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Hytrust the company providing access control and configuration management solutions has hired John de Santis as their new chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), tmcnet reports. De Santis comes from VMware where he was Vice President Cloud Services since August last year. Before that he was Chairman and CEO at TriCipher for 4 years which was acquired by VMware in August last year.

De Santis was also President and CEO of Sygate Technologies (acquired by Symantec) from July 2000 until December 2005, and Senior Vice President Worlwide Sales, Marketing and Service at Network Computing Devices from 1997 until 2000. He also worked for Cincinnati Bell Information Systems (now Convergys), Data Switch Corporation and Channelnet Corporation.

In July 2008 virtualization.info reported about Diane Greene leaving as CEO of VMware and being replaced by Paul Maritz coming from Microsoft. Now networkworld reports that Maritz has given up his title of president to be filled in by four new co-presidents, Richard McAniff as Co-President Products and Chief Development Officer, Tod Nielsen as Co-President Applications Platform, Mark Peek as Co-President Business Operations and Chief Financial Officer and Carl Eschenbach as Co-President Customer Operations. Maritz will still serve as CEO.

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Beginning December last year, VMware released version 2.0 of its benchmark framework VMmark 2.0. Where version 1.0 of the VMmark tool was focusing on the performance of a single virtualization host, the 2.0 version is focusing on measuring the performance of a whole virtual data center.

Cisco was the first OEM to publish its scores online on the website of VMware, with a score of 6.51 at 6 tiles, using the Cisco UCS B200 M2 hardware platform running on top of VMware ESX 4.1.0 build 260247.

Now Fujitsu posted a score of 6.81 at 7 tiles, using a Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX200 S6 configuration running VMware ESX 4.1/ vCenter 4.1.

In July last year, virtualization.info reported that the first details about HyperV 3.0, which appeared online on a French publication. According to that publication, the Hypervisor will not run a full copy of Windows in its parent partition, but a minimal part of the OS, which Microsoft internally calls codename MinWin.

Also details appeared on how Microsoft will integrate its application virtualization solution App-V in Windows so that customers can run XP, Vista, 7 and Linux applications on the same environment.

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Michel Roth, who works for the desktop virtualization division of Quest and runs the Thincomputing.net blog wrote an article titled: “A closer look at the new “Dynamic Memory” feature of Hyper-V: is it worth it for VDI? “. The article details what Dynamic Memory is and especially on what it can do for Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (VDI). Michel earlier wrote an article about the upcoming RemoteFX functionality which will also be released with SP1.

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In October last year Quest released beta 2 of vRanger 5.0, now Quest has released version 5.0 of its backup and recovery product following up version 4.5 which was released in May last year.

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Cisco has released a paper titled: Reference Architecture Based Design for Implementation of Citrix XenDesktop Using Cisco Unified Computing System, Microsoft Hyper-V, and NetApp Storage. The paper is really exhaustive and contains 162 pages. This paper reports the results of a study evaluating the scalability of the Citrix XenDesktop environment on a Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) B-Series Blade Servers running Microsoft Hyper-V connected to a NetApp Storage array.

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Oracle has released an update for its VDI product, Oracle VDI 3.2 which was released in August last year. The update is considered a maintenance release fixing bugs but also adds features like multi-monitor support and multi desktop support for Sun Ray thin clients.

Multi monitor support recognizes Sun Rays with multiple monitors attached and identified to Windows 7/XP Guest VMs, multi desktop support allows user to view separate VMs on each monitor.

Last week SolarWinds, a company which provides IT management software acquired Hyper9 making its move into the virtualization management market. Hyper9s Virtual Environment Optimization (VEO) solution will add optimization, capacity planning, configuration and chargeback reporting for virtualized server environments to the SolarWinds portfolio. The latest version released by Hyper9 is Virtual Environment Optimization version 3.0 which was released in November last year.

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Oracle has released a maintenance update for their desktop virtualization solution VM VirtualBox, version 4.0.2. The update is available for version 4.0 of VirtualBox which was released in December last year.

Some of the fixes from the changelog include:

• Windows Guest Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 now supports unlocking previously locked workstations
• Linux hosts: fixed a crash during USB device enumeration
• E1000: fixed PXE boot issues with WDS
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