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Red Hat has released a beta for an upcoming release of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) platform version 3.4. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) is Red Hats virtualization platform based on the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor.
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.4 Beta is available immediately to existing Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization customers.
New features in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.4 Beta include:
Log Insight is VMware’s product for log aggregation, management and analysis. Introduced in June 2013, Log Insight is kept updated with a fast pace in order to be competitive on this market where Splunk, which provides similar functionalities, is still considered the leader.
The new features introduced with version 2.0-bet can be resumed as follows:
In January Citrix announced the upcoming 7.5 version of its Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) product XenDesktop and desktop and virtualization product XenApp. At that time especially the fact that the XenApp product returned since it was integrated in XenDesktop when version 7.1 was released. The reason for this was the integration of both platforms to the Flexcast Management Architecture (FMA) platform, providing better integration between the XenApp and XenDesktop products.
Transforming the feature set from XenApp 6.5 to the XenDesktop 7.1 caused a lot of features in the XenApp product to disappear, as noted by Citrix CTP Alexander Ervik Johnsen en Brian Madden on his website. Based on these articles, we can conclude that bringing back the XenApp product name is more marketing related than technical.
Oracle has released a new version of its virtualization platform VM Virtualbox. Version 4.3.10 is considered a maintenance release which improves stability and add some new experimental features.
Some of the changes as detailed in the changelog:
Midokura and Cumulus Networkd announced a partnership preparing an offer for customers to manage workloads on virtual and non virtualized infrastructure, besides the cooperation between the two companies will allow its users the flexibility to adopt different industry standard networking hardware, networking operating systems and applications according to customer’s needs.
Japanese startup Midokura, focused on network virtualization and based in San Francisco and Cumulus Networks a company designs and sells a Linux-based operating system for industry standard network switches to deliver networking solutions for large datacenter, cloud computing and enterprise environments and which is a VMware partner that supports NSX. The partnership plans to offer a joint technology solution between Q2 and Q3 2014.
Microsoft has released another free eBook titled: "Microsoft System Center: Network Virtualization and Cloud Computing". The Book which is written by Nader Benmessaoud, CJ Williams, and Uma Mahesh Mudigonda and Mitch Tulloch as a series editor and contains 94 pages.
This brief book identifies some key usage and deployment scenarios for cloud computing to provide some deep technical background on the Microsoft Software Defined Networking (SDN) solution, enabling IT professionals to quickly learn the internals of HNV, how it works from end to end, and where and how it should be used.
In december 2010, Alessandro Perilli founder of both virtualization.info and cloudcomputing.info announced his transfer to research firm Gartner, becoming research director covering cloud computing, virtualization and datacenter technologies in the IT Professionals research team.
At the end of 2013, Alessandro caused some commotion in the OpenStack community by publishing several articles on his blog criticizing OpenStack (What I saw at the OpenStack Summit and Why vendors can’t sell OpenStack to enterprises). Alessandro’s critical comments haven’t been unnoticed by the OpenStack community, causing Red Hat to offer Alessandro the position of running its OpenStack based hybrid cloud program, as reported by Barb Darrow on the GigaOM website. At Red Hat Alessandro will be in a postition to work on his own criticized points and actually change OpenStack for the better.
We wish Alessandro the best with this new assignment at Red Hat.
A couple of days ago VMware quietly released Update 1 of its management platform for vSphere, vCenter Server 5.5.
This release, unlike 5.5.0.b released in december 2013, aside several resolved issues, introduces also some new features such vCloud Hybrid Service vSphere Client Plug-in availability in vSphere Web Client and vCenter Server support on Windows Server 2012 R2.
The Xen Project, the community which develops the Xen hypervisor under the GNU General Public License (GPLv2), transferred from Citrix to the Linux Foundation, today announced the availability version 4.4.0 of the Xen Hypervisor.
Version 4.4 contains 1193 change sets, and from now on the Xen Project will try to work with a release cycle of 6 months.
Version 4.4. provides the following new features and improvements as detailed in the change log:
In august last year, VMware announced the first public beta of Virtual SAN (VSAN), a software-defined storage tier embedded directly within vSphere 5.5 hypervisor (but licensed separately). It constitutes (with NSX) one of the key components of VMware’s vision of a Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC). Now VMware has announced that VSAN is generally available.
Customers will be able to deploy VSAN nodes in a couple of ways: