Year: 2014

Oracle has released version 3.3 of its enterprise virtualizatoin solution. The virtualization solution is available for both x86 and SPARC based processor architectures and uses the Xen hypervisor technology, supporting Windows, Linux and Oracle Solaris guests.

Oracle VM consists of 2 main components, the Oracle VM Manager, which is a web based console used to manage Oracle VM Servers, which is a server running a version of the Xen hypervisor containing a VM agent which communicates with VM Manager.

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Besides releasing the public beta 2 for vSphere 6.0 today, VMware also released a beta for Virtual Volumes (VVOLs).

Virtual Volumes allows a Virtual Machine and its disk to become a unit of storage management for a storage system by encapsulating virtual disks and virtual machine files. These files are stored natively on the storage system. VVOLs uses the vSphere APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA) which makes the storage system aware of the virtual volumes and how they relate to the virtual machines. This allows for certain operations like snapshots and clones to be offloaded to the storage systems for better performance. For in-band communication with Virtual Volumes storage systems, vSphere continues to use standard SCSI and NFS protocols.

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Today VMware opened the Public Beta Program for the upcoming vSphere 6.0.
This Beta 2, that comes after a relatively small private Beta 1, gives the possibility to virtually any customer to test the next release of VMware’s flagship product, gaining some competitive advantages on its side and providing precious feedbacks to the vSphere Team.

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5nine has released version 5.0 of its Microsoft hypervisor management solution 5nine Manager. 5nine Manager is capable of managing multiple versions of Microsoft Hyper-V hosts, and also provdes an agentless antivirus plugin for full and incremental VM and host scans. Besides that it provides features like Hyper-V logs, Application logs, an integrated Best Practices Analyzer, the ability to copy Hyper-V settings between hosts and a File Manager.

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Puppet Labs, provider of IT automation software has raised $40 in a new funding round from existing investors Cisco, Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Triangle Peak Partners, True Ventures and VMware. This round brings the company’s total venture capital investment to $86 million since June 2009.

Puppet Labs also announced it has hired Mukesh Sharma as vice president of sales for the EMEA region. Sharma comes from Canopy, a cloud service provider which is a joint venture between Atos, EMC and VMware where he was Chief Operating Officer (COO).

In April this year, VMware announced version 6 of its end user computing suite: Horizon. Yesterday VMware View, the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure and now also the Remote Desktop Services was quietly released by VMware.

Starting with this version VMware not only provides a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solution based on View, but now also provides a Server Based Computing (SBC) solution leveraging Remote Desktop Services (RDS) from Microsoft. With the addition of SBC, VMware is now capable of publishing applications, where the application runs on a server which is shared with other users at the same time.

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Zerto has announced that it has closed a $26 million Series D funding. The round was led by Harmony Partners, with participation by Battery Ventures, Greylock IL, RTP Ventures and U.S. Venture Partners.

Zerto provides protection, recovery and migration of data in cloud and virtualized datacenters and is creating aggressive solutions for the market for virtualized disaster recovery services. This funding will allow the company to invest in the acceleration of Hybrid Cloud Adoption.

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On June 18 Red Hat announced its financial results for the first quarter of 2014.

Total revenue for the first quarter ended May 31, 2014 was $424 bmillion, with an increase of 17% from the same quarter last year. Looking at the financials details we can see that subscription revenue was of $372 million, up 18% year-over-year,  and operating cash flow of $165 million, up 16% year-over-year.

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Opvizor today announced the release of version 2.3 of its homonymous product, a SaaS solution for intelligent datacenters that detects VMware and NetApp configuration and operating issues.

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Yesterday Red Hat has announced the global availability of version 3.4 of its Enterprise Virtualization: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV).

RHEV is based on the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor and in this latest release introduced the support for the new Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 but especially an enhanced support for OpenStack, a technology where Red Hat is investing vigorously in this period, like the ability to import Glance (the OpenStack Image Service) images as templates to use them to deploy new virtual machines and the ability to create and delete networks on external Neutron (the OpenStack Networking Service) providers.

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