Citrix launches today the public beta of XenServer 5.6, which is released as open source since February, and Essentials for XenServer 5.6. The list of new features include: Dynamic Memory Control (DMC) This feature can increase the number of VMs per host by permitting the memory utilization of existing VMs to be compressed so that additional VMs can boot on the host.
For a long time Microsoft decided to not enter the VDI market, leaving the competition with VMware to its trusted partner Citrix. Over time, the strategy slightly changed: in January 2008 the company acquired the startup Calista , and in July 2009 it released its first connection broker as part of Windows Server 2008 R2. Considering its position in the industry, virtualisation.info speculated that Microsoft is just waiting for the right moment to enter the VDI space in a serious way. Now several parts reports that this week Microsoft will make its move, by lowering the VDI cost with a more friendly license and by making VDI more powerful, with the merge of Calista technologies in the RDP code. The announcement may come March 18 at 9am PST, according to this new website that recently surfaced online.
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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Citrix recently released a new open source tool to simplify virtual machines migration from the open source Xen hypervisor to its open source implementation XenServer and the upcoming Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) . The virtual to virtual (V2V) migration utility is written in Python and can either perform an offline conversion of a Xen VM into that XVA format that XenServer and XCP understand, or live streaming the VM to the two target platforms. The tool supports both para-virtualized and hardware-virtualisation-assisted (HVM) virtual machines but it still is in its early stage and Citrix warns about issues and bugs .
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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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Likewise, the leader in delivering integration and authentication technology for mixed networks, today announced a technology licensing agreement with VMware, enabling Likewise technology to be directly integrated and included with VMware vSphere. The integration will enable VMware vSphere users to manage privileged user access with Microsoft Active Directory, providing large enterprises with a… This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]
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Red Hat today announced that the Symbian Foundation, a global non-profit organization formed to foster an open source community around its mobile device technology, has adopted Red Hat Enterprise Linux to provide a scalable, high-performance base for its private, cloud-based developer website and server. By deploying Red Hat Enterprise Linux in their cloud environment, the Symbian Foundation… 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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In the battle for the Mac desktop virtualisation market, VMware is preparing its latest soldier with the VMware Fusion 3.1 Beta build (release notes). Currently, this Beta version has 10+ new and improved features and includes 200+ bug fixes. This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]
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Elastra Corporation, provider of application infrastructure automation technology, today announced the availability of a free trial version of Elastra Enterprise Cloud Server (ECS) for VMware vSphere 4 customers. In this offering, ECS lets customers compose, orchestrate and deploy application infrastructure to virtualisation environments managed with VMware vSphere 4. This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]
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