Nimble Storage announces CS400-series, ES-series & Nimble OS 2.0
In the past we at VMGuru.nl have been great fans of Dell EqualLogic storage solutions for it’s simplicity and with our current employer we have learned the advantages of NetApp storage systems and it’s completeness. But why should we have to choose? Why can’t we…
Oracle acquires Xsigo Systems
After software-defined-computing and software-defined-storage, the next big hit is software-defined-networking to complete the software-defined-datacenter. And the hunt is on! Last week VMware announced the acquisition of Nicira and yesterday Oracle announced they bought Xsigo, one of the leading providers of network virtualization technology. Why? Oracle…
VMware View will support Microsoft Lync 2013
When deploying a VDI solution it is important to deliver PC like experience. Another requirement is delivering PC-grade applications on the VDI desktop. This is possible for the majority of office applications but applications that require (near) real-time two way audio and/or video, like Unified…
VMware ThinApp Factory Tech Preview available now
Yesterday VMware released a Technical Preview of the VMware ThinApp Factory (v 0.3.0). The ThinApp Factory is a virtual appliance that brings centralized administration and automation to the process of creating virtualized Windows applications with VMware ThinApp technology. ThinApp Factory utilizes vSphere API’s to spawn…
vCenter Operations Manager for View
VMware is rapidly expanding the possibilities of their new management suite VMware vCenter Operations Manager (vCops) with their recent release of VMware vCenter Operations Manager for View. This new addition provides end-to-end visibility into the health, performance and efficiency of a VMware View virtual desktop…
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Demo Day
Red Hat Benelux is organizing a demo day for their virtualisation solution “Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization”. During this day they will present the latest news, present the road-map and future releases. Also on the program is a demo of RHEV and the presentation of a…
Trend Micro Deep Security 8.0 SP1 released
Last Friday Trend Micro released Deep Security 8.0 Service Pack 1. The most significant changes in SP1 are: On Demand scan agent based anti-malware on Linux. Supported versions are Red Hat Linux 5, 6 (64 bit only), Suse Linux 10, 11 (32 and 64bit) Protecting…
A new entry-level FlexPod is born
NetApp and Cisco have announced an extension to their joint FlexPod solution with a package which better suits smaller companies. The current FlexPod solution consists of a Cisco UCS server platform and a Cisco network infrastructure combined with a NetApp FAS32xx or 62xx storage solution….
Dell to buy Wyse
Yesterday the internets were humming with rumours again. Computerbuilder Dell has shown interest in buying a company in thin clients. Not long after it was confirmed that Dell and Wyse have signed a deal. The official press release states: “Dell has signed a definitive agreement…
EqualLogic on 10Gbit
10GbE connections are getting more common in the datacenters, even for SMB 10GbE is getting within their reach. In the storage market Dell EqualLogic lagged behind large storage vendors like NetApp in functionality and connectivity but now EqualLogic released their new products on 10GbE, solving…
Teradici APEX 2800 PCoIP Server Offload Card available now
Today Teradici announced the availability of their long awaited Server Offload Card, the Teradici APEX 2800. VDI implementations are typically constrained by the servers’ CPUs. The many tasks a CPU performs, together with PCoIP® protocol image encoding, limits the number of virtual machines that can…
Hyper-V removed from OpenStack
The new version of OpenStack, which will be released in Q2 of 2012, does not support Microsoft Hyper-V anymore. The developers have had enough with the buggy code. One of the developers of OpenStack has written a patch with which the Hyper-V code and support…
VMware Announces 3 New Management suites
Today during the Keynote with Steve Herrod, VMware announced the release of 3 new management suites: vFabric Application Management Suite 1.0, aimed at the Developers working with Operations. vCenter Operations Management suite 5.0 ,aimed at Infrastructure and Operations teamed working together like Cloud…
VMware Workstation 8 and VMware Fusion 4 available
For all of you out there who use virtualisation on their Windows and Mac laptops, VMware released their new versions today. Both products, VMware Fusion v4 (actually, v4.01) and VMware Workstation v8 are available for download and purchase starting today The new versions of course…
VMware announces vFabric Data Director
Today VMware’s VMworld 2011 in Las Vegas has started and VMworld is THE place for product announcements and releases. This year VMware is announcing vFabric Data Director, a product which powers database-as-a-service for your cloud, reducing database sprawl and drastically accelerating application development cycles with…