Virtualization by Davis: “EMC acquires Syncplicity” plus 3 more

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• EMC acquires Syncplicity
• Technotes: No Sound Input Device is Available in ICA Sessions for Macintosh OS X
• Release: Oracle VM Server for x86 3.1
• VMware shows View 5.1 performance improvements

EMC acquires Syncplicity Posted: 22 May 2012 05:26 AM PDT Yesterday, during its annual conference in Las Vegas, EMC announced the acquisition of Syncplicity, a cloud-storage privately held startup founded in 2008 and based in Menlo Park, California. Terms of the transaction were not released. The move suggest the intentions of EMC to compete with consumer-focused storage offering like DropBox and applications more enterprise-like as VMware's Project Octopus, neo-released in beta. The addition of Syncplicity also extends EMC's strategy of enabling the 'New User' in the Post PC era, those who want to access, share, collaborate and participate in business processes on their preferred device. This quote reminds us the growing trend of BYOD (bring your own device) workplaces where employees of large corporate struggle for shared storage services and the enterprise IT tries to control the security implications of the phenomenon. In this panorama Syncplicity fits well with its business-oriented features like SAS 70 Type II compliance, remote wiping of data in case of device loss and comprehensive administration. Still unclear is the product placement compared to Project Octopus from VMware where EMC is the majority shareholder, this empasse probabily will be solved with customer segmentation. Labels: EMC, Syncplicity

Technotes: No Sound Input Device is Available in ICA Sessions for Macintosh OS X Posted: 21 May 2012 03:08 AM PDT Technotes: No Sound Input Device is Available in ICA Sessions for Macintosh OS X Update feed preferences No Sound Input Device is Available in ICA Sessions for Macintosh OS X       (more) Products & Solutions | Support | Communities | News | Events | My Citrix (c) 2012 Citrix Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.

Release: Oracle VM Server for x86 3.1 Posted: 21 May 2012 12:46 PM PDT On May 18th Oracle announced the general availability of version 3.1 of its x86 enterprise virtualization solution VM Server. This release follows 3.0 announced on August 24th 2011. All the new key features are devoted to simplify the work for Virtualization Administrators and follows the application-driven approach to virtualization that Oracle has kept so far. The new features could be summarized as follows: Enhanced User Interface: The new Oracle VM 3.1 Manager introduces a new set of wizards for large-scale deployments, tasks and workflows execution in a Web browser interface. Enhanced Storage Configuration Capabilities: Focused on the simplification of backup and disaster recovery, now allows access to NFS external storage and the quick copy of iSCSI and Fiberchannel-based storage repository from one cluster to another, including across WANs. Integration with Oracle Enterprise Manager and Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Other relevant information from the press release: Oracle VM's Windows drivers (PV 3.0.1) and virtualization implementation have been validated as part of the Microsoft Server Virtualization Vendor Program (SVVP). Three new pre-built, pre-configured Oracle VM Templates for the Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1.3; Oracle PeopleSoft Financials and Supply Chain Management 9.1; and Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c add to the more than 100 available templates that enable faster application deployment. Labels: Oracle, Release

VMware shows View 5.1 performance improvements Posted: 21 May 2012 08:13 AM PDT In this post, published on May 18 in VROOM! Blog, the VMware's Performance Team presented some of the most significant enhancements and optimizations brought to Teradici's PCoIP protocol in the release 5.1 of VMware View. The post touches 4 main points: PCoIP Efficiency: The Team claims to have achieved, through compression protocols refinements and general performances optimization, up to 1.3X reduction in PCoIP overheads. Client Optimizations: Even in this case the Team talks about up to 3X improvement in video playback performance, with a particular focus to low-performing processors that can now reach a smooth 720p playback. Network Improvements: On this side good news for that kind of users working in adverse network condition, over congested and lossy WiFi networks the improvement can be as high as 8X. Interactivity Improvements: Improvements in this area have focused on the fluidity of users interactions in the remote desktops. The Team presents a simple visual test that shows a user rapidly drawing a spiral in Microsoft Paint via View 5.1 compared to the standard RDP7 protocol. Labels: VDI, VMware, VMware View

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