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Earlier this week, Dell announced support for Storage Spaces as provided by Windows Server.
Storage Spaces is a virtualization technology which groups disks into storage pools and allows for creation of virtual disks from that pool. It provides automatic storage tiering and disk resiliency.
Supported hardware includes Dell’s PowerEdge Servers, cost-effective SAS 6Gb/s host bus adapters (HBAs), persistent reservation HDDs and SSDs, and PowerVault MD1200 and MD1220 storage enclosures.
Promox Server Solutions GmbH headquartered in Vienna, Austria announced to have joined the Linux Foundation, a non-profit technology institution founded 2007 supporting the development of Linux and open sources companies. Promox produces Proxmox Virtual Environment, an open source virtualization management solution that leverages KVM technologies.
Dell has released a paper titled: "Reference Architecture for Dell Wyse Datacenter for Microsoft VDI and vWorkspace". The paper which contains 83 pages describes a Dell Wyse Datacenter for Microsoft Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and vWorkspace scaling from 10 to 50,000 desktop virtualization users. It adresses the architecture design, configuration and implementation considerations for the key components of the architecture required to deliver virtual desktops via Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 RDS or Dell vWorkspace 8.0 MR1 on Microsoft Hyper-V.
After the big announcement of the new CEO Satya Nadella, Microsoft appoints Corporate VP Scott Guthrie as Cloud Chief, taking over from Nadella the Cloud and Enterprise Group.
Guthrie, former leader of the Windows Azure team at Microsoft, joined the company in 1997 and since then he has been working as General Manager within the Developer Division of Microsoft and Corporate Vice President within the Developer Division at Microsoft, heading the teams who contributed to creation of the .NET Framework, Silverlight, ASP.NET, IIS, the XAML runtimes for Windows Phone and Windows 8 and tooling features within Visual Studio.
Icomasoft, a Swiss company announced the release of version 2.0 of opvizor, a software-as-a-service solution designed to identify, diagnose and eliminate performance, security and configuration issues in VMware and NetApp environments. Opvizor connects to your environment and uses a central rule base running in opvizors datacenter.
5nine today announced the release of a rebranded version of Security Datacenter which it now calls: 5nine Cloud Security for Hyper-V.
Cloud Security for Hyper-V is a solution which helps to ensure security and compliance for Hyper-V environments. It provides agentless anti-virus, compliance enforcement and traffic control/VM isolation. Management can be done using a Centralized Management Console or by using a plugin into System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM). The product supports Windows 8.x with Hyper-V enabled, Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2.
Microsoft announced its third CEO in about 40 years history of the company, after Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, former Executive Vice President of Microsoft’s Cloud and Enterprise group, Satya Nadella.
Steve Ballmer announced back in August his retirement and Microsoft planned to look for his successor along 2014 but Nadella’s background supported the decision to invest on him as the new CEO sooner than expected. Not to mention that Nadella is going to help concluding the Nokia’s acquisition by Microsoft having worked on the development of cloud infrastructures including Bing, Xbox, Office and other services.
On the 6th of March, the Dutch VMware User Group, which is a subsidiary of the global VMware User Group organizes a conference in the Netherlands. The conference which starts at 8:30 and end at 17:30 will be held in Conferenciecentrum 1931, in Den Bosch. The keynote of the event will be hosted by Brian Gammage, who is Chief Market Technologist at VMware. Other sessions will be hosted by well respected VMware community members
At this event I will also host a session on how you can monitor your VMware environment when you are already using Microsoft System Center Operations Manager. I will do a dual presentation together with Marnix Wolf, who is a Microsoft MVP for cloud and datacenter management and a well respected community member as well. Marnix and I are both founding members of the Windows Management User Group Netherlands. Our session starts at 16:45 and ends at 17:30 and we hope to see you there.
Citrix announced its financial results for fourth quarter and fiscal year 2013, ended December 31, 2013.
Citrix announced a total revenue for Q4 of $802 million, for an increase of 8% compared to Q4 2012. The total revenue of fiscal year 2013 has been of $2.92 billion, for an increase of 13% compared to $2.59 billion for fiscal year 2012.
Savision has released a new product providing capacity planning for Hyper-V virtualization environments called Cloud Reporter for System Center. Cloud Reporter for System Center is reporting-based solution which provides capacity management information for Hyper-V environments.
Cloud Reporter analyzes historical data collected and stored by System Center to predict when capacity issues will arise on your Hyper-V clusters and hosts, it does so by integrating with System Center Operations Manager. Additionally, Cloud Reporter provides scenario based reports that allow you to identify opportunities to make better use of the resources.