Virtualization by Davis: “Paper: State of the VDI and SBC union 2013” plus 12 more

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• Paper: State of the VDI and SBC union 2013
• VMware announces vCloud Hybrid Service
• How to put XenApp servers to maintenance mode
• Virtualizing applications: How to know which ones to choose
• Cutting through the Hype in Cloud Management – EMA Radar for Private Clouds
• VDI hardware comparison: Thin vs. thick vs. zero clients
• Providing storage for VDI: Shared or SAN?
• All things Citrix Syndication – the InfoCenter has it all
• VMware announces Network Virtualization platform NSX
• Oracle acquires Nimbula
• PVSDataTools 1.2.2
• The Principles of Self-Support for your Citrix Environment
• Red Hat OpenSCAP Under Evaluation to Meet SCAP 1.2 NIST Standard

Paper: State of the VDI and SBC union 2013 Posted: 14 Mar 2013 01:53 AM PDT   In October last year, virtualization.info reported on a Survey titled State of the VDI and SBC union hosted by Project Virtual Reality Check (VRC). The Survey has since then been filled in by more than 600 responders and now Project VRC has made the results available in a new paper titled: "State of the VDI and SBC union 2013". The paper which contains 69 pages is available for download after registration on the Project VRC website.  The paper covers all of the questions asked in the survey, and comes with the following main conclusions: VDI market is still very early stage. Manageability and flexibility will fuel growth VMware is the dominant hypervisor for VDI. This position will probably not change Citrix XenDesktop is the dominant connection broker. VMware View strong second The use of stateless VDI seems larger than most analyst projections WAN optimization and Unified Communications are not widely used in VDI HP is the dominant server for VDI workloads, Dell is strong second Most infrastructures deploy 1vCPU per VM, while 2vCPU is a best practice Antivirus is widely used with VDI, but usage of VDI optimized solutions is still rare User Environment Management solutions are not widely used in VDI, Microsoft SCCM dominant as Client Management solution The majority uses Windows 7 x64 as desktop VM. Which may cause performance sizing and application readiness problems. Application Virtualization is used widely with VDI, Microsoft is dominant. Storage use is still mostly central, established large vendors are still dominant here. SBC market is very mature in comparison to VDI. Citrix XenApp is very dominant. User experience/performance is the key innovation area for SBC/VDI adaption. Labels: Paper, VDI, VRC

VMware announces vCloud Hybrid Service Posted: 13 Mar 2013 01:39 PM PDT VMware today announced the vCloud Hybrid Service to be available later this year. It also announced a new Hybrid Cloud Services business unit let by Bill Fathers who is appointed Senior Vice President (SVP) and general manager. Fathers, was President of Savvis, a premier managed hosting and colocation provider. vCloud Hybrid Service provides Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) from the cloud providing a common management, orchestration, networking and security model and will be delivered by VMware's partner ecosystem. CONTINUE READING ON CLOUDCOMPUTING.INFO… Labels: IaaS, VMware

How to put XenApp servers to maintenance mode Posted: 13 Mar 2013 11:18 PM PDT Introduction "I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it." - Bill Gates Many people know that I am a big supporter of laziness in IT (and I wrote about it before, too). Lazy approach is actually very hard – it requires a lot of effort to learn how to minimize the… Read More

Virtualizing applications: How to know which ones to choose Posted: 13 Mar 2013 12:16 PM PDT If you're virtualizing applications, look out for apps that require a lot of graphics or disk I/O. They may not be the best candidates.

Cutting through the Hype in Cloud Management – EMA Radar for Private Clouds Posted: 13 Mar 2013 03:32 PM PDT Reality – from EMA analyst report, EMA Radar for Private Cloud Platforms "With 150 paying cloud customers in 2012, many of which are managing tens of thousands of physical hosts, Citrix is a strong competitor in the cloud marketplace. The scale and business criticality of Citrix CloudPlatform-driven solutions, such as Zynga's cloud, is evidence of the maturity of the Citrix cloud portfolio." An interesting effect… Read More

VDI hardware comparison: Thin vs. thick vs. zero clients Posted: 13 Mar 2013 11:07 AM PDT Thin clients aren't on a diet; they just do less processing than 'fat' clients. Devices such as the iPad are also VDI hardware options.

Providing storage for VDI: Shared or SAN? Posted: 13 Mar 2013 06:51 AM PDT When you're selecting storage for VDI, consider whether fault tolerance is important and how many advanced features you need.

All things Citrix Syndication – the InfoCenter has it all Posted: 13 Mar 2013 12:03 PM PDT The Citrix Syndication InfoCenter is your central destination for all things Citrix Syndication. From "why syndicate" to "how to" - the InfoCenter brings you everything you need to get started, and even includes sample sites. Take a look! If you're familiar with the InfoCenter you might notice that we recently underwent a minor change. That's right, we have made it even quicker for you to access the content and resources you need, giving easier navigation and less clicks.

VMware announces Network Virtualization platform NSX Posted: 13 Mar 2013 12:38 PM PDT In May last year, VMware acquired Nicira a company specialized in software defined networking (SDN) and network virtualization. Now VMware has announced that the Nicira NVP and VMware vCloud Network and Security (vCNS) will become one unified platform naming it VMware NSX. VMware NSX exposes a complete suite of simplified logical networking elements and services including logical switches, routers, firewalls, load balancers, VPN, QoS, monitoring, and security; arranged in any topology with isolation and multi-tenancy through programmable APIs – deployed on top of any physical IP network fabric, resident with any compute hypervisor, connecting to any external network, and consumed by any cloud management platform (e.g. vCloud, OpenStack, CloudStack). The VMware NSX platform consists of the following components: Controller Cluster, a highly available scale-out distributed system of x86 machines responsible for the programmatic deployment of virtual networks across the entire architecture Hypervisor vSwitches, a a high performance in-kernel vSwitch with a programmable L2-L4 data plane and configuration database. Gateways, providing scale-out Gateway services that connect virtual networks within VMware NSX to non-virtual hosts, remote sites, and external networks. Ecosystem partners which can attach L4-L7 service appliances to VMware NSX to be exposed as services available to virtual networks. NSX Manager a web-based GUI management dashboard for user friendly human interaction with the VMware NSX controller cluster API, for system setup, administration and troubleshooting. Labels: VMware

Oracle acquires Nimbula Posted: 13 Mar 2013 12:03 PM PDT Today, March 13 2013, Oracle announced that has reached an agreement to acquire Nimbula, a company (formerly Benguela) founded in 2008 by Chris Pinkham and Willem van Biljon, both formerly Amazon executives, who initiated and developed EC2. Nimbula, that joined OpenStack Community in October 2012, offers a cloud management software called Nimbula Director that now reached version 2.0 with full API compatibility for OpenStack. In the announcement Oracle defines Nimbula's product "complementary to Oracle, and is expected to be integrated with Oracle's cloud offerings", we can assume that the goal of the acquisition is to strengthen Oracle's cloud strategy that has proved to be at least "improvable". CONTINUE READING ON CLOUDCOMPUTING.INFO… Labels: acquisition, Nimbula, Oracle

PVSDataTools 1.2.2 Posted: 13 Mar 2013 11:10 AM PDT We want to take the opportunity to announce the PVSDataTools which is a new tool recently released by the Provisioning Services (PVS) Escalation Team.  PVSDataTools is a set of tools used to collect and parse data from a Provisioning Services (PVS) Server to assist in troubleshooting an issue. PVSDataTools contains two tools: PVSDataCollector and PVSDataParser. PVSDataCollector The PVSDataCollector collects the following information from the PVS Server: System… Read More

The Principles of Self-Support for your Citrix Environment Posted: 13 Mar 2013 09:06 AM PDT As we've said here before, virtualization and networking solutions are rarely 'fire and forget'. They touch too many other parts of your IT infrastructure and everything changes all the time. So every one of our clients earmarks resources – whether time, money or both – for supporting their Citrix environment, keeping it trouble-free and solving any issues that pop up. Some of our customers sign… Read More

Red Hat OpenSCAP Under Evaluation to Meet SCAP 1.2 NIST Standard Posted: 12 Mar 2013 09:00 PM PDT The Red Hat Government and Industry Standard Certifications Team

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