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Dell today announced the release of version 6.5.2 of Foglight for Virtualization, free edition. Foglight for Virtualization was known as vOPS Server Explorer, for which virtualization.info covered the release of version 6.3 in January this year.

Version 6.5.2. now includes a new tool called Snapshot Explorer, which detects all snapshots, including orphaned ones to avoid problems with performance and capacity. The product now also includes support for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 3.1, VMware vSphere 5.1 and Microsoft Hyper-V 2012.

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In March this year cloudcomputing.info reported that VMware was set to announce the vCloud Hybrid Service. vCloud Hybrid Service provides Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) from the cloud providing a common management, orchestration, networking and security model and will be delivered by VMware’s partner ecosystem. Today VMware announced that the vCloud Hybrid Service will be generally available in Q3 of this year, with an Early Access program which starts in June.

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On May 14, VMTurbo announced the availability of its free product, a Virtual Health Monitor tool, a monitoring and reporting tool which is an evolution of the community edition of its control system for cloud and virtualized data centers, VMTurbo Operations Manager.
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From China a new wind of changes came to stay, Beijing-based cloud startup focusing on “IDE” for Amazon Web Services MadeiraCloud developer of a graphical monitoring and management product, has just been awarded with a new round of funding.

MadeiraCloud’s product provides a self-service interface to create a graphical scheme of the architecture and resources used by an application, that allows IT Administrators to design and deploy AWS based architectures with an intuitive visualization.

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Amazon last week released a management pack for use with System Center 2012 Operations Manager (OpsMgr). By importing the management pack into OpsMgr, customers can monitor their EC2 instances (Windows and Linux), Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes, Elastic Load Balancing, CloudFormation stacks, Auto Scaling groups, and Elastic Beanstalk applications using OpsMgr.

The Management Pack also provides CloudWatch integration, allowing customers to watch performance counters and get alerts when their AWS resources exceed alarm thresholds. Also resources are mapped to AWS Availability Zones so customers know which resources are in which zones to make understanding your high availability and disaster recovery easier.

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Since its announcement Google Compute Engine is in the spotlight as a potential competitor of Amazon AWS.

Up to now Compute Engine has been based on customized versions of Ubuntu and CentOS but after the release of Debian 7.0 “wheezy” on May 4th, Google has officially chosen Debian as the default OS, a reasonable move, from a technical point of view, as wrote Jimmy Kaplowitz (Site Reliability Engineer and Debian developer) on Google App Engine Blog.

From a business perspective the choice of Debian is more complex to understand.

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On May 7, Wipro Ltd. a consulting and outsourcing company, announced the release of VirtuaDesk, an IP-based offering from its Advanced Technologies practice. Wipro collaborated with HP for the first Advanced Technologies IP-based offering.   CONTINUE READING…

Dell today announced that it has acquired Enstratius, which used to be known as enStratus. Enstratius delivers a private and public cloud management product either available via Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) or on-premise. Dell states that the acquired technology of Enstratius will complement the technology which Dell acquired from Gale Technologies in November last year which is now called Active System Manager (ASM) offering multi-cloud management and application configuration capabilities. CONTINUE READING ON CLOUDCOMPUTING.INFO…

Microsoft has released a paper titled: "Infrastructure-as-a-Service Product Line Architecture Fabric Management Architecture Guide". The paper which contains 69 pages provides guidance to develop solutions for a Microsoft private cloud infrastructure in accordance with the IaaS PLA patterns that are identified for use with the Windows Server 2012 and System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 (SP1). This paper also has an accompanying paper titled: ”Infrastructure-as-a-Service Product Line Architecture Fabric Architecture Guide” which covers the development of the associated fabric architecture.

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Microsoft has released a paper titled:”Infrastructure-as-a-Service Product Line Architecture Fabric Architecture Guide“. The paper which contains 112 pages provides guidance to develop solutions for a Microsoft private cloud infrastructure in accordance with the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) product line architecture patterns that are identified for use with the Windows Server 2012 operating system. This paper also has an accompanying paper titled: ”Infrastructure-as-a-Service Fabric Management Architecture Guide” which covers the development of a fabric management architecture.

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