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Today Parallels announced the availability of version 10 of its desktop virtualization platform for Mac: Parallels Desktop.

The new release obviously includes the support for OS X 10.10 Yosemite, better performances and battery life improvements when running on a laptop.
Parallels Desktop 10, also released in its Enterprise edition, will tighten the integration between Yosemite and the Windows applications running in the VMs, supporting iCloud Drive, iMessages and SMS text sharing directly from Windows OSes, the control of virtual machines from Spotlight preview and Finder QuickLook.

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The Intel Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) is an open source software library for Linux User Space applications that enables higher levels of packet processing throughput, that gives application developers the ability to address compute and I/O intensive workloads, typically found in Telecom and networking use cases, on general purpose, Intel architecture-based processors, without the need of dedicated hardware.

This paper, titled Intel Data Plane Development Kit (Intel DPDK) with VMware vSphere, describes the solution, result of a VMware and Intel partnership aimed to migrate legacy solutions into virtualized, cloud-ready, data centers.

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Teradici is the developer of the PC-over-IP (PCoIP) remote desktop protocol, which is leveraged in several VDI solutions and provided with Teradici hardware solutions which are OEM’ed by several vendors. Teradici announced, at SIGGRAPH, the release of Teradici PCoIP Workstation Access Software, in a collaboration with Dell which propose a new software for Dell Precision workstations which allows instant access to remote computing.

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Veeam released Veeam Task Manager for Hyper-V, a free tool for monitoring and management of Microsoft Hyper-V.
You all know Windows Task Manager, the system monitor and startup – task manager included with Microsoft Windows, used by system administrators to start the troubleshooting of various issues that could appear on a server.

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Login VSI has released version 4.1 of its vendor independent Login Virtual Session Indexer (VSI) benchmarking utility. Version 4.1 is the follow up of version 4.0 which was released in May 2013.

Login VSI measures the performance and scalability of Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (VDI) and Server Based Computing (SBC) environments by simulating unique user workloads. Eventually developed as a free tool by Login Consultants to benchmark systems for use with Project Virtual Reality Check, Login VSI evolved into a company of its own and has become a commonly used benchmarking tool used by different vendors nowadays. Login VSI is provided for free as an Express Edition, there is also a Pro edition which is supported by Login VSI.

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Horizon Mirage is VMware’s centralized image management for Windows desktops with backup and OS migration capabilities, the product uses a layering technology to segment OS, applications and user personalizations into isolated containers allowing administrators to separately manage hardware and each layer of software.

Horizon Mirage is build on the technology which VMware acquired when it acquired Wanova in 2012 and later integrated this into Horizon product suite containing the end-user computing products.
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On July 22 Microsoft announced its financial results for the second quarter of 2014.

Total revenue for the quarter ended June 30 was $23.38 billion. Looking at the financials details we can see that gross margin was $15.79 billion,  operating income was $6.48 billion and diluted earnings per share were $0.55 each.

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On July 23, Citrix announced its financial results for second quarter of fiscal year 2014, ended June 30, 2014.

Citrix announced a total revenue of $782 million, for an increase of 7% compared to Q2 2013

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VMware has released a paper titled:"Reference Architecture for Horizon with View and Virtual SAN". The paper which contains 50 pages contains a reference architecture for VMware Horizon with View virtual desktops and Virtual SAN storage is based on real-world test scenarios, user workloads, and infrastructure system configurations.

It uses Dell R720 PowerEdge rack mount servers with local storage to support a scalable and cost-effective View linked-clone desktop deployment on VMware vSphere 5.5.

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On July 22, VMware released the results about its growth for Q2 2014.

VMware, announced a total  revenue growth of $1.46 billion, for an increase of 17 percent compared to Q2 2013.

Operating income for the first quarter was $200 million, which means a decrease of 26% from the second quarter of 2013.

The non-GAAP Operating Margin registered an increment of 3% from Q2 2013, with an income of $428 million, which is a reflection of the AirWatch acquisition.

Cash flows were $6.64 billion.

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