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Yesterday Thincomputing.net published an article that highlights the limits that vCenter imposes on VDI deployments.
The article tries to answer the VMware View Administrators’ question about the scalability differences between desktop and server workload.
Yesterday, Citrix’s official blog published a comparative study between XenDesktp 5.5 and VMware View 5 commissioned to Principled Technology, in order to answer to an identical study, from the same testing facility, previously published from VMware.
According to Citrix’s blog that set of tests evaluated a single user using single virtual desktop on a “quiet” LAN, so they must be repeated on a realistic corporate environment in order to let HDX definitively crush PCOIP.
Unsurprisingly the results support Citrix’s claims also if the poster must admit that VMware View 5.1 wasn’t available when the tests were conducted.
Two days ago VMware published a technical paper containing a comparative performance study of a large Oracle RAC instance installed on vSphere 5 and on a similar physical environment.
Today Microsoft, through its Windows for your Business Blog, announced the availability of the second beta of User Experience Virtualization (UE-V).
This release includes new functionality like roaming system settings between Windows 7 and Windows 8, support for additional operating system settings, group policy support and sync of Internet Explorer’s settings between version 8, 9 and 10.
The scenarios presented include the following:
Last week, during two Remote Desktop Services sessions at TechEd, Microsoft announced that it has advanced RemoteFX as a brand that covers its entire VDI technologies portfolio.
RemoteFX, a technology acquired with Callista acquisition in 2008, was first integrated into Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 as a removing solution for high-end graphic applications.
“If you are familiar with Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, we had introduced RemoteFX, but it was solving a very particular problem,” Daga said during the TechEd talk. “It was referencing primarily to the virtual graphics processor available on Windows Server for virtualizing inside your guest VM. There were a couple of other things like the codec and USB redirection that were tied in with that RemoteFX GPU, but now, in [Windows Server] 2012, RemoteFX is our umbrella brand that covers all our rich remoting experiences over both LAN or WAN conditions.”
Refer to the article on redmondmag.com for more informations.
Two days ago, during GigaOM Structure 2012, Bromium Inc., an enterprise and virtualization startup based in Cupertino, CA, announced it has raised $26.5M Seres B funding from lead investor Highland Capital Partners, new investor Intel Capital and existing investors Andreessen Horowitz and Ignition Ventures.
This new funding will be used for its micro-virtualization technology and for the develop of a new concept of security in enterprise desktops and mobile devices.
Employees now have more control than in the past, on applications they can install and the activities they can do on the web, Bromium’s solution creates a microvisor, a virtualized instance of the desktop, completely hardware-isolated, every time an user action could lead to a security risk.
“Bromium micro-virtualization delivers on the promise of trusted computing, enabling enterprises to safely embrace the key trends affecting IT: consumerization, mobility, device diversity, and cloud computing,” said Gaurav Banga, Co-founder, President and CEO of Bromium. “It is an honor to be backed by investors with such distinguished track records of innovation and industry transformation.”
Reading the last update of VMware Workstation Technology Preview – June 2012 Overview, a noticeable information is related to WSX Server, an experimental features that allows users to access their shared virtual machines via web browser without installing any plug-ins or web controls just using HTML5.
Yesterday Oracle, through its Virtualization Blog, announced the new placement of its Oracle VM in the new Gartner x86 Server Virtualization Infrastructure Magic Quadrant.
The application-driven approach to virtualization that Oracle has kept so far seems to be supported from this result, Oracle itself claims to be supported by strong customer momentum gains originated from the low cost licensing model and easy software access.
Last week, the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) reported a vulnerability, on Intel CPU hardware, that could lead to a privilege escalation attack on some 64-bit operating systems and virtualization softwares running on Intel CPU hardware.
In these years many security flaws have affected different virtualization platforms but this episode is remarkable because, originated at the CPU level, affects many different systems and not just a single vendor.
Two days ago US-CERT updated the list of the affected systems, that includes Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, FreeBSD and NetBSD as well as Xen hypervisor, that we report in a “per Vendor” grouping:
Last Week VMware ThinApp Blog announced the release of the new ThinApp Factory virtual appliance which can be used to automate the packaging of legacy Windows applications with VMware ThinApp and is free to all existing VMware ThinApp customers.
