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Pano Logic has hired Dave Butler as its new VP of Sales being responsible for sales, partner and field support throughout North and South America.

Butler comes from VegaSpectrun where he worked for 3 years and . Prior to that he was VP Sales and BD at FireEye for 2 years and 5 months in the timeframe 2006 – 2009. He also was VP Sales and BD at Aruba Networks for 4 years in the timeframe 2002 – 2006.

Butler also worked for Fast Forward – Intkomi, For systems, Network Systems Corporation, and IBM.

Ben Armstrong, who is Virtualization Program Manager at Microsoft posted a four part article about CPU scheduling in Hyper-V. Most of the aspects of the Hyper-V CPU scheduler come into play when all of the CPU resources on a physical computer are being used, called ” contention for resource” and Hyper-V has to decide who wins and who loses when new resources are requested. Each option is detailed, and pros and cons are provided.

When defining a VM within Hyper-V the following Processor options are available:

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VMware has released version 4.6 of its Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solution; View. This version is the follow up of version 4.5 which was released in September last year.

View 4.6 is considered a minor update which adds bug fixes and USB updates. But it also provides support for external end-users to connect to their View destop outside of the firewall using the PC over IP (PCoIP) protocol. This is handeled by View Security Server a component of View which is typically deployed in a DMZ, which can provide an end-to-end PCoIP removing the need for SSL-VPN solutions.

VMware started supporting the PCoIP protocol in software when it released View 4.0 in November 2009.

VMware has released an update to its Application Virtualization solution ThinApp. Version 4.6.1 is considered a maintenance release which can be installed on top of ThinApp 4.6 which was released in September last year.

This update provides more than 160 fixes for packaging Microsoft Office 2010 (see Quick start Guide) and other popular packages, like Google Chrome, Firefox+Foxit Reader, Internet Explorer and Office Communicator.

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VMware Labs has released a so called Technology Preview Release of vCenter XVP Manager and Converter. XVP Manager and Converter will provides basic virtualization management capabilities for non-vSphere hypervisor platforms , which is Microsoft Hyper-V in this case. It also provides the possibility to migrate virtual machines from these non-vSphere virtualization platforms to VMware vSphere.

XVP Manager and Converter provides the following features:

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Capacity Management product provider VKernel announced that it has hired Eric Jackson as Vice President of Product Management. Jackson will continue his job as CEO for Class VI software and President of DeepWeave Inc.

Jackson comes from Lab Escape, where he worked for more than 3 years as VP of Sales & Customer Relations. Before that he was VP of Products at XOsoft for 1 year and 5 months, Lead Architect and Co-Founder at IBRIX for 2 years and 11 months, Software Architect at Cambridge Hydrodynamics for 5 years and 2 months and High-Performance & Parallel Computing Specialist at Princeton University for 8 years and 11 months.

In September last year, virtualization.info reported about VMware starting the development of a management solution for Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing platforms called vCloud Director. vCloud Director was developed from the engine of Lab Manager, which VMware acquired from Akimbi June 2006. Later we were informed by a member of the virtualization.info Vanguards community, that VMware was planning to phase out Lab Manager within a year, embedding its capabilities in vCloud Director which was released in September last year.

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Oracle has released a maintenance update for their desktop virtualization solution VM VirtualBox, version 4.0.4. The update, which is considered a maintence release is available for version 4.0 of VirtualBox which was released in December last year.

Some of the fixes from the changelog include:

• Support for Ubuntu 11.04 Alpha
• Support for X.Org Server 1.10 pre-release
• Linux 2.6.38-rc1 compile fixes
• ..

Teradici is the developer of the PC-over-IP (PCoIP) remote desktop protocol, which is leveraged in software (by VMware view) and provided with Teradici hardware solutions which are OEM’ed by several vendors. Teradici now has released firmware version 3.3 for its PCoIP zero client devices and version 1.4 of it’s Management Console which it announced in April last year, providing USB peripheral, login and security enhancements.

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In November 2008 VMware acquired the mobile virtualization startup Trango. Just a couple of months later Citrix invested in one of the biggest Trango competitors: Open Kernel Labs (OK Labs). In October last year virtualization.info reported that Citrix and Open Kernel Labs were working on Windows virtualization for smartphones and in December VMware announced a partnership with LG to deliver it’s Mobile Virtualization Platform (MVP) on Android, which it also showed of at the Mobile World Congress two weeks ago. While the MVP platform adopts a hosted virtualization platform (a type-2 VMM) which runs on top of the native RTOS installed on the phone, the Open Kernel Labs is a type-1 hypervisor running directly on the hardware and Open Kernel Labs is criticizing VMware for its decision to use a hosted virtualization platform.

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