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Release: Oracle Solaris 10 8/11

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Oracle today announced immediate availability of Oracle Solaris 10 8/11, which provides enhancements to Oracle Solaris ZFS and Oracle Solaris install technologies, advanced support for the latest SPARC and x86 systems and Oracle Database 11g performance improvements.

Oracle Solaris is an enterprise operating system, providing mission-critical availability, security and performance on both SPARC and x86 systems.

The Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 update includes new features, fixes and hardware support, preserving the Oracle Solaris Binary Application Guarantee Program to guarantee binary compatibility with older Oracle Solaris releases.

Oracle Solaris provides customers with over 11,000 third-party applications on more than 1,000 SPARC and x86 systems.

Pano Logic Launches Two New Pano Express One-Step VDI Solutions

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Pano Logic today announced two Pano Express one-step virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solutions.

Pano Express SMB and Pano Express HA include the complete VDI infrastructure – both hardware and software – required to support up to 60 power users, plus zero client endpoints. T

he one-step VDI solution is delivered with preloaded and preconfigured servers using VMware vSphere 4, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, and up to 60 Pano zero client systems.

The Pano Express HA solution provides customers with an added layer of protection using DataCore failover and replication technology for high availability. Pano Express makes it simple for administrators to move from PCs to VDI in one step.

Pano Express HA and Pano Express SMB are available now. No word on pricing.

VMware Debuts Workstation 8

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VMware today announced the availability of VMware Workstation 8, offering a way to build, share and upload virtual machines (VMs) to VMware vSphere.

With more than 50 new features, VMware Workstation 8 advances the way technical professionals can work with multiple virtual machines from their PCs or on enterprise private clouds.

VMware Workstation 8 is immediately available for purchase for $199. Upgrades from VMware Workstation 6.x and 7.x are available for $99.

VMware Customers who have purchased VMware Workstation 8 between Aug. 1, 2011 and Sept. 30, 2011 are eligible for a complimentary electronic upgrade to VMware Workstation 8.

Workstation can also be purchased through VMware’s network of resellers and distributors.

Release: VMware Fusion 4

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VMware today announced VMware Fusion 4, the “best way to run Windows on a Mac”.

Available now for a promotional price of $49.99, VMware Fusion 4 makes it easy for users to run Windows applications on a Mac.

Fusion 4 has more than 90 new features and is optimized for today’s multi-core Macs and OS X Lion.

VMware Fusion 4 now supports OS X Lion in a virtual machine, allowing users to get more from their Mac by running OS X Lion, OS X Lion Server, Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server and Mac OS X Leopard Server in virtual machines.

The suggested retail price for VMware Fusion 4 is $79.99. Customers who have purchased VMware Fusion 3 on or after July 20, 2011 are eligible for an electronic upgrade to VMware Fusion 4 at no additional cost.

VMware Fusion box products will be available at key resellers including Apple, Apple.com, Amazon.com, Best Buy, Fry’s Electronics and many other stores in the coming days. VMware Fusion is available in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Simplified Chinese and Japanese.

DynamicOps Raises $5 Million From Intel Capital

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DynamicOps has secured $5 million in funding from Intel Capital, adding to the company’s previously announced $11 million Series B round, which was originally led by Sierra Ventures and included Next World Capital.

DynamicOps is using the capital from the extended B round to fund global sales, marketing and development of its enterprise cloud solutions.

The investment from Intel Capital funding follows a series of achievements for DynamicOps, including ‘Best of VMworld 2011’ for private cloud and ‘Gartner Cool Vendor for Cloud Management’ as well as record business growth.

DynamicOps says revenue more than doubled and new customer acquisitions grew by 300 percent in the first half of 2011 compared to the same period last year.

Citrix “Opens Up The Cloud” For VMware Customers

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Citrix Systems today announced a new edition of CloudStack, which will feature enhanced support for both the VMware vSphere and Oracle VM hypervisors, enabling VMware and Oracle customers to manage their virtualized servers as a highly available, scalable cloud computing environment.

Citrix CloudStack is not just a traditional enterprise server virtualization platform with cloud management layered on top, it is a production-ready, free and open source cloud infrastructure platform that helps providers of all types deploy and manage simple, cost-effective cloud services that are scalable, secure, and open by design.

The new release is based on the same CloudStack solution that has been used by some of the world’s largest and most successful public clouds to roll out new cloud services up to 50 times faster and at one-fifth the cost of alternative solutions.

This is the first release of the product since Citrix acquired Cloud.com in July.

Citrix CloudStack with support for VMware vSphere and bare metal provisioning is available today as a free download from CloudStack.org or as a commercially supported solution from Citrix. Oracle VM support will be available in October, followed by Microsoft Hyper-V later in Q4.

CloudStack can be deployed on-premise or as a hosted cloud service.