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Quoting from the HP official announcement:

HP today unveiled new research that indicates IT consolidation will grow at a strong rate in the coming years.

The research, conducted by market intelligence firm IDC, reveals that the IT consolidation market is expected to grow 6.5 percent from 2004 to 2009, from $18.1 billion to $24.7 billion, outpacing growth of the overall IT market.(1)

The IT consolidation market forecast figures reveal growth trends within each of the four major enterprise technology categories that HP serves: storage, servers, infrastructure software and services…

Microsoft published a 15-minutes live demo of Softricity SoftGrid 4.0 from Microsoft Management Summit 2006 where the product has been launched.

Look at it here.

It’s worth to remember Microsoft is acquiring Softricity right now.

Thanks to VirtualServer.tv for the news.

Quoting from SWsoft official announcement:

SWsoft is recognized as a Top 100 IT Vendor of 2006 by IT Week magazine in the June 5, 2006 issue. During the past year, privately-held SWsoft’s revenues increased more than 160 percent and launched Virtuozzo, a new award winning approach for server virtualization for enterprises worldwide.
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In April 2006, SWsoft’s Virtuozzo product was the winner of the “Product Excellence Award – Best Virtualization Solution” judged by a group of respected industry experts at the semi-annual major LinuxWorld conference and exposition held in Boston.

Again, in April, Virtuozzo earned the “Analyst’s Choice” rating by eWEEK Labs in a cover story of this leading industry magazine.

Last December, SWsoft received the Top 50 Technology Innovator of 2005 Award (December 2005) from IT Week.

If you are interested in discover more about Virtuozzo you could check the virtualization.info SWsoft Virtuozzo for Windows 3.5.1 review.

Quoting from OpenVZ official announcement:

For early adopters and advanced technologists who want to test virtualization technology with the IPv6 network protocol, the OpenVZ project today released its operating system-level server virtualization software technology with support for the next-generation Internet Protocol Version 6.
In addition, support for bridged networking is now available, which gives OpenVZ virtual servers the ability to run software that relies on special network capabilities such as broadcasts, multicasts, or those having a MAC (media access control) address…

Download it here.

Quoting from the Egenera official announcement:

Egenera Inc., a global leader in utility computing, today welcomed four new members to the Egenera Alliance program, a strategic initiative designed to ensure that customers derive maximum value from their Egenera® BladeFrame® system deployments.

Through rigorous testing in Egenera labs, Citrix Systems, GoAhead Software, TeamQuest Corporation and Zeus Technology have qualified as Assured Solution Alliance members, validating applications running on Egenera® systems.

Quoting from Application Development Trends:

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Tom Bittman, Gartner VP and distinguished analyst, whom I had the pleasure of interviewing for an upcoming ADT feature on virtualization.

”Between now and the end of the year I expect VMware to change their pricing model again,” he told me. ”I also think it’s important for them to start shifting the argument from who has a good hypervisor to the management around it.”…

Read the whole article at source.

Quoting from the InstallAware official announcement:

InstallAware Software Corporation has released InstallAware 6.0, a setup authoring tool for ISVs and enterprises deploying products, patches, updates, and device drivers. InstallAware 6.0 creates Windows Installer setup packages with support for the latest technologies, including Microsoft .NET 2.0, Microsoft SQL Server Express 2005 Service Pack 1, Windows Vista, 64 bit operating systems, and Driver Installation Frameworks 2.01.
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Also new to InstallAware 6 is Driver Installation Frameworks 2.01 (DIFx) support, hybrid 64/32 bit installations from a single setup file, the ability to minimize setups to the system tray and show message balloons, Windows Task Scheduler support, and detection of Virtual PC and VMware virtual machines…

Quoting from the Gestio official announcement:

AK Computer Services Ltd, today announced it has released Gestio Virtual Infrastructure Protection for Microsoft Virtual Server (VIP for MSVS).

Following the success of our AppManager module for VMware AK Computer Services has now launched Gestio VIP for Microsoft Virtual Server. Gestio VIP for MSVS allows you to monitor all aspects of Microsoft Virtual Server and its associated Virtual Machines using NetIQ AppManager. Gestio VIP for MSVS monitors and protects a Microsoft Virtual Infrastructure using your production systems management application.
This enables you to apply the same levels of control, escalation, reporting and service level agreements (SLA’s) to your virtual infrastructure as you apply to your production infrastructure, allowing you to confidently use Microsoft Virtual Infrastructure for production scale applications.
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Gestio VIP for MSVS includes comprehensive reporting in addition to the monitoring and alerting capabilities. Now not only can you be alerted about changes to the infrastructure, but you can get information to help you decide on the best location for a new VM. Using AppManager and Gestio Modules you can now monitor and visualize both VMware and Microsoft Virtual Infrastructures within a single business view, providing you with the only comprehensive Systems Management Solution for the monitoring and management of Virtualized servers.
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The suggested list price for VIP for Microsoft Virtual Server is $2,500 per Virtual Server…

SearchOpenSource published an interesting interview with Scott Herold and Ron Oglesby, co-authors of the book VMware ESX Server: Advanced Technical Design Guide, about current VMware ESX Server leadership over Xen and Microsoft Virtual Server.

Read it here.

Quoting from Network World:

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Microsoft will bring SoftGrid’s capabilities under its Dynamic Systems Initiative (DSI), which is a plan to create a management platform for Windows.

The company has a three-tiered virtualization plan that covers servers, applications and system services. While the server strategy is nearly in full-flight, Microsoft has said nothing about application virtualization until last month and says it won’t dive into system service virtualization, which is designed to help hosted platforms, until after 2007.

Read the whole article at source.