Yes, it’s true: virtualization.info already used the “Diane is back” theme in February, when the founder and former CEO of VMware sort of reappeared on the virtualization market as an investor of the startup Nicira . But Nicira still is in stealth mode at this point and the Greene’s role in there will probably be all but operational. She may be more active in another startup that emerges today from the stealth mode: Nimbula (formerly Benguela). Greene will be a board member, advising an interesting team of former Amazon and VMware employees. The company has been founded in 2008 by Chris Pinkham (CEO) and Willem van Biljon . Pinkham is the former Vice President of Engineering at Amazon.com, where he spent five years, and one of the founders of Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2). van Biljon was an Amazon Director, leading the EC2 development team, but in his career he founded Mosaic Software and managed it for over 11 years. With these two guys there are Martin Buhr (Vice President of Sales and Business Development), the former Business Development Director for Amazon Web Services (AWS, the home of EC2) in EMEA, Reza Malekzadeh (Vice President of Marketing), the former Senior Director of Marketing at VMware, and Amber Rowland , the former Group Manager of Exec and Global Communications. Malekzadeh left VMware in May 2009 , Rowland left in Q4 2009 . During a briefing with virtualization.info, Pinkham refused to disclose how many other ex-VMware employees are at Nimbula, or how many are moving there, but the impression is that the startup is really looking for the successful team that built what we could call today VMware 1.0 . Nimbula has already secure $5.75M in its first round of investments, led by Sequoia Capital and VMware. The startup has been able to attract talents and interest from the virtualization market leader as its mission is to offer an EC2-like platform for private cloud computing. Its flagship product, Director, is able to deploy a virtual infrastructure on bare metal, and deliver on top of it all those services that are critical in Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud platforms: workload management, monitoring, metering & billing, authentication (with support for LDAP and Active Directory), federation. Director is also in charge of controlling the network and storage layers, and it offers APIs that can be accessed by the CLI, web based clients and JSON Rest calls. It is designed to scale well beyond the limits of most virtual infrastructures available today on the market, to connect to public cloud platforms (like EC2, of course) and to support multiple hypervisors. At the moment, anyway, the product only supports Xen and KVM. The company plans to support VMware too but not in its first release. Nimbula Director also has a strong focus on multi-tenancy and security, through what the company calls the authority framework. This includes granular control over who consumes what, enhanced logging for compliance, policy-driven provisioning and topology-independent security rules. The product is currently available in beta for a really small number of selected customers. The company plans to officially launch in H2 2010. Nimbula has been included in the virtualization.info Virtualization Industry Radar .

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Certeon, provider of virtualized WAN optimization and application acceleration, today announced that nScaled, a leading provider of cloud computing services, is joining Certeon’s global Partner Program as a provider of Certeon aCelera virtual appliance software solutions. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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Netuitive has secured an additional $10 Million in equity financing. Led by MK Capital and Rembrandt Venture Partners, the proceeds will be used to expand Netuitive’s global sales and marketing operations to accelerate revenue growth. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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Parallels, the global leader in automation and virtualization software, announced recently that it is offering VMware Fusion users a free trial of Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac and a limited-time opportunity to upgrade to for $39.99 until June 15. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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Matrix42 has announced the global offering of a co-branded virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution that enables medium-sized businesses to cost-effectively leverage the benefits of virtual desktops. The product is called VDI-in-a-box [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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Cloudera, the commercial Apache Hadoop company, today named John Kreisa as Vice President of Marketing. With nearly two decades of enterprise technology product marketing and product management experience, Kreisa will play a key leadership role in developing and executing Cloudera’s global growth strategy. This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]

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Exactly one year ago, PHD Virtual Technologies (formerly PHD Technologies) lost its CEO Sridhar Murthy . In the last twelve months the company was led by its Executive Chairman Joe Julian, former Senior Vice President of Americas Sales and Global Accounts at Veritas technology. PHD Virtual Technologies yesterday announced that the former CEO of Shunra technology, Thomas Charlton , joined the company as new Chairman and CEO, thus replacing both Murthy and Julian. This is the third CEO the company has since its launch in March 2006.

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AutoVirt today announced that it has appointed Thomas Fraser to the newly created position of Vice President of Sales. R eporting directly to AutoVirt’s President and CEO, Josh Klein, Fraser will be responsible for developing and executing the global sales and channel strategy, establishing and directing the external sales force, as well as growing and overseeing the inside sales team. This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]

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VMware today kicked off VMware Partner Exchange 2010, the company’s third annual global partner conference. This year’s event comes on the heels of a successful 2009, during which VMware experienced steady growth in the VMware Partner Network and continued investment in programs such as solution competencies, VMware Partner University, and certification training — helping partners deliver… This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]

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Trend Micro, a leader in Internet content and dynamic datacenter security, has partnered with Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro Limited, to offer virtualisation security solutions for dynamic datacenters. The goal of the partnership is to develop solutions that help secure public and private cloud computing environments that are being increasingly challenged to deliver… This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]

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