Year: 2013

VMware reports Q3 2013 revenue increase of 14% from third quarter 2012

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VMware  today announced financial results for the third quarter of 2013:

  • Revenues for the third quarter were $1.29 billion, an increase of 14% from the third quarter of 2012. Excluding revenues attributable to GoPivotal and all divestitures that occurred in 2013, revenues for the third quarter increased 19% from the third quarter of 2012
  • Operating income for the third quarter was $287 million, an increase of 51% from the third quarter of 2012. Non-GAAP operating income for the third quarter was $436 million,an increase of 19% from the third quarter of 2012.
  • Net income for the third quarter was $261 million, or $0.60 per diluted share, up 67% per diluted share compared to $157 million, or $0.36 per diluted share, for the third quarter o 2012. Non-GAAP net income for the quarter was $363 million, or $0.84 per diluted share, up 20% per diluted share compared to $303 million, or $0.70 per diluted share, for the third quarter of 2012.

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VMware launches marketplace for extensions to management and cloud solutions

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VMware launched in October the VMware Cloud Management Marketplace. This is a portal from which additional software tools can be downloaded for VMware solutions vCloud Automation Center, vCenter Orchestrator, vCenter Operations Management Suite and vCenter Log Insight.

The out of the box functionality of those 4 products can be extended by downloading add-ons, workflows or blueprints. These are mostly provided by vendors like NetApp, F5, Radware, HP, Infoblox , Cisco and many more. In total there are 100+ plug-ins, workflows and other additions available.

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VMware releases several updates to solve security issues

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VMware released several security fixes to solve issues on various VMware solutions.

One issue is that an attacker can initiate a Denial of Service on the hostd-vmdb service. This service is used in ESX(i) to manage the host from vCenter Server and vSphere Client. If the hostd-vmdb service is attacked, hosts cannot be managed anymore.

VMware advises a best practise is to use a dedicated, logically isolated network for management of ESX(i) hosts. This network should only be accessible from workstations or servers used by IT-management.

Affected versions are ESXi 5.1, 4.1 and 4.0. Also affected are ESX4.1 and 4.0

Other issues are reported in the vSphere Web Client Server as well as in vCenter and Update Manager which uses  Oracle JRE update 1.6.0_51.

More information and download of patches in this VMware post.

Recordings of 17 VMworld Europe Breakout Sessions available free

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VMware TV published a couple of recordings of breakout sessions presented at VMworld Europe. The recordings can be watched for free. No account needed.

The interesting thing to note is that VMware seems to be publishing more content of VMware than previously. I believe last year about ten videos were posted. Now sessions that were held at October 17 are put online on the same day. I believe this is very nice and VMware follows Microsoft who publishes content of all TechEd events within 24 hours.

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Paper: User Environment Management (UEM) Smackdown 2.0

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PQR has released a new version of the User Environment Management (UEM) Smackdown paper. The paper written by Ruben Spruijt, Rob Beekmans, Matthijs Haverink, Sven Huisman, Jits Langedijk, Anton van Pelt,Peter Sterk and others contains 138 pages and can be downloaded from the PQR website after registration. It provides an idependent overview of the User Environment Management solutions currently available. The paper focuses on solutions that are anticipated to have an important role in User Environment Management. An overview of features has been created to enable a better understanding and comparison of capabilities.

The paper contains the following sections:

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Release: Virtual Bridges VERDE 7

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Virtual Bridges yesterday announced the general availablilty of version 7 of its Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) platform VERDE. Releasing yesterday was not by coicendence since Virtual Bridges also want to make a statement that they can suppy an alternative for Desktone, which was acquired by VMware as virtualization.info covered yesterday.

Version 7 of VERDE provides the following new features:

  • Role Based Access Controles
  • Network Controls
  • Multi-tenancy
  • Linux Dual Monitor
  • Support for iOS, Android, Windows XP,7 and 8, Mac OX X, Linux OS and thin clients

VMworld Europe 2013 announcements

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Like each year VMware saves some of the announcements for VMware Europe. Most are made at the US event.

VMware announced in Barcelona new releases of products part of  its end-user computing and management portfolio:

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Release: Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.3

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Oracle today released version 4.3 of its virtualization platform VM VirtualBox. This release is the follow up of version 4.2 which was released in September last year.

Virtualbox is a desktop virtualization solution also known as a type-2 Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM). VirtualBox can be installed on top of Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris and Linux and it can run Windows, Linux and Solaris as guest.

The product was initially developed by innotek, which was acquired by Sun in February 2008, Sun rebranded the product to Sun VM VirtualBox. In April 2009 Sun on its turn was acquired by Oracle, which rebranded the product to Oracle VM VirtualBox. In July this year, Oracle announced that it will stop with the development of their own VDI Sun Ray software and focus fully on the Oracle Secure Global Desktop and VM VirtualBox software.

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Tech: Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V Component Architecture and Mini-Posters

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Microsoft has made available for download several posters detailing the key Hyper-V components of the upcoming version of Hyper-V coming with the release of Windows Server 2012 R2. The posters focus on Generation 2 virtual machines, Hyper-V with virtual hard disk sharing, online virtual hard disk resizing, storage quality-of-service, enhanced session mode, live migration, Hyper-V failover clustering, and upgrading a Microsoft private cloud.

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