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Bromium raises $26.5M Series B funding for Security

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Two days ago, during GigaOM Structure 2012, Bromium Inc., an enterprise and virtualization startup based in Cupertino, CA, announced it has raised $26.5M Seres B funding from lead investor Highland Capital Partners, new investor Intel Capital and existing investors Andreessen Horowitz and Ignition Ventures.

This new funding will be used for its micro-virtualization technology and for the develop of a new concept of security in enterprise desktops and mobile devices.

Employees now have more control than in the past, on applications they can install and the activities they can do on the web, Bromium’s solution creates a microvisor, a virtualized instance of the desktop, completely hardware-isolated, every time an user action could lead to a security risk.

“Bromium micro-virtualization delivers on the promise of trusted computing, enabling enterprises to safely embrace the key trends affecting IT: consumerization, mobility, device diversity, and cloud computing,” said Gaurav Banga, Co-founder, President and CEO of Bromium. “It is an honor to be backed by investors with such distinguished track records of innovation and industry transformation.”

Oracle VM gains the Challenger Position in Gartner Magic Quadrant

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Yesterday Oracle, through its Virtualization Blog, announced the new placement of its Oracle VM in the new Gartner x86 Server Virtualization Infrastructure Magic Quadrant.

The application-driven approach to virtualization that Oracle has kept so far seems to be supported from this result, Oracle itself claims to be supported by strong customer momentum gains originated from the low cost licensing model and easy software access.

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US-CERT reports a security issue in Intel CPUs

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Last week, the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) reported a vulnerability, on Intel CPU hardware, that could lead to a privilege escalation attack on some 64-bit operating systems and virtualization softwares running on Intel CPU hardware.

In these years many security flaws have affected different virtualization platforms but this episode is remarkable because, originated at the CPU level, affects many different systems and not just a single vendor.

Two days ago US-CERT updated the list of the affected systems, that includes Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, FreeBSD and NetBSD as well as Xen hypervisor, that we report in a “per Vendor” grouping:

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Release: VMware ThinApp 4.7.1

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In April VMware released a minor upgrade for ThinApp 4.7, its application virtualization solution.

This release is worth to be reported because fixes a problem running multiple Office 2010 licensing services.

Quoting from VMware ThinApp Blog:

.. you’re now able to run virtualized Project 2010 while Office 2010 being natively installed ..

The ability to remove the Sandbox on start of the package was also introduced.

ThinApp version 4.7.1 is now available for download here: https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?downloadGroup=THIN-471&productId=161&rPId=2503

For more details on 4.7.1 please read the release notes found here:https://www.vmware.com/support/thinapp4/doc/releasenotes_thinapp471.html

VCE announces new capabilities for VCE Vblock Systems

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Monday at Cisco Live, VCE announced the introduction of a couple of new features, oriented to the deployment and management of VDI infrastructure, for its VCE Vblock solutions.

Vblock systems are already optimized for VMware View and leverage technologies from CISCO, EMC and VMware  in a complete integrated desktop virtualization solution called VCE Vblock FastPath Desktop Virtualization Platform.

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Release: 5nine Security Manager for Hyper-V Release Candidate

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This week, at Microsoft TechEd North America 2012, 5nine Software, one of the most active companies in the Hyper-V ecosystem, announced Release Candidate of 5nine Security Manager for Hyper-V, its agentless Anti-Virus, Anti-Malware and Virtual Firewall solution.

Security Manager works with Windows Server 2012, Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Release Candidates and benefits of the new Windows Server Hyper-V virtual switch and the Windows Filtering Platform (WFP).

The solution is a combination of multiple protection modules managed centrally, including anti-virus (based on Sophos Anti-Virus Enterprise engine), anti-malware, IDS, web application protection, log inspection and programmatic virtual firewall.

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