Today IBM launches version 2 of a new cloud computing platform for technology development and testing. The offering seems similar to the virtual lab automation facility similar to the one that the US startup Skytap offers since April 2008 . CNET reports that this infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud is powered by the new Red Hat Enterprise virtualisation Hypervisor (REVH) , which is based on KVM. If confirmed this would be the biggest and most important case study for the new Red Hat virtualisation platform at today.

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At the beginning of January virtualisation.info published a long overview about the VMware’s approach to cloud computing , covering the vCloud APIs, the vCloud Express implementation and the five partners that are currently offering it. One of them, BlueLock, just sent an email to its customers announcing that its vCloud Express offering will (tentatively) move from beta to general availability (GA) on March 25. As far as we know none of the other providers is out of beta yet (this article will be updated if necessary). So, while it’s entirely possible that BlueLock wants to be the first to announce vCloud Express GA, it’s much more likely that all the early adopters will make GA announcements in the same timeframe. And this may mean that VMware is about to release some additional information or bits about its cloud computing platform

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Xsigo Systems today announced that its Xsigo I/O Director, an award-winning virtual I/O technology, has been verified as Citrix Ready. The Citrix Ready program helps customers identify third-party solutions that are recommended to enhance virtualisation, networking and cloud computing solutions from Citrix. This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]

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Voonami announced today that it is launching its Virtual Desktop Service on the UTOPIA network. The Virtual Desktop Service utilizes thin client technology to offer customers the benefits of cloud computing at their desktop. Voonami is the only UTOPIA service provider offering cloud computing and virtual desktop services over UTOPIA’s fiber network using its green data center solutions. [[ This is a content summary only.

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Yesterday I got a new Twitter follower, OpenECP , given the open in it’s title.. I had a look and I saw an Open Source Elastic Cloud Computing platform. (A virtual Machine Management platform if you don’t want to use the “Cloud” hype terminology. The attentive reader might remember us announcing Enomaly ECP This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]

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As soon as it received the green light to complete the Sun acquisition , Oracle moved on and acquired AmberPoint . AmberPoint is a US company that offers application management and application performance measurement solutions. It provides a real-time view into performance and runtime behavior of distributed applications, and raises alerts when SLA limits are approaching or when transactions fail to complete, or when certain business parameters are violated. While this has no direct connection to virtualisation, there’s at least another product in the virtualisation industry that offers (or may offer in the future) similar capabilities: VMware AppSpeed, which was launched in July 2009 after the May 2008 acquisition of B-hive . VMware and Oracle are both embracing the fabric computing approach.

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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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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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At the beginning of January Microsoft launched its Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) cloud computing offering: Windows Azure. Despite the company’s Chief Architect Ray Ozzie said that Azure will be able to compete with Amazon EC2 and similar Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds , this component is not yet accessible, or at least we couldn’t find it , and Microsoft didn’t even officially confirm it exists. A couple of months ago virtualisation.info suggested that the IaaS component of Azure may appear in March, because Microsoft is going to release a cloud toolkit that month .

As most virtualisation.info readers know by now, Cisco is leading a new trend in computing architectures by pushing for datacenter-in-a-box solutions, where the entire computing stack is designed and integrated to work as a whole . It is the Apple philosophy applied to the data center. Or a modern interpretation of mainframes, if you prefer. Oracle, thanks to the acquisition of Sun , announced its plan to do the same .

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