Born as a as a spin-out of Credit Suisse, the US startup DynamicOps launched almost two years ago , introducing a very interesting multi-hypervisor management console, Virtual Resource Manager (VRM), which merges together VM lifecycle management and virtual lab automation capabilities. After a great start in 2008, when it hired away a couple of key executives from PlateSpin ( now part of Novell ) and Dunes Technologies ( now part of VMware ), the company remained under the radar for a very long time, releasing just one minor update in June 2009 . In December 2009 the company announced integration with BMC BladeLogic Ops Manager , in February 2010 it announced integration with NetApp FlexClone technology , and last week they announced integration with HP Server Automation . Besides that, it’s not clear how much the product evolved in these two years: the company marketing renamed version 1.0 in version 3.0 right after the launch in 2008, one year later VRM just reached version 3.2, and this month Redmond Magazine mentions a version 3.3 , which should be the current one. At the end of December 2008 the company even promised support for VMware View 3 to arrive in early 2009, but the announcement never came. While the support for NetApp FlexClone and the marketing literature let us assume that it’s there, it’s not even clear if VRM supports new version 4.0 or not.

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New month, new rebuttals in virtualisation-land. Evidently, virtualisation players still consider the marketing skirmish very helpful to increase sales ( virtualisation.info has a slightly different opinion ) so this March we have VMware leading three major campaigns against competitors. Two of them are defensive, one is not: VMware View PCoIP vs Citrix XenDesktop ICA Volume of Citrix Essentials for Microsoft Hyper-V sales Cost of managing Microsoft Hyper-V vs vSphere PCoIP vs Citrix XenDesktop ICA At the beginning of February Citrix sponsored a competitive analysis performed by Miercom. The 7-pages report compares protocol performance of Citrix XenDesktop 4 (with ICA/HDX) and VMware View 4 (with PCoIP) and these are the conclusions: In a comparison of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) implementations, Citrix XenDesktop 4 provided better overall performance when compared to VMware View 4 XenDesktop 4 used 64% less bandwidth than View 4 with PCoIP for typical tasks Flash video was delivered with an average of 65% less CPU usage, 89% less bandwidth, and excellent Quality of Experience by XenDesktop 4 compared to View 4 Overall, XenDesktop 4 uses system resources more efficiently and is capable of scaling more effectively VMware answered last week , informing that they were not contacted by Miercom and that they have no insight about how test were conducted. Of course VMware offered its point of view on each point, At this point customers just have to decide which company has the nicest logo and which guy has the brightest smile to believe to one set of claims over the other.

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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Devon IT today announced its Teradici PC-over-IP® (PCoIP) protocol-enabled TC10 thin client is now VMware Ready Certified for VMware View 4. This designation indicates the TC10 has completed the VMware Hardware Certification Program testing criteria for use with VMware View 4 and is now listed on the VMware Hardware Compatibility Guide. This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]

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Teradici has released PCoIP Firmware 3.0, which enables the interoperability of PCoIP hardware zero clients with VMware View 4. PCoIP hardware zero clients add a unique client option that provides customers the flexibility they need to deploy end-to-end solutions with a variety of end point options to meet a broad range of user and business needs. Key benefits include very low operational cost,… This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]

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