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Release: Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.3.26

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Oracle has released a new version of its virtualization platform VM Virtualbox. Version 4.3.26 is considered a maintenance release which can be installed on top of version 4.3. The update improves stability and fixes regressions.

Some of the changes as detailed in the changelog:

  • Fixed a bug which prevented to propagate any DNS name server / domain / search string information to the NAT network
  • The mouse could not be moved under rare conditions if no Guest Additions are installed
  • Fixed a possible BSOD on Windows hosts under rare conditions

Paper: Virtual SAN 6.0 Performance: Scalability and Best Practices

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VMware has released a paper titled: "Virtual SAN 6.0 Performance: Scalability and Best Practices". The paper which contains 23 pages investigates how VMware Virtual SAN performs and scales for multiple workloads, Virtual SAN caching tier designs, and Virtual SAN configuration parameters. The paper provides guidelines on how to get the best performance for applications deployed on a Virtual SAN cluster.

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Release: Parallels Virtuozzo 6.0

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Parallels today announced a new version of its container and hardware virtualization platform Virtuozzo. Appearantly the product was renamed earlier to Parallels Cloud Server, but with this version Parallels decided to rename the product back again to its orginal name Virtuozzo (to be precise it was named Virtuozzo Containers earlier).

Virtuozzo is installed directly on the server hardware and does not need any operating system to function. Once it is installed, Virtuozzo allows you to create virtual machines and Containers.

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VMware announces support for CoreS on vSphere 5.5. and vCloud Air

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VMware has announced that it now supports CoreOS on both vSphere 5.5. and vCloud Air. CoreOS is a Linux distribution designed to provide minimal functionality required for deploying applications inside software containers like Docker. VMware has been working with the CoreOS team in order to provide open-vm-tools and by providing the CoreOS OS in OVA format for use in vSphere.

Supported CoreOS releases begin with 557.x release and will extend to future stable releases. VMware is currently working on extending the support for CoreOS to vSphere 6 as well.

Release: Unidesk Corporation Unidesk 3.0

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Unidesk Corporation, provider of layering software for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environments yesterday released version 3.0 of Unidesk. The Unidesk layering solution provides a way to divide a disk image into logical parts which can be managed individually, which reduces the amount of storage necessary. These logical parts can be stacked for each virtual desktop so that the OS, Applications and User settings are presented to the virtual desktop in a transparant way.

Unidesk now supports running Microsoft RDS on top of Hyper-V, running Citrix XenDesktop either on VMware vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V and running VMware Horizon View running on top of VMware vSphere. With version 3.0 Unidesk introduces support for the Hyper-V hypervisor from Microsoft. Unidesk already supported the vSphere platform from VMware and provides no information whether version 3.0 also includes updates for this platform as well.

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SimpliVity raises $175M in Series D Funding

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SimpliVity, is one of the competitors in the crowdy hyperconverged infrastructure and a data architecture market. Yesterdat the company announced that it has closed a $175 million Series D funding. The round was led by Waypoint Capital, investment company headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, with participation of Prior investors Accel Partners, Charles River Ventures, DFJ Growth, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) and Meritech Capital Partners. SimpliVity’s total venture funding is now $276 million.

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GigaOM shuts down

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Today it’s a sad day for the world of the information technology websites, a very well known name on the scene, GigaOM, just announced that it is shutting down due to economic problems.

The apparently unexpected news was disclosed today on the website as a statement on the company, the GigaOM management reported that it can not pay its creditors and nevertheless, GigaOM will not be declared bankrupt and for now the page is ongoing, showing its news as usual until yesterday’s GigaOM statement, but its closure is only a matter of time.
GigaOM management also used the message to thank all of its investors and readers.

GigaOM was founded in 2006 by Om Malik and besides offering news and analysis on emerging technology, the company also manifested in the real world organizing public events such as GigaOM Structure. The website had more than 6 million monthly unique readers and it was one of the independent voice on emerging technologies covering cloud, mobile, cleantech, consumer web and media.

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Release: 5nine Cloud Security 5.1

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5nine has released version 5.1 of its Cloud Security for Hyper-V product. Cloud Security for Hyper-V is a solution which helps to ensure security and compliance for Hyper-V environments. This new version introduce several enhancements in detection, performance and traffic management reducing system performance bottlenecks. Among the highlights of the new version, there is also the release of 5nine Cloud Security System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) Plugin and the 5nine Cloud Security Azure Pack Extension Preview.
Windows Azure Pack, recently released and basically an evolution of the old Cloud Services Process (CSP) pack, is part of System Center Orchestrator built on top of Service Provider Foundation (SPF).
It provides an Azure like look and feel for System Center private cloud deployments and talks with System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM).
It also contains the Service Management Automation part of System Center, which is the new Orchestrator based on PowerShell workflows.

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