Year: 2012

Stratus Technologies acquires Marathon Technologies

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On September 24, Stratus Technologies Inc., the producer of fault tolerant computer servers and Stratus Avance software in June 2008, a high availability product with virtualization built announced the acquisition of Marathon Technologies Corp., the company responsible of a software and networking technology that allowed multiple Windows/Intel servers to operate as a single fault-tolerant system.
Both companies are based in Massachusetts, after this transaction, Marathon’s employers who are based mostly in the company headquarter will be offered employment with Stratus. This alliance would enhance Stratus software portfolio, expanding its customer base, the company would be able to amplify further into virtualization and private cloud-computing implementations.

CompuCom partners with Virtual Bridges

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CompuCom, the texan IT outsourcing company specialized in data center and cloud computing, network, and IT Infrastructure Services just joined up with Virtual Bridges, another texan company that develops desktop virtualization solution, providing support for Windows and Linux desktops, together they will deliver Desktop Cloud as a Managed Service


The join venture would allow the two companies to deliver a virtualized desktop solution that would be delivered and managed as a service, as an hosted offering of directly where it is needed. The focus is to give a complete cloud-based desktop infrastructure product that would permit to get a manageable and automatic environment that would work on all devices, reducing cost and time.

Release: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9

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On September 21, Red Hat announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9

This is a beta minor release  and it is part of the commitment that Red Hat guaranteed for 10 years, to provide a stable Life Cycle for its products. This distribution also offers new virtualization and networking functionalities, possibilities to support the lates platforms and new features such as Red Hat Subscription Management.

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Release: Bromium vSentry

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Today, September 19, Bromium Inc, an enterprise and virtualization startup based in Cupertino, CA, introduced the release of a new security software, Bromium vSentry.
The company is a new start-up founded in 2010, working on security and virtualization, its new product is a micro-vm that would capture and analyzes malwares, delivering a  secure virtual infrastructure for large clouds and enterprise datacenters. Bromium vSentry is product created to permit a safe navigation, apparently the solution would give protection against system security attacks and would protect a desktop computer against attacks on the system from within.

Video: VMware CEO Explains Nicira, Software-Defined Networks

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Two days ago The VAR guy published a video where VMware CEO, Pat Gelsinger explains, the Nicira acquisition, software-defined networks and VMware’s ongoing relationship with Cisco Systems.

This video, taken from the audience of VMworld 2012, emphasizes the importance of virtual networking as a fundamental pillar in software-defined data centers.

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Release: VMTurbo Operations Manager 3.2

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Today, September 18, VMTurbo, the company producer of a virtualization management platform announced the release of VMTurbo Operations Manager 3.2

VMTurbo, founded in 2008 with headquarter in New York and backed by Bain Capital Ventures and Highland Capital Partners, recently joined the OpenStack community, one of its products, the VMTurbo Enterprise Operations Manager is a solution for Cloud and virtualized environment. VMTurbo Enterprise Operations Manager allows a real-time optimization and capacity planning for single-site data centers with the main focus of minimizing interference across the data center while expanding resource utilization.

Release: Xen Hypervisor version 4.2.0

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Xen, just announced the release of Xen Hypervisor version 4.2.0
The first version of the product was developed by The University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory and it has been maintained as free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Xen is currently available for the IA-32, x86-64 and ARM computer architectures. It is used by many public cloud and hosting services.