Virtualization by Davis: “Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst to Deliver Keynote Address at Open Source Business Conference” plus 4 more

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• Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst to Deliver Keynote Address at Open Source Business Conference
• Red Hat Customer Portal Named One of “Ten Best Web Support Sites” for Second Consecutive Year
• NVIDIA introduces World’s Firs Virtualized GPU
• VMware announces vFabric Suite 5.1
• Microsoft announces Assessment and Planning Toolkit 7.0 Beta Program

Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst to Deliver Keynote Address at Open Source Business Conference Posted: 16 May 2012 09:00 PM PDT

Red Hat Customer Portal Named One of “Ten Best Web Support Sites” for Second Consecutive Year Posted: 16 May 2012 09:00 PM PDT by: Global Support Services

NVIDIA introduces World’s Firs Virtualized GPU Posted: 17 May 2012 11:17 AM PDT 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. NVIDIA describes as follows the three key technologies of this solution: NVIDIA VGX Boards NVIDIA VGX boards are the world's first GPU boards designed for data centers. The initial NVIDIA VGX board features four GPUs, each with 192 NVIDIA CUDA® architecture cores and 4 GB of frame buffer. Designed to be passively cooled, the board fits within existing server-based platforms. The boards benefit from a range of advancements, including hardware virtualization, which enables many users who are running hosted virtual desktops to share a single GPU and enjoy a rich, interactive graphics experience; support for low-latency remote display, which greatly reduces the lag currently experienced by users; and, redesigned shader technology to deliver higher power efficiency. NVIDIA VGX GPU Hypervisor The NVIDIA VGX GPU Hypervisor is a software layer that integrates into a commercial hypervisor, enabling access to virtualized GPU resources. This allows multiple users to share common hardware and ensure virtual machines running on a single server have protected access to critical resources. As a result, a single server can now economically support a higher density of users, while providing native graphics and GPU computing performance. This new technology is being integrated by leading virtualization companies, such as Citrix, to add full hardware graphics acceleration to their full range of VDI products. NVIDIA User Selectable Machines NVIDIA USMs allow the NVIDIA VGX platform to deliver the advanced experience of professional GPUs to those requiring them across an enterprise. This enables IT departments to easily support multiple types of users from a single server. USMs allow better utilization of hardware resources, with the flexibility to configure and deploy new users' desktops based on changing enterprise needs. This is particularly valuable for companies providing infrastructure as a service, as they can repurpose GPU-accelerated servers to meet changing demand throughout the day, week or season. Labels: NVIDIA, VDI

VMware announces vFabric Suite 5.1 Posted: 15 May 2012 03:39 PM PDT 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. CONTINUE READING ON CLOUDCOMPUTING.INFO… Labels: vFabric, VMware

Microsoft announces Assessment and Planning Toolkit 7.0 Beta Program Posted: 17 May 2012 10:03 AM PDT 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. Key features and benefits of MAP 7.0 Beta help you: Understand your readiness to deploy Windows in your environment with hardware and device readiness assessments Determine Windows Server 2012 Beta readiness Investigate how Windows Server and System Center can manage your heterogeneous environment through VMware migration and Linux server virtualization assessments Size your desktop virtualization needs for both Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and session-based virtualization using Remote Desktop Services Ready your information platform for the cloud with the SQL Server 2012 discovery and migration assessment Evaluate your licensing needs with usage tracking for Lync 2010, active users and devices, SQL Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 Beta Labels: Capacity Planning, Microsoft, Release

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