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Xeround Puts Out Intelligent Data Grid 2.8

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Xeround, a provider of database virtualization software, earlier this week announced the launch of the Xeround Intelligent Data Grid version 2.8.  Xeround’s vision is to enable cloud computing infrastructures for its customers by delivering data management within a cloud and data federation between clouds.  This release improves upon Xeround IDG’s capabilities for real time, scalable database virtualization that unifies data across multiple networks and businesses while still improving total cost-of-ownership.

Xeround IDG is built on a patented technology that can unify data across multiple networks and businesses in real-time and make that information available across a company’s entire  ecosystem of network elements and applications.  Unlike point products or custom solutions, Xeround IDG is a scalable, reusable, easy-to-implement distributed architecture that increases the efficiency of existing infrastructures.

Release: DotNetPanel 2.8.1 And A Hyper-V Hosting Control Panel Module

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DotNetPanel announced earlier this week the release of DotNetPanel 2.8.1 and the new Hyper-V module for creating, managing, and selling VPS accounts. Nearly two months in beta, hosting companies now have access to the first-ever Windows hosting control panel that uses Hyper-V technology.

DotNetPanel offers free 30-day trials of the new Hyper-V module, giving hosting companies the opportunity to experience the benefits of using a remarkably low-priced solution for managing and automating VPS hosting services.

DotNetPanel’s Hyper-V module also complements existing offerings including Virtuozzo. Compared to Virtuozzo, the Hyper-V provides complete VPS isolation, guaranteed memory for each VPS, snapshots management, DVD media library, and networking management.

Industry Moves: MokaFive CEO Out After Only A Year

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Desktop virtualization company MokaFive saw CEO Bill Demas leave over the Summer to join advertising startup Turn. The experienced Dale Fuller has replaced him, which speaks volumes about MokaFive’s ambition.

Fuller served as interim CEO at McAfee for 1,5 years, was CEO at Borland and worked as Vice President of Macbook division at Apple. Fuller is also on the board of directors of AVG and covered the same role in Phoenix Technologies.

Source: virtualization.info

Industry Moves: Susan Roberts Is The New Senior Director of Marketing For Virtual Iron

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After Virtual Iron saw his longtime marketing executive Mike Grandinetti leave for his own venture in May, it went looking for someone to replace him, and it now looks as if they’ve found just the woman for the job.

Susan Roberts will replace Grandinetti as Senior Director of Marketing, after a career at Dassault Systems where she was Director of Global Branding and Marketing Communications and Paxonix where she was Director of Marketing.

After Embotics, Stephen Pollack Joins Enomaly’s Advisory Board

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After joining the Advisory Board for Embotics, which we just reported raised a $4 million Series B round of funding, Stephen Pollack is also joining the Advisory Board of Enomaly.

Stephen Pollack is a recognized leader in the virtualization industry who founded PlateSpin (acquired by Novell earlier this year). With the addition of Pollack, the Advisory Board will continue to help guide Embotics’ direction, organization and strategy for product and company growth.

See Reuven Cohen’s blog post on the addition of Pollack.

VMware Quietly Picks Up Tungsten Graphics

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It’s not the first time VMware quietly acquires a company (remember Blue Lane?). Now it appears as the virtualization juggernaut has also picked up Tungsten Graphics as recently as last month.

From the FAQ on their website:

Has TG been acquired? Yes, VMware acquired Tungsten Graphics on November 26, 2008. The addition of the TG team will augment VMware’s ability to deliver industry-leading 3D graphics virtualization capabilities.

How does VMware fit into the landscape of open source graphics? VMware has had a history of developing technology to enable graphics capabilities to guest software running in VMware virtual machines. This work includes special drivers that are optimized for VMware’s virtual hardware, that consequently offer better performance and additional features such as arbitrary screen resizing and multihead support. The video driver was released as open source in 2002, with development done upstream in X.org’s git repository.

What does this mean for my open source driver project? Gallium makes it much easier to create 3D drivers that support multiple API’s on multiple operating systems and utilize multiple GPU architectures. Our team will continue to drive the Gallium infrastructure forward and keep it up to date with the latest advances occuring in the graphics arena. The means your Gallium based driver project will benefit from these enhancements.