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VMware today announced that it has acquired Immidio. Immidio provides several User Environment Management related product: Immidio AppScriber and Immidio Flex+. With the acquisition of Immidio VMware wants to fill its UEM gap, with the Immidio Flex+ product. Immidio Flex + which will become part of the Horizon product portfolio, together with VMware App Volumes, and VMware vRealize Operations Manager.
Together with announcing vSphere 6, VMware also announced Virtual SAN version 6. Virtual SAN is the software-defined storage offering from VMware that enables pooling of storage capabilities within exsisting servers. VMware also announced vSphere Virtual Volumes, which is a set of storage APIs that will enable a more granular integration between external storage (SAN/NAS) and VMware vSphere at the individual virtual machine level.
In July last year, VMware released a Public Beta of vSphere 6.0, and even though the beta was public, participants were to sign a Non Disclosure Agreement (NDA) stopping them for spreading details of new functionality. During VMworld in September last year more information was publicly shared. Yesterday VMware announced version 6.0 of its virtualization platform vSphere, meaning that the product is feature complete and is expected to be available in Q1 2015.
Citrix announced its financial results for fourth quarter and fiscal year 2014, ended December 31, 2014.
Citrix announced a total revenue for Q4 of $851 million, for an increase of 6% compared to Q4 2013. The total revenue of fiscal year 2014 has been of $3.14 billion, for an increase of 8% compared to $2.92 billion for fiscal year 2013.
Pluribus Networks has announced that it has closed a $50 million Series D funding. The round was led by Temasek Holdings, an investment company based in Singapore with a net portfolio value of US$177 billion, with partecipation by Ericsson, Newtech and existing investors: New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Menlo Ventures, Mohr Davidow and AME Cloud Ventures.
On January 27, VMware released the financial results for the third quarter and full year 2014.
The revenues for the fourth quarter were $1.70 billion for an increase of 15% compared to Q4 2013. Licenses revenues were $777 million, with an increase of 13% from same quarter in 2013.
Operating income was $344 million and non-GAAP operating income was $567 million, respectively a decrease of 8% and an increase of 7%.
VMware annual revenues were $6.04 billion, an increase of 16% from 2013
Cisco and VMware have released a paper titled: "Cisco Unified Computing System with VMware Horizon 6 with View and Virtual SAN". The paper which contains 59 pages describes a reference architecture for running VMware’s Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solution Horizon 6 with View and Virtual SAN on top of Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) hardware.
The purpose of the reference architecture is to provide guidance about the following aspects of deploying this joint solution:
The Xen Project, the community which develops the Xen hypervisor under the GNU General Public License (GPLv2) last week announced the availability version 4.5 of the Xen Hypervisor. With major contributions from AMD, Bitdefender, Cavium, Citrix, Fujitsu, GlobalLogic, Intel, Oracle, as well as several individual and academic institutions the product has been enhanced with several new features and capabilties.
The following new capabilities and features are available in version 4.5.:
Before and during its annual Summit partner conference, held on January 13 and 14, Citrix made several announcements. First of all Citrix announced the acquisition of Sanbolic, which virtualization.info already covered, also the next version of its Hypervisor platform XenServer version 6.5 was announced. But also serveral other announcements were made, which we will summarize in this post.
First of all, Citrix announced version 10 of its enterprise mobility management solution XenMobile. XenMobile provides both Mobile Device Management (MDM) and Mobile Application Management (MAM). For more information about what is included in this release please read the following blog post on the Citrix Blog. The new XenMobile client is available for XenMobile customers to download today. The server enhancements will be available in Q1 2015.
Citrix today announced the next version of its virtualization platform XenServer which is a commercial product based on the open-source Xen Project hypervisor. XenServer 6.5 will be the follow up of version 6.2 which was released in June last year. Unfortunately Citrix doesn’t provide any details on when they expect this version to become generally available.
Citrix states that XenServer 6.5 will offer a full 64-bit kernel architecture with support for Intel Trusted Execution Technology (TXT). The release will also offer asset tagging to enable workload geo-tagging which provides the ability to restrict the ability for workloads to run in a particular location. Also support for NVIDIA GRIP vGPU will be provided. Due to the 64 bit architecture also improvements will be made to the workload balancing and distributed virtual switch controller functionality.
Update on availability: XenServer v6.5 has been officially announced today,as well as being released-to-web (RTW). What this means is that it is available to existing customers for download, so they can upgrade their existing XenServer infrastructure. Software Assurance on any existing XenServer infrastructure is a re-requisite to be able to use this new release.
New customers or additional purchases by customers can happen once the release becomes generally available, which will happen in February.