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PlateSpin released version 5.5. of its flagship product, PowerConvert, bringing in a critical new feature: live P2V migration (no shutdown of physical servers).
Among other features this update includes:
The virtualization.info Virtualization Industry Roadmap has been updated accordingly.
vizioncore published a Flash demo of its flagship product, esxRanger Pro, for hot backup of VMware ESX Server virtual machines.
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Leostream published a Flash demo of its virtualization management product, High Availability Controller, for desktop provisioning tasks in the VMware Desktop Infrastructure (VDI).
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Leostream published a Flash demo of its virtualization management product, High Availability Controller, for failover virtual machines with P2V migration help.
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Leostream published a Flash demo of its virtualization management product, High Availability Controller, for hot backup of VMware ESX Server virtual machines.
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Leostream published a Flash demo of its P2V migration product, P > V Direct.
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Dunes published a Flash demo of its newest product, Virtual Desktop Orchestrator (VD-O), used for desktop provisioning tasks in the VMware Desktop Infrastructure (VDI).
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Dunes published a Flash demo of its flagship product, Virtual Service Orchestrator (VS-O), used for server provisioning tasks.
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Quoting from Byte and Switch:
Hurricane season might be grabbing the headlines, but firms are quietly preparing for the potential ravages of another major threat: an Avian Flu pandemic. The threat has prompted a flurry of activity from vendors such as VMware and IBM.
Speaking during a keynote at yesterday’s EMC analyst day, VMware president Diane Green said pandemic preparations are well underway, with many businesses already making plans for staff to work from home.
Many firms, she said, are using VMware products to secure their workers and centrally manage remote desktops and laptops. “An area where we have seen a lot of growth is in hosting desktop environments.”…
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Devil Mountain Software CTO provided his personal experience in using his own technology, Clarity Suite 2006, with both Altiris Software Virtualization Solution and Softricity SoftGrid:
As a developer of performance management and load testing software for the financial services industry, I was intrigued by the possibilities of application virtualization. After hearing good things about both SVS and SoftGrid, I took it upon myself to become familiar with both products and their implications for my own solutions.
Several installations and a whole lot of testing later, I’ve come to the conclusion that SVS has the superior implementation of a “pure” virtualization model. Its “layered” architecture is more reliable and compatible than the “virtual environments” model used by SoftGrid.
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During testing with SVS we found the application “recording” phase to be incredibly simple. Both of our applications – Studio and Tracker – installed cleanly and ran correctly when enabled in their respective SVS layers.
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By contrast, SoftGrid’s sequencing process was a real nightmare for us. In the beginning, we couldn’t get Tracker to install at all during the recording phase. Later, after providing the MSI (Microsoft Installer) package to Softricity for analysis, we were provided with a working OSD. Still, there was the matter of how to launch our services. Tracker is headless – it runs as a Windows service and has no local UI. Fortunately, we were able to tie the service startup to the launching of our tray control applet (cfwtray). Still, it’s not a perfect solution since the user will need to log in to the system before our services will be enabled.Bottom Line: You can’t deploy agents/headless services reliably with SoftGrid…
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