[TECH] – ICA DeepDive & Acceleration September 14, 2009
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Following a number of discussions with partners on ‘How does ICA work’ and ‘How can it be accelerated’, we bumped into the following ‘wedcast’ by Jo Harder & Jason Maynard. Register here for the recorded webcast
Virtualization & Cloud Computing Industry News [14.09.09] September 14, 2009
Posted by Roel Gydé in Application virtualization, Cloud Computing, Data Center Management, File Virtualization, I/O Virtualization, Memory Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Storage Virtualization & Storage, datacenter, desktop virtualization.Tags: App-V, Citrix, DaaS, Data Recovery, Desktone, IBM, Marathon Technologies, MDOP, Microsoft, VDI, VMware, Wyse
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It has been a while that we have posted here … for wich we offer our humble excuses. We’ll do our best to not let you down the following weeks, months, …
- Microsoft will release MDOP 2009 R2 shortly after the release of Windows 7 on October 22nd, instead of Q1 2010 as previously expected [Full article]
- VMware released the 1.0.2 (Build 188925) version of their VMware Data Recovery solution [notes] and vCenter Lifecycle Manager solution version 1.0.2 [notes]
- BriadMadden TV: Dive into PC-over-IP, which will be released with View 4 [Full media]
- Parallels announced the addition of Microsoft Office Communications Server R2 to its Parallels Automation offering [Full article]
- Marathon Technologies names new CEO and President: Jim Welch [Full article]
- IBM plans to launch the Smart Business Desktop offering in October 2009 with a subscription model, the solution is based on collaboration between IBM, Citrix, Desktone, Wyse and VMware [more]
EVENTS:
- October 13th, 2009 – Online – “CitrixLive: Secrets, Lies and VDI” - free virtual event – [register]
Virtualization & Cloud Computing News [09.04.09] April 9, 2009
Posted by Roel Gydé in Application virtualization, Cloud Computing, Data Center Management, File Virtualization, I/O Virtualization, Memory Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Storage Virtualization & Storage, datacenter, desktop virtualization.Tags: BlueCat, Cisco, Citrix, Devon IT, ESX, StorMagic, Tidal Software, Veeam, Vimware View, XenDesktop
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- Thin clients from Devon IT Europe have been VMware View certified
- BlueCat launches its Proteus and Adonis products as virtual appliances for VMware ESX
- VMware View 3.0 has been arwarded a 7,5/10 by Infoworld Test Center (report), the last test of XenDesktop (version 2.0) resulted in 8.3 (report)
- Veeam introduces version 4.5 of nWorks Management Pack for integration in vCenter and SCCM (more)
- Cisco to buy Tidal Software, who have a focus on intelligent application management and automation solutions, which will be integrated into Cisco’s Data Center 3.0 view.
- StorMagic , who specializes iSCSI SAN management software for virtualized environments, launched an extensive channel program (more
Virtualization & Cloud Computing News [07.04.09 - UPDATE 2] April 7, 2009
Posted by Roel Gydé in Application virtualization, Cloud Computing, Data Center Management, File Virtualization, I/O Virtualization, Memory Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Storage Virtualization & Storage, datacenter, desktop virtualization.Tags: Apple, Linux, OpenGL, OVF, Snow Leopard, Solaris, Sun Microsystems, VirtualBox
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- Sun Microsystems has update its x86 VirtualBox with support for OVF 1.0 and performance enhancements (3D graphics acceleration for Linux and Solaris using OpenGL. Support for Apple’s Snow Leopard (more)
- The GRIDS Laboratory of the University of Melbourne has released CloudSim: a novel framework for modelling and simulation of cloud computing infrastructure and services (more)
Proposal for “OSI alike”-model for Data Centers April 7, 2009
Posted by Roel Gydé in Application virtualization, Cloud Computing, Data Center Management, File Virtualization, I/O Virtualization, Memory Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Storage Virtualization & Storage, datacenter, desktop virtualization.Tags: Data Center Pulse, Data Center Stack, OSI
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Data Center Pulse released their proposal for the Data Center Stoack, an OSI-model a-like stack to describe the involved architecture. As the OSI-model the proposed Data Center Stack has seven layers.
- Data Center Pulse – Proposal for Data Center Stack
Citrix XenDesktop Design Handbook [Part I] April 7, 2009
Posted by Roel Gydé in Data Center Management, desktop virtualization.Tags: Citrix, Daniel Feller, Marathon Technologies, SQL, Thomas Berger, VDI, XenDesktop, XenServer
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Now that VDI is top-of-mind, more an more people ask us about design consideration, architecture, who can we VDI (if VDI would be a verb), … Most VDI vendors have some sort of guidelines or handbook and now Citrite Daniel Feller (senior architect) and Thomas Berger are “writing” the Encyclopedia Brittanica on XenDesktop: “the XenDesktop Design Handbook”.
The first part (of a multi-chapter handbook) has been released to the support-site of Citrix. This part focuses on ‘operating systems’, application and virtual desktop delivery design decisions. Over the coming months they will expand the series into different design dicision areas.
Some recommendations:
- Use provisioning services for ‘device collection’ for better organization of the devices and start with a minimum of different vDisks.
- Configure the SQL database in a fully redundant matter …. XenServer + Marathon Technologies everRun VM
- What about storage … page 4
- Where to store the write cache …. page 6
- …
Virtualization & Cloud Industry News [07.04.09] April 7, 2009
Posted by Roel Gydé in Application virtualization, Cloud Computing, Data Center Management, File Virtualization, I/O Virtualization, Memory Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Storage Virtualization & Storage, datacenter, desktop virtualization.Tags: Amazon, Desktop Analysis Pack, EC2, FastScale, Lanamark, Server Virtualization Design Module
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- Lanamark releases Desktop Analysis Pack for accelerating desktop virtualization projectes by offering extensive analytics. It also offers insight to the type of device, associations between devices (PC-monitor, …), installed apps vs used apps … Once the analysis has been performed, this analysis can be used with the Server Virtualization Design Module of Lanamark to roll out the ideal server infrastructure (more)
- FastScale optimizes software stacks for Amazon EC2, 95% smaller environments, 75% less memory needed (more) There is beta-program available
- SaaS will be good for 20% of the commercial email market by 2012, coming from only 1% in 2007. Report by Gartner
- HyTrust releases the HyTrust Appliance, an appliance offering insights into the behaviour of VMs with full control of all the ‘events’, single point of control and visibility for hypervisor configurations, compliance and access management. The solution works with Symantec, Citrix and VMware (more)
Virtualization & Cloud Computing Industry News [06.04.09] April 6, 2009
Posted by Roel Gydé in Application virtualization, Cloud Computing, Data Center Management, File Virtualization, I/O Virtualization, Memory Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Storage Virtualization & Storage, datacenter, desktop virtualization.Tags: Citrix, DTMF, IBM, Pano Logic, Sun
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Xen.org Releases Xen Type-2 Hypervisor: Xen Project KXen April 6, 2009
Posted by Yves Peeters in desktop virtualization.Tags: virtualization, Xen
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The initial public release of the Hosted Xen project (KXen) is now available. KXen lets you run the Xen core as a Type-2 VMM, on top of a regular operating system. This release supports 32-bit Windows XP, Vista and Win7 as the host operating system. This release uses a snapshot of the Xen core used in Citrix’s XenServer product. Future releases will be based on open source xen-3.4 and xen-unstable. This release is in the form of a snapshot of the latest working sources (kxen-preview-090323-src.tar.bz2) and an archive of binaries built from those sources (kxen-preview-090323-windows.zip).
Virtualization & Cloud Computing News [03.04.09] April 3, 2009
Posted by Roel Gydé in Application virtualization, Cloud Computing, Data Center Management, File Virtualization, I/O Virtualization, Memory Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Storage Virtualization & Storage, datacenter, desktop virtualization.Tags: Branch Repeater, Citrix, Netscaler, SAP, VMware, vSphere, WANscaler
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- SAP certifies Citrix Netscaler 9.0 and Branch Repeater/WANscaler as a complete solution to improve the delivery of the SAP applications. The SAP Portal response times were significantly better with the Netscaler technology (more)
- Rumours in the market indicate that VMware vSphere will be announced on April 21st
Virtualization & Cloud Industry News [02.04.09 - Update] April 2, 2009
Posted by Roel Gydé in Application virtualization, Cloud Computing, Data Center Management, File Virtualization, I/O Virtualization, Memory Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Storage Virtualization & Storage, datacenter, desktop virtualization.Tags: brokers, Cloud Computing, Cloud Security Alliance, ESX, ESXi, IBM, LotusLIve Engage, SaaS, VMware
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- IBM announced yesterday their first move to cloud computing with a SaaS offering for contact management, instant messaging and file sharing program in their own data centers. The fee per user per month will be between 10 USD and 45 USD, general availability of the suite is foreseen for April 7th and it will be marketed under the brand LotusLive Engage (more)
- VMware changes the number of supported virtual CPUs to 20 virtual CPUs per core across a board. The maximum number of vCPU remains unchanges: 192 (ESX) and 170 (ESXi Update 3) (more)
- Cloud Security Alliance formed to promote security best practices a cloud computing environment. Founding members include eBay and ING, furthermore PGP, Qualys and vScaler are also member (more)
- VDI Connection Brokers have been analyzed (more)
NVIDIA SLI Multi-OS for XenDesktop … offloading graphics to March 30, 2009
Posted by Roel Gydé in Application virtualization, desktop virtualization.Tags: NVIDIA, SLI Multi-OS, XenDesktop
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Altough Citrix XenApp has already an enormous number of graphics acceleration tools onboard, sometimes a user got stuck with an application (not only by the graphics, but a lot of these apps are not multi-user, multi-session).
With the recent ‘boom’ in virtual desktops, a lot of companies looked at XenDesktop as a solution to centralize all these graphic-intensive applications. Within XenDesktop, Citrix has also done a lot for an optimal graphical experience, but one factor remains an issue: the graphics card in the server.
Wouldn’t it be great when you can offload all these graphic calculations to the graphical card within the server. It would be great, but no card was ready… till today … Nvidia announced Nvidia SLI Multi-OS Technology which supports multiple OS at the same moment using a virtualization technology, so two users can connect to a server and the server will provide each user with a maximum of graphics, as graphic-resources can be allocated to a user.
At present the technology is only available for workstations with Intel VT-D, but during last Citrix Summit there were talks about an appliance with 4 graphical cards offering maximum graphic performance to XenDesktop users, this might be it. There is a great market out-there for desktop virtualization when using off-the-shelf servers with this card.
(more on the NVIDIA website)
Virtualization & Cloud Industry News [30.03.09] March 30, 2009
Posted by Roel Gydé in Application virtualization, Cloud Computing, Data Center Management, File Virtualization, I/O Virtualization, Memory Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Storage Virtualization & Storage, datacenter, desktop virtualization.Tags: Apple, Citrix, Gartner, HP, ICA, iPhone, XenServer
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Citrix released the technical preview kit for the Apple ICA client to the Apple iPhone App Store, if you are looking for more technical information visit the following review by Michael Keen or go get your ICA client at the Apple Store.
Parallels is launching “Parallels Workstation Extreme”, a desktop workstation virtualization offering developed jointly with HP and NVIDIA (more).
Neterion Launches Third Generation I/O Virtualized X3110 10 GbE Server Adapter to the World-Wide Channel (more).
HP SNMP Agents for Citrix XenServer Retail Available (more).
Gartner predicts that the hosted virtual desktop (HVD) market will accelerate through 2013, reaching 49 million units (read the report)
Virtualization & Cloud Industry News [19.02.09] February 19, 2009
Posted by Yves Peeters in Data Center Management, Storage Virtualization & Storage, desktop virtualization.Tags: Citrix, Datacore, HP, Symantec, Vizioncore, VMware
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Symantec to Release Endpoint Virtualization Suite in Spring (more)
Vizioncore Elevates their Virtualization Monitoring Tool, vFoglight, to a New Level (more)
Citrix puts XenDesktop 3 on every HP Blade PC (more)
DataCore’s Storage Virtualization and Business Continuity Software Solutions are VMware Ready Certified (more)
Virtualization & Cloud Industry News [04.02.09] February 4, 2009
Posted by Roel Gydé in Application virtualization, Cloud Computing, Data Center Management, File Virtualization, I/O Virtualization, Memory Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Storage Virtualization & Storage, datacenter, desktop virtualization.Tags: 3D graphics, Citrix, Clustered Systems, fanless cooling system, HDX, McAfee, SaaS, XenDesktop
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McAfee launches internal division which will focus on SaaS, the division has the goal to increase the number of applications which the company will offer as a SaaS concept.
Citrix releases Citrix HDX with XenDesktop 3.0, which enhances multimedia, video, voice, 3D graphics and “adaptive orchestration” that sense the underlying capabilities in the data center (more)
Clustered Systems is developing a fanless cooling system for servers using a cold plate, which contains a tubing system filled with liquid coolant. By removing fans and dedicating more power to processors, the company says its product will support power densities of up to 80 kilowatts per rack (more)
New release of Citrix XenDesktop imminent February 4, 2009
Posted by Roel Gydé in desktop virtualization.Tags: Citrix, XenDesktop
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Citrix will shortly release (on February 13th) a new version of Citrix XenDesktop, this new release will incorporate the following additional advantages:
Generic USB device support
Smartcard credential support for CAC
Enhanced multimedia support for Windows Media streams
End user desktop restart
Portable Profile Manager (management of centrally stored profiles, consistent enduser experience
Minimed storage when using single image provisioning with persistent images
Improved scalability of XenServer pools for XenDesktop deployment
In short, XenDesktop will reduce the TCO by 40%, it offers centralized desktop lifecycle management, offers increased business agility and security. Project Indepenced, which will offer to capability to take offline a VM, will not be integrated in this release. Pricing starts from 45 USD for an annual license (runtime: 12 months) or 75 USD for a perpetual license.
Community-articles on the imminent release of XenDesktopo 3.0:
[eweek.com article] - [DABBC.com article]
Virtualization & Cloud Industry News [03.02.09] February 3, 2009
Posted by Roel Gydé in Application virtualization, Cloud Computing, Data Center Management, File Virtualization, I/O Virtualization, Memory Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Storage Virtualization & Storage, datacenter, desktop virtualization.Tags: Citrix, EMC, Gartner, Independence, Lanamark, Memory Virtualization Platform, Microsoft, mRemote, Netapp, Parallels, Remote Desktop, RNA networks, RNAmessenger, Solid State Disk, View Open Client, Visionapp, VMware, Xenocode
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It has been a while since we posted the last ‘virtualization & cloud industry news”, our excuses for this, here are the most important announcements:
Following project Independence of Citrix (a baremetal client hypervisor in collaboration with Intel), VMware released its open source VDI client: VMware View Open Client. VMware hopes to maximize its return by focussing thin client vendors, these thin clients will form an important number of all installed devices according to Gartner. So the battle moves from the server-side to the desktop. (more)
EMC and Microsoft extend their collaboration into 2011 (more)
Following the European Code of Conduct for Data Centers, the Green Grid initiative will be announcing on the 4th plans to develop a new metric for data center productivity and a data center 2.0 design guide.
RNA networks specializing in memory virtualization software (transforming server memory into a shared network resource) announced the launch of its Memory Virtualization Platform (MVP) and first product, RNAmessenger, based on the MVP (more)
The partnership between Xsigo and Dell will result in additional I/O ports on PowerEdge servers on the fly without the need for extra network interface cards, providing increased I/O virtualization. (more)
Parallels will preview its new hypervisor which was initailly scheduled for 2006 on its Summit 2009, furthermore its new orchestration product (Virtual Automation) will also be previewed.
Visionapp has released Remote Desktop 2009 with additional support for Citrix ICA, VNC, SSH, Telnet and HTTPS furthermore there are features of mRemote included in the new release (more)
Lanamark specializing in virtualization capacity planning and IT assessment software, the availability of Lanamark Suite 2009, including support for monitoring Citrix XenServer and VMware ESX, supplements server information with power consumption, form factor, age and warranty metrics, and simplifies capacity planning with significant user experience and reporting automation enhancements. (more)
XenoCode has released Virtual Application Studio 2009 building further in the application virtualization market (more)
Texas Memory Systems and NetApp partner on solid state disk
Virtualization & Cloud Industry News [29.01.09] January 29, 2009
Posted by Roel Gydé in Application virtualization, Cloud Computing, Data Center Management, File Virtualization, I/O Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Storage Virtualization & Storage, datacenter, desktop virtualization.Tags: 6fusion, CiRBA, Double Take, EMC
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6fusion Launches Virtualization Utility Computing Node — The Infrastructure Node consists of an enterprise class hardware architecture that is federated by 6fusion’s Utility Computing software, UC6. UC6 turns any virtualized computing infrastructure into a fully accessible utility computing system (more)
EMC reports 45% drop in profits in fourth quarter (more)
Double-Take Software announced that it is extending its GeoCluster offering to support failover clustering and the hypervisor-based virtualization in Windows Server 2008. GeoCluster is a software-based replication solution designed to integrate seamlessly with failover clustering (more)
Citrix shows nice results, 10% of the workforce has to go
Virtualization & Cloud Industry News [27.01.09] January 27, 2009
Posted by Roel Gydé in Application virtualization, Cloud Computing, Data Center Management, File Virtualization, I/O Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Storage Virtualization & Storage, datacenter, desktop virtualization.Tags: Citrix, NxTop, Parabon, Sybase, Virtual Computer, VMware
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Citrix invests (together with capital investment companies) for 15M USD in Virtual Computer (more)
Sybase releases Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise Virtualization Cluster Edition (more)
Parabon releases version 4 of Frontier Grid Virtualization Platform (more)
VMware released fourth quarter and full year results (more)
VMware & Teradici threaten Citrix? January 26, 2009
Posted by Yves Peeters in Application virtualization, Server Virtualization, desktop virtualization.Tags: Citrix, VDM, virtualization, VMware, XenApp, XenDesktop, XenServer
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Tom Valovic posted an interesting article about an interview with Stuart Robinson of Teradici on the purported benefits of Teradici’s PC over IP protocol licensed by VMware. Tom reports on a Teradici claim that PC over IP has a lead over ICA in that it has an ability to dynamically adjust the bandwidth needed by the remoting protocol, in response to available network bandwidth. Specifically, Robinson (who actually knows better) claims that ICA has no such ability.
Another Microsoft Licensing Policy Update: What’s Good? What’s Left? January 23, 2009
Posted by Yves Peeters in Application virtualization, Server Virtualization, desktop virtualization.Tags: Hyper-V, Licensing, Microsoft, virtualization, VMware, XenServer
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Last Friday, Microsoft’s latest round of licensing changes were released to the public as two documents:
- “Licensing Windows Server 2008 to Run with Virtualization Technologies“
- “Licensing Microsoft Server Products in Virtual Environments“
There is definitely some good news here. CAL requirements for “indirect access to Windows 2008″ were lifted. So organizations will only need CALs for Windows guest OSs and the applications that run within them. The previous policy impacted customers running Microsoft’s Hyper-V hypervisor and did not affect licensing on any other hypervisor.
Simple vs. Advanced Desktop Virtualization (VDI) January 23, 2009
Posted by Yves Peeters in desktop virtualization.Tags: VDI
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Within the VDI community, among vendors and implementers and analysts, there has been a kind of debate and some confusion around what are the required elements of VDI. There is discussion about stateful, stateless, and mixed in are discussions about the convergence of various desktop and application virtualization technologies.
Is Offline VDI and the Client Hypervisor: Worth The Effort? January 22, 2009
Posted by Yves Peeters in Application virtualization, desktop virtualization.Tags: Citrix, Hyper-V, Microsoft, VDI, VMware, XenApp, XenDesktop
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Citrix has announced that they’ll be offering an alternative to traditional on-line VDI deployments (ala XenApp) in the form of a client hypervisor (Project Independence, posted yesterday). In essences, a client hypervisor allows a user to run a full-blown virtual machine on their desktop — basically a throw-back to running VMware Workstation/Player in the enterprise before we had all these fancy virtual platforms like Virtual Infrastructure and Hyper-V.
It allows users to work anywhere without concern about having an uplink. On planes, in coffee shops where there’s no Wifi or the connection is too small to reliably delivery a VDI experience. It also paves the way to true application virtualization, where the CPU-based hypervisor can be trimmed down to support running applications directly without the bloated guest operating system.
To learn more and to read the entire article at its source, please refer to the following page, Offline VDI and the Client Hypervisor: Worth The Effort?
Virtualization & Cloud Industry News [21.01.09] January 21, 2009
Posted by Roel Gydé in Application virtualization, Cloud Computing, Data Center Management, File Virtualization, I/O Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Storage Virtualization & Storage, datacenter, desktop virtualization.Tags: Citrix, Independence, Intel, Qsan, Sun, VMware
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Citrix & Intel – Local Virtual Desktops [Project: Independence] January 21, 2009
Posted by Roel Gydé in desktop virtualization.Tags: Independence, Intel, XenDesktop
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Following our post yesterday on the joint-collaboration between Intel and Citrix on a Type-1 hypervisor, Citrix and Intel have announced project “Independence”, a solution for ‘local virtual desktops’. On the following page there are some demo’s of the solution.
The concept:
- Bare metal hypervisor with very low overhead
- Central managed image with central distribution & management of the image (updates, …)
- Local Virtual Desktop has access to local resources, interesting for 3D & resource intensive applications
- Offline use of corporate desktop
- Desktop ownership
- Buy-Your-Own-Computer reducing investments and TCO when it comes to desktop purchases
Availability:
Expected availability is not completely clear, however a new version of XenDesktop (in which the solution probably will be included) is probably foreseen for next month. I do not believe that this solution will already be included in this new version.
Virtualization & Cloud Industry News [20.01.09] January 20, 2009
Posted by Roel Gydé in Application virtualization, Cloud Computing, Data Center Management, File Virtualization, I/O Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Storage Virtualization & Storage, datacenter, desktop virtualization.Tags: Citrix, hypervisor, Igel, Intel
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Citrix is working together with Intel on a Type-1 hypervisor, the product is scheduled to be released in 2H2009 in two versions: an open source version to the Xen project and a commercial Citrix product. (more)
Earlybert pointed to us that it is an Type1 hypervisor and not a Type2, he is absolute correct, we have corrected the remark. Thanks Bert.
Igel Technology will release a new productline on January 28th, 2008 with increased flexibility and management.
Virtualization Industry Survey – Part 1 [virtualization.info) January 20, 2009
Posted by Roel Gydé in Application virtualization, Cloud Computing, Data Center Management, File Virtualization, I/O Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Storage Virtualization & Storage, datacenter, desktop virtualization.Tags: Hyper-V, report, VMware, XenServer
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Virtualization.info conducted a research on ‘the state of the sector’ in October last year, they have released the first results on their website:
Seen the number of respondent we must say that it has been an extensive study, approximately there was a 50/50 rule between the US and EMEA. The size of the companies -however- does not always reflect the real world, more than 64% of the respondents was working for a company with more than 1000 users.
One thing was a little bit “surprrising” in the TOP3 of ‘used platforms’ you get VMware, XenServer and Hyper-V, as one would expect. But Hyper-V is way above VMware, which is little strange seen the ‘time’ it has been on the market. Another explanation comes from the size of the companies in the survey.
Virtualization & Cloud Industry News [15.01.09] January 15, 2009
Posted by Yves Peeters in Application virtualization, Cloud Computing, Data Center Management, File Virtualization, I/O Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Storage Virtualization & Storage, datacenter, desktop virtualization.Tags: Datacore, EMC, NeoAccel, SANmelody, Sun, ToutVirtual, VirtualIQ, Vizioncore, VMware, vOptimizer Pro, VPN, xVM Ops Center, xVM Server
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DataCore’s SANmelody solution has won the SNS Achievements in Technology Award for the “Storage Virtualization Project of the Year” for the installation at Volkswagen Financial Services. (more)
David Marshall shares his reflections on “VMware’s aggressive product road map for 2009″ and concludes with “I started this post by remembering a question I had asked myself during VMworld 2008: “What aren’t they going to do?” (more)
Sun released earlier this weeks document regarding xVM Server 1.0 and xVM Ops Center 2.0, however they have removed the documents as senior management decided not to release the docs until “General Availability” of the products. Most important changes are live migration, resource pools, support for Solaris 10 – RHEL 5.2 – Windows XP – Windows 2003
VMware has always been in the market as an independent EMC daughter, today EMC steps up the integration and gives the sign to the market, we are the best for VMware. What about other storage vendors? (more)
Vizioncore releases vOptimizer Pro 2.0, a utility to reclaim unused space in Windows virtual machines. Not so long ago Vizioncore announced vOptimizer 4.0, which has been removed from the product portofolio as vOptimizer Pro 2.0 has been released. (more)
NeoAccel has recently introduced the VMware version of its flagship SSL VPN product called the SSL VPN-Plus. (more)
ToutVirtual announced the availability of VirtualIQ Pro 3 (VirtualIQ Pro). VirtualIQ Pro is a management and automation program designed to support customers in every stage of virtualization deployment. (more)
Microsoft MVPs give thumbs-up for XenDesktop January 8, 2009
Posted by Roel Gydé in desktop virtualization.Tags: XenDesktop
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Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest, both Microsoft MVPs, have analyzed Citrix XenDesktop and …
Citrix Systems’ XenDesktop is a state-of-the-art product for hosted desktop virtualization and may be the gold standard by which other products are judged in a feature-for-feature comparison. Here’s a look at the capabilities, options and feature sets available with this product, as well as how to install, set up and configure it in the data center.
Other conclusions:
Put It on Your Short List
XenDesktop, unlike many other VDI tools on the market today, runs with any of the major three server virtualization technologies. This makes it a clear winner in our book.
That integration capacity — plus its ability to work with differential images only; its use of the Citrix ICA protocol instead of Microsoft’s RDP; and its ability to pre-provision images — make it one of the very best VDI options on the market. XenDesktop is certainly off to a good start and should be part of the short list for any organization that wants to move to VDI.
The complete review also focussen on ‘the benefits of VDI’, ‘remote desktop delivery’, ‘installing & running XenDesktop’, the versions, ‘VDI Deployment Models’ and ‘Advantages and cautions’.
Frank Anderson of Citrix commented in his blogpost.
Virtualization & Cloud Industry News [08.01.09] January 8, 2009
Posted by Roel Gydé in Application virtualization, Cloud Computing, Data Center Management, File Virtualization, I/O Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Storage Virtualization & Storage, datacenter, desktop virtualization.Tags: Aranxa, Artifact, Citrix, CohesiveFT, EMC, Fujitsu, Lighthouse, PalmSecure LogonDirector, VMware, Windows
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Fujitsu announces availability of PalmSecure LogonDirector, the enterprise edition seamlessly integrates with Citrix Password Manager and has therefore received the Citrix Ready Status (more)
Altough EMC has bought parts of SourceLabs and has an increased focus on ‘the cloud’, they will cut another 2400 jobs (7% of the total workforce), apparently there would be no impact on VMware.µ
Windows server 2008 R2 is publicly available as beta (more)
CohesiveFT adds kernel-based VM-format to its automated Elastic Server Platform.
Artifact updates virtualzation platform with “project portofolio” and “lifecycle management” in their SaaS Lighthouse product. (more)
Nominations for this year’s Data Centres Europe Awards are higher than ever say the organisers, BroadGroup. With entries closing on 31 January, the judging panel look set to consider a wider array of talent and innovation than ever before, with countries across Europe much more significantly represented. (more)
Virtualization according to Dilbert (comic)
Aranxa launches CuroERP Cloud as SaaS, it is aimed at providing sizable economies of scale and vertical solutions to small and medium business.
VirtualLogix appoints Glenda Dorchak as CEO (she comes from Intrinsyc Software)
