix, Embotics, EMC, Foundation Community, i7, IBM, Intel, LynuxWorks, LynxSecure, Netapp, PlateSpin, Symantec, Tideaway, Transitive Corporation, Verari System, Virtual Computer, Yahoo
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Product-news:
- IBM announced it plans to acquire Transitive Corporation a specialist in cross-platform virtualization and a pioneer in developing technologies that allow applications written for one type of microprocessor and operating system to run on multiple platforms.
- Arista a nnounced interoperability with host adapters from industry leading vendors: Chelsio Communications, Intel, Mellanox Technologies, Myricom, Neterion, NetXen, and ServerEngines
- NetApp releases 2 new systems to the midrange storage FAS3160 and V3160,furthermore it will support 8Gb FC
- VMware, Intel dismiss AMD cross-platform live migration plan (more)
- LynuxWorks has announced the immediate availability of LynxSecure 2.0, a next-generation separation kernel and embedded hypervisor for high assurance systems (more)
- CA and VMware Expand Relationship with Integrated Management Solution for Enterprises and Cloud Service Providers (more). CA and VMware have signed an agreement to make CA Data Center Automation Managerinteroperable with VMware Stage Manager
- Microsoft will be using SCVMM and Visual Studio 2010 for Lab Automation
- Intel has reveiled the i7 CPUs with Intel Virtualization Technology
- Tidewaylaunched the beta version of Tideway Foundation Community Edition
- Verari Systems Incorporates Quad-Core AMD Opteron Processors in BladeRack 2 X-Series Platforms
- EMC Updates Storage Management Software (more)
HR-news:
- Stephen Pollack, founder of PlateSpin joins Advisory Board of Embotics
- Symantec CEO, John Thompson, will retire at the end of the fiscal year in March
- Yahoo CEO, Jerry Yang is stepping down, a new CEO has not yet been found (more)
- Rick Faulk joins Virtual Computer
XenApp 5 – New feature-list November 18, 2008
Posted by Roel Gydé in Application virtualization, Server Virtualization.Tags: Citrix, EdgeSight, Password Manager, Resource Manager, SmartAccess, SmartAuditor, Special Folder Redirection;, XenApp
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More and more we receive the request to give more an indepth view on the features of XenApp 5, we are not that “feature-list-guys” but more the “solution-type-of-people”, but on general request here it comes:
Improvements, changes in “client-side application virtualization” next to the already available features in XenApp 4.5 (XA Enterprise & Platinum)
- Inter-isolation communication: when streaming an application to a device (f.e. Word) and another in another package (f.e. Exchange), you have the capacity to use Word as email-editor.
- Differential synchronization: uploading of only the changed files and removing outdated files
- HTTP and HTTPS streaming of applications
- ‘Special Folder Redirection’: alloes for automatic redirection of server-side special folders to the client side. When a user clicks on the Documents folder in their XenApp 5 session, the folder that opens will actually be the local Documents (or My Documents) folder. When SFR is used, all file operations such as opens and saves will take place in the client-side folder. For those that use multiple devices (for example home PC and business PC) SFR should not be enabled !!! Gabe Knuth has tested the solution in depth.
Improvement, changes in ‘printing’
- XPS printing is supported
- Printing localization: the session will automatically detect the closest printer
OpenBench Labs: analysis & report on SANmelody … November 17, 2008
Posted by Roel Gydé in Storage Virtualization & Storage.Tags: Datacore, SANmelody
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The results:
- SANmelody consolidates resources and virtualizes storage at the disk-block level: Logical blocks are served from tiered storage pools that can be based on such characteristics as drive performance or data availability.
- MMC Snap-in provides a unified single-pane-of-glass management for all storage resources: With storage resource management IT’s biggest cost driver, SANmelody provides the means to manage heterogeneous storage resources centrally rather than as isolated devices.
- HA and DR made practical: IT is no longer constrained to use identical hardware and can mix and match servers and storage at their disposal to assemble a highly-available storage infrastructure that also covers disaster recovery needs.
- Dynamic virtual disk pools support thin provisioning: SANmelody efficiently automates thin provisioning across an entire SAN by consuming virtual disk blocks only when non-zero data is written by application servers rather than when virtual volumes are assigned.
- SANmelody caching improves throughput: Running Iometer, SANmelody caching boosted I/O throughput by upwards of 33%.
What is also important are the ROI values for the customer …
- Consolidate Site-wide Storage Resources for Higher Resource Utilization
- Lower the Total Cost of Storage Hardware by Eliminating Device-specific Feature License Purchases
- Centralize and Standardize Site-wide Storage Resource Management via MS MMC
- Unified SAN Thin Storage Provisioning Only Draws Upon Storage Capacity When Data is Written
- High Availability Supported with Snapshots and Synchronous Mirroring
- Disaster Recovery Support with Remote Replication
- Round-Robin LUN Distribution of Server I/O Traffic Benchmarked at 50,000 IOPS Using 8KB Reads with No I/O Bottlenecks
Full report
Migrating images … time consuming? … Sneak Preview November 17, 2008
Posted by Roel Gydé in Storage Virtualization & Storage.Tags: Datacore, SANmelody, SANsymphony, Traveller
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What do you do when you need to migrate images from physical to virtual systems and from different storage systems? Most people take their time … with DataCore Transporter Option this time is reduced to a minimum.
ast and most general way to import Windows images, including the boot drive, between dissimilar physical or virtual platforms without waiting for lengthy disk‐to‐disk copies or error prone conversions.
Sneak Preview presentation
Report on Endpoint Virtualization … November 17, 2008
Posted by Roel Gydé in Application virtualization, Server Virtualization, desktop virtualization.Tags: App-V, Citrix, Provisioning Server, Symantec, VMware, XenApp, XenDesktop
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Recently Symantec has commissioned a study on ‘Endpoint Virtualization’, finally the document is freely available. It has taken some time but here are the main results:
- More than a quarter (28 percent) of respondents said at least 40 percent of their organizations’ IT resources are spent on managing operating system and application delivery to endpoint devices
- 76 percent of respondents said their organizations have implemented some form of endpoint virtualization technology into their IT infrastructures
- 36 percent of respondents said at least a quarter (26 percent) of their entire 2009 IT budget is earmarked for endpoint virtualization initiatives
- 52% of those that have enabled endpoint virtualization, do this with Microsoft or Citrix
There are some ’strange’ results, 76% confirm that they are using endpoint virtualization, unfortunately it is completely unclear how this is divided over application virtualization (XenApp, WTS), application streaming (XenApp, ThinApp, App-V), Desktop Virtulization (XenDesktop, MS VDI, VMware VDM) or OS Streaming (Provisioning, …). It would have been nice if this information would also be made available, afterall, Microsoft and Citrix take 52% of the complete share for their account, but is that on XenApp or WTS or App-V or with Citrix Provisioning Server, completely unclear.
Furthermore Symantec pops up with an 8% marketshare (fourth place) after Microsoft, Citrix and VMware. Believing that Symantec has built-up a marketshare of that size in such a short time, only confirms our toughts, a more detailed division is required between:
- Server side application virtualization (XenApp, WTS)
- Client side application virtualization (XenApp, App-V, ThinApp, …)
- Desktop Virtualization
- OS Streaming
However, the report clearly indicates that virtualization is being adopted in all layers of the infrastructure. Recent studies have shown that approximately 14% of the x86 servers are virtualized according to Citrix.
Citrix announces Citrix Access Essentials 3 November 17, 2008
Posted by Roel Gydé in Uncategorized.Tags: Citrix Access Essentials
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Citrix Access Essentials™ 3 introduces several new features and enhancements that simplify and streamline management, while improving the overall user experience.
Windows Server 2008 support
Access Essentials 3 leverages the architectural enhancements in Windows Server 2008 to improve security and manageability, such as the new Terminal Services re-architecture, security enhancements, Special Folder Redirection, XPS printing and more.
Improved user experience
Users will experience a completely redesigned and more intuitive interface that is consistent on the desktop and over the Web and allows users to access their applications more quickly and easily.
Enhanced multimedia experience
New SpeedScreen technology, including Progressive Display, Multimedia Acceleration and Flash Acceleration, provides users with a rich multimedia experience that’s nearly indistinguishable from local applications.
Integration with Windows Essential Business Server
Citrix has partnered with Microsoft to centralize and simplify the day-to-day management of Access Essentials with integration into the Windows Essential Business Server administration console. An all-in-one server solution, Essential Business Server is designed to transform businesses by helping save time and money and significantly increase productivity. Administrators can now manage servers, modify published applications, view and log off user sessions and assign and revoke user licenses, all directly from the Essential Business Server management console.
Please note that customers operating on Windows Server 2003 need to continue to use Access Essentials 2.0. The general availability date is November 24th, 2008
RES Software and Provision Network VAS November 17, 2008
Posted by Roel Gydé in Data Center Management.Tags: Extender, PowerFuse, RES, Subscriber, Wisdom
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Altough everything moves to the cloud or a data center, the user remains an important factor within the complete infrastructure. In order to maximize the productivity of the users you can use solutions like RES PowerFuse (workspace management) or RES Wisdom (Run Book Automation).
Recently RES has been able to integrate the RES Subscriber and RES PowerFuse Workspace Extender into Provision Networks VAS.
For the details on how to do it … go here.
Citrix buys Vapps Inc November 17, 2008
Posted by Roel Gydé in Uncategorized.Tags: Citrix Online, Vapps
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Citrix has bought the US company Vapps Inc, which provides audio conferencing to SME using VoIP. Citrix has paid 26.6 million USD, there is a possible surplus of 4.4 million USD if cetain financial goals are met.
This acquisition clearly is part of the extension of the Citrix Online services, in which Citrix is more and more getting into competition with Cisco, who believes that everybody requires Telepresence, while Citrix Online clearly sees more in online conferencing and collaboration services fro SMBs.
Addition 17/11 – 15:16 – A contact from Citrix Online was unable to provide additional info, as everything seems to be under non-disclosure.
Addition 18/11 – 22:41 - In addition to high-quality audio, Vapps brings support for Skype, which Citrix could also add to its GoToMeeting mix. This capability lets Skype users call in to conferences attended by users of traditional phones. Vapps had a previous relationship with Skype in which it helped expand the maximum number of participants that could join a Skype conference call.
Virtualization Industry News [17.11.08] November 17, 2008
Posted by Roel Gydé in Application virtualization, Cloud Computing, Data Center Management, I/O Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Storage Virtualization & Storage, desktop virtualization.Tags: 3Lear, Adaptec, Azure, CentriServ, Cisco, Citrix, Computer Associates, devonIT, EMC, Emulex, Hitachi, HP, IBM, iSeries, Marvell Technologies, Mozy, OpenQRM, Pano Logic, Pano VDI, Parallels, Pi, Prestera CX, SaaS, Sun, Supermicro, Virtual Connect, Virtuozzo, VMware
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News:
- DevonIT and CentriServ announce the genearl availability of the Virtualization Starter Kit. The kit comes with DevonIT thin clients, connects to XenDesktop or VMware VDI and CentriServ enterprise assessment and consolidation services
- Microsoft is preparing new virtualization certifications – general Windows Server Virtualization exam is available now, while the exam for SCVMM will come available mid-December
- 3Leaf Systems announced that the company will showcase new silicon enabled virtualizationtechnology enabling dynamic resource utilization using commodity servers from SuperMicro Computer
- VMware ESX is going exclusively 64bit (more)
- OpenQRM 4.2 has been released
- Cisco will start Nexus 1000V beta program in December
- Adaptec RAID Controllers with Intelligent Power Management Matched with Hitachi Ultrastar Hard Drives and Supermicro Server Deliver Green Enterprise-class Storage Performance, savings up to 40% (more)
- Computer Associates expands Software-as-a-Service offering with 3 new offerings: CA Clarity PPM On Demand, CA GRC Manager On Demand and CA Instant Recovery On Demand. (more)
- Marvell Technologies introduced the Marvell Prestera CX family of high performance 40GbE and 100GbE switches. The Marvell Prestera CX family is designed to break new ground in integration, performance and features by providing 40GbE support, fiber channel over Ethernet (FCoE) support, Data Center Bridging (DCB), Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE) features and a low latency mode. (more)
- Emulex has announced that its LightPulse LP21000 family of Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) Converged Network Adapters (CNAs) have been tested and found to be compatible for use with IBM Systems x3650(, x3655 and x3755 series servers. (more)
- Pano Logic announced Pano Virtual Desktop Solution (VDS) 2.5 (more)
- Parallels announced Virtuozzo Containers supports the new HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 10Gb Ethernet module and HP ProLiant BL495c virtualization blade server (more)
- EMC has taken its Mozy and Pi holdings – Pi being the stealth-mode mystery start-up it bought to acquire ex-Microsoft kingpin Paul Maritz before it fired Diane Greene and put him in charge of VMware – and Mozy being its year-old $76 million online consumer backup acquisition – and put them in a new cloud concern called Decho Corporation. Decho promises to introduce “new cloud-based services for individuals over time.” (more) and (more)
- Windows Azure has been in CTP sinds PDC2008, the solution is still in PDC but available to take the load. Pricing remains a mystery as well as the fact that only .NET applications can be ported to Azure. Furthermore the solution keeps on focussing on developpers, altough that there is information for business use (more).
HR news:
- Rich Green (Head of Software) leaves Sun
- James Urquhart becomes Marketing Manager/Technology Evangelist for Data Center Virtualization at Cisco Systems
- At Sun, Senior Vice President, Dave Douglas, has been appointed to lead the Company’s cloud computing efforts.
France Telecom moves from Minitel to virtual desktops November 17, 2008
Posted by Roel Gydé in desktop virtualization.Tags: XenDesktop
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France Telecom has been well known for its minitel terminals, which it distributed across the country offering customers the first online information (train schedules, phonebook, …) … They are at it again with Orange Business Services they will be offering a hosted VDI (Citrix XenDesktop) to SMBs for around 99 euros, thin client included ! (more)
Virtualization Industry News November 14, 2008
Posted by Roel Gydé in Application virtualization, Cloud Computing, Data Center Management, I/O Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Storage Virtualization & Storage, desktop virtualization.Tags: AIS, Braeburn, CompareMyVM, ICA, iPhone, MDOP, Netapp, VKernel
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Product News:
- When MDOP 2008 was released it did not contain AIS (Asset Inventory Service) and it was foreseen to be out on the market end November (see our prevoious post), as of today the version 1.5 is in ‘preview mode’ available. Users who are running AIS 1.0 will get the updates automatically through Microsoft updates. (more)
- VKernel launches the CompareMyVM community. Members will provide resource allocation information of their ESX VMs to the community, this way offering a benchmark tool. The live will go fully live in December, there are already some results available. Youi will be able to provide your resource allocation information to the site through an automated or manual process.
- Citrix Project Braeburn bringing ICA to the iPhone, the Citrix Receiver should be generally available somewhere in 1H2009. (more)
- NetApp reported increased revenue and lower profit in its second fiscal quarter, and said the channel was responsible for both. (more)
Cost effective daily IT management in 9 seconds !!! November 14, 2008
Posted by Roel Gydé in Data Center Management.Tags: ESX, RES Software, Run Book, Wisdom
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The day to day management of an IT environment in a virtualized environment does not differ much from a physical environment. Yet IT departments tend to spend a lot of time, a lot of effort and a lot of money at executing day-to-day tasks or repetitive tasks when it comes to users and systems.
With the release of RES Wisdom 2009 the time spent can be reduced, the effort can reduced to a minimum and the budget for an IT department can be better allocated to more important tasks than day to day management.
A typical example of a day-to-day job within an IT department is setting up a new user in the Active Directory, creating a homedrive, creating the same user in the Exchange environment and set a number of AD parameters. With RES Wisdom 2009 this can be done in 9 seconds !!!
RES Wisdom 2009 is your ‘Santa’s little helper’, offering you the breathing-space for other more critical tasks when it comes to day to day management of a small, medium or enterprise-sized IT infrastructure.
Wisdom 2009 is not the first release of RES SOFTWARE form the Netherlands, it is the sucessor of WISDOM 2007 with a lot of new features such as provisioning, run books and snapshot intelligence.
Bringing it all together … IDC, HP, Intel, Citrix … invitation November 13, 2008
Posted by Roel Gydé in Application virtualization, Cloud Computing, Data Center Management, Server Virtualization, Storage Virtualization & Storage, desktop virtualization.Tags: Citrix, HP, IDC, Intel
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Virtualisation has become a pillar for implementing greater flexibility, delivering better utilization rates, faster integration of new servers and services and higher availability whilst striving to reduce CAPEX and OPEX costs. In some countries, virtualisation has already become the standard platform for deploying new workloads. As virtualisation has matured and become more pervasive in companies, the effective management of virtual as well as integrated virtual and physical environments will be the focus for the next phase in virtualisation initiatives.
Get the insight how IDC together with HP, Intel and Citrix see a fully integrated mangeable virtualized data center on December 3th, 2008 from 3PM till 4PM CET. Subscribe here, spaces are limited, free entrance
Virtualization Industry News November 13, 2008
Posted by Roel Gydé in Uncategorized.Tags: Blue Lane, Elfiq, Link Balancer, VMware, ZEnoss
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Issues with printing in Citrix? … Citrix Print Detective November 13, 2008
Posted by Roel Gydé in Application virtualization, Data Center Management, Server Virtualization, desktop virtualization.Tags: printing, XenApp
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Citrix U-Turns on price increase with promotion November 12, 2008
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Citrix has announced this weekend, a discount on the normal listprice on all new product purchases for EMEA. The promotion is valid till the end of the year and levels-out the earlier price increase from September.
Virtualization Industry News November 12, 2008
Posted by Roel Gydé in Uncategorized.Tags: Hyperic
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HR announcements:
- Matthew Stodolnic moves from Salesforce.com to Hyperic as VP Marketing
Product news:
- Hyperic HQ4 offers application performance monitoring for Amazon Cloud User (more)
Citrix NetScaler 9 on November 27th November 12, 2008
Posted by Roel Gydé in Cloud Computing, Data Center Management.Tags: Netscaler
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Over 350 features will be integrated in this new release.
New features or improvements include:
- AppExpert Templates
- AppExpert Rate Controls
- AppExpert Service CallOuts
- New XML protections
- URL Transformation
More here.
User Profile Management in virtual & physical worlds with Simon Townsend (Appsense) November 11, 2008
Posted by Roel Gydé in Data Center Management.Tags: Appsense, UPM
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Interview gives a good overview of Appsense Environment Manager 8.0, Application Manager and Environment Manager. The applications both work in a virtualized environment (CTX, WTS, VDI) or in physical environments.
Interview by Douglas Brown.
Virtualization Industry news November 11, 2008
Posted by Roel Gydé in Application virtualization, Cloud Computing, Data Center Management, I/O Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Storage Virtualization & Storage, desktop virtualization.Tags: Asigra, Atmos, BlueStripe, Citrix, Egenera, EMC, FactFinder, Hulk, IBM, Lanamark, Lotus Foundation, Oracle, Veeam, VirtualIron, vmBuilder, VMware, vReady, XenServer
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Product news:
- BlueStripe software releases FactFinder 1.1 enabling enterprises to stage, deploy and manage business critical applications. (more)
- EMC shows the next generation of storage in the cloud as ”Atmos,” the software portion is designed to manage petabytes of information across tens or hundreds of geographic location. It runs with VMware or with EMCs Hulk (x86 server with high-capacity-low-cost SATA discs) (more)
- IBM will release IBM Lotus Foundation that can integrate with VMware
- Lanamark releases VReady, a virtualization readiness assessment service without upfront costs. The service enables customers to capture desktop and server workload trends, measure data center utilization and determine warranty coverage of existing servers (more). The free service is limited to 500 nodes (desktops running MS or LX and MS servers) per customer
- Veaam releases Veaam Configurator 2.0, helps to ensure that an ESX server configuration complies with corporate policies and standards across a VI3 (more). The product is licenses per socket with a maximum of 4 cores per socket. Pricing starts at 250 USD with a special release price of 150 USD till the end of 2008
- Asigra Televaulting Teams with Virtual Iron’s Server Virtualization Software, bringing agentless information recovery to virtual server environments
- Egenera ships PAN vmBuilder 2.1 – the software seamlessly integrates with Citrix XenServer virtual machine (VM) management technology, allowing administrators to fully manage virtual and physical server environments unencumbered by the complexities of individual management tools. The software is available as an add-on to PAN manager
Looking at XenDesktop take care of these concepts November 11, 2008
Posted by Roel Gydé in Application virtualization, Data Center Management, Server Virtualization, desktop virtualization.Tags: concepts, XenDesktop
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In a previous post,, Daniel Feller (Citrix talked about the 3 layers of a virtual desktop (OS, Apps and Personalization) and spent some time discussing the must haves and might need items that should be part of the base OS build. This time he talks about the second layer, application delivery.
“As you are probably aware, application delivery in a XenDesktop environment is done with XenApp. Now, I’m not going to tell you about how cool XenApp is (I leave that to the product marketing people). What I do want to spend time talking about is how we choose the best application delivery technique for a virtual desktop, because XenApp gives us three options: …” (more)
Strong Authentication for Citrix WebInterface November 11, 2008
Posted by Roel Gydé in Data Center Management.Tags: security, Vasco, WebInterface
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Kate Brew interviews Chris Mayers (Principal Security Architect at Citrix) on the aspects of strong authentication. How integration with Citrix WebInterface is possible and what the immediate advantages are. (interview)
An interesting aspect in the interview is ‘biometrics’, we have worked on a lot of projects in which biometrics were against OTPs (like Vasco), almost in 99,5% the OTP security was enough. Chris gives a good view on why this might be the case. It is all about sending biometrical-data from a remote system to the network. Biometrical data has much value to a hacker than OTP values, afterall your fingertip does not change every time you push a button.
Citrix XenServer certifies on Oracle November 11, 2008
Posted by Roel Gydé in Server Virtualization.Tags: Oracle, XenServer
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Citrix today announced that Citrix XenServer has achieved integration validation through Oracle’s Application Integration Architecture for Partners initiative.
Citrix XenServer Achieves Oracle Validated Integration for Oracle’s PeopleSoft Enterprise, Siebel CRM, and Oracle E-Business Suite Applications. (more)
Virtualization Industry News November 10, 2008
Posted by Roel Gydé in Uncategorized.Tags: HP, PCI, Replicate Datacenter Analyzer, Replicate Technologies, SVSP, VirtualIron
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Product news:
- HP has released SAN Virtualization Service Platform (SVSP)
- PCI Data Security Standard has been updated to version 1.2, still does not address virtualization (more)
- Forrester released a new report “How to explain Cloud Computing to your CFO”, extract on cio.com
- Replicate Technologies releases Replicate Datacenter Analyzer 1.0, pricing starts at 500 USD per year for a 2 socket server (more). There is a free trial available.
HR news:
- Tony Asaro (Chief Strategy Officer) leaves VirtualIron
Igel Technology releases Linux firmware 3.09 November 10, 2008
Posted by Roel Gydé in Uncategorized.Tags: Igel, thin client
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Igel Technology has released its new Linux firmware (version 3.09). This new firmware contains a rich new feature-set providing the necessary digital services to connect to virtualized environments.
New features include:
- support for VMware VDM 2.1
- new ICA Client 10.40 fixing access to readonly mounted devices with Office2003
- Firefox 2.0.0.17 with some security fixes and support to hide context menu
- Winconnect 6.0.72h with support for W2k8 server per device licensing and fixed smartcard logon with session directory
- PCSC smartcard service: support for extended APDUs (used with long encyption keys)
- Powerterm session can now use enviroment variables to evaluate the host name.
- Startup ethernet based cards dhcp configuration only if a link (connected cable) is detected
- SecMaker NetID version 4.9.4.1
- Added support for displays with resolution of 1280×800
- Support for Olympus Dictation Devices through ICA
- Support for VLANs (Virtual LAN) with ethernet interfaces
Full overview of all digital services connectors (depending on model-type)
- ICA Client 10.40.133432
- RDP Winconnect 6.0.72h
- RDP rdesktop 1.6.0
- PowerTerm InterConnect 9.1.0.238
- PowerTerm WebConnect 5.6.0.4000-rel.20413
- SAP GUI 710rev3
- Firefox 2.0.0.17
- JRE 1.5.0_13
- Acrobat Reader 509
- MPlayer 1.0rc1
- Flash Player 7
- Real Player 8.0.3.421
- KPhone 4.2
- ThinPrint Client 6.3.91.1
- NX Client 3.0.0-65
- Cisco VPN Client 4.8.00.0490-k9
- X Server 6.8.1
The new firmware and release notes can be downloaded here.
Kate Brew interviews Citrite Ola Nordstrom on ‘Securing XenApp’ November 10, 2008
Posted by Roel Gydé in Uncategorized.Tags: XenApp
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Douglas Brown has interviewed Ola Nordstrom, a Citrite who has been securing XenApp for the last 5 years.
Some topics thare are covered in this interview:
- What is an ‘attack surface”
- What are examples of entry points
- Best practices
- …
Full podcast.
P2V form VizionCore: vConverter 4.0 November 10, 2008
Posted by Roel Gydé in Uncategorized.Tags: Vizioncore, vConverter 4.0
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vConverter 4.0 automates and accelerates conversions to Microsoft, Virtual Iron, VMware and XenServer environments, allowing customers to migrate workloads between platforms as part of scheduled conversion projects or for disaster recovery purposes
New Features in vConverter 4.0:
- Synchronized Cutover
- Continuous Protection
- Remote Cold Cloning
- Virtual Appliance
- Task and User Profiles
- Raw Device Mapping
- Quick Convert
Pricing and Availability
Vizioncore vConverter 4.0 is available in two editions from Vizioncore’s worldwide channel partner network: Server Consolidation for one-time conversions at an SRP of $129 and Disaster Recovery for recurring conversions at an SRP of $299.
More here
VMware goes mobile through Trango Virtual Machines November 10, 2008
Posted by Roel Gydé in Application virtualization, Server Virtualization, desktop virtualization.Tags: MVP, Trango Virtual Machines, VMware
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(from Brian Madden) - Apparently VMware bought some technology from a company called Trango Virtual Machines last month which they’re launching today as the “VMware Mobile Virtual Platform” (VMware MVP).
