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After raising $15 million in Series B funding in January this year, Docker has announced that it has raised $40 million in Series C funding. Docker states that it will use the funds to drive adoption of its platform in the enterprise and to broaden its rapidly growing ecosystem of application developers, system administrators, platform providers, and technology partners.

In order to raise the $40 million Docker partnered with Sequoia and existing investors: Benchmark, Greylock Partners, Insight Ventures, Trinity Ventures, and Jerry Yang.

VMware has released version 5.1 of its centralized image management for Windows desktops: Mirage.

VMware Mirage is also part of the Horizon Suite, VMware’s end user computing suite that includes View, the company’s VDI product.

The main new features introduced in this release can be resumed as follows:

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Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE) is an open source virtualization management solution that leverages KVM technologies.

Yesterday Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH announced the release of version 3.3 of its product that is mostly focused on providing security features like the Proxmox VE Firewall and two-factor authentication.

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Convirture the company, founded in 2006 that provides an open source management console to manage virtualization platforms,  announced to have opened a UK- based office which will help the company to widen its presence in the EMEA market. The new UK team will be leaded by Martyn Richards, a veteran technology executive.

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VMware has released version 5.1 of its application virtualization product ThinApp. Version 5.1 is the follow up of version 5.0 which was released in November last year. The update provides new features and provides a number of fixes as well.

Version 5.1 provides the following new features as described in the release notes:

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This week VMware released version 5.5 Update 2 of two of its flagship products, ESXi and vCenter Server, updates that were announced at VMworld 2014 in San Francisco.

Among the things to consider updating to this release we noticed that the vSphere Web Client, based on Adobe Flash, no longer supports Linux OSes (because the lack of support from Flash itself), Windows XP and Windows Vista and that vCenter Server removes the support for IBM DB2 as the vCenter Server database.

VMware ESXi 5.5 Update 2 introduces in this release the following new features:

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Satellite is Red Hat’s server life-cycle management based on the community project Spacewalk, it basically provides provision, patch, configuration and subscription management across Red Hat’s ecosystem.

Yesterday the Raleigh company announced the general availability of Red Hat Satellite 6 with an extended support for both Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform and a new integration with Puppet Forge and GIT.

With this release Red Hat is obviously trying to better integrate Satellite in its Open Hybrid Cloud portfolio, stressing, for example, the ability to provision on bare metal, virtualized infrastructure, and on public or private clouds.

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Oracle has released a new version of its virtualization platform VM Virtualbox. Version 4.3.16 is considered a maintenance release which can be installed on top of version 4.3. The update improves stability and fixes regressions.

Some of the changes as detailed in the changelog:

• Fixed restoring 32-bit FPU state on 64-bit capable VMs and restoring guest FPU in raw-mode VMs
• Fixed a rare crash for certain VHD images from other products
• Improved IPv6 support when bridging to a wireless interface

Following the technology preview announced in May VMware has released version 7 of its desktop virtualization platform for OS X: Fusion.

This new release, that comes in the normal and Pro flavours, introduces the extended support for OS X 10.10 Yosemite that will be released this fall, in order to natively leverage all its new features alongside with an all new set of optimizations for the last generation of Macs computer.

Among the new features introduced from this release we can list:

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As we mentioned last week, VMware used the stage of VMworld 2014 to “remind” its audience how deeply the company is involved in the open source community.

The company took this opportunity to announce its OpenStack distribution, named VMware Integrated OpenStack, alongside with the new Gold Level Membership in the Open Compute Project.

To quickly recall, the Open Compute Project was launched by Facebook in 2011 and its mission is to design and enable the delivery of the most efficient server, storage and data center hardware designs for scalable computing and rely on a foundation that believes in openly sharing ideas, specifications and all the other intellectual properties.

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