Secure Network is an Italian consulting firm focuses on network and application security assessment. One of its partners, Claudio Criscione , is a long time columnist here at virtualisation.info. Secure Network is working on the first security assessment toolkit for virtual infrastructures, VASTO, and Criscione announced today the public beta at the Troopers conference. VASTO comes as a set of components for Metasploit , one of the most popular frameworks for penetration testing in the security industry. The framework consists of tools, libraries, modules, and user interfaces.

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Almost one month ago, immediately after the VMware Partner Exchange conference, TechTarget published a scoop about some new features that may appear in the upcoming version of vSphere, expected later this year. The list includes: Transparent Memory Compression This will avoid swap when RAM is overcommited by compressing a set of target pages to a special region . VMware measured the latency of this technique as a hundred times better than the latency of swapping on rotating disks.

The well-know virtualisation professional (and blogger) Eric Sloof just released a tool called vmClient . vmClient is a minimal management console that appears as an empty window frame. It features a menu bar where the virtual machines hosted by any VMware vCenter Server or ESX/ESXi host are listed. Each virtual machine in the list can be powered on/off, suspended and restarted.

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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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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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The virtualisation startup Reflex Systems may have changed its go-to-market strategy , focusing more on virtual infrastructure management than on security, but it didn’t forget its roots. Exactly one year ago the company hired a former ISS executive , Preston Futrell, as new Vice President of Sales, in September 2009 launched a new version of its new flagship product that features a VMware VMsafe-certified policy compliance enforcement engine , and now it closes a deal with TippingPoint , a well-known player security market. TippingPoint, a subsidiary of 3Com, which was recently acquired by HP , offers a popular line of intrusion prevention systems (IPS). The partnership allows TippingPoint to include Reflex VMC in its Security virtualisation Framework , a bundle of products (Digital Vaccine Labs, vController, Security Management System and of course the IPS appliances) that enforces segmentation between virtual machines and supports separation of duties between the different teams that manage the virtual infrastructure.

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Trilead is a Swiss startup that entered the virtualisation market in Q3 2008 with a backup solution for VMware virtual machines. Its product, VM Explorer, reached version 1.5 in November 2008.

Zenoss, corporate sponsor of open source IT monitoring and management solution Zenoss Core, today announced the general availability of Zenoss Core version 2.5.2 under the GNU General Public License (V2). As part of this release, Zenoss Core now offers new monitoring capabilities for the Xen Hypervisor via the Zenoss Xen monitoring plug-in, or Xen Virtual Hosts ZenPack. This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]

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Oracle just released its first updated for VirtualBox after the acquisition of Sun . The list of bugs corrected in version 3.1.4 is long but there are no new features . An interesting thing is that the company decided to change the default behavior of the engine: now VirtualBox tries to leverage hardware virtualisation acceleration by default, and this includes both VPDI and nested paging, provided by Intel VT-x and AMD-V RVI enhancements.

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Virtual Bridges, developers of the VERDE suite for desktop virtualisation, and ZSL, an ISV and global technology solutions and services provider, today announced a worldwide reseller agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, the Virtual Bridges VERDE suite will be an integral component of ZSL’s PowerCube DaaS (Desktop as a Service) packaged service offering. This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]

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