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.
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