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Release: Bromium vSentry

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Today, September 19, Bromium Inc, an enterprise and virtualization startup based in Cupertino, CA, introduced the release of a new security software, Bromium vSentry.
The company is a new start-up founded in 2010, working on security and virtualization, its new product is a micro-vm that would capture and analyzes malwares, delivering a  secure virtual infrastructure for large clouds and enterprise datacenters. Bromium vSentry is product created to permit a safe navigation, apparently the solution would give protection against system security attacks and would protect a desktop computer against attacks on the system from within.

Video: VMware CEO Explains Nicira, Software-Defined Networks

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Two days ago The VAR guy published a video where VMware CEO, Pat Gelsinger explains, the Nicira acquisition, software-defined networks and VMware’s ongoing relationship with Cisco Systems.

This video, taken from the audience of VMworld 2012, emphasizes the importance of virtual networking as a fundamental pillar in software-defined data centers.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moa6Py2uYd0[/youtube]

Release: VMTurbo Operations Manager 3.2

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Today, September 18, VMTurbo, the company producer of a virtualization management platform announced the release of VMTurbo Operations Manager 3.2

VMTurbo, founded in 2008 with headquarter in New York and backed by Bain Capital Ventures and Highland Capital Partners, recently joined the OpenStack community, one of its products, the VMTurbo Enterprise Operations Manager is a solution for Cloud and virtualized environment. VMTurbo Enterprise Operations Manager allows a real-time optimization and capacity planning for single-site data centers with the main focus of minimizing interference across the data center while expanding resource utilization.

Release: Xen Hypervisor version 4.2.0

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Xen, just announced the release of Xen Hypervisor version 4.2.0
The first version of the product was developed by The University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory and it has been maintained as free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Xen is currently available for the IA-32, x86-64 and ARM computer architectures. It is used by many public cloud and hosting services.

Release: Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.2

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Oracle announced yesterday, September 13th, a new release for its open source, cross-platform virtualization software: VM VirtualBox 4.2.
Oracle VM VirtualBox was originally created by German software company Innotek GmbH, later on purchased by Sun Microsystems and after the acquisition passed on to Oracle to be part of its virtualization products.
The solution allows to manage a large amount of virtual machine, running different operating systems, on the same computer at the same time, it can be installed on an existing host operating system as an application and can be run on various operating systems, including: Linux, Mac OS X, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Solaris, and OpenSolaris; Since release 3.2.0, also on of Mac OS X
This release introduces some new features added, for instance VM Group, intended to improve network capabilities and provide support for new host and guest OS platforms.
Among the new details of this new release:
  • Increased efficiency:
  • More flexible VM startup options:
  • Networking improvements:
  • New platform support

IBM Distributed Overlay Virtual Ethernet (DOVE) networking

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IBM is developing its own network virtualization to compete with VMware and Big Switch Networks.
One of IBM’s values is innovation and Big Blue doesn’t want to be left behind with network virtualization programs, therefore IBM is investing in Distributed Overlay Virtual Ethernet (DOVE): a network architecture for building virtual networks infrastructures, that allows to abstract the physical network infrastructure from hypervisor hosts, to make network changes in software rather than hardware, creating endpoints across the underlying network infrastructure.
DOVE current versions works only with vSphere, but apparently there are future plans to expand support for other hypervisors, among the others KVM and Microsoft Hyper-V

Stromasys New CEO: Ling W. Chang

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Stromasys, a privately owned Swiss company specialized in cross-platform virtualization solutions, communicated a change in management and corporate structure, announcing the retirement of CEO Jean-Paul Bergmans, based in Geneve, Switzerland and revealing its New CEO from October 1, Ling W. Chang, who will based in New York, USA.
Stromasys new CEO has an important curriculum, she covered both engineering and account management roles, being based in NY would lead to new connections and favorable circumstances as many of its customers are based in US.
The company, founded in 1998 was formed from a management buyout of Digital Equipment Corporation’s (DEC) European Migration and Porting Centre during the HP/Compaq merger. The acquired knowledge conduct to the development of CHARON products. Virtualization with CHARON would allow to increase performance and reduce energy costs, enabling users to keep their existing applications.

General Dynamics has acquired Open Kernel Labs, Inc

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Yesterday, September 10, General Dynamics declared its acquisition of Open Kernel Labs.
General Dynamics Information Technology, a business unit of General Dynamics, an US aerospace and defense company, provider of mission-focused IT services to defense, intelligence and civilian agencies partnered with Chicago-based Open Kernel Labs, company creator of virtualization software for securing wireless communications, applications and content for mobile devices.