VMware Beefs Up VMware Ready Program, Includes Application Software

VMware today announced an important enhancement to its VMware Ready program, expanding the program to allow middleware and application software to qualify for the VMware Ready logo. The logo simplifies the purchase and deployment process for customers and prospects by signifying that qualified applications deliver outstanding performance and reliability when deployed on VMware vSphere — the industry’s leading virtualization platform.

Pano Logic Hires Former VMware Exec Chris Hammans for European Expansion

Pano Logic today announced its European expansion and the appointment of former VMware executive Chris Hammans as Managing Director to lead the efforts from the UK.

Hammans will apply his more than 10 years experience in the virtualization industry from both VMware and Citrix to build a world-class organization for Pano Logic to meet the needs of European organizations. In expanding throughout Europe, Pano Logic is responding to rising market demand for its zero client desktop virtualization solution, which has achieved significant traction in education, health, government, manufacturing and service sectors.

Release: VMware View 4

VMware has announced VMware View 4, enabling rapid adoption of virtualized desktops and establishing a desktop as a managed service model.

VMware View 4 is a desktop virtualization solution that it claims sets a new quality, cost and scale standard for desktop virtualization environments. Built on VMware vSphere, the industry’s leading virtualization platform, VMware View 4 is a complete desktop virtualization solution featuring a rich, flexible desktop user experience while delivering dramatic efficiency, security, performance, scalability and management improvements — all while reducing desktop total cost of ownership by as much as 50 percent.

IDC’s Global Server Virtualization Tracker Shows Effects Of Recession, Signs Of Recovery

According to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Server Virtualization Tracker, 16.5% of all new servers shipped in the second quarter of 2009 (2Q09) were virtualized, an increase from 14.5% in 2Q08. However, actual shipments decreased 21.0% year over year to 246,000 physical servers in 2Q09 as customers continue to limit spending on new server hardware relative to last year. Similarly, worldwide virtualization software revenue declined 18.7% year over year in 2Q09 to $344 million. Virtualization licenses did grow quarter over quarter in 2Q09. The server virtualization market continues to shift towards the use of paid hypervisors, with paid virtualization software now running on 60.8% of all new server hardware shipments virtualized in 2Q09, an increase over 57.2% in 2Q08.

Yahoo Exec Scott Dietzen Quits, Joins rPath Board

Scott Dietzen, until recently SVP Applications at Yahoo where the man oversaw key products such as Yahoo! Mail, Messenger, Flickr, Answers, Groups, and Zimbra, has left the company.

He is not moving on to other ventures yet, wanting to spend some quality time with his family first, but tomorrow rPath will be announcing that he is joining their Board of Directors. rPath, of course, is a company that specializes in simplifying the distribution and consumption of applications via virtual appliances and cloud computing and enables sustainable appliance lifecycle management.

The Cloud Trilogy: Episode 1 & 2

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