Year: 2013

.infonews welcomes Marcel van den Berg as a team member

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The years passes by and, since virtualization.info started to track virtualization market in 2003 and cloudcomputing.info, its sister publication, the cloud computing market in 2010, our team evolved as these markets themselves have done.

Alessandro, founder and former chief editor of both publications, joined Gartner as Research Director, Claudio was hired from Google and others were absorbed from Fortune 500 companies or founded their own, these successes confirm the talent of those who contributed and who are still contributing to our mission: tracking the evolution of virtualization and cloud computing markets, as well as their technology impact in the IT world, offering ahead of the curve, exhaustive coverage of both industries.

Today I’m pleased to welcome in our team Marcel van den Berg a well-known professional in the world of virtualization and cloud computing.

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Video: Introducing VMware NSX

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In August during VMworld VMware launched NSX, its network virtualization platform.

This is the video of the VMworld session that introduces the details of the product and its components, alongside the possible integrations with third party platforms and some examples of use cases.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHVm69YoKRs&sf17301768[/youtube]

Citrix hires new VP of Cloud Engineering

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Citrix has hired Steve Wilson as Vice President of Cloud Engineering. Wilson is leaving Oracle/Sun Microsystems where he worked for almost 13 years in total. In his last position he was VP of Engineering and responsible for engineering of hardware, firmware, operating system and virtualization management software within the Oracle Enterprise Manager suite of products.

In his new position Wilson will be responsible for development of the Citrix CloudPlatform and CloudPortal products and technologies.

VMware loses its Senior Director Enterprise Mobile Solutions

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VMware has lost its Senior Director Enterprise Mobile Solutions: Srinivas Krishnamurti. Krishnamurti was Senior Director Enterprise Mobile Solutions for 3 1/2 years and responsible for product management and overall Marketing, BD and Partnerships strategy for VMware’s mobile products, his profile is still listed on the VMware website though. He has worked in several other functions at VMware for almost 20 years. His linkedin profile now shows that he is co-founder of a company yet to be disclosed.

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Paper: Hybrid Cloud with NVGRE

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Kristian Nese and Flemming Ris, both Cloud and Datacenter MVP’s have released a paper titled:”Hybrid Cloud with NVGRE“. The paper contains 72 pages.

NVGRE (Network Virtualization using Generic Routing Encapsulation) is a network virtualization technology that attempts to alleviate the scalability problems associated with large cloud computing deployments. It uses Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) to tunnel layer 2 packets over layer 3 networks. With the upcoming release of Windows Server 2012 R2 and System Center 2012 R2 NVGRE has made some huge enhancements, which are outlined in this paper.This white paper is meant to show you a real world deployment of a fabric infrastructure that is supporting network virtualization with NVGRE for hybrid cloud computing.

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Paper: Decoding Microsoft’s VDI Licensing Arcanum

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Login Consultants has released a paper titled: “Decoding Microsoft’s VDI Licensing Arcanum“. The paper which contains 43 pages is written by Falko Gräfe can be downloaded for free from the Login Consultants website after registration.

The paper covers Microsoft’s Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) licensing and compares this against Server Based Computing licensing and single user terminal server licensing being used by some of the Desktop as a Service (DaaS) providers nowadays.

The paper contains the following chapters:

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VMware announces Log Insight 1.5 TP 2

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VMware announced the availability of VMware Log Insight 1.5 Technical Preview 2, its log management, aggregation and analysis solution.

This was indeed a very fast release, probably representing the need of VMware to accelerate the release cycle in order to compete with the massive popularity of Splunk.

VMware published a video that introduces the new features in version 1.5.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiL5uQp5zBw[/youtube]

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