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Release: Parallels Server for Mac 4

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Parallels today announced the launch of Parallels Server for Mac 4, increasing the speed and reliability of virtual environments for small businesses.

Parallels Server for Mac 4 consolidates multiple operating systems resulting in the ability to retire redundant hardware and extend existing capabilities. The result of consolidation means less physical space, less power consumption and less administration skills are needed to manage the server needs of the business.

Other significant upgrades include host and guest support for Snow Leopard as well as guest support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. In addition, it now includes Apple xSAN support, VLANs, resource usage accounting, full and incremental backups, migration and conversion of virtual machines as well as express installations for Windows and Linux guests.

All of the advanced automation and management features of Parallels Virtual Automation are now available to the Parallels Server for Mac 4 installations including user self service, anytime/anywhere management and click to migrate capabilities.

Commercial pricing starts at $1,999 USD.

However, the upgrade is included at no additional cost to Parallels Server for Mac 3 customers on maintenance. Parallels Server for Mac 3 customers without maintenance will be offered an upgrade SKU at a special time limited offer. Upgrades are available now.

Parallels Server for Mac 4 will be available on July 2, 2010 from selected Apple stores, software resellers, from the Parallels website and its  US sales team.

Red Hat Reports First Quarter Results, Revenue Comes In At $209 Million

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Red Hat today announced financial results for its fiscal year 2011 first quarter ended May 31, 2010.

Total revenue for the quarter was $209.1 million, an increase of 20% from the year ago quarter. Subscription revenue for the quarter was $179.1 million, up 20% year-over-year.

GAAP operating income for the first quarter was $34.2 million, or a 16.4% operating margin. After adjusting for stock compensation and amortization expenses as detailed in the tables below, non-GAAP operating income for the first quarter was $52.0 million, up 28% year-over-year. Non-GAAP operating margin was 24.8%, up 140 basis points from the year ago quarter.

Net income for the quarter was $24.1 million, or $0.12 per diluted share, compared with $18.5 million, or $0.10 per diluted share, in the year ago quarter. Non-GAAP net income for the quarter was $35.6 million, or $0.18 per diluted share, after adjusting for stock compensation and amortization expenses as detailed in the tables below, as compared to $28.7 million, or $0.15 per diluted share, in the year ago quarter.

Operating cash flow totaled $60.6 million, as compared to $61.2 million in the year ago quarter. At quarter end, the company’s total deferred revenue balance was $625.6 million, an increase of 10% on a year-over-year basis. Total cash, cash equivalents and investments as of May 31, 2010 was $967.8 million.

Phoenix Technologies Completes Sale of HyperSpace Assets to HP

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Phoenix Technologies has announced that it has completed the sale of the assets related to its HyperSpace, HyperCore and Phoenix Flip instant-on and client virtualization products to HP.

Total consideration from the sale of the assets is $12.0 million, of which approximately $9.8 million was paid to Phoenix at the closing, after deducting certain fees and costs relating to the transaction, and $2.0 million which was placed into escrow to cover certain potential Company indemnification obligations.

“The completion of this transaction marks a major milestone for our Company as we refocus our efforts on our CSS business where we have a proven track record of success,” said Tom Lacey, President and CEO of Phoenix. “With this cash infusion, we are well poised to extend our CSS market leadership and improve our enterprise value.”

Infonetics: Virtual Security Market Up 119% in 1Q 2010, To Hit $1.6 Billion In 2014

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Market research firm Infonetics Research released the first edition of its new 2010 biannual Virtual Security Appliances market size and forecast report, which tracks VPNs and firewalls, SSL VPNs, intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDS/IPS), and content security gateways designed for virtualized servers.

The worldwide virtual security appliance market jumped 64% in 2009 over 2008, to $203.8 million.

  • Year-over-year, from the first quarter of 2009 and the first quarter of 2010, the virtual security appliance market is up 119%
  • Infonetics Research forecasts the virtual security appliance market to grow nearly 8-fold from 2009 to 2014, when it will near $1.6 billion
  • The virtual security appliance segment posting the strongest quarterly growth in 1Q10 is content security gateway virtual appliances, up 22%
  • North America is currently the largest regional market for virtual security appliances

Infonetics’ biannual Virtual Security Appliances report provides worldwide and regional market size, forecasts through 2014, and analysis for virtual security appliances, including VPNs/firewalls, SSL VPNs, IDS/IPS, and content security gateways specifically designed to be installed on virtualized server platforms (VMware, XenServer, Windows Server with Hyper-V). The service counts licenses, revenue, and revenue per license for all virtual security appliance categories.
Companies tracked in the report include AEP, Altor, Astaro, Blue Coat, Check Point, Citrix, Enterasys, McAfee, SonicWALL, Stonesoft, Symantec, Vyatta, and others.

Former 3Dlabs CEO Osman Kent Named New Chairman of Endeavors Technologies

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Endeavors Technologies, the pioneer of application virtualization and the inventor of application streaming, announced today that Silicon Valley veteran Osman Kent joined the company as an investing Chairman.

The announcement was made at BriForum, the premier desktop and application virtualization event geared toward technologists held June 15-17, 2010 at the Chicago Hilton.

Osman Kent is a serial technology and media entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CEO of 3Dlabs – at one time an almost $1B NASDAQ company which enabled 3D graphics on the PC.

Kent is an advisor and non-executive director for a number of emerging technology and media companies and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in the UK. He has a First Class degree in Computer Science and Electronics Engineering from University of Birmingham (UK) and he is the inventor of numerous patents in the field of computing and graphics.

VMware And Google Partner On Cloud Computing

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VMware this week announced a series of technology collaborations with Google to deliver solutions that make enterprise software developers more efficient at building, deploying and managing applications within any cloud environment; public, private and hybrid.

Announced today onstage at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco by Paul Maritz, president and CEO of VMware, the two companies will bring together technologies and expertise to help accelerate enterprise adoption of cloud computing.portability are of utmost importance to both companies. We will work to ensure that modern applications can run smoothly within the firewalls of a company’s datacenter or out in the public cloud environment.”

VMware and Google are collaborating on multiple fronts to make cloud applications more productive, portable, and flexible. These projects will enable Java developers to build rich web applications, use Google and VMware performance tools on cloud apps, and deployments of Spring Java applications on Google App Engine.

Spring, Google App Engine, and SpringSource Tool Suite Google is announcing support for Spring Java apps on Google App Engine as part of a shared vision to make it easy to build, run, and manage applications for the cloud, and to do so in a way that makes the applications portable across clouds. Using the Eclipse-based SpringSource Tool Suite, developers can build Spring applications in a familiar and productive way and have the flexibility to choose to deploy their applications in their current private VMware vSphere environment, in VMware vCloud partner clouds, or directly to Google App Engine.

Spring Roo and Google Web Toolkit VMware and Google are working together to combine the speed of development of Spring Roo, a next generation rapid application development tool, with the power of the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) to build rich browser apps. These GWT powered applications can leverage modern browser technologies such as AJAX and HTML5 to create the most compelling end user experience on both smartphones and computers.

Spring Insight and Google Speed Tracer The two companies are also collaborating to more tightly integrate VMware’s Spring Insight performance tracing technology within the SpringSource tc Server application server with Google’s Speed Tracer technology to enable end to end performance visibility of cloud applications built using Spring and Google Web Toolkit.