Sep
19
2008
VMworld and the Virtualization - The Week in Review
Posted by: trenzadmin in Entries, tags: citrix, hyper-v, microsoft, virtualization, Vmware, vmworld, xenserverThis week was VMworld in Las Vegas, which around 15,000 virtualization buffs joined in. Here are the major highlights of VMworld and from other Virtualization companies trying to steel the thunder.
- VMware and Cisco to work together to deliver joint solutions to incorporate Cisco Virtual Networking capabilities into VMware Infrastructure and improve performance of virtual desktops across Wide Area Networks.
- VMware announces the Virtual Datacenter Operating System (VDOS) - This is no surprise and general information has been around about VMware’s stab at their own OS. VMware explains it as “The Virtual Datacenter OS allows businesses to efficiently pool all types of hardware resources - servers, storage and network – into an aggregated on-premise cloud – and, when needed, safely federate workloads to external clouds for additional compute capacity. Datacenters running on the Virtual Datacenter OS are highly elastic, self-managing and self-healing. With the Virtual Datacenter OS from VMware, businesses large and small can benefit from the flexibility and the efficiency of the “lights-out” datacenter.” The VDC-OS has three main components: “Infrastructure vServices,” “Application vServices” and “Cloud vServices.” More info on the VMware site.
- VMware to release new products 2009 - Some those announced were, 1. Cloud computing initiatives to enable the mobility of virtual machines (VMs) and data to and from local and remote datacenters, and tie those datacenters together with new security structure. 2. Network virtualization, including switches and routers. 3. Expanding the concept of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) beyond a user getting his desktop delivered remotely to a laptop or desktop, into that user being an endpoint for all his data, rather than a device being the endpoint.
- VMware announces bare-metal hypervisor that will run on a laptop or desktop. No time frame was given for its release.
Other Virtualization information:
- Citrix announced XenServer 5 has been released.
- Microsoft kept reemphasizing that Hyper-V is free. They had a massive product launch right before VMworld and kept at it while VMworld was going on.
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