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VMware Releases Fusion 2.0 Beta 1

May 6, 2008 by Robin Wauters 1 Comment

VMware has announced VMware Fusion 2.0 Beta 1, the first beta of the second iteration of their virtualization product for the Mac.

The video below gives you a tour of Fusion 2.0 Beta 1’s top new features, including:

Multiple monitor support (up to 10 displays!)
Improved networking and printing
Support for DirectX 9.0 Shader Model 2 (this is experimental, and it might not work on your Mac)
A refined UI for settings and VM management

There are more videos available on the product page.

Fusion 2.0 Beta 1 is available now, and the upgrade to the future version 2.0 will be free to all Fusion users.

SunGard Leverages Virtualization For Disaster Recovery, Teams Up With VMware

May 5, 2008 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

SunGard Availability Services today announced a partnership with VMware, leveraging its virtualization technology to create a suite of simple, fully-managed AdvancedRecovery services, including managed virtual recovery services. The offering is expected to be available later this year.

“VMware’s virtualization platform is transforming disaster recovery by helping companies to protect a wide range of applications and data,” said Frank Casey, vice president of product strategy for SunGard. “We are working with VMware to create a faster, centralized and automated information availability service to help organizations of all sizes that need to protect both virtual and traditional IT environments. It is the next stage of SunGard’s commitment to delivering AvancedRecovery solutions to companies with varying IT infrastructure needs, and we are tapping the best minds and technologies in the industry to make this happen.”

Sungard Availability Services operates more than 3 million square feet of hardened facilities. Sungard Availability services range from 48-hour disaster recovery hot-sites to always-on, high-availability infrastructure and electronic vaulting services. It has more than 25,000 customers in more than 50 countries, including the world’s 50 largest financial services companies.

[Source: Data Center Knowledge]

Event: VMworld 2008 Opens Up Registration

May 5, 2008 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Last Friday, VMware has officially opened up the registration process for the fifth edition of its annual VMworld conference. VMworld 2008 will be held September 15-18 at The Venetian in Las Vegas. If you’re still interested in submitting a paper for one of the sessions at the conference, you’d better be quick: the call for papers deadline ends next Friday.

[Source: VMware Blogs]

VKernel Chargeback Virtual Appliance Gets VMWare Certification

April 30, 2008 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

VKernel Corporation announced (PDF) today that the company has joined the VMware Certified Virtual Appliance Program. The company also notes the VKernel Chargeback Virtual Appliance is currently the only available VMware-certified virtual appliance for chargeback and cost visibility.

Virtual appliances are pre-built, pre-configured, ready-to-run enterprise applications packaged with an operating system inside a virtual machine. Customers can easily install and deploy these pre-integrated solution stacks. This speeds up time-to-value and simplifies software development, distribution, and management.

The virtual appliance measures CPU, memory, storage, and network utilization in VMware virtualized environments, stores the information and generates chargeback and cost visibility reports. This helps customers track and allocate expenses to individual departments or users based on actual resource consumption.

“VKernel’s new Chargeback Virtual Appliance offers customers an easy way to tackle the complex yet essential task of accurately accounting for resource consumption and assigning its associated costs,” said Dan Chu, vice president of emerging products and markets at VMware. “VMware virtual appliances greatly simplify how customers deploy and manage their business-critical software applications. We welcome VKernel’s contribution to the more than 700 virtual appliances available from the VMware Virtual Appliance Marketplace.”

[Source: VMBlog]

Marathon Technologies Releases everRun Software

April 30, 2008 by Robin Wauters 1 Comment

We’ve covered the beta launch of Marathon Technologies’ everRun software a little over a month ago, and now the company has officially released the product.

Customers can download a free 15-day trial of everRun VM. The latest version of Citrix XenServer 4.1 is also available as a trial edition. everRun VM suggested retail pricing is $2000 per server (perpetual license) for customers that have Citrix XenServer Enterprise Edition. everRun VM with Citrix XenServer 4.1 Enterprise Edition is $4500 per server for a perpetual license.

Mosaic Technology Launches V-Accelerate

April 30, 2008 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Mosaic Technology today announced V-Accelerate, a virtualization program to help companies effectively and rapidly implement data center virtualization. V-Accelerate combines planning, design, component acquisition, and implementation, using VMware as a foundation.

According to the press release, V-Accelerate leverages Mosaic’s experience in VMware though Certified VMware Professionals. It also takes advantage of Mosaic’s 12-plus years of infrastructure expertise with leading technologies in storage, backup/recovery, data deduplication, and data management.

V-Accelerate includes:

Assessment – structured capacity planning to maximize VM scheme
Configuration – detailed infrastructure analysis and recommendations based on strategic, business, and budget considerations.
Implementation – Fast track deployment with substantial knowledge transfer

“Virtualization is more than server consolidation,” said Don Basler, Director of Marketing at Mosaic. “Our experience shows us that while many companies initially are attracted to the benefits of server consolidation, they quickly discover that a variety of infrastructure and data management issues need to be considered.”

“V-Accelerate manages those issues. We look at the total picture — physical and logical server configurations, storage virtualization, backup and recovery, replication, and overall VM management. In the end we save our customers time, effort and money.”

[Source: PRWeb]