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Despite a tight business partnership, Teradici continued to operate independently after the September 2008 deal with VMware.
The company even secured a Series C round of funding staking $43.3M.
After a long focus on the software-only implementation of PCoIP for View 4.0, Teradici launches a new product on its own: PCoIP Management Console.
The product is able to perform a number of tasks on PCoIP-powered thin clients, which several vendors OEM from Teradici:
In December 2009 Red Hat announced the conversion of SPICE, the remote desktop protocol invented by Qumranet, into an open source technology.
It’s too early to understand if the move will facilitate or not the adoption of SPICE against Microsoft RDP (and its upcoming enhancement RemoteFX), Citrix HDX and VMware/Teradici PCoIP.
The first feedback is not exactly positive: the open source version of Red Hat SPICE protocol is unusable says Virtual Bridges.
Meanwhile SPICE has been included in the freedesktop.org project, an organization born exactly ten years ago to “encourage cooperation among open source desktops for the X Window System”.
The mission statement, edited last time three years ago, doesn’t seem to include specific goals around VDI:
When VMware launched its stellar IPO in August 2007, many suggested that its parent company EMC may sell the virtualization vendor.
But over the years EMC reiterated multiple times that it has no intention to do so and that it would continue to keep around 80% of the ownership.
Quite the opposite, the company is buying back VMware stocks: TheStreet in fact just informed that EMC bought back 160,000 VMW shares, equal to approximately $9.1M.
Last week a very interesting stealth startup just entered the virtualization market and is preparing to launch a capacity management solution: VMTurbo.
VMTurbo is a very small (11 employees) US startup founded in 2008 by four people: Shmuel Kliger, Yuri Rabover, Shai Benjamin and Yechiam Yemini.
The first three have in common the same root as they all come SMARTS, the company acquired by EMC in early 2005: Kliger (President and CEO) was the co-founder and CTO, Rabover (Director of Product Strategy) was the Director of Technology Partners, and Benjamin was a Senior Staff Engineers.
Yemini (Chief Scientific Advisor) is a Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University since 30 years. He’s connected to Shaula Alexander Yemini, the other co-founder of SMARTS.
For some reasons only Kliger and Yemini appear and are listed as founders in the company’s website.
Since the release of VMware View 4.0 and the software-only implementation of the Teradici PC over IP (PCoIP) remoting protocol, there’s a lot of discussion about its performance in local area networks and its efficiency across WAN links.
BrianMadden.com recently published an insightful interview with VMware about how PCoIP works in deep, technical details.
It’s just three questions and answers, but it’s well worth a read:
Novell extended its interest beyond hardware virtualization in September 2008, when it officially entered the application virtualization thanks to an OEM agreement with XenoCode.
The XenoCode Application Studio was rebranded as ZENworks Applicaton Virtualization (ZAV) and updated once (ZAV 7.0 released in March 2009).
Yesterday Novell announced the availability of ZAV 8.0, based on XenCode Virtual Application Studio 2010, so the product includes the new application streaming technology, the capability to restrict virtualized application usage, the support for Windows 7 and for 64bit applications.
Yesterday Pano Logic announced the release of its VDI platform Pano System 3.0.
The new product introduces the support for Windows 7 and the integration of VMware View 4 Manager into the Pano System console.
This last feature is specifically targeting large enterprises as Pano marketing literature is pretty clear about when View Manager makes sense in their VDI architecture:
For most Pano System deployments, the only VMware products needed are vSphere’s ESX or ESXi and vCenter Server.
Suggested uses for View Manager with the Pano System:1. You need to manage a mixed or hybrid VDI client device population that includes both Pano Devices and thin clients or PCs running View Client.
2. Your initial deployment has over a 1,000 virtual desktops and is expected to grow.
3. You have 1,000 or more DVMs, storage space is a critical cost factor, and your IT group has the VMware expertise to implement View Composer’s linked clones.
Born as a as a spin-out of Credit Suisse, the US startup DynamicOps launched almost two years ago, introducing a very interesting multi-hypervisor management console, Virtual Resource Manager (VRM), which merges together VM lifecycle management and virtual lab automation capabilities.
After a great start in 2008, when it hired away a couple of key executives from PlateSpin (now part of Novell) and Dunes Technologies (now part of VMware), the company remained under the radar for a very long time, releasing just one minor update in June 2009.
In December 2009 the company announced integration with BMC BladeLogic Ops Manager, in February 2010 it announced integration with NetApp FlexClone technology, and last week they announced integration with HP Server Automation.
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On April 27 VMware and Salesforce plan to announce a new partnership with a public webcast where both companies’ CEOs will appear. None of them disclosed any information about the terms of the deal, but an evidence spotted in Google Cache suggests that Salesforce may launch a VMware-powered Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing facility, turning into a competitor for companies like Amazon and Rackspace (both powered by the Xen hypervisor).
virtualization.info is now able to disclose exactly part of what the two companies are going to announce.
VMware acquired SpringSource in August 2009, as part of what seems a rather complex (and honestly pretty much obscure) strategy to lead the emerging cloud computing market.
While SpringSource continues to exist as an independent subsidiary, it’s clear that every move is done to execute the VMware’s vision.
virtualization.info even received unconfirmed tips that SpringSource was operating on behalf of VMware well before August 2009: the SpringSource acquisition of Hyperic was exactly requested (and funded) by the virtualization vendor.
Yesterday SpringSource acquired a third firm for an undisclosed sum: Rabbit Tecnologies.
The second one was Cloud Foundry, acquired ten days after the deal with VMware was announced.
