Year: 2015

VMware announces support for CoreS on vSphere 5.5. and vCloud Air

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VMware has announced that it now supports CoreOS on both vSphere 5.5. and vCloud Air. CoreOS is a Linux distribution designed to provide minimal functionality required for deploying applications inside software containers like Docker. VMware has been working with the CoreOS team in order to provide open-vm-tools and by providing the CoreOS OS in OVA format for use in vSphere.

Supported CoreOS releases begin with 557.x release and will extend to future stable releases. VMware is currently working on extending the support for CoreOS to vSphere 6 as well.

Release: Unidesk Corporation Unidesk 3.0

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Unidesk Corporation, provider of layering software for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environments yesterday released version 3.0 of Unidesk. The Unidesk layering solution provides a way to divide a disk image into logical parts which can be managed individually, which reduces the amount of storage necessary. These logical parts can be stacked for each virtual desktop so that the OS, Applications and User settings are presented to the virtual desktop in a transparant way.

Unidesk now supports running Microsoft RDS on top of Hyper-V, running Citrix XenDesktop either on VMware vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V and running VMware Horizon View running on top of VMware vSphere. With version 3.0 Unidesk introduces support for the Hyper-V hypervisor from Microsoft. Unidesk already supported the vSphere platform from VMware and provides no information whether version 3.0 also includes updates for this platform as well.

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SimpliVity raises $175M in Series D Funding

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SimpliVity, is one of the competitors in the crowdy hyperconverged infrastructure and a data architecture market. Yesterdat the company announced that it has closed a $175 million Series D funding. The round was led by Waypoint Capital, investment company headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, with participation of Prior investors Accel Partners, Charles River Ventures, DFJ Growth, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) and Meritech Capital Partners. SimpliVity’s total venture funding is now $276 million.

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GigaOM shuts down

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Today it’s a sad day for the world of the information technology websites, a very well known name on the scene, GigaOM, just announced that it is shutting down due to economic problems.

The apparently unexpected news was disclosed today on the website as a statement on the company, the GigaOM management reported that it can not pay its creditors and nevertheless, GigaOM will not be declared bankrupt and for now the page is ongoing, showing its news as usual until yesterday’s GigaOM statement, but its closure is only a matter of time.
GigaOM management also used the message to thank all of its investors and readers.

GigaOM was founded in 2006 by Om Malik and besides offering news and analysis on emerging technology, the company also manifested in the real world organizing public events such as GigaOM Structure. The website had more than 6 million monthly unique readers and it was one of the independent voice on emerging technologies covering cloud, mobile, cleantech, consumer web and media.

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Release: 5nine Cloud Security 5.1

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5nine has released version 5.1 of its Cloud Security for Hyper-V product. Cloud Security for Hyper-V is a solution which helps to ensure security and compliance for Hyper-V environments. This new version introduce several enhancements in detection, performance and traffic management reducing system performance bottlenecks. Among the highlights of the new version, there is also the release of 5nine Cloud Security System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) Plugin and the 5nine Cloud Security Azure Pack Extension Preview.
Windows Azure Pack, recently released and basically an evolution of the old Cloud Services Process (CSP) pack, is part of System Center Orchestrator built on top of Service Provider Foundation (SPF).
It provides an Azure like look and feel for System Center private cloud deployments and talks with System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM).
It also contains the Service Management Automation part of System Center, which is the new Orchestrator based on PowerShell workflows.

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Release: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Atomic Host

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Last week Red Hat announced the general availability Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Atomic Host, its container-optimized version of RHEL 7 based on Project Atomic, which  comes with Docker pre-installed and a minimal footprint.

Despite containers are rarely seen in enterprise production environments (if we exclude Google where nearly-everything is non-standard) and most of the developers use them as a lighter version of VMs, Red Hat is investing significantly in this technology, supporting both classic LXC containers and Docker.

Red Hat OpenShift was the first solution to use containers as its foundation and now, with Atomic, Red Hat is going to pervasively support this technology across its entire Open Hybrid Cloud Stack.

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Paper: VMware vCenter Server 6.0 Deployment Guide

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VMware has released a paper titled: "VMware vCenter Server 6.0 Deployment Guide". The paper which contains 100 pages covers two new simplified deployment models introduced with version 6. Embedded which refers to a deployment where all components are installed in the same VM and External where vCenter is installed on one VM and the Platform Services Controller (PSC) is installed on another VM. PSC comprises vCenter Single Sign On (SSO) and Certificate Authority (VMCA).

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Parallels Acquires 2X Software

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On February 25, Parallels announced that it has acquired 2X Software. 2X Software is a Maltese company, with offices in the United States, Germany, UK, Australia and of course Malta, founded 2005, which provides application virtualization, remote application delivery and mobile device management solutions.

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