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Quoting from the Topio official annoucement:

Topio, Inc., the leading provider of software for data replication and recovery, today announced that it has officially become a member of the VMware Community Source program, an innovative collaborative development effort that provides open technology access to the source code and APIs for VMware ESX Server.
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As part of the VMware Community Source program, Topio will work closely with VMware to extend integration of the Topio Data Protection Suite (TDPS) with VMware ESX Server…

Quoting from the Akimbi official announcement:

Akimbi Systems, the global leader in Virtual Lab Automation software, today announced that it will bundle Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 at no extra cost for organizations that choose to deploy Akimbi Slingshot on Microsoft’s virtual infrastructure technology. The bundle will be available within 14 days.
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In addition to bundling Virtual Server 2005 R2 in its evaluation software, Akimbi will continue to offer an Akimbi Slingshot plus Virtual Server 2005 R2 bundle for those customers who wish to simplify their purchase and enjoy a complete out-of-the-box experience…

Quoting from TechWorld:

Virtualisation software company Parallels said it will announce a virtualisation product for Intel-powered Macs, with more details becoming available later this week.

According to spokesman Ben Rudolph: “We will enable users to run multiple operating systems (like Linux and Windows) simultaneously with Mac OS X…

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Contributing to the virtualization.info Virtualization Industry Roadmap, PlateSpin shared some details about upcoming products:

The company is actually planning:

2Q 06

• Server Consolidation Planner for PowerRecon
• PowerConvert 6.0 (featuring live server migrations for all conversion types)

2H 06

• Xen 3.0 and SLES 10 Support for PowerConvert
• PowerOptimize 1.0 (Dynamic Server Optimizer)

Vizioncore just updated its esxCharter solution to 1.5.

New features are:

• Automatic Emailing
  You can now schedule to automatically email reports to C Level executives
• Alerting
  esxCharter will automatically ALERT you when your set limits (thresholds) have been exceeded
• Service
  esxCharter is now a service and it will run continuously, even when shut down

Download it here.

Contributing to the virtualization.info Virtualization Industry Roadmap, Vizioncore reports the launch of esxReplicator beta, opened just for partners, for 5th April.

The final release is expected for 25th April.

Quoting from the OpenVZ official annoncement:

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The OpenVZ project announced it will add the industry-exclusive “zero downtime migration” feature that allows IT professionals to move virtual servers between physical servers without end-user disruption or the need for costly storage capacity.

Using the zero downtime migration function captures the state of an existing virtual environment and its contents and migrates it to a new physical server without any interruption in service or availability. The function executes between any two servers on a network, so the capability works for any server and any application. OpenVZ delivers this capability without additional requirements, such as a storage area network (SAN). The zero downtime migration feature will be made available for download later this month…

Quoting from the OpenVZ official annoncement:

The OpenVZ project today announced availability of its operating system level server virtualization software for Fedora Core 5, which only recently became available.
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The OpenVZ kernel for Fedora Core 5 is available for download from http://openvz.org/download/kernel/fc5.
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Templates for Fedora Core 5 are available for download at http://openvz.org/download/template/…

Quoting from InfoWorld:

A year ago, the news that Xen virtualization support in the Linux kernel was just around the corner grabbed headlines.
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But today, the Xen hyperpatch has still not yet been merged with the Linux kernel. And in the meantime, some believe there may now be an opportunity for more than one hypervisor in the Linux kernel.

“Architecturally, there are increasing discussions in the industry about the equivalent of an API on a hypervisor level, within the Linux kernel,” said Andrew Morton, maintainer of the Linux 2.6 kernel, whose full-time work on the Linux kernel is sponsored by the Open Source Development Labs. “Theoretically, different hypervisors could play in there, without it being restricted to one default hypervisor. Different, competing hypervisors would be able to provide the virtualization functionality, and ultimately the virtualization itself would become so transparent and good that users would not need to re-certify the same version of the kernel when running on top of a hypervisor.”

A year ago, the headlines suggested that Xen had won the Linux virtualization battle. But has the delay in the Xen patch for Linux kernel support left the door open for VMware?…

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Quoting from the VMware official announcement:

VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtual infrastructure software for industry-standard systems, today announced that PC Professionell, a leading German publication, has named VMware Player the Most Innovative Software Product of the Year. This marks the second consecutive year that VMware has been honored by PC Professionell. VMware ESX Server was named the Most Innovative Network Product in 2005…