Virtualization by Davis: “McAfee announces New Data Center Security Suites” plus 19 more

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• McAfee announces New Data Center Security Suites
• Microsoft releases beta of Assessment and Planning Toolkit (MAP) version 8.0
• PHD Virtual provides Backup Solutions for Enterprise Environments
• JUDCon 2013: India to Return Bigger and Better
• Dual Factor Authentication for Free: SMS2
• Tackling a real-world VDI and vSphere 5.1 storage upgrade
• Red Hat Named Among the “Most InDemand Employers” by LinkedIn
• VMware envisions IT and personal device coexistence with Horizon Suite
• Your chance to shine at Synergy in Anaheim!
• ShareFile StorageZones
• Tech: VMware ESXi 5.1 Reference Poster
• XenDesktop Site Checker v1.7
• Virtual network switches in the VMware admin's world: Pros and cons
• Missing Icon folder after Package conversion - App-V 5.0
• App-v Client and windows explorer issue
• Technotes: How to Disable Citrix API Hooks on a Per-application Basis
• Anonymous released VMware’s ESX Server kernel source code online
• APPVReporting Database of APPV 5.0 Beta
• App-V 5.0 and publish new versions
• Software Metering And APPV 5.0 beta 2

McAfee announces New Data Center Security Suites Posted: 06 Nov 2012 01:05 AM PST On October 15, McAfee announced a solution of four new Data Center Security Suites designed to offer a combination of security for physical, virtual and cloud-based environments. The suites offer the ability to protect physical and virtual servers and desktops with merged technologies in a single solution. McAfee Data Center Security Suite for Server provides a complete set of blacklisting, whitelisting, and optimized virtualization support capabilities for basic security on servers of all types McAfee Data Center Security Suite for Server–Hypervisor Edition provides a complete set of blacklisting, whitelisting, and optimized virtualization support capabilities for basic security on servers of all types and is licensed per Hypervisor McAfee Data Center Security Suite for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure provides comprehensive security for virtual desktop deployments without compromising performance or the user experience McAfee Database Server Protection provides data base activity monitoring and vulnerability assessment in a single suite, for all major database servers in the data center Candace Worley, senior vice president and general manager of endpoint security at McAfee, said: McAfee is leading the industry with these new solutions for protecting servers in the data center, the combination of whitelisting, blacklisting and virtualization in a single solution, offers an optimal security posture for protecting servers in the data centers. These solutions address the need in the industry to offer solutions that provide the highest level of protection with minimal impact on the resources they are deployed on and in a wide range of customized licensing options. Labels: McAfee, Security

Microsoft releases beta of Assessment and Planning Toolkit (MAP) version 8.0 Posted: 05 Nov 2012 11:42 PM PST Microsoft yesterday announced the release of a beta for its Assessment and Planning Toolkit (MAP) version 8.0. MAP is Microsofts capacity planning tool, which it releases for free as a so called solution accelerator. MAP uses Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), Active Directory, SMS Provider, and other technologies to collect data in your environment and inventories computer hardware, software, and operating systems in small or large IT environments without installing any agent software on the target computers. CONTINUE READING ON CLOUDCOMPUTING.INFO… Labels: Beta, Microsoft

PHD Virtual provides Backup Solutions for Enterprise Environments Posted: 06 Nov 2012 01:02 AM PST Yesterday, November 5th, PHD Virtual Technologies announced their solutions are well-suited for large enterprise environments as well as small businesses with growing data storage, backup and recovery needs. PHD Virtual, based in Philadelphia USA, provides virtual backup for VMware and Citrix and monitoring solutions for physical, virtual and cloud environments. PHD Virtual features for large enterprise environments include: Complete or partial restorations – provides administrators with the ability to restore a complete server from scratch, by simply selecting a restore point and target. No agents, no operating system install, just restore a complete duplicate of the VM. TrueDedupe technology – a true source-side deduplication of data, meaning the deduplication and compression of the source data is performed before sending the information across the WAN/LAN and before the data is written to disk. This type of efficient deduplication is critical for enterprises that require disk space to house the backups for massive amounts of data while also being more scalable and pairing down the overall backup window time. PHD performs deduplication by comparing REAL data existing on the backup target while ensuring to eliminate duplicate copies of data across ALL VMs stored on the target making it more robust and preventing unnecessary job management to achieve storage efficiencies. Parallel processing model – this provides the ability to use multiple data streams for backing up, restoring, and replicating with the result that multiple jobs can run concurrently, In addition, parallel processing allows the user to throttle, increasing or decreasing the resources used for processing to balance the work load and timing of the backup window in the data center. Fault tolerant scaling – provides a 100% virtualized footprint for your backups running on a Linux-based application that can scale up and out by simply deploying more Virtual Backup Appliances (VBAs) giving the ability to create fault tolerance and load balancing, while providing performance that is required without the extra cost of more physical infrastructure or extra licensing. Replication – by backing up VMs once and storing them to disk, PHD Virtual Backup eliminates the need for unnecessary snapshots on your production VMs while maintaining the extra layer of protection of having the replicated VMs located offsite. Disaster recovery planning– PHD Virtual provides: TrueRestore: a verification and self-healing process in which the blocks being backed up are inspected both during the backup and restore functions. By doing this, PHD ensures that the data being backed up is indeed the same data that is going to be restored. Test-Mode: provides the ability to run replicated VMs in a test mode located in a standby environment. This gives peace of mind that the standby VM has been verified, is completely operational and can be properly failed over. Data recovery – PHD Virtual's Instant Restore provides more savvy recovery methods by allowing administrators to immediately power on the backup VMs and begin a restore process simultaneously. By doing so, PHD provides immediate access to servers and applications and also leverages concurrent data streams, allowing them to implement a technology called "mass restore," which creates and configures a single restore job that will process multiple VMs at the same time, again reducing complexity and reducing the company's RTO. Granular restore is more common than a complete data center restore, so PHD has provided support within their products to restore a file, virtual disk within a VM, or single application object, such as an email, mailbox, datastore, database, table, etc. This feature provides the functionality to restore only what you need, when you need it, without setting up any virtual labs or sandboxes to speed up recovery time and prevent unnecessary data loss. Backing up a constantly evolving data center – PHD Virtual allows administrators to plug a backup appliance or VBA into virtually any environment, including the cloud or software defined data center (SDDC) or a remote or branch office, ensuring data is safe and recoverable. Jim Legg, CEO, PHD Virtual, declares: In addition to the growth we have experienced within the SMB market, we've seen a major uptick in our penetration in the larger enterprise environments as well, the simplicity and cost-savings are definitely not exclusive to the smaller organizations – the ease of use and data movement offsite provides a powerful combination for any size corporation. Labels: Monitoring, PHD Virtual Technologies

JUDCon 2013: India to Return Bigger and Better Posted: 04 Nov 2012 09:00 PM PST Red Hat opens JUDCon 2013: India Call for Papers

Dual Factor Authentication for Free: SMS2 Posted: 05 Nov 2012 07:15 PM PST   Most VDI customers running Citrix XenApp, XenDesktop, or NetScaler are dealing with sensitive data, and breaches of security are a potentially crippling liability. While XenDesktop has some advanced security features available—such as AES encryption and an optional password manager—the root of the problem remains: user passwords. Dual factor authentication is one solution to the problems caused by weak passwords, phishing, and password theft. For… Read More

Tackling a real-world VDI and vSphere 5.1 storage upgrade Posted: 05 Nov 2012 08:34 AM PST Dave Hughes, senior storage engineer, shares the storage impact of 95% virtualization, an upgrade to vSphere 5.1 and adopting VDI via View 5.1.

Red Hat Named Among the “Most InDemand Employers” by LinkedIn Posted: 04 Nov 2012 09:00 PM PST Corporate Communications Team

VMware envisions IT and personal device coexistence with Horizon Suite Posted: 05 Nov 2012 10:42 AM PST Horizon Suite is VMware's vision for anytime/anywhere end-user computing access, under the auspices of enterprise IT admins.

Your chance to shine at Synergy in Anaheim! Posted: 05 Nov 2012 11:59 AM PST If you're delivering leading solutions for mobility, cloud computing, collaboration, networking or virtualization, we want to hear about it! The Call for Topics for Citrix Synergy 2013, May 22- 24, in Anaheim, CA, is now open.

ShareFile StorageZones Posted: 05 Nov 2012 11:24 AM PST We announced the general availability of ShareFile StorageZones at Synergy a few weeks ago, but if you want to learn more we have a great video walk-through that we put together:

Tech: VMware ESXi 5.1 Reference Poster Posted: 05 Nov 2012 11:07 AM PST VMware has updated its reference poster for ESXi 5.1. The poster which can be downloaded in PDF format gives an overview of all the features provided by ESXi 5.1, like Name spaces, Host, Virtual Machine, Storage and Network commands and much more. More VMware posters, like VMware Management with PowerCLI 5.1, VMware vCloud Networking Poster and the VMware Hands-On Labs 2012 Poster are available at the following URL: http://vmware.com/go/posters/ Labels: poster, Tech, VMware This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

XenDesktop Site Checker v1.7 Posted: 05 Nov 2012 08:36 AM PST I just wanted to update everyone on my progress with the XenDesktop site checker, and am planning to release v1.7 this week. This release has been focused on speed and functionality of the tool. Some of the major changes are: Added Catalog and Desktop Group enumeration Added a regex search box to quickly find matching nodes in the treeview Click to expand/collapse treenodes, left/right keys… Read More

Virtual network switches in the VMware admin's world: Pros and cons Posted: 05 Nov 2012 06:32 AM PST Virtual switches connect VMs to the physical network. Virtual switches differ from physical switches, putting them in the VMware admin's control.

Missing Icon folder after Package conversion - App-V 5.0 Posted: 05 Nov 2012 06:00 AM PST Hello, I have converted all my AppV 4.6 packages via Powershell to version 5.0. And the applications itself works fine but I have some missing icons on the applications because I have gotten the warning message on conversion: "The icon folder for this package is missing. This package will still convert successfully. However, there will be no icons associated with the applications". So now my question is how to add the icons again to the virtualized package? Thanks and Best Regards, Michael This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

App-v Client and windows explorer issue Posted: 05 Nov 2012 05:34 AM PST I have an issue where a user tries to open any file from any application and they click on the Look in: box and it takes 30+ seconds to drop down. Also, Windows Explorer is slow to open. This is on an XP Pro service pack 3 system. I noticed that when it finally opens there is a Q: drive in the list which does not show anywhere. Upon further investigation I  found that back in February it appears that an update tried to install App-v Client and failed, it happened at around 4:00 AM so I know no one was around at that time. I looked in Add/Remove programs and it is not listed. I found that it is in Program Files and it is in the registry. Need help in removing this from the system. Thanks. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Technotes: How to Disable Citrix API Hooks on a Per-application Basis Posted: 04 Nov 2012 11:41 PM PST Technotes: How to Disable Citrix API Hooks on a Per-application Basis Update feed preferences This articles provides instructions to disable Citrix API Hooks on a Per-application Basis.       (more) Products & Solutions | Support | Communities | News | Events | My Citrix (c) 2012 Citrix Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.

Anonymous released VMware’s ESX Server kernel source code online Posted: 05 Nov 2012 05:54 AM PST Yesterday, November 4, dutch hacker "Stun" tweeted a link that allows the download of VMware's ESX source code files dated between 1998 and 2004. The source code released is probably related to the leak that VMware itself announced in April and has already patched in May. VMware Security & Compliance Blog published a note to confirm that the security team is aware of the public posting of the code and, quoting Iain Mulholland: "As is our practice, VMware will continue to assess any further security risks, and will provide recommendations and updates here as appropriate." Labels: Leaks, Security, VMware

APPVReporting Database of APPV 5.0 Beta Posted: 05 Nov 2012 02:10 AM PST I m running the Packages on APPV Client Sucessfully. using full infrastructure model. But there is no information coming  in the "ApplicationUsage" Table in the APPVReporting Database of SQLServer thats i have configured on the Same Machine where I have the Management Server and Publishing Server. How I can work with the APPVReporting Functionality. Data in the ApplicationUsage Table will fill Automatically or we have to do spme thing ? This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

App-V 5.0 and publish new versions Posted: 05 Nov 2012 01:11 AM PST Hi, Have started trying version 5.0 and found some issues that someone might have an answer on... If I have published, for example version 0.0.0.0, and started it on the client and then added version 0.0.0.1 on the server (Publish the new version and unpublish the old version). I won't get the new version out to the client... I have verified that the old version is not "in use". I am looking in the registry for the current version IDs for that package and only the old version is there. If I use powershell and removes the old version and then push Update in the App-V client, the new version shows up... Any suggestions? This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Software Metering And APPV 5.0 beta 2 Posted: 05 Nov 2012 12:42 AM PST I have Create the Envoirnment of Full Infrastructure Model of APPV 5.0 Beta 2. where I have Management Server, Publishing Server , Active Directiry, , APPV Client And Management Server Database. My question is How I can do the software Metering or How I can Use this model as the Alternative of SCCM (in Stand alone Model of APPV 5.0 where we have Sequencer And SCCM ) ? my Final Objective is to do the Software Metering in APPV Envoirnment. what are the Options to do that ? This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

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