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Last week Red Hat announced the general availability Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Atomic Host, its container-optimized version of RHEL 7 based on Project Atomic, which  comes with Docker pre-installed and a minimal footprint.

Despite containers are rarely seen in enterprise production environments (if we exclude Google where nearly-everything is non-standard) and most of the developers use them as a lighter version of VMs, Red Hat is investing significantly in this technology, supporting both classic LXC containers and Docker.

Red Hat OpenShift was the first solution to use containers as its foundation and now, with Atomic, Red Hat is going to pervasively support this technology across its entire Open Hybrid Cloud Stack.

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VMware has released a paper titled: "VMware vCenter Server 6.0 Deployment Guide". The paper which contains 100 pages covers two new simplified deployment models introduced with version 6. Embedded which refers to a deployment where all components are installed in the same VM and External where vCenter is installed on one VM and the Platform Services Controller (PSC) is installed on another VM. PSC comprises vCenter Single Sign On (SSO) and Certificate Authority (VMCA).

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On February 24 VMware disclosed that the former chief information officer of Juniper Networks, Bask Iyer, was elected as the new CIO at VMware. Iyer is taking Tony Scott position who joined VMware on August 2013 and is been nominated now as United States Chief Information Officer as Scott mentions on article he wrote few days ago for VMware’s blog.

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On February 25, Parallels announced that it has acquired 2X Software. 2X Software is a Maltese company, with offices in the United States, Germany, UK, Australia and of course Malta, founded 2005, which provides application virtualization, remote application delivery and mobile device management solutions.

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Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH headquartered in Vienna, Austria announced to have released the version 3.4 of Proxmox Virtual Environment, an open source virtualization management solution that leverages KVM technologies. Proxmox joined on 2014 the non-profit technology institution: Linux Foundation, supporting the development of Linux and open sources companies.

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Yesterday February 11, Red Hat has announced the global availability of version 3.5 of its virtualization platform: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (aka RHEV).

RHEV is based on the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor and in this latest release introduced the support for four terabytes (4 TB) of memory per host, 4 TB of vRAM and 160 vCPUs per virtual machine.

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Oracle has released version 3.3.2 of its enterprise virtualizatoin solution. The virtualization solution is available for both x86 and SPARC based processor architectures and uses the Xen hypervisor technology, supporting Windows, Linux and Oracle Solaris guests. Version 3.3.2 is considered a maintenance release and can be installed on top of Oracle VM 3.3.1 environments.

Oracle VM consists of 2 main components, the Oracle VM Manager, which is a web based console used to manage Oracle VM Servers, which is a server running a version of the Xen hypervisor containing a VM agent which communicates with VM Manager.

Some of the changes introduced with version 3.3.2 (as outlined in the change log):

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NIMBOXX a company which creates converged hardware appliances combining storage, server, networking and virtualization technology announced that it has acquired the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) technology product VERDE from Virtual Bridges. Also the staff, customers and partners involved with VERDE VDI will be transferred. With this acquisition NIMBOXX can offer a complete VDI solution for its customers. The last release of VERDE which virtualization.info covered was in October 2013, since then the company only released a 7.1 version with minimal changes, how NIMBOXX is planning to further develop the product is not disclosed.

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Last week Citrix announced its financial reports for Q4 and Fiscal year 2014, despite the positive results that the company had for full year 2014, the general opinion is that the company is underperfoming, and in addition Citrix also disclosed that will lay off 900 employees across its worldwide offices, due to a “so called” restructuring program.

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Lenovo has published a paper titled:"Reference Architecture: Lenovo Client Virtualization". The paper which contains 44 pages contains a reference architecture for Server Based Computing (SBC) and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) using Lenovo products. The reference architecture is targeted towards IT architects, system administrators and managers. The Lenovo Client Virtualization (LCV) reference architecture supports a wide range of hardware, hypervisors and software platforms from multiple vendors.

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