Archipel is a new open source virtual infrastructure management system based on the libvirt libraries and the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP, formerly Jabber). Still in early stage, the tool supports KVM, Xen, OpenVZ and VirtualBox and it’s currently able to operate single virtual machines and VM groups, displaying performance statistics about them. The interesting twist is that, thanks to the XMPP engine, this console provides instant notification about VMs status to any chat client that supports the (almost) standard protocol. This means that virtual infrastructure administrators can query virtual machine status through their IM program of choice (like Google Talk or Gmail Chat for example). To do so, each virtual infrastructure entity, including hosts and virtual machines, appear as an IM contacts,
Phoenix Technologies today announced the appointment of Robert Andersen as Interim Chief Financial Officer, effective March 5, 2010. Mr. Andersen replaces Mr. Richard Arnold, who resigned from Phoenix to pursue other opportunities. [[ This is a content summary only
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VMware has launched a Lab site where VMware Engineers can share new tools that they are developing. They are offering a wide range of tools here, each of which are being offered under a Technical Preview or relevant Open Source License. This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]
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Xsigo Systems today announced that its Xsigo I/O Director, an award-winning virtual I/O technology, has been verified as Citrix Ready. The Citrix Ready program helps customers identify third-party solutions that are recommended to enhance virtualisation, networking and cloud computing solutions from Citrix. 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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Exactly one year ago the Quest subsidiary Vizioncore made clear its decision to extend the focus to hypervisors from Microsoft and Citrix. At that time the company announced the upcoming support for Hyper-V and XenServer in the new vControl enterprise management console. Twelve months later, according to ComputerWorld , Vizioncore is getting ready to further support VMware competitors and unveils that its performance monitoring product, vFoglight, will support Hyper-V by mid-year and XenServer within the end of 2010.
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One of the biggest assets VMware has, excluding of course its product portfolio, is its VMTN Forum facility, which hosts a large and incredibly active community of professionals that quite often are more knowledgeable, faster and way more efficient than the company’s paid support. Any new customer that wants to learn VMware technologies inside out, well beyond what the official training class can provide, should consider investing at least 6-9 months just to follow the threads on the VMTN board in passive mode. There’s a large number of VMware employees that contributed the success of VMTN. The first one that comes to mind for sure is John Troyer , Senior Social Media Strategist, who definitively is the VMware front man for everything related to the community. Behind the scenes there’s at least another one: Robert Dell’Immagine , Director of Community Program, who just left VMware after almost six years.
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Last week VMware updated its disaster recovery solution Site Recovery Manager (SRM) to version 4.0.1.1 (build 236215). The new version is primarily for bug fixing and features enhancements. There are no new capabilities. Yellow Bricks published the complete list. This version of SRM supports storage replication adapters from: 3PAR (just acquired by CA) Compellent Dell | EqualLogic EMC (for CLARiiON, Symmetrix, Celerra and RecoverPoint) FalconStor Fujitsu Hitachi HP (for EVA, LeftHand and XP) IBM (for DS, SVC ad XIV) LSI NEC NetApp (both NAS and SAN products) Sun (acquired by Oracle)
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Layered Technologies yesterday launched its new partner program during the Channel Partners Conference & Expo 2010 in Las Vegas. The new program is designed to engage partners who want to include the best dedicated hosting, virtualisation and cloud computing technologies as part of the overall services and value delivered to their end-use customers. This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]
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Last week VMware announced the acquisition of RTO technology, one of the few companies in the presentation virtualisation market that are focused on the so called persona management . RTO technology was founded in 2000, today it counts 12 employees, and offers four products: Virtual Profiles, PinPoint, Discover and TScale. Both VMware and Symantec OEM’ed the RTO technology flagship product, Virtual Profiles, in VMware View and Symantec Workspace virtualisation (SWV) and since 2009. Then, at the beginning of February the Symantec version (Workspace Profiles) suddenly disappeared .
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