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Privately held and headquartered in Cupertino, CA Bromium, a company that develops enterprise security software announced to have raised $40M in Series C funding from lead new investor Meritech Capital Partners, together withAndreessen Horowitz, Ignition Partners, Highland Capital Partners, and Intel Capital, which already partecipated in the Series B funding over a year ago.
Yesterday October 23, Citrix announced its financial results for third quarter of fiscal year 2013, ended September 31, 2013.
Citrix announced a total revenue of $713 million, for an increase of 11% compared to Q3 2012
Net income registered a slight decrease with $77 million compared to 2012 where it was $78 million, but the diluted share is the same at $0.41, while Non-GAAP results raised from $128 million for Q3 2012 to $132 million for Q3 2013.
Citrix also informed that its Board of Directos repurchased up to an additional $500 million of its common stock.
Shortly after the release of VMware vSphere 5.5, VMware released its free converter tool vCenter Converter Standalone version 5.5.
vCenter Converter Standalone is a feature rich, mature tool for conversions of many types of workloads to VMware virtual machines. It allows Image to Virtual (I2V) , Virtual to Virtual (V2V) and Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversions. For obvious reasons this tool cannot be used for conversions where Hyper-V is a target server.
The VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.5 includes the following new functionality:
5nine Software has released the 2.0 version of its free V2V conversion tool ‘Easy converter’. It is able to convert VMware virtual machines to Hyper-V. Other conversion types are not supported.
New is this 2.0 release is added support for Hyper-V 2012 R2 as a target. It also supports simultaneous conversions of multiple VMs.
VMware today announced financial results for the third quarter of 2013:
VMware launched in October the VMware Cloud Management Marketplace. This is a portal from which additional software tools can be downloaded for VMware solutions vCloud Automation Center, vCenter Orchestrator, vCenter Operations Management Suite and vCenter Log Insight.
The out of the box functionality of those 4 products can be extended by downloading add-ons, workflows or blueprints. These are mostly provided by vendors like NetApp, F5, Radware, HP, Infoblox , Cisco and many more. In total there are 100+ plug-ins, workflows and other additions available.
VMware released several security fixes to solve issues on various VMware solutions.
One issue is that an attacker can initiate a Denial of Service on the hostd-vmdb service. This service is used in ESX(i) to manage the host from vCenter Server and vSphere Client. If the hostd-vmdb service is attacked, hosts cannot be managed anymore.
VMware advises a best practise is to use a dedicated, logically isolated network for management of ESX(i) hosts. This network should only be accessible from workstations or servers used by IT-management.
Affected versions are ESXi 5.1, 4.1 and 4.0. Also affected are ESX4.1 and 4.0
Other issues are reported in the vSphere Web Client Server as well as in vCenter and Update Manager which uses Oracle JRE update 1.6.0_51.
More information and download of patches in this VMware post.
VMware TV published a couple of recordings of breakout sessions presented at VMworld Europe. The recordings can be watched for free. No account needed.
The interesting thing to note is that VMware seems to be publishing more content of VMware than previously. I believe last year about ten videos were posted. Now sessions that were held at October 17 are put online on the same day. I believe this is very nice and VMware follows Microsoft who publishes content of all TechEd events within 24 hours.
PQR has released a new version of the User Environment Management (UEM) Smackdown paper. The paper written by Ruben Spruijt, Rob Beekmans, Matthijs Haverink, Sven Huisman, Jits Langedijk, Anton van Pelt,Peter Sterk and others contains 138 pages and can be downloaded from the PQR website after registration. It provides an idependent overview of the User Environment Management solutions currently available. The paper focuses on solutions that are anticipated to have an important role in User Environment Management. An overview of features has been created to enable a better understanding and comparison of capabilities.
The paper contains the following sections:
Virtual Bridges yesterday announced the general availablilty of version 7 of its Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) platform VERDE. Releasing yesterday was not by coicendence since Virtual Bridges also want to make a statement that they can suppy an alternative for Desktone, which was acquired by VMware as virtualization.info covered yesterday.
Version 7 of VERDE provides the following new features: