Year: 2007

Virtual Iron hires Ed Walsh as new CEO, John McCarthy as Vice President of Sales

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Quoting from the Virtual Iron official announcements for Ed Walsh:

Virtual Iron Software, a provider of enterprise-class server virtualization and virtual infrastructure software, today announced that former EMC and Avamar executive, Ed Walsh, has joined the company as president and chief executive officer. Walsh takes the reins at the fast-growing company from John C. Thibault who remains with the company as executive chairman focusing on the company’s strategic direction.

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Most recently, Walsh was vice president and general manager of EMC’s Information Management Software Group. Prior to joining EMC, Walsh served as CEO at Avamar Technologies, Inc., a venture-backed software firm acquired by EMC in late 2006. At Avamar, Walsh established the company as the leader in the next generation data protection and data de-duplication software market and led it to 700% revenue growth over 18 months. Avamar’s data de-duplication product received, along with VMware, one of the first Morgan Stanley IT Innovation Awards, recognizing the most impactful technologies in the data center. Previously, Walsh was senior vice president of sales, marketing and alliances for CNT, a publicly-traded storage networking company. There he re-aligned the company’s channel and go-to-market strategy and led CNT to record growth and profitability. CNT was acquired by McData Corporation in 2005. Prior to CNT, Walsh co-founded Articulent, a systems integrator and channel reseller focused on data management solutions…

Quoting from the Virtual Iron official announcements for John McCarthy:

Virtual Iron Software, a provider of enterprise-class server virtualization and virtual infrastructure software, today announced the hiring of former EMC and McData sales executive John McCarthy to lead its worldwide sales, channel and field operations. As senior vice president of sales, McCarthy will report to new president and CEO, Ed Walsh at the fast-growing company.

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Most recently, McCarthy ran his own consulting firm, JEMO LLC., assisting companies with their sales, channel and go-to-market strategies. Prior to that, he was with Computer Technology Network (CNT) where he helped increase sales by 20% and gross margins by over 50% in just six months before the company was acquired by McData Corporation in 2005. At McData, McCarthy helped create the new McData/CNT sales organization in North America, integrating two different direct and indirect sales teams. Before joining CNT, McCarthy was president and chief operating officer of StorageApps, a pioneering technology company in the fast growing data storage management market. While at StorageApps, John grew sales from $30 million to $50 million before the company was acquired by Hewlett Packard in 2001…

Embotics appoints James Serack to its advisory board

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Quoting from the Embotics official announcement:

Embotics, the Virtual Machine Lifecycle Management Company, today announced the appointment of Dr. James Serack to its Advisory Board Council. The Council helps Embotics with product direction, organization and strategy associated with managing and controlling virtualized environments.

With more than 24 years of leadership, engineering and business experience, Dr. Serack is the director of Americas Architecture and Innovation for Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), a global information technology and services company. At CSC, he served also as Ascension Health Account CTO and a solution executive in Business Development. Prior to CSC, Dr. Serack was vice president of Information Services (CIO) for the R&D divisions of Nortel Networks.

Dr. Serack is currently the chair of the Advisory Board of Western Engineering (ACWE) at the University of Western Ontario, and on the Executive Steering Committee of the American Nursing Time and Motion Research Project. He is a professional engineer and holds a Bachelor in Engineering Physics (1983) from the University of Saskatchewan and a PhD in Electrical Engineering (1988) from Edinburgh University, Scotland. Dr. Serack presents numerous papers in microelectronics and is an active contributor to technology Wikis. He also holds a patent in the telecommunications field…

VMware acquires Sciant

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During its Q3 2007 earning report webcast VMware announced acquisition of a new company, after Determina and Dunes Technologies: Sciant.

Differently from other companies VMware acquired so far, Sciant doesn’t produce any virtualization product. It’s the biggest bulgarian company providing software developers in outsourcing and has a remarkable list of customers (many of them VMware customers as well).

Formerly known as Wizcom, it has three offices in Sofia, Varna and Vietnam, and VMware already used it in the past.

Sciant counts on over 190 developers covering a broad range of skills. One of the most interesting are ones about mobile computing, which VMware may use to extend its hypervisor domain beyond x86 market.

SWsoft CEO says Viridian is two years behind VMware products

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Quoting from The Register:

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“Right now we depend on Microsoft and Linux to deliver some of the core functions comparable to what VMware delivers,” Beloussov said. “So, we hope they ship a good product (next year). They are our best partner.”

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“In reality, it does look quite suspicious right now (as to whether Microsoft will ship a ‘good’ product),” Beloussov said. “They are delivering the product late and cutting the features. What they are planning to ship right now is like what VMware was shipping two years ago. That is really a concern.”..

Read the whole article at the source.

Endeavors announces Application Jukebox

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Quoting from the Endeavors Technologies official announcement:

Endeavors Technologies Inc, the pioneer in application streaming and virtualization technology, today introduced Application Jukebox, its next-generation application streaming and virtualization family of products.

Application Jukebox is initially available in three versions to meet differing market needs. Application Jukebox Lite Edition is a free, fully functional version supporting one server that allows administrators and ISVs to evaluate the product and discover the ease of creating and managing streamable versions of existing applications. Application Jukebox SaaS Edition includes metering and a kiosk mode to support a pay-as-you-go, application rental model, its customizable portals create an easy-to-use environment for OEMs or ISVs to build a unique application access landing site. Application Jukebox Enterprise Edition adds Active Directory support, and includes user and group monitoring, plus extensive tracking and support to cost-effectively streamline license management.

Application Jukebox products contain three key components. Application Jukebox Player sits on the client to create the virtual application environment and provides user authentication and application license enforcement. Application Jukebox Server controls and delivers applications, provides usage monitoring and logging, plus group, user and application level administration. Application Jukebox Studio allows ISVs and IT administrators to create a streamable, virtualized “appset” from standard, Windows-based applications that is then published to the server.

Endeavors’ is previewing Application Jukebox at Interop New York. Product availability will be in early 2008…

Microsoft releases SCVMM 2007 Management Pack for SCOP 2005

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Microsoft just released a new Management Pack for System Center Operation Manager 2005 (formerly MOM) which allows integration with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007.

It’s a critical component for large scale deployments and enables monitoring of several Virtual Machine Manager servers, agents deployed on Virtual Server 2005 hosts, and virtual machines stored in available Library Servers.

In no way it replaces the Virtual Server 2005 Management Pack, which instead monitors virtual machines and virtualization hosts running in the infrastructure.

Download it here.

VMware reaches Fusion 1.1 Release Candidate

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VMware is about to release the first minor update for its new Mac OS virtualization product: Fusion 1.1.

In this release candidate (build 61385) VMware fixes several bugs and introduces improvements in Unity and BootCamp support.

The product will be ready for new Apple Mac OS 10.5 Leopard.

Enroll the beta program here.

Microsoft opens Viridian APIs

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From its corporate blog Jeff Woolsey, Lead Program Manager Windows Virtualization at Microsoft, unofficially announces a new version of Windows Server Virtualization (codename Viridian) APIs draft documentation, which now reaches version 0.83.

The updated APIs are now included in the so called Open Specification Promise, a licensing agreement which simplifies development of 3rd party applications for Microsoft technologies, and cover:

  • Partition Management
  • Physical Hardware Management
  • Resource Management
  • Guest Physical Address Spaces
  • Intercepts
  • Virtual Processor Management
  • Virtual Processor Execution
  • Virtual MMU and Caching
  • Virtual Interrupt Control
  • Inter-Partition Communication
  • Timers
  • Message Formats
  • Partition Save and Restore
  • Scheduler
  • Event Logging
  • Guest Debugging Support
  • Statistics

Final version of this documentation will be released along with Viridian RTM, in September 2008.

Read the whole specifications at the source.