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Virtualization & Cloud Computing Industry News [14.09.09] September 14, 2009

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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

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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

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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

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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
Data Center Pulse – Proposal for Data Center Stack

Virtualization & Cloud Industry News [07.04.09] April 7, 2009

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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

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  • Sun refuses a bit of 7 billion USD by IBM (more)

  • Citrix joins the DMTF Board of directors (more)
  • Pano Logic adds remote access to their virtual desktop solution with offline VDI on USB stick  (more)
  • Veeam launches a competitive upgrade program for all the current VMware backup products (more)

Virtualization & Cloud Computing News [03.04.09] April 3, 2009

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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

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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)

Virtualization & Cloud Industry News [30.03.09] March 30, 2009

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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)

It is estimated that the hosted virtual desktop (HVD) market will accelerate through 2013, reaching 49 million units.

Virtualization & Cloud Industry News [04.02.09] February 4, 2009

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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)

Virtualization & Cloud Industry News [03.02.09] February 3, 2009

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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