sábado, 15 de septiembre de 2012

Virtualization by Davis: “The Cloud Era is….digital, social, mobile, personal!” plus 7 more

Virtualization by Davis: “The Cloud Era is….digital, social, mobile, personal!” plus 7 more


The Cloud Era is….digital, social, mobile, personal!

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 02:27 PM PDT

With just a few weeks to go until Citrix Synergy, this fall's hottest cloud, networking, collaboration and virtualization event, I wanted to tell you about the spirit of the cloud era which will underpin all aspects of Synergy to deliver the best possible conference experience. I recently outlined the hot technology trends you can expect to learn about in Barcelona. With the transition from the PC era to…

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Release: Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.2

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 04:04 PM PDT

Oracle announced yesterday, September 13th, a new release for its open source, cross-platform virtualization software: VM VirtualBox 4.2.
Oracle VM VirtualBox was originally created by German software company Innotek GmbH, later on purchased by Sun Microsystems and after the acquisition passed on to Oracle to be part of its virtualization products.
The solution allows to manage a large amount of virtual machine, running different operating systems, on the same computer at the same time, it can be installed on an existing host operating system as an application and can be run on various operating systems, including: Linux, Mac OS X, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Solaris, and OpenSolaris; Since release 3.2.0, also on of Mac OS X
This release introduces some new features added, for instance VM Group, intended to improve network capabilities and provide support for new host and guest OS platforms.
Among the new details of this new release:
  • Increased efficiency:
  • More flexible VM startup options:
  • Networking improvements:
  • New platform support
Wim Coekaerts, Oracle senior vice president of Linux and Virtualization Engineering, declares:
As the only free, open source virtualization software that supports Windows, Mac, Linux and Oracle Solaris platforms, users can install Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.2 on their preferred host platform and run a huge variety of guest operating systems in virtual machines, Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.2 makes it even easier and more efficient for users to manage virtual machines with VM Groups, new startup options, and new network tuning capabilities.


Labels: Oracle, virtualbox


New Citrix acquisition: Beetil

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 06:46 PM PDT

On September 10 Citrix announced to have acquired Beetil, a small cloud-based service desk technology provider based in Wellington, New Zealand, specialized in designing secure cloud-based solutions that would permit its customers to work anywhere using GoToAssist, GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar, GoToTraining, GoToMyPC, Podio and Sharefile.
Citrix's aim of the acquisition is to gain service desk management with GoToAssist with Beetil software, in order to be hable to give remote support and monitoring.


Labels: acquisition, Beetil, Citrix


Paper: VMware vCloud Networking Poster

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 03:33 AM PDT

VMware, through its official blog, published the new VMware vCloud Networking Poster.

The poster is a reference for vSphere Standard Switch (VSS), vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) and Virtual Extensible Local Area Network (VXLAN).

In the document you can find explained the advanced features of VDS and a discussion of some best practices.

CONTINUE READING ON CLOUDCOMPUTING.INFO…



Labels: Paper, vCloud, VMware


No vSphere 5.1 support for VMware View is no problem -- for now

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 08:12 AM PDT

This week's vSphere 5.1 release lacks VMware View support. Users and partners seem OK with it, as long as support gets added soon.

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No vSphere 5.1 support for VMware View is no problem -- for now

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 08:12 AM PDT

This week's vSphere 5.1 release lacks VMware View support. Users and partners seem OK with it, as long as support gets added soon.

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How Companies Using App Virtualization with Client Virtualization Are Driving Down Management and Support Costs

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 12:28 PM PDT

Companies using application virtualization on laptops or desktops have made great first strides in bringing down management and support costs by simplifying the deployment and management of the applications they are virtualizing. However, the management of the base laptops or desktops still presents a challenge as companies often manage personal productivity and other applications in the base OS image. By using Client Virtualization (i.e., with…

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Fact or Fiction:”Nothing Comes for Free”? We’re standing firm: “Fiction”

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 11:05 AM PDT

Mythbusting: It's a phrase we hear all too often, along with other classics such as "if it seems to good to be true, it IS too good to be true" and "you can't get something for nothing". Well whilst I admit these are often tried, tested and proven - there are always exceptions to the rule! Take Citrix Syndication for example. Here's a way that you can get current, rich and lead-generating Citrix content and resources delivered straight to your website - for free! Yes, that's right - for free.


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