Year: 2011

VMware has announced the release of vCenter Operations which combines the analytics technology from the Alive VM product, the capacity analytics and planning technology from CapacityIQ and the configuration analytics and management technology from Configuration Manager. With this release Vmware is planning to compete with technology from BMC, IBM Tivoli, HP OpenView and Microsoft’s System Center line of products.

CapacityIQ is an evolution from the technique which VMware acquired in 2005 from AOG, Configuration Manager was acquired from VMware’s parent company EMC in March last year and Alive VM comes from Integrien, which VMWare acquired in September last year. In December VMware decided to offer the Alive VM product for free to customers purchasing vSphere or other products.

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VMware announced the acquisition of WaveMaker, one of the most widely used tools for quick web development, with 135.000 downloads a month.

The acquisition fits in VMware’s Platform as a service strategy, building on top of the Spring framework to provide easy-to-use development tools to non- professional or non-coding developers.
With this acquisition, VMware aims to bring many more business users to the Spring based cloud vision, Code2Cloud, while building sinergy with its existing Spring Roo tool.

In August last year, Parallels announced that it hired Birger Steen, the former Microsoft VP of Russia to become President responsible for sales, marketing, product management, and support. Now Parallels announced that Steen has been named Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Parallels replacing founder and former CEO Serguei Beloussov, who will become Chief Architect and Executive Chairman.

Microsoft has released a white paper titled: Microsoft RemoteFX for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure: Architectural Overview. The paper, which contains 18 pages provides an architectural overview of RemoteFX in the context of VDI making use of the Remote Desktop Virtual Host a new role introduced with Windows Server 2008 R2 and which is designed specifically for VDI .

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Pano Logic has hired Dave Butler as its new VP of Sales being responsible for sales, partner and field support throughout North and South America.

Butler comes from VegaSpectrun where he worked for 3 years and . Prior to that he was VP Sales and BD at FireEye for 2 years and 5 months in the timeframe 2006 – 2009. He also was VP Sales and BD at Aruba Networks for 4 years in the timeframe 2002 – 2006.

Butler also worked for Fast Forward – Intkomi, For systems, Network Systems Corporation, and IBM.

Ben Armstrong, who is Virtualization Program Manager at Microsoft posted a four part article about CPU scheduling in Hyper-V. Most of the aspects of the Hyper-V CPU scheduler come into play when all of the CPU resources on a physical computer are being used, called ” contention for resource” and Hyper-V has to decide who wins and who loses when new resources are requested. Each option is detailed, and pros and cons are provided.

When defining a VM within Hyper-V the following Processor options are available:

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VMware has released version 4.6 of its Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solution; View. This version is the follow up of version 4.5 which was released in September last year.

View 4.6 is considered a minor update which adds bug fixes and USB updates. But it also provides support for external end-users to connect to their View destop outside of the firewall using the PC over IP (PCoIP) protocol. This is handeled by View Security Server a component of View which is typically deployed in a DMZ, which can provide an end-to-end PCoIP removing the need for SSL-VPN solutions.

VMware started supporting the PCoIP protocol in software when it released View 4.0 in November 2009.

VMware has released an update to its Application Virtualization solution ThinApp. Version 4.6.1 is considered a maintenance release which can be installed on top of ThinApp 4.6 which was released in September last year.

This update provides more than 160 fixes for packaging Microsoft Office 2010 (see Quick start Guide) and other popular packages, like Google Chrome, Firefox+Foxit Reader, Internet Explorer and Office Communicator.

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VMware Labs has released a so called Technology Preview Release of vCenter XVP Manager and Converter. XVP Manager and Converter will provides basic virtualization management capabilities for non-vSphere hypervisor platforms , which is Microsoft Hyper-V in this case. It also provides the possibility to migrate virtual machines from these non-vSphere virtualization platforms to VMware vSphere.

XVP Manager and Converter provides the following features:

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Capacity Management product provider VKernel announced that it has hired Eric Jackson as Vice President of Product Management. Jackson will continue his job as CEO for Class VI software and President of DeepWeave Inc.

Jackson comes from Lab Escape, where he worked for more than 3 years as VP of Sales & Customer Relations. Before that he was VP of Products at XOsoft for 1 year and 5 months, Lead Architect and Co-Founder at IBRIX for 2 years and 11 months, Software Architect at Cambridge Hydrodynamics for 5 years and 2 months and High-Performance & Parallel Computing Specialist at Princeton University for 8 years and 11 months.