VMware just closed an OEM agreement with Likewise to embed its technology in future versions of vSphere. Likewise is a US company that offers several products for enterprise authentication. The most popular is simply called Open and it’s available free of charge as open source (GPL and LGPL licenses). Likewise Open uses Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) and Name Service Switch (NSS) to authenticate non-Windows machines to Windows domains. It supports Kerberos.

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EMC today announced that 20-year IT industry veteran Jeremy Burton has joined the company as Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer. Burton will be responsible for the global structure, strategy, and execution of all aspects of EMC’s marketing efforts. Burton will report to Joe Tucci, EMC’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]

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CA has announced that its virtualisation management solutions now support Sun’s Solaris Zones virtualisation platform. The expanded support of CA’s Service Assurance and Business-Driven Automation solutions for heterogeneous virtualisation platforms helps enterprise and service provider customers to realize greater cost savings, efficiency and flexibility from their complex virtualized and cloud… This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]

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Some of our readers may be familiar with the virtualisation.info Rent-A-Lab facility. Operated by our trusted partner Kybernetika , Rent-A-Lab (RAL) is a cutting-edge data center located in Zurich, equipped with some of the latest and greatest servers, storage and network gears a virtualisation professional may ever desire. RAL is available for rent to worldwide customers. virtualisation.info and Kybernetika offer unrestricted, on-demand (24/7) access to its bare metal since January 2007 .

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Secure Network is an Italian consulting firm focuses on network and application security assessment. One of its partners, Claudio Criscione , is a long time columnist here at virtualisation.info. Secure Network is working on the first security assessment toolkit for virtual infrastructures, VASTO, and Criscione announced today the public beta at the Troopers conference. VASTO comes as a set of components for Metasploit , one of the most popular frameworks for penetration testing in the security industry. The framework consists of tools, libraries, modules, and user interfaces.

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In December 2009 Microsoft acquired the run-book automation firm Opalis technology. At that time the company anticipated that Opalis technology would be integrated in the System Center product family and that it would become the automation layer for Hyper-V and Azure virtualisation. Today Microsoft offers additional details about when the integration with happen: integrations packs for UNIX, Red Hat RHEL and Novell SLES Linux will be released in Q2 2010, while integration packs for Service Manager 2010, Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2007 R2, Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2008 R2 and Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2010 will appear in Q3 2010. A tighter integration anyway can’t be expected before 2011 when Microsoft plans to release the next major version of Opalis.

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Now that VMware owns a technology that is far away from its primary business, the Spring Java framework and a couple of application servers, one of its primary challenges is building awareness among its customers. To do so, the company is offering complimentary and perpetual licenses (2 CPUs) of its Tomcat application server called tc Server to any customer buying other VMware products, including vSphere and View. VMware is not offering the existing editions of tc Server but a new one that integrates with the Spring framework and supports Spring applications. It’s pure speculation, but customers would rather prefer to have for free the third piece of the SpringSource acquisition: the Hyperic monitoring suite.

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Almost one month ago, immediately after the VMware Partner Exchange conference, TechTarget published a scoop about some new features that may appear in the upcoming version of vSphere, expected later this year. The list includes: Transparent Memory Compression This will avoid swap when RAM is overcommited by compressing a set of target pages to a special region . VMware measured the latency of this technique as a hundred times better than the latency of swapping on rotating disks.

Microsoft just published the beta version of a new Infrastructure Planning and Design guide. Titled Dynamic Data Center , this 43-pages blueprint on what Microsoft defines “a combination of automation, control, and resource management technology with a well-defined topology of virtualisation, servers, storage, and networking hardware”. The guide is divided in five main parts: Determine the Dynamic Data Center Scope This part helps to define the scope and determine the workloads that will be included in the Dynamic Data Center project. It’s divided in three steps: Determine the proposed initial workloads for the Dynamic Data Center.

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With an unexpected move, at the end of last week Parallels announced support for the upcoming Google operating system, Chrome OS , in its Desktop 5 for Mac. While it’s entirely expected that consumers use desktop virtualisation platforms to test new operating systems, it’s pretty uncommon to see a vendor that officially supports a beta product that is not widely deployed like Windows. Considering the long beta cycles that Google products have (sometimes years), the effort to support multiple beta builds will be remarkable for Parallels. The first stable release for Chrome OS is not expected to arrive before the second half of 2010.

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