At VMworld 2013, Trend Micro, the security software company demonstrated integration between VMware NSX and Trend Micro’s Deep Security. As announced on August 26, Trend Micro is collaborating with VMware to create a software defined data center which would allow customers to have an increased protection and automate security deployments.
Year: 2013
IBM acquires CSL International
On August 30, IBM announced to have completed acquisition of CSL International. The agreement, started at the beginning of July, allowed the Big Blue to acquire the Israeli provider of virtualization management technology as part of a strategy to consolidate the cloud capabilities of System z portfolio by offering a simplified management of the virtualization environment.
VMwold 2013: The Summary
The 10th edition of VMworld US took place in San Francisco between 25 and 29 of August 2013, with over 21,000 attendees this event confirmed that the market expectations for VMware is comparable to the one on Apple which has been answered with the presence on stage of large customers such eBay, Citi and GE and the announcement of several new releases.
The intent of this article is to briefly summarize all the major releases in this edition:
- vSphere 5.5: is the core release on which VMware introduces all the new technologies at server virtualization level. While not introducing any price changes this new release presents 4 new major features:
- Support for Reliable Memory Technology to optimize the placement of the VMkernel and other critical components.
- vSphere Flash Read Cache, a new storage solution that enables the pooling of multiple flash-based devices in a single vSphere Flash Resource.
- Integration of Virtual SAN technology that allows the aggregation of local storage in a single shared datastore.
- vSphere Big Data Extensions that allows the deployment and management of Hadoop clusters within vSphere interfaces.
Release: Parallels Desktop 9 for Mac
Today Parallels announced the availability of the upgrade to version 9 of its desktop virtualization platform Parallels Desktop.
The new release supports the upcoming Windows 8.1, released yesterday in RTM, providing its own version of the start menu and includes the support for iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive and SkyDrive.
ManageEngine Applications Manager introduces Storage-level VMs Mapping
Yesterday, August 27, ManageEngine announced a new storage-level mapping feature added to its Applications Manager, a server and application performance monitoring platform, which will automatically maps VMware vSphere servers and their related virtual machines (VMs) to storage arrays, this new features is going to help IT administrators to have a better end-to-end visibility into the performance of their virtual resources.
Microsoft releases Windows Server 2012 R2
As announced less than a couple of weeks ago by Brad Anderson, VP for Windows Server and System Center with a blog post, Microsoft today, August 27, announced in a blog spot the released to manufacturing of Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1 client.
VMware launches NSX
Along with Virtual SAN technology VMware launched NSX (available in Q4 2013) its network virtualization platform that virtualization.info already covered in March.
VMware NSX unifies in a single platform Nicira NVP and VMware vCloud Network and Security, covering the entire network and security model from Layer 2 to Layer 7 and integrating in the hypervisor to ability to manage switching, bridging, routing and firewall.
The key highlights are resumed in this post from the “Office of the CTO”:
VMware Virtual SAN Public Beta
Among all the announcements made in the first day of VMworld 2013, the public beta of VMware Virtual SAN technology is one of the most interesting.
Virtual SAN is a software-defined storage tier embedded directly within vSphere 5.5 hypervisor (but licensed separately) and constitutes (with NSX) one of the key components of VMware’s vision of software-defined datacenter.
vSAN leverages the local storage (each host will require at least one SSD and one magnetic disk) from a number of ESXi hosts (limited to 8 in the beta) that belongs to a cluster and presents the aggregate as a single shared datastore.
This datastore can be used exactly as a “standard” one, for example for VM placement, vMotion, DRS and HA and could be scaled-out on the fly adding additional physical storage to the hosts.
VMware hires new CIO: Tony Scott, former Microsoft
According to Anthony Scott LinkedIn’s profile, the former corporate vice president and chief information officer of Microsoft Corp, now is the new CIO at VMware.
Scott has been the senior vice president and chief information officer of The Walt Disney Co., and chief technology officer at General Motors Corp before joining Microsoft. At VMware Scott will be in charge of managing the VMware’s global information technology organization, a group that manages critical technology systems supporting the company’s worldwide business operations.
HyTrust raises $18.5M in Series C funding
Today, August 26, Mountain View, CA, headquartered HyTrust Inc., a Cloud Security Automation (CSA) Company, announced Series C funding from Intel Capital and Fortinet, as well as VMware and In-Q-Tel. The new funding will be invested to growth and operation in the area of sales and marketing, enabling development on the cloud security platform as well as Role-Base Monitoring (RBM).