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• Citrix XenServer gets more supporting partners
• After PlateSpin, also Plan B DR uses VMware for disaster recovery
• Propalms finally launches its VDI connection broker, it works only with VMware Server
• Gartner updates market share reports, numbers don’t match the IDC estimates
• Sun xVM Server will be free, virtual machines migration maybe not
• Leostream partners with eG Innovations
• ToutVirtual extends VirtualIQ support to Hyper-V
• VDIworks replaces its President and CEO after five months
• Wyse President and CEO moves to Pano Logic
• Microsoft becomes a cloud computing provider with Windows Azure
• Microsoft Hyper-V 2.0 to include Live Migration, vRAM hot plug, dynamic memory, NTP support and more
• Amazon EC2 Linux VMs ready for production, Windows VMs now in beta
• Gartner reports Oracle as a serious player, surpasses Microsoft
• After VMware also Rackspace wants a piece of Amazon cloud computing business
• Citrix unleashes 3300 partners to sell XenServer and XenDesktop, Q3 revenues up by $7 million
• Demo: Cisco Nexus 1000V and VMware Infrastructure 4 in action
• Fedora 10 doesn’t include Xen, KVM rules uncontested
• VMware reports 32% profit increase for Q3 2008, Asia is the new target
• Release: System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008
• VMware to release master console to centrally admin independent vCenters
• Windows Server 2008 R2 to introduce shareable LUNs for Hyper-V VMs, native VHD support
• Benchmarks: Hyper-V performance on Dell R900 with Quad-Core and Six-Core Intel Xeon
• Release: Veeam Reporter 3.0 Enterprise
• Maybe cloud computing is not so near
• Cisco selects virtualization.info Rent-A-Lab for Nexus Bootcamp in Switzerland
• Microsoft already took 23% of virtualization market says IDC - UPDATED
• Gartner predicts that VDI adoption will be lower than 40% in 2010
• A per-VM firewall would be great if properly executed
• Release: VKernel Capacity Analyzer 2.0
• Can the financial crisis drive companies to virtualization and/or cloud computing?
• Citrix releases OVF tool technical preview, partners with rPath
• After the VM sprawl are we ready for the virtualization management sprawl?
• What (virtualization) game is Sun playing at?
• VMware Fault Tolerance overview and limitations
• Tech: VMware ESX 3.5 vs ESXi 3.5
• Microsoft support for VMware ESX still limited
• Tech: Citrix XenDesktop 2.0 architecture deep dive
• SAP officially supports Microsoft Hyper-V
• Release: Microsoft App-V 4.5
• virtualization.info goes on the iPhone
• VMware acquires Blue Lane Technologies
• Amazon to offer Windows virtual machines on its EC2
• VMware will use Wyse technology to boost RDP performance in VDI successor
• Release: VMware VirtualCenter 2.5 Update 3
• Microsoft extends Hyper-V limits for cores and virtual machines management
• VMware replicates Hyper-V Quick Migration with a Powershell script
• Microsoft releases SCVMM 2008 beta exam
• Leostream signs reseller agreement with IBM
• Microsoft won’t miss the cloud computing party
• The VMware cloud, the SMB, the channel
• VMware launches a portal for academics, free papers and courseware for all
• VKernel opens Modeler beta program
• Veeam continues to refuse venture capital help, grows healthy
• Book: Virtualization For Dummies
• PHD Technologies acquires Xtravirt software division
• Parallels and DataCore sign technology alliance
• Glasshouse loses its Director of Virtualization Ron Oglesby
• Press suddenly cautious about virtualization
• Cisco unveils a server virtualization appliance, the hypervisor still a mystery
• Video: VMware Infrastructure 4.0 Fault Tolerance, vNetwork Distributed Switch and Host Profiles
• DMTF releases OVF 1.0 (maybe)
• Release: Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008
• Release: Lanamark Suite 2008
• Release: VMware Server 2.0
• Release: VMware Workstation 6.5 / ACE 2.5 / Player 2.5
• Release: VMware Fusion 2.0