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In October last year, virtualization.info reported on a Survey titled State of the VDI and SBC union hosted by Project Virtual Reality Check (VRC). The Survey has since then been filled in by more than 600 responders and now Project VRC has made the results available in a new paper titled: “State of the VDI and SBC union 2013“. The paper which contains 69 pages is available for download after registration on the Project VRC website.

 The paper covers all of the questions asked in the survey, and comes with the following main conclusions:

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In May last year, VMware acquired Nicira a company specialized in software defined networking (SDN) and network virtualization. Now VMware has announced that the Nicira NVP and VMware vCloud Network and Security (vCNS) will become one unified platform naming it VMware NSX.

VMware NSX exposes a complete suite of simplified logical networking elements and services including logical switches, routers, firewalls, load balancers, VPN, QoS, monitoring, and security; arranged in any topology with isolation and multi-tenancy through programmable APIs – deployed on top of any physical IP network fabric, resident with any compute hypervisor, connecting to any external network, and consumed by any cloud management platform (e.g. vCloud, OpenStack, CloudStack).

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After the release of its end user computing suite named Horizon, VMware published the Horizon View 5.2 Evaluator’s Guide, the aim of the document is to allow users to find a support and learn how to install, configure and use VMware Horizon View 5.2 environment.

The Horizon Suite includes VMware Horizon Workspace, VMware Horizon View, and VMware Horizon Mirage.

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In September 2011 Cisco announced that it would extend support for its Nexus 1000V virtual switch in order to support the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. Now Cisco has announced a public beta of the Nexus 1000V virtual switch for Hyper-V 3.0, part of Windows Server 2012. Also System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager is needed to use and manage the beta release.

The beta bundle on the Nexus 1000V community page consists of:

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Ruben Spruijt, CTO at PQR and one of the two founders of the Virtual Reality Check (VRC) project has announced the release of version 2 of the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) smackdown. VDI Smackdown – solutions overview and feature comparison matrix version 2.0 contains 92 pages and compares the VDI solutions from the following vendors: Citrix, Microsoft, RedHat, Dell/Quest/Wyse, Virtual Bridges, VMware, Ericom, HP, Oracle, Teradici, Double Take, Cisco, Unidesk, Juniper, Cameyo, Spoon, Symantec, IBM, LANDesk, Novell, RES and Framehawk.

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Microsoft has released a paper titled: "Hyper-V Replica and Riverbed". The paper which contains 14 pages and details how Hyper-V replica works in conjunction with the WAN optimazation solution from Riverbed using the Steelhead appliance. Hyper-V Replica provides the ability to perform asynchronous and frequent replication of virtual machines to another server running Windows Server 2012 with the Hyper-V role installed.

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Dell has released a paper titled: "DVS Enterprise – Active System 800v with VMware Horizon View 5.2: Reference Architecture".
The paper which contains 60 pages details a reference architecture for running VMware Horizon 5.2 desktop virtualization on top of Dell converged infrastructure solution, the Active System 800v.
The Active System 800v includes Dell PowerEdge M1000e blade chassis with Dell PowerEdge M I/O Aggregator, Dell PowerEdge M620 blades, Dell EqualLogic Storage and Dell Force10 network switches.

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Oracle has released version 3.2.2. of VM Manager and VM Server for x86. The update is considered a patch update, which can be installed on top of Oracle VM 3.2. released in January this year. There is no update for SPARC.

The update fixes the following issues:

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VMware has released version 9.0.2 of its desktop virtualization platform Workstation and released version 5.0.2 of Player This version is the follow-up of version 9.0.1 which was released in November last year. The update is considered a maintenance release and resolves some known issues.

The following issues are solved for both Workstation and Player:

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Philadelphia based company PHD Virtual Technologies, a well known player in virtual machine backup and recovery market, today announced it has raised $2M in Series C funding from Citrix and Insight Venture Partners, both current investors in the company, and $2M in Growth Capital from Wellington Financial.

The funds will be used to boost technology R&D and the expansion in the european market.

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