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VMware Takes Over EMC’s Mozy Assets, Team

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In a blog post, VMware this week announced that the company has hired the team and acquired assets behind EMC’s Mozy cloud-based data protection service.

VMware will operate the Mozy service on behalf of EMC without interruption.

Mozy today boasts more than 1 million users, 70,000 business customers, and a worldwide network of datacenters storing more than 70 petabytes of data.

The Mozy team will help VMware continue to serve the burgeoning SMB community as they move forward on their own path to cloud computing.

rPath X6 Now Supports OpenStack And VMware vCloud Director

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rPath has announced that rPath X6 now supports OpenStack and VMware vCloud Director for private and hybrid cloud computing environments.

OpenStack is the open source cloud operating system and emerging open cloud standard backed by more than 50 organizations and contributors across the globe. VMware vCloud Director allows enterprises and service providers to build and operate secure clouds.

With this announcement, rPath’s system automation and standardization features can be combined with OpenStack’s elasticity and vCloud Director’s requisition, approval and provisioning capabilities to provide customers with a tangible means of requesting, deploying, maintaining and dynamically scaling a complete IT system.

rPath is a founding member of the NRE Alliance, a coalition of independent vendors collaborating to deliver a solution for enterprise cloud computing by enabling capabilities for self-service, automation and elasticity. Other members of the NRE Alliance include newScale, Eucalyptus Systems and MomentumSI.

VMware Plans To Report Q1 2011 Financial Results On Tuesday, April 19

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VMware plans to announce first quarter financial results after market close on Tuesday, April 19, 2011.

The company will host a conference call at 2:00 p.m. PT/ 5:00 p.m. ET that day to review financial results and business outlook.

A live web broadcast of the event will be available on the VMware Investor Relations website at http://ir.vmware.com.

VMware, Liquidware Labs Team Up To Deliver ‘Stateless Desktops’

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Liquidware Labs has announced a joint solution with VMware View that allows organizations to deliver stateless VMware View sessions with a best practices disaster recovery design. Liquidware Labs’ ProfileUnity is at the heart of the solution.

When deployed, ProfileUnity and stateless VMware View desktops also serve as a full desktop disaster recovery solution.

For a limited time, Liquidware Labs is offering promotional pricing to any past or present VMware View customers seeking user space virtualization, administrator agility, and disaster preparation. Customers can qualify for volume discounts off list pricing of $24 – contact [email protected] for details on the promotion.

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

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.