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Quoting from the Kidaro official announcement:

Kidaro, a leading provider of enterprise desktop virtualization solutions, today announced that Kevin Brown has been named President, Chief Executive Officer, and a member of the board of directors. Mr. Brown, an accomplished entrepreneur and executive in the software, networking, storage, and security sectors, will lead Kidaro’s expansion in the enterprise and government markets. Prior to joining Kidaro, Mr. Brown served in executive roles at Network Appliance, Decru, and Inktomi, and has served as an advisor on privacy and security matters for the U.S. Congress, Federal Trade Commission, and U.S. Department of Defense.

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Prior to joining Kidaro, Brown served on the original executive team of storage security firm Decru, where he led worldwide marketing, business development, and product management. Brown helped the company achieve #1 market share and global adoption across the financial services, healthcare, telecommunications, manufacturing, and government sectors. Following the $272 million acquisition of Decru by Network Appliance, Brown was named to the Network Appliance Information Governance Board, where he helped shape the company’s policies relating to compliance, security, and intellectual property protection…

Quoting from The Register:

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“Our applications don’t run on anything smaller than a data warehouse,” said Google engineer Luiz André Barroso, while speaking last week at the Usenix event in Santa Clara, California.

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By data warehouse, Barroso means a facility with software spread across thousands of systems. Google has announced at least four such $600m systems in the last few months just in the US. This type of scale has Google working on software problems, energy issues and component conundrums beyond the realm of conception for most companies. For that reason, Google has largely bypassed the Tier 1 server and software vendors’ pitches.

For example, Barroso noted that he “loves” the people at VMware but doesn’t plan to use their software.

“I think it will be very sad if we need to use virtualization,” he said. “It is hard to claim we will never use it, but we don’t really use it today.”…

Read the whole article at source.

Possibly Google doesn’t see a benefit in hardware virtualization but probably has different opinion about application virtualization approach since earlier this month acquired GreenBorder.

Quoting from the Nimsoft official announcement:

Nimsoft Inc., an emerging leader of Service Level Management (SLM) solutions, today announced that Nimsoft is leading the industry by providing end- to-end, service level monitoring and reporting for VMware environments. Nimsoft’s signature in-depth and real-time reporting brings enterprise customers and managed service providers central management of multiple VMware Virtual Centers and 360 degree monitoring for all levels of the VMware stack, including hosted business applications…

PodTech.net published an interview with VMware founder and chief scientist, Mendel Rosenblum. On second part of it he shows a live demo of new Record/Replay feature introduced in VMware Workstation 6.

Watch it here.

VMware published a new beta of its first desktop virtualization product for Apple market: Fusion.

This new build (48339) introduces support for just release Apple Mac OS X 10.4.10 and pre-release Mac OS X codename Leopard.

Enroll for the beta program at source.

After a long time Dunes Technologies releases a minor release of its virtual infrastructure automation framework: Virtual Service Orchestrator or VS-O.

In this new version Dunes introduces few enhancements like:

• Revised access rights management
• Support for Novell eDirectory and open-ldap

The virtualization.info Virtualization Industry Roadmap has been updated accordingly.

Quoting from the XenSource official announcement:

XenSource, Inc., the leader of the open source Xen virtualization project and a provider of enterprise virtualization solutions, and NEC Corporation, one of the world’s leading providers of Internet, broadband network and enterprise business solutions, today announced a broad alliance in which NEC will deliver XenSource’s server virtualization solutions. With this agreement, NEC and XenSource will collaborate to deliver XenSource virtualization solutions to market to help businesses dramatically reduce operating costs through savings on hardware, provisioning, power, space, cooling, and system maintenance.

Additionally, the companies will collaborate to deliver Integrated VM on NEC’s REAL IT PLATFORM vision. Integrated VM is a technology which realizes total management for multiple virtualization products and is performed by NEC’s platform management software, NEC SigmaSystemCenter. By this collaboration, NEC and XenSource will add XenEnterprise into the Integrated VM and enhance the virtualization market by joint development of the management features…

Quoting from the Provision Networks official announcement:

Provision Networks, a global provider of enterprise virtual desktop deployment and application delivery solutions, announced today that its entire product portfolio, including the market-leading Virtual Access Suite, can be resold by HP under a distribution agreement the companies have signed…

This is the second OEM partnership both company sign in a short period: in April Provision Networks signed a similar agreement with Virtual Iron, while HP made the same last week with Surgient.

Blades have nothing to do with virtualization. By chance both technologies can be used to achieve server consolidation. But beside that, at least at today, they are not enhancing each other in any other way.

And I’m glad Gartner seems to think in the same way, as SearchServerVirtualization is reporting:

Gartner’s research vice president John Enck is tired of the hype around blades and headlines about blades and server virtualization being the perfect marriage in particular.

“It isn’t a marriage I want to be engaged in,” Enck told attendees at his session, titled “Blades and Virtualization: Choose One, Both or Neither,” held at the Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations and Management Summit in Orlando last week…

Read the whole article at source.

Quoting from the Mendocino Software official announcement:

Mendocino Software today announced that InfiniView, the industry’s only enterprise-class continuous data protection (CDP) solution, now supports VMware ESX Server, Version 3 and higher. By offering InfiniView’s “one button” instant recovery capability for use with virtualized servers running on ESX Server, Mendocino is offering faster, simpler recovery that will help to maximize the overall availability of VMware environments…