Virtualization by Davis: “Veeam Software results for Q2 2012” plus 3 more

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• Veeam Software results for Q2 2012
• Can an APP-V app (stand alone or otherwise) run from a Network Share without every having been "installed"
• Release: Microsoft Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8
• Oracle acquires Xsigo

Veeam Software results for Q2 2012 Posted: 02 Aug 2012 04:54 AM PDT Yesterday, August 1st, Veeam released the results about its growth for Q2 2012. Veeam, founded in 2006, is a VMware Technology Alliance Partner and member of the VMware Ready Management program, providing software for managing VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V environments. Among the spotlights of what happened during the second quarter, Veeam gained more than 6.000 new customers, for a total of over 43.000, the company had 12.000 customers two years ago, in Q2 2010. As highlighted in the press release: Customers – Veeam added more than 6,000 new customers during the quarter, increasing the total number of customers to more than 43,000. Awards – Veeam continued its award-winning streak during the second quarter.  Notable wins included: Microsoft Management and Virtualization Partner of the Year for 2012, recognized for providing outstanding solutions in management and virtualization. "Editors' Choice" award at the 2012 Storage Awards sponsored by Storage Magazine. "Rising Star" Silver medal during the European Global Technology Distribution Council Summit Winner in the Backup and Recovery category of the VirtualizationAdmin.com Readers' Choice awards. Products – Veeam introduced several new products during Q2, including: Backup Free Edition for VMware and Hyper-V, bringing the new VeeamZIP capability for ad-hoc backups, Instant File-Level Recovery and more – all available at no cost.  Backup Free Edition is the successor to Veeam FastSCP, an extremely popular free utility with more than 150,000 users worldwide. Backup & Replication v6.1, offering VeeamZIP functionality and extending Veeam's patent-pending vPower® technology – as well as Instant VM Recovery – to Hyper-V. vPower runs a VM directly from a compressed and deduplicated backup file on regular backup storage. Veeam ONE v6, providing powerful and easy-to-use monitoring and reporting for VMware and Hyper-V environments. Veeam ONE provides complete visibility of the virtual infrastructure and affordably delivers the capabilities that matter most to virtualization administrators Labels: Veeam

Can an APP-V app (stand alone or otherwise) run from a Network Share without every having been "installed" Posted: 01 Aug 2012 12:20 PM PDT Background: Our strategy for deploying applications is to virtualize whenever possible and if that doesn't work then use Citrix Published apps (or possibly RemoteApp).  If none of those work, we will install MSIs using Config Manager (as a last resort). Corporate App Store:  We want to stick shortcuts to Virtual Apps (along with shortcuts to Citrix published apps) in a corporate "App Store".  This App Store would reside on a network file share and we would grant or limit access to the shortcuts or subfolders by means of standard windows file system permissions.  We would redirect the "Start Menu" shell folder to this App Store folder allowing us to have centralized control. We are currently evaluating both APP-V and ThinApp as our virtual application solution.  Thinapp doesn't require a client and it's apps are simply EXEs (which we can easily make shortcuts of). We don't want to "install" any virtual applications....we simply want to create shortcuts to virtual apps that can be run from a network share (provided the App-V client is installed).  We realize this approach may forgo some functionality but this would be acceptable because of the simplicity gains. Question:  Can an APP-V app (stand alone or otherwise) run from a Network Share without every having been "installed". Thanks, David W King This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Release: Microsoft Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 Posted: 01 Aug 2012 04:24 PM PDT Today Microsoft released to manufacturing a new version of its Server Operating System Windows Server 2012 together with a new release of its client Operating System Windows 8. Windows Server 2012 will become generally available on September 4 while Windows 8 will be generally available on October 26 this year, but sooner for MSDN and Technet subscribers as described here. Both Windows Server 2012 as Windows 8 contain version 3.0 of the Hyper-V type-1 hypervisor for which the expected features were already covered by virtualization.info in September last year. For a quick overview of which features the Hyper-V hypervisor contains we suggest you look at the Hyper-V component architecture poster, which Microsoft released in June this year. It is expected that Microsoft will release an update to its System Center 2012 management suite which is now in CTP 2 soon in order to support installation on top and management of the new Windows Server 2012 OS and its features. Labels: Microsoft, Release

Oracle acquires Xsigo Posted: 01 Aug 2012 10:19 AM PDT On Monday Oracle announced its plan to buy privately held Xsigo, a company based in California and specialized in virtual networking. The company, founded eight years ago, backed by Kleiner Perkins, Caufield Byers, Greylock Partners, North Bridge Venture Partners and Khosla Ventures, has BritishTelecom, eBay, Softbank  and Verizon Communications Inc. among its customers. Oracle did not disclose the terms of the agreement. This news is strictly related to the acquisition of Nicira Inc., announced last week by VMware, for $1.26 billions to expand its portfolio and establish a leadership position in virtual networks. The proliferation of virtualized servers in the last few years has made the virtualization of the supporting network connections essential. With Xsigo, customers can reduce the complexity and simplify management of their clouds by delivering compute, storage and network resources that can be dynamically reallocated on-demand. said John Fowler, Oracle Executive Vice President of Systems. Customers are focused on reducing costs and improving utilization of their network. Virtualization of these resources allows customers to scale compute and storage for their public and private clouds while matching network capacity as demand dictates. said Lloyd Carney, Xsigo CEO. Labels: Acquisitions, Oracle

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