Microsoft has released a paper titled: "Hyper-V Virtual Fibre Channel Design Guide". The paper which contains 16 pages provides design guidelines for customers who want to implement the Virtual Fibre Channel feature within Hyper-V VMs. Virtual Fibre Channel for Hyper-V provides the guest operating system with unmediated access to a SAN by using a standard World Wide Name (WWN) associated with a virtual machine.
History
Release: NComputing vSpace Server 7.1 – Updated
NComputing last week announced the release of version 7.1 of its Remote Desktop Services (RDS) solution vSpace Server part of the vSpace Virtualization platform offering both hardware and software for RDS solutions. It can offer multi user applications on top of Windows Server, Windows MultiPoint Server and Ubuntu Linux and single user applications on top of Windows client. Version 7.1 is the follow up of version 7 which was released in March this year.
VMware sells Zimbra to Telligent
VMware yesterday announced that it will sell its Zimbra assets to Telligent, a company focusing on enterprise social software. Zimbra, which VMware acquired from Yahoo beginning 2010 is an online/offline messaging and collaboration suite.
With this sale VMware has abandoned the products which aren’t part of their new strategy anymore, which includes the software-defined data center, hybrid cloud and end-user computing. Other assets not part of the strategy have been transferred to the Pivotal Initiative, which was announced in December last year.
Oracle stops development of Sun Ray products
Oracle has announced that it will stop with the development of its Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Sun Ray software and hardware products. The software became part of the Oracle product line when Oracle acquired Sun in April 2009. Main reason for stopping development is that Oracle want to invest in the development of both Oracle Secure Global Desktop and Oracle VM VirtualBox Software.
In an effort to more tightly align Oracle’s future desktop virtualization portfolio investments with Oracle Corporation’s overall core business strategy, we have ended new feature development for Oracle Sun Ray Software (SRS), Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Software (VDI), Oracle Virtual Desktop Client (OVDC) Software, and Oracle Sun Ray Client hardware (3, 3i, and 3 Plus).
Bogomil Balkansky, former Sr VP Cloud Infrastructure Products left VMware
Apparently the diaspora from VMware is not finished yet. VMware Vice President of Cloud Infrastructure Products, Bogomil Balkansky, left the company apparently about a month ago and has been replaced on his role by John Gilmartin, who was previously VP of VMware’s storage business.
Release: VMware Horizon View 5.2 Feature Pack 2
VMware has released Feature Pack 2 for its Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) product View. Feature Pack 2 is the follow up of Feature Pack 1 which was released in March this year. The two new features being introduced in Feature Pack 2 are “Real-Time Audio-Video” and “Flash URL Redirection” for live webcast video also improvements were made to Unity Touch. Also the View clients have been updated to support the new features.
”Real-Time Audio-Video” enables Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) users to have broader application support for real-time audio and video when using devices such as microphones and webcams on their local clients. By encoding audio and video using industry standard codecs, the upstream bandwidth for a single webcam session can be reduced by up to 100x versus using general USB redirection for webcams.
Paper: Hypervisor Top-Level Functional Specification: Windows Server 2012
Microsoft has released a paper titled: "Hypervisor Top-Level Functional Specification: Windows Server 2012". The paper which contains 375 pages provides a top-level functional specification (TLFS) for the third generation hypervisor by Microsoft. It specifies the externally visible behavior of the hypervisor, which is a component of the Hyper V virtualization role in Windows Server 2012.
The specifications can be used to understand the functions of the hypervisor and implement a compatible solution.
Release: Xen 4.3
The Xen Project, the community which develops the Xen hypervisor under the GNU General Public License (GPLv2) and which is now transferred from Citrix to the Linux Foundation, today announced the release of version 4.3 of the Xen hypervisor. This version is the follow up of version 4.2. which was released in September last year.
Xen 4.3 is the work of just over 9 months of development, with 1362 changesets containing changes to over 136128 lines of code, made by 90 individuals from 27 different organizations and 25 unaffiliated individual developers.
Rick Jackson, former CMO at VMware joins Rackspace
On July 8, Rackspace announced its new CMO, Rick Jackson, who joined the company officially on July 1st, Jackson is an expert in the IT industry with over 25 years of experience and former CMO at VMware. The new Chief Marketing Officer is going to manage Rackspace’s marketing strategy, probably planning to approach the market furthermore with its hybrid cloud.
Jerry Chen, former VP of cloud services at VMware joins Greylock
On June 25, Jerry Chen, former vice president of cloud services and apps at VMware joined Greylock, as a general partner.
Jerry Chen, worked in VMware for the last eight years, being in charge of the Product Management & Product Marketing teams creating cloud application platform products for VMware. He will now be managing the cloud and application infrastructure and new enterprise applications.
He is only another of the members of VMware who recently left for another company, last month Javier Soltero former CTO of SaaS and Application Services in the Cloud Services business unit and Kevin Henrikson former Sr. Director R&D, left WMware to join Redpoint Ventures and founded a cloud infrastructure startup called Acompli.