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Release: 5nine Cloud Security 4.0 for Hyper-V

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5nine today announced the release of a rebranded version of Security Datacenter which it now calls: 5nine Cloud Security for Hyper-V.

Cloud Security for Hyper-V is a solution which helps to ensure security and compliance for Hyper-V environments. It provides agentless anti-virus, compliance enforcement and traffic control/VM isolation. Management can be done using a Centralized Management Console or by using a plugin into System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM). The product supports Windows 8.x with Hyper-V enabled, Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2.

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Microsoft has a new CEO: Satya Nadella

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Microsoft announced its third CEO in about 40 years history of the company, after Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, former  Executive Vice President of Microsoft’s Cloud and Enterprise group, Satya Nadella.

Steve Ballmer announced back in August his retirement and Microsoft planned to look for his successor along 2014 but Nadella’s background supported the decision to invest on him as the new CEO sooner than expected. Not to mention that Nadella is going to help concluding the Nokia’s acquisition by Microsoft having worked on the development of cloud infrastructures including Bing, Xbox, Office and other services.

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Event: Dutch VMware User Group conference on March 6th

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On the 6th of March, the Dutch VMware User Group, which is a subsidiary of the global VMware User Group organizes a conference in the Netherlands. The conference which starts at 8:30 and end at 17:30 will be held in Conferenciecentrum 1931, in Den Bosch. The keynote of the event will be hosted by Brian Gammage, who is Chief Market Technologist at VMware. Other sessions will be hosted by well respected VMware community members

At this event I will also host a session on how you can monitor your VMware environment when you are already using Microsoft System Center Operations Manager. I will do a dual presentation together with Marnix Wolf, who is a Microsoft MVP for cloud and datacenter management and a well respected community member as well. Marnix and I are both founding members of the Windows Management User Group Netherlands. Our session starts at 16:45 and ends at 17:30 and we hope to see you there.

Release: Savision Cloud Reporter for System Center 1.0

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Savision has released a new product providing capacity planning for Hyper-V virtualization environments called Cloud Reporter for System Center. Cloud Reporter for System Center is reporting-based solution which provides capacity management information for Hyper-V environments.

Cloud Reporter analyzes historical data collected and stored by System Center to predict when capacity issues will arise on your Hyper-V clusters and hosts, it does so by integrating with System Center Operations Manager. Additionally, Cloud Reporter provides scenario based reports that allow you to identify opportunities to make better use of the resources.

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Paper: Implementing Citrix XenDesktop on IBM Flex System

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IBM has released a paper titled: "Implementing Citrix XenDesktop on IBM Flex System". The paper which contains 432 pages covers IBM’s SmartCloud Desktop Infrastructure, a solution of running the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) product from Citrix using the VMware vSphere virtualization platform running on top of IBM Flex Systems. The paper provides an overview of the solution, including planning and deployment considerations including step-by-step instructions on how to build the solution.

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Release: VMTurbo Operations Manager 4.5

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VMTurbo today announced the release of version 4.5 of its virtualization management platform Operations Manager. Operations Manager continuously analyzes the real-time performance characteristics, resource capacity, system constraints and service level priorities across the virtual data center to determine, implement and adjust resource configurations and workload placement. Operations Manager is provided as an Virtual Appliance which can run on the virtualization platforms of VMware, Citrix, Microsoft or Red Hat.

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Citrix announces XenApp 7.5 and XenDesktop 7.5

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Citrix today announced version 7.5 of its desktop and application virtualization product XenApp it also announced version 7.5 its Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) product XenDesktop.

Both XenApp and XenDesktop will feature a new management console which will also support XenApp and XenDesktop installations running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Apache CloudStack. Support for managing installation running on Windows Azure is still under development.

Citrix expects to release version 7.5 of both XenApp and XenDesktop in March this year.

VMware hires new Chief Technology Officer for Americas

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VMware has hired Chris Wolf as its new Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Americas. Wolf comes from Gartner, where he was Research Vice President managing the data center and private cloud research team. He was responsible for the strategic direction and technical accuracy of the team’s collective research.

Wolf has been at Gartner for 4 years, before that he was Senior Analyst for 3 years at the Burton Group. He started his career in 1992 as a Sergeant in the United States Marine Corps.