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Virtualization & Cloud Industry News [19.02.09] February 19, 2009

Posted by Yves Peeters in Data Center Management, Storage Virtualization & Storage, desktop virtualization.
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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 Industry News [19.11.2008] December 1, 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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Products & release news:

  • 76 Percent of Surveyed Higher Education IT Pros Interested in Adding Virtual Desktop Delivery to their Institution’s Virtualization Profile (more)
  • Virtual Iron Software announced the launch of a new training vignette: “Management Server Deployment Best Practices” (more)
  • CA and VMware announced an expansion in their relationship centered around the creation and delivery of integrated management solutions to complement the VMware virtualization platform. As a first step, CA and VMware have signed an agreement to make CA Data Center Automation Manager interoperable with VMware Stage Manager. (more)
  • eXludus has announced that it has joined the HP Multi-Core Optimization Program.
  • Symantec has announced Veritas Operations Services, a new cloud computing-based online services platform to help organizations identify hidden risks in their data centers (more)
  • NetApp named Citrix Ready Solution of the year
  • Is Symantec rebranding SVS into SWC – Symantec Workspace Virtualization? (more). 
  • Hitachi Data Systems Solution for Site Recovery Manager – presentations of VMworld 2008 now available here.
  • Moderro Technologies announced the Xpack Internet Computer. This Computer is an integrated (hardware, operating system and web management) solution for the cloud desktop. It features a clean and friendly user interface and operating system that was written by Moderro specifically for interacting with web-based applications. (more)
  • Univa UA announced UniCluster, which is a fully integrated, community-enabled open source cluster software stack with a single support path for all packaged components (more)
  • TechTarget acquires The Brian Madden Company
  • VMware starts the VMware Referral Program (more) and you can earn … 10 USD/sale !
  • DataSynapse announces Federator 1.0.  Federator provides centralized command and control of disparate computing pools managed by the DataSynapse runtime environments (FabricServerand GridServer), across different platforms, versions and locations.
  • Akorri adds plug-in for vCenter (more)

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

Report on Endpoint Virtualization … November 17, 2008

Posted by Roel Gydé in Application virtualization, Server Virtualization, desktop virtualization.
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Recently Symantec has commissioned a study on ‘Endpoint Virtualization’, finally the document is freely available. It has taken some time but here are the main results:

  • More than a quarter (28 percent) of respondents said at least 40 percent of their organizations’ IT resources are spent on managing operating system and application delivery to endpoint devices
  • 76 percent of respondents said their organizations have implemented some form of endpoint virtualization technology into their IT infrastructures
  • 36 percent of respondents said at least a quarter (26 percent) of their entire 2009 IT budget is earmarked for endpoint virtualization initiatives
  • 52% of those that have enabled endpoint virtualization, do this with Microsoft or Citrix

There are some ’strange’ results, 76% confirm that they are using endpoint virtualization, unfortunately it is completely unclear how this is divided over application virtualization (XenApp, WTS), application streaming (XenApp, ThinApp, App-V), Desktop Virtulization (XenDesktop, MS VDI, VMware VDM) or OS Streaming (Provisioning, …). It would have been nice if this information would also be made available, afterall, Microsoft and Citrix take 52% of the complete share for their account, but is that on XenApp or WTS or App-V or with Citrix Provisioning Server, completely unclear.

Furthermore Symantec pops up with an 8% marketshare (fourth place) after Microsoft, Citrix and VMware. Believing that Symantec has built-up a marketshare of that size in such a short time, only confirms our toughts, a more detailed division is required between:

  • Server side application virtualization (XenApp, WTS)
  • Client side application virtualization (XenApp, App-V, ThinApp, …)
  • Desktop Virtualization
  • OS Streaming

However, the report clearly indicates that virtualization is being adopted in all layers of the infrastructure. Recent studies have shown that approximately 14% of the x86 servers are virtualized according to Citrix.

Virtualization Industry News October 10, 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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  • Evergrid rebrands to Liberato and releases Load Manager 2.0
  • Christian Hagen becomes VP Sales for America & EMEA at Datacore
  • Symantec unveils Veritas Cluster Server One (VCS One)
  • Storage company Nexsan releases Assureon 6 for Storage-as-a-service providers
  • VMware will probably buy Blue Lane
  • Amazon will offer Windows desktop on its EC2

Symantec announced new back-up agent for Hyper-V September 16, 2008

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Symantec announced a new Backup Exec 12.5 agent supporting Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, as well as support for upcoming releases for Windows Essential Business Server 2008 and Windows Small Business Server 2008. Backup Exec 12 and Backup Exec System Recovery 8 were the first backup and recovery products certified for Windows Server 2008 when they were released in February 2008.

Backup Exec version 12.5 introduces a new Agent for Microsoft Virtual Servers which substantially improves the speed, flexibility and simplicity of backup and recovery for Hyper-V virtual systems.  Backup Exec understands the structure of the Hyper-V environment and presents the same logical structure in the backup administrator GUI, so backup administrators can manage backup and recovery functions for their physical and virtual systems via the consol

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Virtualization causes disaster recovery rethink September 8, 2008

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Symantec posted a nice article on the impact of virtualization and the current and future’disaster recovery plans’ companies have today. Read the full article here.

Topics include data, automation, cross-platform tools, statistics, …

Symantec and Citrix XenServer … [II] June 11, 2008

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Roger Klorese just posted an article on the collaboration between Symantec and Citrix Xenserver on the level of storage: Veritas Virtual Infrastructure. Especially that last phrase is interesting …

“As for the future, and how some of Symantec’s capabilities will be available to Citrix’s own XenServer users… watch this space”

Can this be interpretated as … Citrix will OEM some backup functionality?

Addition Channel-V – 13.06.08 ♦  Veritas Virtual Infrastructure brings a number of key storage management capabilities to the Citrix XenServer platform. The system provides a number of tools not available to file-based virtualization systems (such as VMware’s Virtual Machine File Systems), including direct control of block storage from a guest virtual server, mirroring capabilities across heterogeneous arrays, and improved data availability through SAN multi-pathing. Shipments are expected by this fall at a price of $4,595 per two-socket server.

One of the interesting side stories to the VVI platform is the fact that the original XenSource was planning to add Symantec’s storage management to the Xen hypervisor interface before the company was bought out by Citrix. Even though that deal never materialized, Symantec was still eager to take on VMware, and by extension EMC, so it decided to host the Xenserver hypervisor inside the Storage Foundation interface. The combo provides the same management toolset for virtual machines that is available for physical ones.

VMware isn’t sitting still when it comes to storage, however. The company is setting its sights on improving specific functions, such as adding snapshot capability to VMFS to aid online backup and archiving. And new tools like VMotion provide for live migration of disk files from VMs to multiple storage arrays. The goal is to increase the ability to provision new storage with each server refresh to take advantage of the most up-to-date technology.

Symantec and Citrix take on VMware with Block Storage … poll June 10, 2008

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… Symantec Corp. is extending its partnership with Citrix Systems Inc. by offering a combination of its Storage Foundation software with Citrix’s XenServer hypervisor under its Veritas brand.

Symantec introduced Veritas Virtual Infrastructure today at Symantec Vision, which is due out in the fall. Symantec has allowed the XenServer hypervisor to use Storage Foundation for storage management under an arrangement disclosed last year. Now Symantec executives say its new product will be a better approach than VMware Inc.’s Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) for server virtualization in large environments. “Today’s [VMware] solutions force guest OS images to be put in one big bucket, called VMFS,” said Rob Soderberry, senior vice president of Symantec’s storage and availability management group.

… Full article here and here.

Our question to you: What do you believe is the best storagemethod in Virtualization:

  • (a) VMFS
  • (b) Block Storage
  • (c) Other …

Feel free to post your answerd an opinion by commenting on this post.