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Sourcefire Aims To Facilitate Application Control Within Virtual Environments

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Sourcefire, the creator of Snort and a provider of cybersecurity solutions, today announced integration between Sourcefire and VMware vShield App and vShield Edge.

The integrations enable the Sourcefire Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) to configure VMware vShield App or vShield Edge to dynamically restrict any policy-violating activity within a customer’s virtual environment.

The Sourcefire IPSTM integrated with VMware vShield products provides users with application detection, application control and real-time adaptive security.

With this ability to enforce security policies, the integration between Sourcefire and VMware vShield solutions helps users reduce the risk of a security breach or data loss. The Sourcefire IPS monitors real-time network and user activity in a virtual environment, detecting policy violations such as the use of unauthorized applications on non-standard ports or unpermitted access to a critical host.

When a violation is identified, Sourcefire uses VMware vShield APIs to dynamically configure vShield App or vShield Edge to restrict the activity causing the violation.

Ericom Announces First ‘Pure’ HTML5 Client For VMware View

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Ericom Software, provider of Application Access and Desktop Virtualization solutions, today announced the availability of a beta version of an HTML5 client for VMware View – the first VDI solution to work natively with Chrome, Safari and other browsers with HTML5 and WebSocket support. The solution does not require Java, Flash, Silverlight or any other underlying technology.

Features:

– Support for Windows, Linux, Mac and Chrome OS (HTML5 client is the only way to support Google’s Chrome OS)
– Runs on netbooks, desktops, laptops and thin clients, and supports Intel x86, ARM or any other CPU architecture
– Looks and works the same way on all supported device types, thus reducing training and help desk costs
– Enables IT staff to publish desktops to end-points, for which native VMware View clients either do not exist or cannot be created
– Can be deployed to locked-down end-points, kiosks and computers for which the user does not have administrative privileges
– Simple, easy and inexpensive to maintain – does not require any infrastructure for deployment, upgrades or patches – simply put new version on the server.
– Includes Ericom Blaze RDP Compression and Acceleration technology

Release: OpenNebula 2.2

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The OpenNebula Project announced today the general availability of OpenNebula 2.2 for download. OpenNebula is open-source reference technology used to deploy infrastructure clouds.

OpenNebula 2.2 is the seventh major release of the project.

“With OpenNebula 2.2 we continue to make OpenNebula the open-source choice to deploy an Infrastructure Cloud”, said Ignacio M. Llorente, Project Director at OpenNebula.org. “We are adding new features to strength the production-ready nature of OpenNebula, making it the most proven, powerful an interoperable technology in the cloud arena”.

OpenNebula 2.2 extends the fault-tolerance features of the toolkit and includes out-of-the-box integration with data-center’s monitoring systems.

Former XenSource CEO Peter Levine Is Andreessen Horowitz’s Newest Partner

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VC firm Andreessen-Horowitz has appointed Peter Levine, a veteran of the enterprise software company Veritas (now a part of Symantec) and former CEO of XenSource (now part of Citrix) as partner.

Levine is the third partner to join the firm in recent months; in January 2011 Andreessen-Horowitz named HP and Opsware vet Mark Cranney as a partner for market development, and in March 2011 it added IronPort’s Scott Weiss.

At AH, Levine will focus on investments in the infrastructure area, which broadly includes cloud computing, networking, virtualization, and storage software companies.

Levine is continuing in his role as a VP of Strategic Development at Citrix and will continue teaching a class on Technology Sales at MIT’s Sloan School of Management.

(Via TechCrunch)

Dr. Kieran Harty, Former Head of VMware R&D, Raises $17 Million For Tintri

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Tintri, developer of a purpose-built storage system for virtual machines, last week announced Tintri VMstore, a storage system that allows enterprises to overcome costly problems associated with the scale or performance of virtual infrastructure.

Tintri also announced that it raised nearly $17 million in Series A and Series B venture funding led by NEA and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Tintri’s co-founder and CEO is Dr. Kieran Harty, who earned his PhD at Stanford University and led all desktop and server research and product development at VMware from 1999 until 2006.

Tintri brought together an R&D team drawing on industry-leading experts from Citrix, EMC/Data Domain, Google, NetApp, Sun Microsystems, VMware and others to build “the world’s first” VM-aware storage system.

Tintri VMstore is already in production use helping enterprises manage and store virtual machines at a wide range of companies in global electronics, mobile games, geo-informatics, technology, higher education and more.

Exoprise Debuts CloudReady

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Exoprise Systems has announced the availability of CloudReady, a SaaS application suite that evaluates the readiness of on-premises systems, orchestrates cloud migrations, and provides real-time performance monitoring for cloud-based applications.

“Everyone understands the disruptive nature of the cloud,” said Jason Lieblich, Exoprise CEO and former CTO of Virtualization at Citrix Systems.

“Our mission at Exoprise is to enable IT professionals to seize the benefits of the cloud quickly and confidently. CloudReady’s unique combination of analysis, migration and monitoring solutions gives organizations both the data-driven insights required to develop sound strategies as well as the tools to execute against them.”

CloudReady Insight, the first of three offerings in the CloudReady suite, gives organizations a simple, low-cost first step towards developing and implementing an effective cloud strategy.

Exoprise was founded in 2009 and is backed by Fairhaven Capital and angel investors.