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Until now, most of the news of the next version of Hyper-V focused on Microsoft integrating the technology in its next version client OS, Windows 8.
During its annual World Wide Partner Conference (WWPC) this year, Microsoft finally showed some of the features coming for the next version of its Server OS, called Windows Server 8, which shares the same development track as the client OS, and is expected to be released next year as well.
Veeam announced on July 17th the availability of an index, named V-Index, which measures the virtualization penetration rate in enterprise data centers.
The V-index was performed in Q2 2011 and it surveyed 544 large-scale enterprises across the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Germany. The study was fielded by Vanson Bourne, an independent market research company, and focused primarly on server virtualization.
VMTurbo released a free version of its virtualization management suite, targeted at small and midsized businesses (SMB) and small organizations willing to start monitoring their virtual infrastructure.
This release comes after the last update of VMTurbo Virtualization Software Suite of May 2011, covered here.
Yesterday VMware CEO Paul Maritz and CTO Steve Harrod presented a major update in VMware software stack, speaking at the online event “Raising the Bar, Part V”.
The new version of vSphere aims to be the foundation of a complete suite for virtualization and virtualization management, providing a flexible solution for all of the use cases, delivering what VMware calls “IT As A Service” (ITaaS). Read further for an overview of the new capabilities and the new licensing model.
On July 5th Citrix announced the availability of XenServer 6.0 beta (formerly “Project Boston“), based on the Xen 4.1 Hypervisor.
This beta is public and available for download here (a mycitrix.com account is required). A webinar, covering all of the new features of XenServer 6.0, is scheduled for today at 5:00 – 6:30 PM CEST. Registration here.
Now that the news is out that Citrix’s CTO Simon Crosby, and Vice President Ian Pratt are leaving Citrix, to start their own company called Bromium, its clear that this is a great loss to Citrix, especially Crosby served as a public-facing executive, representing Citrix on many occasions. In the meantime the Citrix CTO office, chaired by Martin Duursma responded on the news in a blog post titled: "Simon Crosby and Ian Pratt Announce the Founding of Bromium"
Before joining Citrix, both Crosby and Pratt worked for XenSource, the company which was acquired by Citrix in August 2008, XenSource was founded by Pratt, and supported the development of the Open Source project Xen, the Hypervisor now used by Citrix, and still offered as Open Source through the Xen.org community.
Citrix’s CTO for the Data Center and Cloud Division, Simon Crosby just announced that he is leaving Citrix together with Ian Pratt, Chairman of Xen.org and VP of Advanced Virtualization products, to start a new Company called Bromium Inc, together with Guarav Banga, the creator of Phoenix Hyperspace. Crosby and Pratt joined Citrix after Citrix acquired XenSource Inc in August 2008.
While Crosby did not enclose the technology or products that Bromium is going to deliver, he did say that Bromium isn’t planning to compete with any excisting virtual infrastructure or security vendor. Crosby says: "We are fusing deep virtualization and security systems DNA to build a powerful set of tools that can offer continuous endpoint protection".
In July last year, virtualization.info reported about the first details for the upcoming succesor of Hyper-V called Hyper-V 3.0, at that time there were signals that the Hypervisor would be integrated in Windows 8 as well. In February this year, virtualization.info reported on the fact that more details about Microsofts upcoming client Hypervisor appeared online, pointing to patents which Microsoft claimed hinting at an upcoming client hypervisor.
Now Robert McLaws, who runs the Windows Now blog, has got his hands on a leaked Windows 8 build (7989) which apparently provides the option to install Hyper-V as a feature on the upcoming OS on 64-bit versions of the Operating System.