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virtualization.info Editors A couple of weeks ago Citrix announced the first full release of XenClient Enterprise after the announcement of Virtual Computer acquisition, during Synergy 2012, XenClient Enterprise 4.1, now included within XenDesktop Enterprise and Platinum.
As Andrew Wood reports in his article, release 4.1 brings big changes, mainly concentrated in what is now called XenClient Enterprise Synchroniser and the need of a Microsoft Hyper-V based environment.
Today VMware announced that Paul Maritz will be succeeded as Chief Executive Officer of VMware by Path Gelsinger, starting from September 1 2012.
Pat Gelsinger is currently President and COO at EMC Information Infrastructure Products.
But Maritz will not leave the family and will become Chief Strategist at EMC, that actually owns 80% of VMware.
Today Paralles announced the appointment of Bertrand Serlet, former Senior Vice President (SVP) of Software Engineering at Apple Inc., to its board of directors.
Serlet, in his 14years history at Apple, was one of the supervisors of the release of Apple’s OS X Tiger, Leopard and Snow Leopard. His role as a non-executive director for Paralles will accelerate growth and integration among Parallels products and Apple’s operating systems.
Today Hilton Romanski, Cisco VP of corporate development, announced, through a blog post, the acquisition of Virtuata Inc. a private held company located in Silicon Valley and specialized in virtual machine security.
As companies move toward virtualized or cloud solutions, the security of virtual machines, deployed locally or through multiple datacenters or infrastructures, grows in importance.
Cisco, following the example of several startups in the market, acquires, with Virtuata, the competence needed to complete his offering.
Last week VMware announced VMware vFabric Data Director 2.0 that introduces the support for virtualization of Oracle databases on vSphere.
Provide Database as a Service is an important goal for IT departments that supports development projects or a large number of databases with different lifecycles, vFabric Data Director 2.0 promises more simplification and automation in the whole management process.
Yesterday VMware announced the general availability of VMware vCenter Server 5.0 Update 1a, the firs major update since version 5.0 release.
The main improvements are:
- vCenter Server 5.0 Update 1a introduces support for the following vCenter Databases
- Oracle 11g Enterprise Edition, Standard Edition, Standard ONE Edition Release 2 [11.2.0.3] – 64 bit
- Oracle 11g Enterprise Edition, Standard Edition, Standard ONE Edition Release 2 [11.2.0.3] – 32 bit
- vCenter Server Appliance Database Support: The DB2 express embedded database provided with the vCenter Server Appliance has been replaced with VMware vPostgres database. This decreases the appliance footprint and reduces the time to deploy vCenter Server further.
Yesterday VKernel announced the release of vOPS Server Standard 5.1 which includes integration capabilities between its vOPS Server product line and Microsoft System Center 2012 that can now monitor multi-hypervisor environments and raise alerts for performance and capacity issues in virtual machines.
This solution joins the previously announced integrations from Veeam and InMon.
The integration between VKernel vOPS Server Product Line and the new System Center 2012 will help to expand the monitoring cover for those customer who use System Center for both their physical and virtual environments adding the support for VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV).
VMware published a free e-learning course, that we noticed yesterday thanks to Ntpro.nl, focused on vCenter Operations Manager.
The course, 2.5 hours long, covers vCenter Operations Manager’s installation and configuration and gives a brief overview on its principal features.
According to Windows Server Blog and Windows Team Blog, yesterday at Microsoft’ annual Worldwide Partner Conference in Tornoto, Microsoft announced that Windows Server 2012 will be released to manufacturing in the first week of August then the product will be generally available to customer worldwide in September.
Same fate for Windows 8 that will be released in RTM (Release to Manufacturing) and made available for enterprise customers with Software Assurance benefits, the first week of August.
Windows 8 general availability is still planned for the end of October.
Last week VMware ThinApp Blog published a post announcing a minor release of ThinApp: 4.7.2.
According to the original post this release includes: