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Last week the VMware End-User Computing team announced the release of VMware Horizon Application Manager 1.5.
Announced in various occasions as a core component of the VMware end-user computing portfolio, Horizon Application Manager is capable to manage Windows-based applications as well as public and private cloud applications in a centralized, policy-based way.
In April VMware released a minor upgrade for ThinApp 4.7, its application virtualization solution.
This release is worth to be reported because fixes a problem running multiple Office 2010 licensing services.
Quoting from VMware ThinApp Blog:
.. you’re now able to run virtualized Project 2010 while Office 2010 being natively installed ..
The ability to remove the Sandbox on start of the package was also introduced.
ThinApp version 4.7.1 is now available for download here: https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?downloadGroup=THIN-471&productId=161&rPId=2503
For more details on 4.7.1 please read the release notes found here:https://www.vmware.com/support/thinapp4/doc/releasenotes_thinapp471.html
Monday at Cisco Live, VCE announced the introduction of a couple of new features, oriented to the deployment and management of VDI infrastructure, for its VCE Vblock solutions.
Vblock systems are already optimized for VMware View and leverage technologies from CISCO, EMC and VMware in a complete integrated desktop virtualization solution called VCE Vblock FastPath Desktop Virtualization Platform.
This week, at Microsoft TechEd North America 2012, 5nine Software, one of the most active companies in the Hyper-V ecosystem, announced Release Candidate of 5nine Security Manager for Hyper-V, its agentless Anti-Virus, Anti-Malware and Virtual Firewall solution.
Security Manager works with Windows Server 2012, Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Release Candidates and benefits of the new Windows Server Hyper-V virtual switch and the Windows Filtering Platform (WFP).
The solution is a combination of multiple protection modules managed centrally, including anti-virus (based on Sophos Anti-Virus Enterprise engine), anti-malware, IDS, web application protection, log inspection and programmatic virtual firewall.
Yesterday PHD Virtual announced the release of version 10.2 of its virtualization monitoring solution Virtual Monitor.
This release introduces a new enhanced user interface with a simple set up wizard and intuitive UIs that allow easy identification of problems, trends and remediation actions.
Two days ago InMon Corp., a company based in San Francisco and focused on the development of traffic monitoring solutions for high-speed switched networks, announced that its sFlow Agent for Hyper-V now works with the Virtual Machine Manager component of System Center 2012.
The sFlow Agent for Windows Server Hyper-V is a traffic monitoring component that integrates with the Microsoft Hyper-V extensible switch to monitor the virtual network traffic in the same way as physical network traffic.
Today Embotics, a Canadian company that entered the VM lifecycle management market in 2007 with a product called V-Commander, announced that it has closed $8.4 million in equity financing.
This investment, led by VentureLink and Convington Fund II Inc. with $2.5 million each raises the total funding amount to $18 million.
This round comes after Embotics’ most successful year to date with 300% growth in sales over the past year and 220% year-on-year growth in new customers, including Bell, Deloitte, Cisco, CSC, etc.
We continue to support Embotics because of its proven track record of successfully developing products that address the problems in virtual data center environments. Our experience investing in the virtualization sector, along with Embotics’ success in assisting companies with private cloud management, automation and self-service provisioning, make for a smart business and investment partnership between our two organizations.
said Phil Reddon, managing partner of Covington.
Last week Citrix announced the achievement of a definitive agreement to acquire Bytemobile, a privately held company founded in 2000 and focused on video optimization over mobile networks.
The transaction is expected to close during the third quarter of 2012.
Bytemobile will open the doors of more than 130 mobile operators in 60 countries to Citrix, significantly increasing the company’s market reach and expanding his mobile solutions portfolio with new synergies.
With the advent of the Cloud Era, mobile operators are experiencing explosive growth in network traffic, driven by the combination of new consumer devices, rich multimedia content, and high speed 3G, 4G and LTE networks. By joining forces, Citrix and Bytemobile will be able to offer these operators combined solutions that deliver a high quality user experience to mobile subscribers, while helping operators manage the exponential growth of mobile network traffic with the best performance, visibility and efficiency. The acquisition builds on a strategic partnership announced earlier this year that combined the Bytemobile Smart Capacity™ technology with the Citrix NetScaler® line of cloud networking solutions.
Last week Microsoft published a comprehensive schema called Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Component Architecture Poster.
This document provides a visual reference that describes Hyper-V technologies in Windows Server 2012 in the following areas:
Today VMware published a paper intended for costumers that are evaluating an implementation of VMware vSphere Storage DRS in combination with advanced storage device features or other VMware Products.
Virtual machine storage provisioning historically has imposed operational challenges. Monitoring datastore capacity and I/O load has proven to be very difficult and as a result is often neglected. During the provisioning process for virtual machines, virtual disk datastores are often randomly selected, leading to hot spots and over- or underutilized datastores. Storage DRS is a new feature introduced in VMware vSphere® 5.0 that provides smart virtual machine placement and load balancing mechanisms based on I/O and space capacity.
It will help decrease operational effort associated with the provisioning of virtual machines and monitoring of the storage environment.
