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virtualization.info Editors Pano Logic has announced the release of version 5 of its Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) platform Pano System. This version is the follow-up of version 4.5 which was released in April this year.
Version 5 now provides monitoring of the Pano Zero Client device by introducing Pano Maestro, providing a single pane of glass for monitoring these devices. It integrates with System Center Virtual Machine Manager, vCenter Server or XenDesktop Studio.
Oracle has released version 4.1.6 of its virtualization platform VM VirtualBox. This version is considered a maintenance release which can be installed on top of any version 4.1.x, fixing some display and networking issues.
Some of the fixes in version 4.1.6 include:
Even though ESXi 5 is already released, VMware stil releases updates for ESXi 4, in this case Update 2. This version is the follow up of Update 1 released in February this year.
Update 2 adds the following new features:
The update also delivers a number of bug fixes, which can be found in the resolved issues.
Thanks to Jason Boche for providing the news.
Microsoft has released the release candidate for System Center 2012 Orchestrator, the follow up version of System Center Opalis, which was acquired by Microsoft in December 2009 and integrated into its System Center portfolio. For this release Microsoft decided to integrate the Opalis code into the Microsoft codebase, and to drop support for running the Opalis DB on Oracle, the console will now be based on IIS and Silverlight.
System Center Orchestrator (SCO) is Run Book Automation (RBA) software, which can be used to define, build, orchestrate, manage and report on workflows. The workflows are defined in the SCO workflow designer, and so called Integration Packs are provided to interact with Microsoft and non-Microsoft products, which run on so called Action Servers.
During its annual Citrix Synergy event, held in Barcelona Citrix announced that it has acquired App-DNA, the company offering the AppTitude product which primarily assists in assessment and migrations from Windows XP to Windows 7.
Citrix is planning to integrate the AppTitude technology in the Citrix Desktop Transformation Model, offering assessment functionality, remediation of compatibility issues which arise and automated application packaging to MSI, App-V or Citrix XenApp formats.
Citrix has released version 5 of its receiver software for the Apple iPhone and iPad adding support for iOS 5, this release follows the release of the receiver software for Windows version 3.0 and Mac 11.4 which was released in August this year. Receiver is currently available for Mac, Windows, iOS, Android and BlackBerry.
During VMworld Europe, which was held in Kopenhagen last week, VMware announced the upcoming release of 2 products which it acquired from Shavlik Technolgies in May this year.
The first product is VMware Go Pro, which VMware jointly developed with Shavlik. Go Pro is a Software as a Service (SaaS) offering which can be used to manage on-premises vSphere Hypervisors and their VMs and physical machines from a single pane of glass and is targeted for SMBs. The product is available in two editions, the free to use Go version and in a paid-subscription version which is called Go Pro.