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[TECH] – ICA DeepDive & Acceleration September 14, 2009

Posted by Roel Gydé in Application virtualization, Server Virtualization, Storage Virtualization & Storage, datacenter, desktop virtualization.
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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

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

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

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

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)

The Value of Storage Virtualization Software April 2, 2009

Posted by Yves Peeters in Storage Virtualization & Storage.
Tags: Datacore, SANmelody, SANsymphony, virtualization
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One of the more perplexing things about IT is that in all the rush to embrace server virtualization, there has not been a corresponding amount of increased interest in storage virtualization.

That isn’t to say that storage virtualization isn’t a big trend; it’s just that it’s not being embraced with the same level of enthusiasm.

The folks at DataCore, which makes software that allows IT organization to turn existing storage arrays from multiple vendors into a shared pool of disk storage, have two theories about why storage virtualization is evolving much more slowly than server virtualization.

The first theory is that most storage hardware vendors require customers to buy new storage arrays that support storage virtualization. In these difficult economic times, it’s hard to make an argument that basically says an IT organization should spend a lot of additional capital now in order to save money later.

The second theory is that when IT organizations introduce storage virtualization, they are worried about performance penalties. Too often there are database and e-mail applications that don’t perform so well when virtualization is introduced. To specifically deal with storage virtualization performance issues, DataCore is now adding 1TB of cache to a new 64-bit implementation of its SANmelody 3.0 and SANsymphony 7.0 software.

There are a few other benefits to a software-only approach to storage virtualization, such a built in disaster recovery capabilities and a more efficient approach to thin provisioning. But at the end of the day, server virtualization is popular because it helps IT organizations get more out of their existing hardware investments…

Is Storage Commoditization Important? April 2, 2009

Posted by Yves Peeters in Storage Virtualization & Storage.
Tags: Datacore, FalconStor
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Is commodity storage good for the enterprise and if it is who should be delivering it?

…The question is a fair one to ask. The ability for virtualization products either through software and/or an appliance to manage disparate storage systems has been around for years now and many of them made the same claim; “The disk doesn’t matter”, buy your storage from anyone you want and then use our virtualization tool to bring it all together. On a whiteboard that strategy makes a lot of sense. How about in the real world?

We have seen these vendors come and go, the true survivors of this concept would also be the early pioneers of it; DataCore and FalconStor.

…The point is that virtualization is about more than just enabling you to buy cheap disk. While some vendors really can and want you to be able to use inexpensive disk arrays, virtualization solutions like these, to be successful, have to do more. They for example can enable you to increase redundancy beyond what is available internally as we discuss in our recent article “Serious about HA?”

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

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 [26.03.09] March 26, 2009

Posted by Yves Peeters in Server Virtualization, Storage Virtualization & Storage.
Tags: Citrix, Datacore, SANmelody, Xen
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DataCore Software’s SANmelody Wins 2009 Network Computing Award for “Software Product of the Year” (more)

eG VM Monitor Voted First Runner-Up in VirtualizationAdmin.Com’s Reader’s Choice Award (more)

Xen Community / Citrix Announce Project Satori (more)

Cisco Project California [Part IV - Unified Computing System] March 17, 2009

Posted by Roel Gydé in Application virtualization, Data Center Management, I/O Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Storage Virtualization & Storage, datacenter.
Tags: Cisco, UCS, VMware
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So Project California has seen the light (previous post) … yesterday there was a gigantic-buzz across blogs, twitters and the web on Cisco’s UCS … Unified Computing System. A digest of the most important things-to-know …

· The system consists out of Fabric interconnects, Fabric extenders and Blade Servers, which work as 1 big unit within the data center. The Fabric Interconnect holds the “service profiles”, which are frameworks including paramets for power, cooling, network parameters, storage parameters, … These profiles are used for coordination and automation of each layer of the hardware stack (which includes the interconnects, the extenders, the NICs and the blade servers).

· The provisioning of the OS within a virtual machine or a physical blade is not part of the solution, in order to provision these OS and applications, the user will have to work with XML APIs.

· Cisco claims that they can reduce CAPEX with 20% and OPEX with 30%, this is not that surprising. A general automated and consolidated data center can obtain these ratios.

As this is a complete Cisco-centric-solution there are some catches involved:

· In order to maintain uptime it advised to have a cluster of Fabric Interconnects that work in an active/passive mode

· Cisco only supports VMware at present, although that certain reports claim that the solution will also be available for Hyper-V. The Nexus switch is included within the UCS solution but the Nexus works best with VMware

· What about vendor-lock-in?

Other items that have to be seen are:

· Pricing ! General availability of the solution is foreseen for Q2/09.

· The solution is aimed at server virtualization, what about solutions for application virtualization?

· The specifications of the blade servers

Additional information can be found at Cisco Press Releases, Cisco UCS Homepage, Data Center Knowledge, VMblog, Scott Lowe, Stephen Foskett,

Stay tuned for more …

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)

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

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)

Infostor Lab Review: DataCore SANmelody January 22, 2009

Posted by Yves Peeters in I/O Virtualization, Storage Virtualization & Storage.
Tags: Datacore, SANmelody, storage
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The crew at Infostor recently put DataCore SANmelody through its paces in their lab and have just published a comprehensive review of their test methodology and findings.

In brief, their conclusions/key findings were:

Full virtualization of direct-attached and SAN-connected storage
Simplified SAN infrastructure management through automation of storage administration tasks using the Windows MMC
SANmelody caching boosted I/O throughput by 33% running IOmeter
Round-robin LUN distribution of server I/O traffic benchmarked at 50,000 IOPS using 8KB reads with no I/O bottlenecks
No single point of failure with support for snapshots, synchronous mirroring, and synchronous replication

The full article can be viewed here (p.29).

Virtualization & Cloud Industry News [21.01.09] January 21, 2009

Citrix and Intel start project Independence for Local Desktop Virtualization (more)

VMware certifies Qsan powered iSCSI Storage Products (more)

Sun releases Sun Ray Core Services Patch version 01 (more)

Virtualization & Cloud Industry News [20.01.09] January 20, 2009

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

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.

How to save money on storage for SMBs? Some reflections … January 19, 2009

Posted by Roel Gydé in Storage Virtualization & Storage.
Tags: HP, IBM, SaaS, SSD
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Drew Robb posted an article on “How to save money on storage for SMBs”, he comes to three tips or evolutions that will save money when it comes to storage for SMBs:

Cheep storage through Storage-As-A-Service

This is probably correct, however research by IDC has shown that storage-as-a-service is mostly used as archiving solution or online backup. The data on these systems is in most cases located off site as a vault for later if something goes wrong. Personally I see more in storage-as-a-service when it comes to online data that is immediate available for use in business-apps, like the Amazon Hosted Public Data Sets which offers data that is immediate available (more). If we look at SaaS as Drew Robb looks at it, it is completely no reduction in cost it is just an additional backup/archiving cost, afterall the SMB still needs his storage inhouse for immediate access.

The use of storage virtualization

As storage virtualization offers the capacity to look at storage as 1 big pool with central management, it offers great advantage. But in that case it is mandatory that the solution offers cross-vendor management, cross-technology management and a solution that does not come with some special financial strings attached when looking at DR, HA, … and there are not that much vendors in that space (like Datacore)

Storage Virtualization has the other advantage that an SMB can create a SAN himself with off-the-shelf components from HP or IBM, without the investment in exteremely expensive storage hardware while he is using commodity server components.

Solid State Disk

SSDs are indeed a good solution for SMBs as they have a lower “mean time before failure” as they do not have any moving/rotating parts. One point however is the pricing-scheme, a 80GB SSD comes at a volume-discount price of 595 USD that is still much much more than a normal 80GB HDD. When looking at an SMB (which is very conservative when it comes to investing), SSDs might be a technological step forward it will be in very small steps due to the investment level.

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)

A storage strategy to beat the credit squeeze January 15, 2009

Posted by Jürgen De Wolf in Server Virtualization, Storage Virtualization & Storage, datacenter.
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15th January 2009 – The tough economic climate need not threaten the storage of mission critical data if IT budgets come under threat. The data centre consolidation specialists believe it is still possible for organisations to have an effective storage strategy on a reduced budget if they take advantage of new technologies, make use of their existing infrastructure and tier architecture correctly.

“Tighter IT budgets don’t necessarily mean that you need to compromise your organisation’s storage strategy,” said Adam Kemp, director, RichardsoNEyres. “Green initiatives and the increasing popularity of virtualisation technologies are already enabling many organisations to save money by using less power and reducing their server estate. We would advise organisations to consider at the very least making best use of their existing infrastructures and differentiating between mission critical data and older, less important data.”

He continued: “Organisations need to be realistic when it comes to ROI. For example, simple low cost changes can generate ROI very quickly, but sometimes it’s important to invest in technology that will deliver significant ROI in the longer term.”

As a first step towards maintaining an effective storage strategy on a reduced budget, RichardsoNEyres urges organisations to consider the following:

New technologies. With the cost per megabyte of storage continually falling, natural cost savings can be made if newer technologies are purchased. Virtualisation technologies enable one server to run multiple operating systems, so organisations can use their existing servers to full capacity. In addition to using less power, virtualisation also offers higher availability of resources, improved disaster recovery processes, tighter security and more efficient desktop management.
A tiered architecture. Storage needs to be tiered. Based on its changing value to your organisation, information requires different levels of accessibility and protection. For example, use less expensive tape for aged and less important data and use disk storage for near line and mission critical data.
Make best use of existing infrastructure. Utilisation rates of less than 10 per cent are common for physical Windows Servers. However, these low utilisation rates are unlikely to be uniform with some assets running at 100% while others sit idle. Server and storage virtualisation can help design, deploy and view an IT infrastructure as a unified resource pool. Multiple virtual machines or virtual storage pools enable you to get closer to the optimum performance of the host physical devices.

Resource: RichardsoNEyres (http://www.richardsoneyres.co.uk)

Virtualization & Cloud Industry News [08.01.09] January 8, 2009

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)

Virtualization & Cloud Industry News [07.01.09] January 7, 2009

Registration for Citrix Synergy 2009 in Las Vegas has been opened. Synergy hosts this year Network World Live!, Virtualization Congress, Geek Speak Live!

Igel Technology is one of the first thin client vendors to obtain VMware View 3.0 certification approval for their thin clients.

LinMin introduces bare metal provisioning 5.3 with improved GUI and support for the latest Linux distris.

Sun buys QLayer, Qlayer will be part of the cloud computing unit within Sun. QLayer was one of the driving forces behind CloudCamp Brussels and generated a turnover of around 0,8 million EUR. The company specializes in development of virtual data center software.

VMware confirms that eight new ESX configurations have been approved by Microsoft for support under the Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP). (more)

Tod Nielsen has been hired by VMware, Tod comes from Borland, where he’s been CEO for the last three years. He will be the new VMware chief operating officer, a specially created job that reports to fellow Microsoft veteran, VMware CEO Paul Maritz.

Bob Muglia has been named president of the Server and Tools Business within the Redmon giant Microsoft, he served the same group previously as Vice-President.

Vizioncore announced that vRanger Pro 3.2.8, the latest version of its backup and restore solution, is the first product on the market today to provide full support for VMware ESXi 3.5 (more)

Intel is sued by Matthew Robert Young for $5 billion from prison. Mr. Young insists that the chip maker has based its core 2 Duo chip and its virtualization technology are based on trade secrets … (more)

Parallels updates its Mac desktop virtualization software to improve DirectX support and adds experimental support for upcoming Microsoft and Apple operating systems (more)

NASDAQ uses Amazon for cloud storage (more)

Virtualization & Cloud Industry News [06.01.09] January 6, 2009

CTERA Networks has introduced its Cloud Attached Storage technology. By bundling Network Attached Storage and cloud storage services into a single appliance. (more)

WANdisco has selected the rPath rBuilder and rPath Lifecycle Management Platform to build and maintain its Subversion MultiSite solution as a manageable set of application images for delivery in virtualized and cloud-based environments. (more)

EMC bought parts of SourceLabs (and not the complete company as we posted before), those parts will be integrated in EMC’s Cloud Infrastructure Business (which has 2 offerings: one SMB and one for enterprise). SourceLabs will be integrated in the second offering which combines Atmos and Hulk. Channel Register in the UK, however believes that SourceLabs will be integrated in the SMB segment (Decho), which is consumer oriented with a focus on online backup. A spokesman of EMC clearly confirmed that the purchase is aimed at Atmos, which targets automation of management of huge storage volumes across large distances.

EMC has confirmed that it has become Gold VMware Authorized Consultant (more)

Virtualization Industry News [05.01.09] January 5, 2009

Posted by Roel Gydé in Application virtualization, Cloud Computing, Data Center Management, File Virtualization, I/O Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Storage Virtualization & Storage, desktop virtualization.
Tags: Applied Identity, Citrix
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Applied Identiy’s Indetispher has been verified as Citrix Ready (more)

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