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)
Cisco Project California [Part III - the release] February 18, 2009
Posted by Roel Gydé in Server Virtualization.Tags: Cisco, EMC, HP, i7, IBM, VMware
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Cisco has been working on entering the servermarket for over the past months with their project California. The final product will probably be released to the public on March 16th in the States, this news surfaced in the shades of rumours about Cisco taking over EMC or VMware (recently Cisco has increased it capital with 4 billion USD through external financing).
Specs of the new blades servers that surface: include Intel Core i7 processors, 192GB Memory, PCI Express connectivity (providing access to Cisco Unified Fabric Architecture with direct communication between the blades and the storage servers. There will be a tight integration with VMware (Cisco owns around 1,6% of VMware at present), but it remains unclear if the VMware solution would be OEMed in the product
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Virtualization & Cloud Industry News [22.01.09] January 22, 2009
Posted by Yves Peeters in Data Center Management, Server Virtualization.Tags: HP, HyPerformix, Marathon Technologies, Rackable Systems
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Rackable Systems Launches MicroSlice – What it calls “Physicalization” (more)
HyPerformix, a leading provider of IT capacity and performance solutions, joins HP Software Marketplace Referral Program (more)
Marathon Technologies, the only provider of fault-tolerant, high availability software for physical and virtual servers, today announced that its customer, The Sullivan Group, will be the featured speakers for a live webcast, “Customer Spotlight: How the Sullivan Group Got Reliable High Availability without Breaking the Bank.” (more)
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.
Cisco Project California December 19, 2008
Posted by Roel Gydé in Data Center Management, Server Virtualization, datacenter.Tags: California, Cisco, HP, Intel, Nehalem, Nexus, RedHat, VMware
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As already posted on the 4th of december, Cisco is eager to enter the data center server market with ‘project California’. More details arise …
Cisco has developed a blade server chassis that combines an Intel-based server, a switch and virtualization management capabilities in an integrated system. The project will probably go live in the spring of 2009 and will contain the Nexus 5000 switch (for network and storage), blade servers with Intel Nehalem processors and a virtualization solution.
Depending on the sources, the virtualization layer might be VMware or even RedHat, other sources indicate that California could be OS-agnostic.
Hewlett-Packard, meanwhile, is preparing its own two-in-one system, one that combines a ProLiant server and ProCurve switch, sources say. It’s expected to appear early in 2009. HP recently moved its ProCurve networking arm into its Technology Solutions Group to more closely align those businesses
Virtualization Industry News [17.11.08] November 17, 2008
Posted by Roel Gydé in Application virtualization, Cloud Computing, Data Center Management, I/O Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Storage Virtualization & Storage, desktop virtualization.Tags: 3Lear, Adaptec, Azure, CentriServ, Cisco, Citrix, Computer Associates, devonIT, EMC, Emulex, Hitachi, HP, IBM, iSeries, Marvell Technologies, Mozy, OpenQRM, Pano Logic, Pano VDI, Parallels, Pi, Prestera CX, SaaS, Sun, Supermicro, Virtual Connect, Virtuozzo, VMware
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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.
Bringing it all together … IDC, HP, Intel, Citrix … invitation November 13, 2008
Posted by Roel Gydé in Application virtualization, Cloud Computing, Data Center Management, Server Virtualization, Storage Virtualization & Storage, desktop virtualization.Tags: Citrix, HP, IDC, Intel
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Virtualisation has become a pillar for implementing greater flexibility, delivering better utilization rates, faster integration of new servers and services and higher availability whilst striving to reduce CAPEX and OPEX costs. In some countries, virtualisation has already become the standard platform for deploying new workloads. As virtualisation has matured and become more pervasive in companies, the effective management of virtual as well as integrated virtual and physical environments will be the focus for the next phase in virtualisation initiatives.
Get the insight how IDC together with HP, Intel and Citrix see a fully integrated mangeable virtualized data center on December 3th, 2008 from 3PM till 4PM CET. Subscribe here, spaces are limited, free entrance
Virtualization Industry News November 10, 2008
Posted by Roel Gydé in Uncategorized.Tags: HP, PCI, Replicate Datacenter Analyzer, Replicate Technologies, SVSP, VirtualIron
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Product news:
- HP has released SAN Virtualization Service Platform (SVSP)
- PCI Data Security Standard has been updated to version 1.2, still does not address virtualization (more)
- Forrester released a new report “How to explain Cloud Computing to your CFO”, extract on cio.com
- Replicate Technologies releases Replicate Datacenter Analyzer 1.0, pricing starts at 500 USD per year for a 2 socket server (more). There is a free trial available.
HR news:
- Tony Asaro (Chief Strategy Officer) leaves VirtualIron
HP Acquires LeftHand Networks to Extend Leadership in Storage and Virtualization Solutions October 6, 2008
Posted by Roel Gydé in Uncategorized.Tags: HP, LeftHand Networks, Storage Virtualization & Storage
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HP today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire LeftHand Networks Inc., a leading provider of storage virtualization and iSCSI storage area network (SAN) solutions.
Why Microsoft Virtualization is Different (and possibly better) by IRG September 9, 2008
Posted by Roel Gydé in Uncategorized.Tags: Citrix, EMC, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Parallels, Virtual Iron, VMware
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Internet Research Group (IRG) today announced the release of its latest report on technology infrastructure, “Why Microsoft Virtualization is Different (and possibly better).”
With this summer’s launch of Hyper-V, Microsoft began shipping its long awaited entry into the server virtualization market in competition with VMware’s ESX, the market leader. This new research report compares Microsoft’s quite distinct virtualization strategy to that of VMware as the two companies battle to win enterprise customers.
“As the old saying goes, if all you have is a hammer then everything is a nail,” noted Peter Christy, co-founder of IRG. “VMware has built a very successful business around the hypervisor and virtual machine, and not surprisingly expresses its strategy that way. Microsoft has a much broader set of products, and sees virtualization just as one element in their effort to improve IT effectiveness. Is this all just marketing spin or is there real substance here?”
This report compares the business value focus of Microsoft and VMware as they continue to develop market opportunities for their virtualization products.
Vendors directly impacted by Microsoft’s virtualization market entry include: Citrix, HP, IBM, EMC, Parallels, Virtual Iron and VMware. One step removed most IT participants are impacted by virtualization and this business competition.
More information here
VDIworks VDP brokers HP RGS September 8, 2008
Posted by Roel Gydé in Uncategorized.Tags: HP, RGS, VDIworks, VDP
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Virtual Desktop Platform (VDP), version 1.2, will provide connection brokering and management for the HP Remote Graphics Software (RGS) protocol to deliver a high performance virtualized desktop solution to the industry. This integrated offering will allow customers to leverage VDIworks’ sophisticated virtual desktop management capabilities and HP’s RGS protocol to enable the highest grade visual experience possible in a virtualized environment. Full release here.
Hewlett-Packard & VMware Expand Virtualization Pacts June 18, 2008
Posted by Roel Gydé in Uncategorized.Tags: HP, VMware
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Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) is expanding its strategic collaboration in virtualization with VMware (NYSE: VMW) to introduce new integrated software offerings. The aim here is to more easily assist customers to seamlessly automate the management of each operating system and various programs across both physical and virtual environments.
HP Business Service Management will allow for the monitoring of physical and virtual environments and products will include HP Business Availability Center, HP Operations Center and HP Network Management Center … more
Moving into a dynamic datacenter? June 18, 2008
Posted by Roel Gydé in Uncategorized.Tags: HP, iLO, PowerSmart for XenApp, XenApp
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If you are working on getting that fixed datacenter to become a dynamic datacenter (or a delivery center as Citrix prefers it), you should get a look at this video.
Citrix and HP are currently working on a system that preserves energy, which will boot servers as the load increases and which will turn-off servers when the load is lowering. Currently the utility is called Citrix PowerSmart for XenApp.
