Xsigo Systems today announced that Xsigo Systems Japan partnered with Itochu Techno-Solutions Corporation (CTC) and Hitachi to jointly offer I/O virtualisation solutions to the Japanese market. The companies offer immediate availability of a jointly developed solution that will allow enterprise customers to rapidly implement cloud computing environments. The combined solution includes Hitachi… [[ This is a content summary only.
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DynamicOps today announced that it has enhanced its Virtual Resource Manager (VRM) technology with NetApp® FlexClone technology, creating a fully-automated virtual desktop solution that significantly reduces desktop provisioning times and associated storage costs. This new version of VRM is combined with a specialized NetApp module that leverages and orchestrates the FlexClone technology of NetApp… This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]
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In July 2008, the VMware Board of Directors voted to remove the founder Diane Greene as CEO of the company. Greene was offered another position that she declined, leaving the company that she created and led through one of the most impressive IPO in the IT history . Two months after her departure, his husband Mendel Rosenblum, left too . Rosenblum co-founded VMware and was the Chief Scientist declining the company vision. The board immediately replaced her with Paul Maritz, a long-time Microsoft executive that joined the EMC ecosystem after his startup Pi was acquired in February 2008.
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At the end of January Microsoft silently updated its Linux Integrated Components package to version 2.0, introducing the long awaited support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) guest operating systems in Hyper-V. Microsoft announced future support for Red Hat operating systems in July 2009, since the open source vendor joined the Server virtualisation Validation Program (SVVP). Customers had to wait no less than seven months to finally have a version of Hyper-V Linux Integrated Components that supports RHEL 5 (including 5.2, 5.3 and 5.4 versions, both 32 and 64bit). Like for Novell SUSE Linux, Microsoft doesn’t include in the package the optimized drivers for mouse.
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Leostream announces today a new minor version for its Connection Broker that arrives over five months after the 6.2 release. In this update the company introduces a number of new features: support for the open source version of Xen (the one released by Xen.org) support for Sun Secure Global Desktop technology support for Ericom Blaze (which comes from the technology partnership signed in November 2009) a web client to access virtual desktops over HTTP/S connections control over the remote desktop protocol used by remote clients when multiple protocols are available a more granular set of roles and permissions that separate end users and administrators rights While every feature above is welcome, the most interesting one is the support for Sun SDG. Th e Oracle acquisition of Sun , and its declared intention to continue investing in the existing virtualisation portfolio, is translating into new opportunities for those vendors that are struggling to compete with VMware in its own domain. And competing against VMware View can be pretty hard these days.
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A couple of weeks ago Citrix published a new architecture blueprint for its VDI platform XenDesktop. The 38-pages document provides guidance to design scalable virtual desktop infrastructures based on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2005, Citrix Provisioning Server 5.1 and of course XenDesktop 4.0 (which includes the hypervisor and XenApp 5). In this paper Citrix doesn’t push for the adoption of XenServer 5.5 but highlights that XenDesktop is hypervisor agnostic and can work with VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V as well. The company doesn’t even detail if and how different hypervisors will impact the scalability of this architecture but it offers some reference metrics in case you plan to use XenServer.
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Citrix Systems today announced improvements in scalability across multiple virtual desktop delivery models to address the needs of every user in the enterprise at a lower cost. Citrix XenDesktop 4 with FlexCast delivery technology has now been verified to deliver up to 125 VDI-based desktops, 500 hosted shared desktops and 5,000 local streamed desktops from a single physical server tuned to take… This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]
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Layered Technologies, provider of on-demand and cloud computing IT infrastructure, today announced that it has received a growth equity investment provided by a group of investors led by Accel-KKR, a technology-focused private equity investment firm. Layered Tech’s two primary existing investors, Enhanced Equity Fund, L.P., and Pangloss International, also participated. This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]
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Wind River, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel, today announced it will add the Virtutech product line to its embedded technology product portfolio after the completion of Intel’s acquisition of Virtutech signed earlier this week. Virtutech, founded in 1998, is based in San Jose, Calif. and operates a development center in Stockholm, Sweden. Wind River will sell and support Virtutech’s flagship… [[ This is a content summary only.
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Phoenix Technologies, provider of core systems technology, security solutions and instant-on operating systems, today announced it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against DeviceVM. In its complaint, filed today in the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, Phoenix alleges DeviceVM is infringing on Phoenix’s United States Patent No. 6,519,659. [[ This is a content summary only.
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