Virtualization & Cloud Computing Industry News [06.04.09] April 6, 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, DTMF, IBM, Pano Logic, Sun
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Virtualization & Cloud Industry News [21.01.09] January 21, 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: Citrix, Independence, Intel, Qsan, Sun, VMware
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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)
Virtualization & Cloud Industry News [07.01.09] January 7, 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: VMware, Sun, Microsoft, Vizioncore, Igel, Amazon, cloud attached storage, View 3.0, LinMin, QLayer, Citrix Synergy, NASDAQ
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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 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 [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.
Sun releases source code for xVM hypervisor September 11, 2008
Posted by Roel Gydé in Uncategorized.Tags: Sun, xVM
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Sun plans to release the code for its open source server-virtualization software Wednesday, and will make a commercial version of the xVM Server available next month.
Full article here
Sun xVM Server in 2 months September 10, 2008
Posted by Roel Gydé in Uncategorized.Tags: Sun, Xen, xVM
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Today Sun formally presented (video recording) its upcoming Xen-based hypervisor called xVM Server, altough that everybody hoped it would be available today, Sun confirmed that the product will not be available for another two months
Gartner reports increased competition in Virtualization June 18, 2008
Posted by Roel Gydé in Uncategorized.Tags: Citrix, Gartner, Microsoft, Oracle, research, Sun, VMware
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Gartner continues to advise to implement solution with rapid ROI and fall-back plans. The Gartner view on Microsoft, Citrix, VMware, Oracle and Sun here.
ProPalms TSE 6.0 in Beta with connection broker June 1, 2008
Posted by Roel Gydé in Uncategorized.Tags: Citrix, Ericom, Leostream, ProPalms, Provision, Quest, Sun, VMware
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Propalms has released the beta of TSE 6.0 which includes a connection broker, it currently support MS Virtual Server & Hyper-V as well as VMware ESX. Seen their position as a competitor of Citrix it still remains unclear if their broker will also support Citrix.
Seen the fact that system is based on the RDP protocol, they have the same issue VMware has/had in VDI, the thcik RDP protocol.
One thing is clear, everybody is jumping on the VDI-wagon, yet ProPalms is an additional player in a field in which VMware, Citrix, Leostream (which is totally focussed on brokering, see our post here), Ericom Quest/Provision and potentially Sun.
Last week we posted about the ‘connection broker comparision’ made by Quest, perhaps we can ask them to add the ProPalms TSE also to their analysis as soon it hits ‘final version’.
VMware borrows SUN Protocol ! May 23, 2008
Posted by Roel Gydé in Uncategorized.Tags: Citrix, Sun, VDI, VMware
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VMware Borrows Sun Protocol — VMware is combining its Virtual Desktop Infrastructure with Sun’s Sun Ray software and thin clients, promising superior performance especially on WANs. It borrows Sun’s Appliance Link Protocol (ALP), which is supposed to outperform other display protocols when used to deliver virtual desktops over networks with high latency. See, it doesn’t need guaranteed delivery, which is what makes it faster.
Recently I saw a video on youtube.com that clearly showed that the VMware VDI solution with RDP was much inferior to the Citrix VDI Solution with ICA. If order to keep track of Citrix (probably) this agreement has come to life. It is clear that VMware needs this protocol in order to compete with Citrix in the VDImarket, after that Citrix converterted Collier County from VMware to Citrix.
Yet the power of a protocol like ICA is that all products are ICA-aware and understand ICA, it is completely unclear if VMware will use ALP for all its other products, furthermore VMware depends on SUN for support & development. The protocol is critical in a VDI solution, that is not the moment to source the development of that protocol out to a possible competitor. What is strange is the commitment of Sun to the Xen community and to XenServer.
