SpringSource – VMWare gets an OSGi Runtime

August 27, 2009
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When VMware acquired SpringSource it also gained an OSGi runtime known as SpringSource dm Server, to which developers can directly build applications using the Spring and other development toolsets without the use of a J2EE application Server such as WebSphere or Tomcat (which is integrated into SpringSource dm Server for backwards compatibility. It is not…

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Reflex VMC — The First VMsafe Certification

August 26, 2009
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Reflex Systems announced today that they have the first VMware VMsafe Certification for their Reflex VMC product.   This announcement brings two things to light. The first is that VMware has made a very smart move to certify VMsafe drivers for their hypervisor, which is a much needed step I have written about previously. The second…

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EMC Enhances CLARiiON Suite for VMware

August 26, 2009
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Enhacements to EMC's CLARiiON disk storage provide tangible management, data protection and performance benefits

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Measuring Hypervisor Footprints

August 25, 2009
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There have been several interesting posts in the blogosphere about virtualization security and how to measure it. Specifically, the discussions are really about the size of the hypervisor footprint or about the size of patches. But hypervisor footprints from a security perspective are neither of these. The concern when dealing with hypervisor security is about…

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News: Tranxition enters Virtualization Personalization Market with AdaptivePersona

August 24, 2009
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News: Tranxition enters Virtualization Personalization Market with AdaptivePersona

Today, Tranxition announced a new product, AdaptivePersonna™ that Tranxition will be marketing and selling to end user customers through its own sales channels. AdaptivePersona, like other solutions in this space from vendors like AppSense and RTO Software separates the users personality from the operating system and the application, allowing the personality to be separately virtualized…

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News: Surgient Announces Version 7 of its Virtual Automation Platform

August 24, 2009
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News: Surgient Announces Version 7 of its Virtual Automation Platform

Virtualization Management vendors who focus upon and add value to VMware specialize in a variety of different use cases. Many of these vendors focus upon providing a management layer across virtualization platforms for the production virtualization environment. Surgient has specialized in providing a management platform for virtualized test and development environments that provides significant additional…

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FCoE Passes a Major Milestone as NetApp is First to Market With Native FCoE

August 18, 2009
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FCoE is making rapid advances spurred on by NetApp, QLogic and others including CA, Cisco, DataDirect Networks, EMC, FalconStor, Finisar, HP, Infortrend, LSI, Microsoft, Promise Technology, and Symantec.

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News: Akorri Intoduces BalancePoint 3.0 to Assure Virtual Infrastructure Performance

August 17, 2009
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Akorri, a leader in virtual infrastructure performance and capacity management for the dynamic data center, today announced the availability of BalancePoint 3.0 – the latest version of the company’s award-winning virtual infrastructure management software. BalancePoint 3.0 allows IT organizations to optimize virtual and physical server and storage infrastructure resources to reduce costs. As companies advance…

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Hosted Virtualization Security – Type 2 Hypervisors

August 17, 2009
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There is quite a bit of documentation on bare metal or Type 1 hypervisors, including my own book, VMware vSphereTM and Virtual Infrastructure Security: Securing the Virtual Environment, but there is not much material on the proper security of hosted environments, or Type 2 hypervisors, such as Microsoft Virtual Server, VMware Workstation, Fusion, Player, or…

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