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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NetApp just released a very interesting 38-pages paper comparing storage protocols performance in VMware vSphere 4.0 and VI 3.5 environments with Rackable S44 servers and FAS3170 arrays. The paper, titled VMware vSphere and ESX 3.5 Multiprotocol Performance Comparison Using FC, iSCSI, and NFS , highlights a significant performance improvement in vSphere, mostly for iSCSI and NFS, since both have Jumbo Frame support. The document also includes an comparison between 4GB FC, 1 Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet, in terms of host CPU utilization and latency, which is worth a look. Thanks to Yellow Bricks for the news.

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