On May 15th NVIDIA unveiled the NVIDIA® VGX™ platform that will be available later this year through NVIDIA’s hardware OEM and VDI partners.
This new platform promises to deliver a desktop experience comparable to a local PC, up to 100 VDI users for each single server equipped with a VGX board.
NVIDIA VGX represents a new era in desktop virtualization. It delivers an experience nearly indistinguishable from a full desktop while substantially lowering the cost of a virtualized PC.
said Jeff Brown, general manager of the Professional Solutions Group at NVIDIA.
This product is intended for those kind of users who work with 3D design softwares and simulation tools and is designed to be integrated into enterprise IT departments providing an integration layer for commercial hypervisors (the news only talks about Citrix XenServer) and a level of manageability that allows to configure the graphics capabilities delivered to individual users in the network, based on their demands.
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Microsoft announced this week the new Beta version of its capacity planning tool Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) 7.0 Beta.
The Beta program opened on May 15th and the review period will run through July 5th.
To download the beta materials on Connect follow this link: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=219165
To join the beta review program follow this link: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=171065
The new features introduced in version 7.0 include Windows Server 2012 Beta readiness assessment, VDI readiness assessment and the ability to plan for virtualization assessment of Linux server.
MAP 7.0 supports SQL Server 2012 discovery and migration planning and, along with Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter, simplifies the migration of VMware virtual machine to Hyper-V.
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Today VMware announced VMware vFabric Suite 5.1, expected to be generally available in Q2 2012.
vFabric Suite 5.1 includes vFabric Application Director, to automate the deployment and management of vFabric applications on VMware cloud infrastructure and SQLFire Enterprise Edition, an in-memory distributed SQL database that will enable application data to meet cloud scale with the needed performances.
vFabric Suite leverages Spring development framework, inherited from SpringSource acquisition in 2009, vFabric application services and a per-VM licensing model to provide a comprehensive infrastructure oriented to the deployment of cloud-ready applications.
Part of this broader shift in application infrastructure was the move to cloud and application deployment on virtual infrastructure. Traditional application servers simply weren’t designed, optimized or licensed for this new world. These legacy systems are too cumbersome, too costly, and definitely not cloud-ready. We saw the need for a new breed of application infrastructure to support this new world of applications.
said Jerry Chen, vice president, Cloud and Application Services, VMware.
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On April 4 Stephen Herrod, VMware’s CTO, has attended, as guest speaker, at a VMUG meeting in Italy.
One of the key point of the speech, documented in one hour-long seven-part video series, was the need to increase the automation and integration between VMware’s various products, topic about which Herrod reassured those present confirming VMware’s awareness of the problem.
Of this long speech the statement that has inflamed internet is
VMware Cloud Infrastructure Suite is really more of a marketing term. Those of you know our products deeply know that they don’t fit this well together as they need to. Some of them have multiple databases, some don’t look the same, some install differently, and what I can’t stand that is Site Recovery Manager doesn’t currently work with vCloud Director. So, what we are basically able to say is that we created and acquired companies that led to a lot of individual products that don’t work well enough together yet.
as reported by Dave Northey on Microsoft’s TechNet blog.
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Last week Citrix announced a new tech preview for Hosted Server VDI technology that allows cloud providers to leverage Microsoft SPLA to host VDI-style desktops obtaining a pay-as-you-go monthly subscription licensing to offer costumers the ability to install applications and usb peripherals.
As discussed before for other companies, service providers are unable to cost-effectively offer these virtual desktop capabilities, to multiple costumers, with VDI based on Windows 7 because client operating systems are not covered by Microsoft SPLA program, Hosted Server VDI Tech Preview, targeted at nearly 2.000 Citrix Service Providers, bypass the problem using Windows Server 2008 R2 instead of Windows 7 making the solution fully enabled for multi-tenenacy in the Microsoft program.
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On May 7 Citrix announced a technology preview of Project Aruba that extends Citrix VDI all-in-one proposal for the SMB market, VDI-in-a-Box, with personal vDisk technology.
VDI-in-a-Box, inherited from Kaviza acquisition in May 2011, already eliminates much of the traditional VDI infrastructure, including shared storage and dedicated load balanced connection brokers, with a simple deployment of the virtual appliance on the hypervisor of choice.
Project Aruba uses vDisks layering technology, obtained with Ringcube acquisition, to manage end-user applications and preferences allowing Virtual Desktops personalization and flexibility.
Project Aruba provides the following key features:
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On May 7 Cloud Sidekick announced the Early Access Program release of Cato Enterprise Edition (EE) which extends the Community Edition (CE) with Storm Deployment Automation and support for High Availability management server configurations.
With these new features Cato further abstracts AWS API providing the ability to write automation workflows for both AWS public cloud service and private clouds based on Eucalyptus.
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On May 3 VMware announced it has joined the Facebook Open Compute Project, an initiative launched in 2011, with the objective of increase technology efficiencies and reduce the environmental impact of data centers.
VMware vSphere 5 is now certified to run on open AMD and Intel-based hardware following the project’s specifications enabling Open Compute users to virtualize production workloads and business-critical applications.
VMware is committed to delivering innovative technology that transforms and redefines how businesses function and operate in the cloud era. VMware vSphere® 5 is now certified to run on Open Compute AMD-and Intel-based v2.0 server platforms. With VMware vSphere 5 now expanding to cover a wide range of embedded processors, I/O devices and servers, customers are offered a greater choice in IT solutions.
said Richard A. Brunner, chief platform architect, VMware.
On May 3 Nirvanix Inc announced a new Series C funding round for an amount of $25 million.
The investment, led by Khosla Ventures and joined by previous investors like Valhalla Partners, Intel Capital, Mission Ventures and Windward Ventures raises the total capital to $70 million.
Nirvanix provides a service specialized in storing large unstructured contet files across public, hybrid and private cloud storage deployments as an alternative to Amazon Web Services or Box.net.
Nirvanix’s proposal differs from the others for the amount and size of data processed and offers an interesting data recovery features that autonomously serves costumer from a secondary or tertiary location if the primary results unavailable.
This new investment will be used to establish a “cloud competency center” in Colorado and to raise the numbers of data centers around the world.
Yesterday Convirture announced the update of its virtualization and cloud management software ConVirt Enterprise Cloud to include support for the latest version of OpenStack (Essex) and the certification for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
The company also announced that CloudStack support will be available in a future update planned for the third quarter of this year.
At the same time, Convirture, released ConVirt 2.1 Open Source (formerly XenMan), ts open source management console for multiple hypervisors, including Xen and KVM.
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