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VMware Unveils Horizon App Manager: Easy Cloud Application Management For $30 Per User / Year

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VMware this morning announced VMware Horizon App Manager, a user-centric management service for accessing cloud applications.

VMware Horizon App Manager represents the first component of the company’s “Project Horizon” vision first previewed at VMworld 2010.

A datasheet (PDF) is available here.

The company says future releases of VMware Horizon will broker user access to a variety of application types, virtual Windows desktops and data resources, while delivering the security and control required by businesses. The result should be a simple, seamless user experience when accessing work resources across the private and public cloud on whatever device the user chooses.

At its core, VMware Horizon App Manager includes an identity as a service hub that extends a user’s existing identity in systems such as Microsoft Active Directory or other directory options, into third-party public cloud applications like Box.net, BroadVision, Google, Salesforce.com, WebEx, Workday and others.

This simplifies the management of multiple access credentials, a necessity brought about by the growing number of cloud applications now found in a typical enterprise.

In addition, the VMware Horizon App Manager provides an open, user-centric platform for accessing cloud applications within a single application portal that is accessible from a wide range of end-user devices.

Additional VMware Horizon App Manager features include:

– Multi-Platform/Multi-Device Support
– Enterprise Directory Federation/Cloud Identity Hub
– Standards Based Secure Authentication
– Application Provisioning
– Roles-Based Access and Reporting

Available today to select early access customers in North America and Asia Pacific Region, and via trials in other regions, VMware Horizon App Manager is $30.00 per user/per year.

Check out Robert Scoble’s interview with VMware lead for Project Horizon Noah Wasmer.

Update: Chris Hoff’s take: VMware’s Horizon App Manager – A Big Bet That Will Pay Off…

 

Veeam’s Backup & Replication To Gain Support For Microsoft Hyper-V

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Veeam Software, provider of VMware data protection, disaster recovery and VMware management solutions for virtual datacenter environments, today announced at Tech·Ed North America that it is adding support for Windows Server Hyper-V and Microsoft Hyper-V Server to Veeam Backup & Replication, its data protection solution for virtual environments.

By extending support to Hyper-V, Veeam is providing:

– 2-in-1 backup and replication for Hyper-V
– Changed block tracking for Hyper-V
– Built-in deduplication and compression

Veeam Backup & Replication for Microsoft Hyper-V will be available to customers in the fourth quarter of 2011.

Juniper Networks Launches Junosphere Classroom

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Juniper Networks this morning announced Junosphere Classroom, a new cloud-based service designed to enable educational institutions, partners and customers to educate networking students and professionals.

Junosphere Classroom is based on Junosphere, a new cloud environment that enables the creation and modeling of virtual networks and elements running the industry-leading Junos operating system.

Juniper Networks hosts Junosphere Classroom resources in data centers, designed using Juniper’s networking and security technologies, which are accessible to students via a secure Internet connection.

This “any-time, any-where” access to the Junosphere environment can extend individual study time, and is also ideal for providing remote learning and home-based education.

Junosphere Classroom is available as a standalone offering, and as a component of the Juniper Networks Academic Alliance (JNAA) and Juniper Networks Authorized Educations Partner (JNAEP) programs, which provide prepackaged curricula and courseware.

Appcore Picks Cloud.com To Power Private Cloud Platform

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Open source cloud computing software company Cloud.com recently announced that Appcore, a global business information systems provider, is using the company’s flagship product, CloudStack, for its private cloud computing platform.

Appcore technology includes such a platform, the global Appcore Cloud Network, Appcore Second Site for disaster recovery, and Appcore Cloud Onsite, which allows enterprises to run the platform behind its firewall or in any of Appcore’s global clouds.

One of the key reasons Appcore is using Cloud.com CloudStack is due to its open source model and therefore Appcore’s ability to see the code prior to making its selection. In addition to the benefits of open source that CloudStack delivers, Appcore has gained an easy-to-use user interface for customer self-service administration that can decrease operating costs by freeing up

Extreme Networks Introduces Open Fabric Data Center Architecture

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Extreme Networks last week announced the Extreme Networks Open Fabric data center solutions, a portfolio of data center switches that allow organizations to more cost-effectively build scalable, mobile and virtualized networks featuring high performance, low latency and energy efficiency.

Extreme Networks Open Fabric data center solutions leverage standards-based technologies preserving existing investments while bringing new innovations that drive cloud-scale networks.

The Extreme Networks Open Fabric data center solution leverages the ExtremeXOS operating system end-to-end and emphasizes wire-speed switching of Virtual Machines, intelligence to automate VM mobility through XNV, standards-based, non-blocking high density 10Gbs server connectivity and non-blocking high density 40Gbs fabric interconnect with multi-path forwarding that is also designed to evolve for 100GbE.

The Extreme Networks Open Fabric data center architecture incorporates standards-based OpenFlow technology to simplify network provisioning and supports Data Center Bridging (DCB) to provide consolidation of LAN and storage fabrics in the data center, including iSCSI and FCoE.

Oracle Upgrades Sun Ray Software

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Oracle last week announced Sun Ray Software 5.2. The latest release of Oracle’s server-hosted desktop software is simpler to install and configure and features improved video, audio, smart card, Virtual Private Network (VPN), and network resiliency.

Sun Ray Software is part of Oracle’s desktop-to-datacenter virtualization portfolio, allowing customers to virtualize and manage their full software and hardware stack, from applications to disk.

Sun Ray Software enables users to access virtual Windows, Linux, and Oracle Solaris desktop environments through any combination of Sun Ray Clients, PCs or Macs.

New enhancements in Sun Ray Software 5.2 include:

– Simplified installation and deployment
– Richer multimedia experience
– Real-time audio:
– Oracle Solaris IPMP support for greater resiliency and load spreading