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virtualization.info Editors VMware released the results about its growth for Q1 2015.
VMware, announced a total revenue growth of $1.51 billion, for an increase of 11 percent compared to Q1 2014. License revenues were $576 million, with an increase of 3% from same quarter last year.
VMware has released a paper titled: "VMware AlwaysOn Desktop Design Guide". The paper which contains 30 pages describes a high-availability solution for virtual desktops (VDI) and is based on View in VMware Horizon 6.
The design described in this guide can help organizations to build a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) for non-stop access to desktops hosted in the data center. The design covers streamlined application updates, enhanced data security, and mobile access for users. Two-factor authentication and hypervisor-based antivirus protection provide maximum security.
Microsoft has released a free ebook titled:"Microsoft System Center Operations Manager Field Experience". System Center Operations Manager provides the monitoring component as part of the Microsoft System Center Suite.
The book which contains 128 pages covers field experiences and will help you understand what you can do to enhance your Operations Manager environment, and will give you the opportunity to better understand the inner workings of the product, even if you are a seasoned Operations Manager administrator.
In February this year, VMware acquired Immidio including its products AppScriber and Immidio Flex+. Now VMware has rebranded the product as VMware User Environment Manager.
User Environment Manager is available as standalone product or as a part of VMware Horizon Enterprise. Citrix customers can also take advantage of User Environment Manager as part of the VMware Horizon Application Management Bundle. User Environment Manager licenses are available on a named user/device or per concurrent connection basis.
Lately it’s been a busy time for Docker, after disclosing the availability of its orchestration tools and the acquisition of SocketPlane, the open-source project that automates the deployment of applications inside software containers announced to have acquired Kitematic, an open source project that allows the automatic installation and set up process of Docker, providing an intuitive graphical user interface (GUI) for running Docker containers on the Mac.
VMware has released a paper titled: "How VMware Mirage Complements and Extends Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager". The paper, which contains 28 pages details how VMware Mirage, VMware’s centralized image management solution for Windows desktops complements Microsoft’s Enterprise Client Management solution System Center Configuration Manager.
The Mirage and SCCM systems can coexist independently in the data center without interfering with each other. Mirage can enhance functionality in an SCCM environment by:
VMware has released a paper titled: "VMware Horizon 6 Storage Considerations". The paper which contains 36 pages takes a close look at the most important questions and challenges that face anyone tasked with designing a new Horizon 6 deployment.
The paper focuses on performance, capacity, and operational considerations of the storage subsystem because storage is the foundation of any virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) implementation. The paper also provides relevant considerations for App Volumes, Mirage, Workspace Portal, and Virtual SAN.
In October last year, Microsoft announced that support for Docker container virtualization in its next version of Windows Server through the Windows Server Containers technology. Today Microsoft announced several new products to support these container virtualization techniques.
Firstly Microsoft announced Hyper-V Containers which is an isolated container deployment option ensuring that container cannot impact the host OS or other containers running on the same host. Hyper-V containers will offer an extra deployment option next to the already available Hyper-V virtual machine and the earlier announced Windows Server containers.
Oracle last week announced the availability of a beta for version 5.0 of its type-2 virtualization platform VM Virtualbox. VM Virtualbox, which was originally developed by InnoTek became part of the SUN portfolio in 2008, when Sun acquired InnoTek and its assets. When Oracle acquired Sun in 2009, the VM Virtualbox became part of the Oracle portfolio. When that happened, a lot of people wondered if Oracle would continue development on the VM Virtualbox product, since Oracle is not a virtualization product vendor per se. Today we can conclude that development on the product is still very active.
On March 25 Red Hat announced its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2014.
Total revenue for the first quarter ended February 28, 2015 was $464 million, with an increase of 16% from the same quarter last year. Looking at the financials details we can see that subscription revenue was of $405 million, up 15% year-over-year, full fiscal year subscription revenue was $1.56 billion, up 17% year-over-year in U.S. dollars year-over-year, or 19% measured in constant currency. Operating cash flow of $217 million, up 18% year-over-year, full fiscal year operating cash flow of $623 million, up 15% year-over-year.