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virtualization.info Editors On October 21, Oracle released a patch update for Oracle VM Manager 3.1.1 and Oracle VM Server for x86 3.1.1.
Oracle VM Server for x86 3.1.1. was released on May 2012, Oracle’s server virtualization solution is designed to support rapid application deployment and simplify data center management from applications to disk.
On October 22, LANDesk, announced the release of version 9.5 of its Management Suite and Security Suite products.
The company, founded 1985 and headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, producer of end-to-end service management, virtualization management and user-oriented IT service management, improved both suites including new features such as enhanced cross-platform support, innovative software license management and virtualization management.
On October 22, Oracle announced the availability of VM 3.2.1 Early Access.
The day after releasing the patch update for Oracle VM Manager 3.1.1. and Oracle VM Server for x86 3.1.1, Oracle released the beta version of the release 3.2.1 of its server virtualization solution which includes Oracle VM Server for x86, Oracle VM Server for SPARC and Oracle VM Manager.
Riverbed announced on October 23, the new abilities of its Cascade 10.0 to deliver performance management for virtualized desktop infrastructure (VDI), server virtualization, and fully virtualized data centers using VXLAN software-defined networks (SDNs).
Today, October 23, Veeam released the results about its growth for Q3 2012.
Veeam, provider of backup, replication and virtualization management solutions for VMware vSphere and Windows Server Hyper-V, announced a total bookings revenue growth of 43 percent in the third quarter of 2012 compared to Q3 2011. At the same time, the company reported to have gained 7.000 new customers and reached a total of 50,000 customers worldwide.
HP has released a paper titled:"HP Client Virtualization SMB Reference Architecture for Windows Server 2012", the paper which contains 12 pages details a reference architecture for a Windows Server 2012 based Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) running on top of a HP Proliant DL380p Gen8 Server.
Testing was done using the Login Virtual Session Indexer (VSI) toolkit, using the medium user workload profile.
Microsoft beginning this month released the Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter Tool and the Virtual Machine Converter Plug-in for the VMware vSphere Client . Microsoft started the beta of the Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter (MVMC) tool in April this year and released the beta of the Plug-in for the vSphere client in August this year.
The MVMC is a so called Solution Accelerator, and it is able to convert VMware-based Virtual Machines to Microsoft Hyper-V VMs and disks.
This is a busy period for virtualization and cloud computing. The OpenStack summit started on October 15 in San Diego California, VMworld Europe just finished a few days ago and another event already started in Barcelona today, October 17, Citrix Synergy.
Citrix started the sessions with a couple of important announcements, the expanded partnership with Cisco into three strategic areas of cloud networking, cloud orchestration, and mobile workstyles. Besides Citrix also announced an extension of its collaboration with NetApp to deliver an integrated cloud orchestration and storage solution.
Today, October 17, Vyatta announced the general availability of Vyatta Network OS 6.5 with new features such as Hyper-V Support, Policy-Based Routing (PBR) and BGP Multipath among the others.
Furthermore the introduction of Hyper-V support, Vyatta Network OS 6.5 also delivers some improvements to its product: