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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.
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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 Industry News [18.11.2008] November 18, 2008

Posted by Roel Gydé in Application virtualization, Cloud Computing, Data Center Management, Server Virtualization, Storage Virtualization & Storage, desktop virtualization.
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Product-news:

  • IBM announced it plans to acquire Transitive Corporation a specialist in cross-platform virtualization and a pioneer in developing technologies that allow applications written for one type of microprocessor and operating system to run on multiple platforms.
  • Arista a nnounced interoperability with host adapters from industry leading vendors: Chelsio Communications, Intel, Mellanox Technologies, Myricom, Neterion, NetXen, and ServerEngines
  • NetApp releases 2 new systems to the midrange storage FAS3160 and V3160,furthermore it will support 8Gb FC
  • VMware, Intel dismiss AMD cross-platform live migration plan (more)
  • LynuxWorks has announced the immediate availability of LynxSecure 2.0, a next-generation separation kernel and embedded hypervisor for high assurance systems (more)
  • CA and VMware Expand Relationship with Integrated Management Solution for Enterprises and Cloud Service Providers (more). CA and VMware have signed an agreement to make CA Data Center Automation Managerinteroperable with VMware Stage Manager
  • Microsoft will be using SCVMM and Visual Studio 2010 for Lab Automation
  • Intel has reveiled the i7 CPUs with Intel Virtualization Technology
  • Tidewaylaunched the beta version of Tideway Foundation Community Edition
  • Verari Systems Incorporates Quad-Core AMD Opteron Processors in BladeRack 2 X-Series Platforms
  • EMC Updates Storage Management Software (more)

HR-news:

  • Stephen Pollack, founder of PlateSpin joins Advisory Board of Embotics
  • Symantec CEO, John Thompson, will retire at the end of the fiscal year in March
  • Yahoo CEO, Jerry Yang is stepping down, a new CEO has not yet been found (more)
  • Rick Faulk joins Virtual Computer

Virtualization Industry News November 14, 2008

Posted by Roel Gydé in Application virtualization, Cloud Computing, Data Center Management, I/O Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Storage Virtualization & Storage, desktop virtualization.
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Product News:

  • When MDOP 2008 was released it did not contain AIS (Asset Inventory Service) and it was foreseen to be out on the market end November (see our prevoious post), as of today the version 1.5 is in ‘preview mode’ available. Users who are running AIS 1.0 will get the updates automatically through Microsoft updates. (more)
  • VKernel launches the CompareMyVM community. Members will provide resource allocation information of their ESX VMs to the community, this way offering a benchmark tool. The live will go fully live in December, there are already some results available. Youi will be able to provide your resource allocation information to the site through an automated or manual process.
  • Citrix Project Braeburn bringing ICA to the iPhone, the Citrix Receiver should be generally available somewhere in 1H2009. (more)
  • NetApp reported increased revenue and lower profit in its second fiscal quarter, and said the channel was responsible for both.  (more)

Citrix Xenserver with Netapp storage – considerations October 10, 2008

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As you might know Citrix XenCenter gives you the ability to manage your Netapp storage boxes through a ONTAP connector.  On the Citrix site there is an interesting article on the integration, the sorts of installs supported, … read the report.

NetApp releases “50% Virtualization Guarantee” programme October 6, 2008

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The storage vendor NetApp just released its “50% Virtualization Guarantee” programme. The programme is focused on storage for virtualized environments and is based around 3 documents and the use of the following features: Thin provisioning, Deduplication, RAID-DP and NetApp Snapshot

If you implement the solution as they say and you don’t use 50% less storage, they will offer you the additional required storage for free. There is even a nice calcultator on the website that will help you with your capacity needs. For sure this is a nice offer, this offer is available till the end of March 2009.

To bad it is for ‘primary storage’ only, the customer must purchase at least 14 disks and a support contract from NetApp. Here is the catch … no more than 10% of the following will be covered under the program: images, graphics, XML data, database data, exchange data, encrypted data, scientific data. Furthermore the program seems to be only open to VMware environments.

More info can be found here.

NetApp expands offering for Microsoft Hyper-V June 12, 2008

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NetApp announced the expansion of its portfolio of storage and data management solutions for virtualized IT environments that include Microsoft® Windows® Server 2008, Microsoft SQL Server™ 2008, Exchange Server 2007, and Microsoft Hyper-V. As part of this portfolio expansion, NetApp® SnapManager® 5.0 for Exchange Server, Single Mailbox Recovery 5.0, and SnapManager 5.0 for SQL Server are all now immediately available and compatible with Hyper-V.

NetApp attacks VMware with SRM in mind June 5, 2008

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Netapp has been investing material in VMWare centers with Site Recovery Manager (which will be released next week) in mind. Furthermore Netapp is convinced that its back-end is better than EMCs

Site Recovery Manager works seamlessly with VMware Infrastructure, VMware VirtualCenter, and replication software from storage partners to provide integrated disaster recovery management and automation. It provides:

  • Integrated management of disaster recovery plans. Create, update and document recovery plans directly from VMware VirtualCenter.
  • Non-disruptive testing of disaster recovery plans. Execute automated tests of recovery plans in an isolated testing environment using the recovery plan that would be used in an actual failover. Hardware configuration dependencies are eliminated and testing can occur without impacting production systems.
  • Automated failover and recovery. Automate execution of the recovery process, eliminating many of the slow and unreliable manual processes common in traditional disaster recovery.