Just one week after the release of Stratosphere 4.5.3 , the US startup Liquidware Labs announces version 4.5.4. In this build the company included an Application virtualisation Assessment feature clarifying that its interest goes beyond hardware virtualisation and VDI. With the new capability, Stratusphere 4.5.4 can build an application inventory by assessing physical desktops and laptops. The inventory includes the following information: Executable size System services installed and used per application Device drivers installed per application Total number of application users Average launch delay (application load time) Application usage (total and average time) Application resource requirements (total and average CPU, memory, IO) Basically Liquidware Labs is betting on the advent of application virtualisation as a mainstream technology, something that doesn’t seem to happen anytime soon . It’s not the only one

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In July 2008, the VMware Board of Directors voted to remove the founder Diane Greene as CEO of the company. Greene was offered another position that she declined, leaving the company that she created and led through one of the most impressive IPO in the IT history . Two months after her departure, his husband Mendel Rosenblum, left too . Rosenblum co-founded VMware and was the Chief Scientist declining the company vision. The board immediately replaced her with Paul Maritz, a long-time Microsoft executive that joined the EMC ecosystem after his startup Pi was acquired in February 2008.

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Last week the startup Liquidware Labs updated its flagship product Stratosphere to version 4.5.3. This minor update (version 4.5 came out in October 2009) just introduces a much welcome one-click assessment that produces a useful PowerPoint slidedeck. To be honest the slides could be prettier but they are customizable, so users may want to apply their own themes before presenting to a wide audience. The information inside the slide deck anyway is valuable, especially a graph showing how many physical machines and how many users are good candidates for client consolidation (aka VDI).

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Yahoo is reportedly close to selling its Zimbra unit to VMware, according to several sources ‘close to the situation’ told AllThingsDigital blogger Kara Swisher. Her sources said the deal could be announced soon, and that the price for the open-source email unit, though still unclear, will likely be much lower than what Zimbra fetched when Yahoo bought the startup in late 2007 for $350 million. This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]

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With a surprising move Microsoft today announced the acquisition of Sentillion, the US startup that launched in summer 2006 the virtualisation product called vThere. The company’s press announcement doesn’t mention at all vThere, solely focusing on the startup presence in the healthcare industry and its solution there. vThere is what we call here at virtualisation.info a platform wrapper . It’s a piece of software that integrates with a hosted virtualisation platform and wraps its virtual machines in a security layer.

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