Virtualization & Cloud Industry News [20.01.09] [Additions] January 20, 2009
Posted by Roel Gydé in Uncategorized.Tags: AMD, Citrix, Cloud Computing, Egenera, Intel, Obama, PANmanager, processors, Replicate Datacener Analyzer, Replicate Technology, SaaS, SaaSPlex, XenCenterWeb, XenServer
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Intel cuts prices of its processors due to increased competition and econocom downturn (more)
Citrix releases XenCenterWeb-edition (more)
Obama envisions Federal Cloud (more)
Egenera releases PANmanager 4.2 (more)
Replicate Technologies announces Replicate Datacenter Analyzer 1.2
SaaSPlex have launched WorkClouds, the world’s first true SaaS Marketplace. WorkClouds is designed to enable small and medium sized companies to create a ‘cloud’ of SaaS applications to run their business (more)
Virtualization Industry News [19.12.08] – Update December 19, 2008
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: Dell, Egenera, EUS, RedHat, RHEL, The Linux Foundation
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Dell: Three quarters after cutting the OEM deal, Dell has started delivering PAN, Egenera’s data center virtualization and management software, in North America.
The Linux Foundation – has named Linux kernel developer Theodore Ts’o CTO, replacing Markus Rex, who’s gone back home to Novell
Red Hat has started a new software maintenance service called Extended Update Support (EUS) that’s supposed to save bigger customers money if they standardize on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux environment for up to 18 months, which, Red Hat says, is three times longer than the industry norm. EUS is an add-on subscription available to customers with over 100 RHEL servers. For up to 100 machines, EUS starts at $60,000 a year. For up to 500 machines, it starts at $80,000 a year.
Novell has made Roger Levy, the head of its Open Platform Solutions (OPS) unit, SVP of strategic development and told him to focus on a cross-business strategy and the data center, end-user computing, and identity and security management markets. Meanwhile, Markus Rex, who used to be the CTO of SUSE, will come off a sabbatical spent as CTO of the Linux Foundation and replace Levy as head of OPS
VMware will market Virtual Infrastructure 4 as vSphere
Novell has pulled the plug on BrainShare – for 20 years its trademark user conference – which was scheduled for March in Salt Lake City
Virtualization Industry News [18.12.09] December 18, 2008
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: Borland, Data Grid, Dell, DotNetPanel, Egenera, Hyper-V, Igel, JumpBox, McAfee, MokaFive, Sun, VDM, VirtualBoxn, Xeround, xVM
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- XVM has released VirtualBox 2.1 (more)
- Xeround (specialist in database virtualization) puts out Xeround Data Grid 2.8 (more)
- DotNetPanel 2.8.1 has been released, the first hosting control panel using Hyper-V (more)
- Bill Demas leaves MokaFive as CEO, he will be replaced by Dale Fuller (ex CEO McAfee and Borland)
- Egenera signs OEM agreement with Dell
- JumpBox (specialist in creating virtual appliances) has released 38 open source applications in OVF format
- Igel Technology certifies for VDM 2.1
- VKernel moves Capacity Planner from version 2.1 in 3.0, 2.1 has been around for only 1,5 months
- Xen.org today announced that Oracle has joined the Xen Project Advisory Board
- Catbird releases Catbird Compliance Enforcer 1.0 (more)
IDC and Yankee have released their predictions for 2009: the two most important ones are:
- Microsoft will turn the hypervisor-market upside down
- VDI will go mainstream in 2009
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
DataCore and Egenera Combination Delivers Next Generation Server and Storage Virtualization May 22, 2008
Posted by Roel Gydé in Uncategorized.Tags: Datacore, Egenera, SANmelody, SANsymphony, XenServer
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DataCore announced that it will team with Egenera to jointly verify their solutions running in tandem on virtualization platforms such as Citrix XenServer. The companies have complementary solutions that together deliver the next generation of virtualization. The Egenera BladeFrame system and its Processing Area Network architecture enable enterprise datacenters to rapidly install, deploy and manage pools of network, storage and processing resources. DataCore SANmelody and SANsymphony virtual storage solutions are some of the first SAN solutions to be certified for XenServer in the Citrix Ready program and make it easy to provision, manage, optimize and protect storage resources infrastructure-wide.
Sidenote: Egenera PAN is also OEMed by Dell & Fujitsu. They are already talking about the next generation of virtualization, like Virtualization 2.0 … hold your horses, there need to be a timeframe in which the market can adapt, otherwise products will move from an unstable 1.0 version to an unstable 2.0 version !
