Data Center Management Tools

openQRM 4.5 Cloud Platform released with VCD (Visual Cloud Designer) and lots of features!

As you all know, openQRM is my favorite open source data center management product. Look at those new cool features…
Some more highlights of openQRM 4.5 :

A new plugin now integrates with Dell Equallogic Storage to support direct deployment of physical systems or virtual machines from the Equallogic Iscsi Target and to take advantage [...]

Cool Application-aware storage vendor Pillar Data supports Citrix XenServer environments

Yep, Oracle Chief’s venture Tako Ventures’ baby Pillar Data Systems is now all ready for Citrix XenServer.
Pillar’s CEO explains what an Application-Aware Storage subsystem is:

SAN JOSE, Calif., – June 2, 2009 – Pillar Data Systems, the leading provider of Application-Aware storage systems, announced the availability of new Citrix XenServer™ storage profiles for the Pillar Axiom, [...]

Red Hat CEO: Cloud Computing demand is increasing but won’t get into Cloud business itself

Whitehurst anticipates the market splitting up roughly along the following lines: small and medium-sized companies subscribing to public clouds and large companies building their own. He says large companies (say, those with 1,000-plus servers) get close to the same economies of scale as public cloud service providers when it comes to purchasing gear, so the [...]

System Integrators beware! — Novell cuts a $135 Million ERP deal with Dallas based ACS!

System Integrators will have to really wake up and start moving fast and start engaging in dramatic cuttings. While this shouldn’t scare SIs generally with the volume of deals being cut annually. I have access to outsource deals databases worth $ 1/2 Trillion and this may not be really a killer in terms of market [...]

Riverbed pumps bigdaddy FatApp AutoCAD across Clouds

AutoCAD users in the architecture, engineering and construction fields typically work on drawings, make revisions and then file the drawing. If such revised drawings are sent across a WAN link, then there is often a lot of redundancy and the file transmission time much reduced, as the Steelheads detect the redundant data and do not [...]

Citrix Synergy 2009: Simon Crosby explains why Citrix is ready now!

Simon not only happens to be a close friend but also a true visionary who believes in things that I firmly believe as well. Be focused, be relentless and only then they will come. He is achieving that slowly but it is coming and yes they (read: you, me and the whole consumer lot) are [...]

Xen 3.4 launches with XCI (Xen Client Initiative), Power Management features!

The new release, Xen 3.4, furthers the vision of creating a powerful, efficient, and ubiquitous virtualization hypervisor. As part of the Xen community’s commitment to continuous improvement, the new hypervisor offers significant enhancements in the following areas:
•    Xen Client Initiative (XCI) Enhancements –Xen.org continues develop industry virtualization standards for desktop and client devices. Xen 3.4 [...]

How long will it take Oracle to buy VMlogix?

Not long given that VMlogix has two important components that could help Oracle build its own Internal Cloud or what I fondly call a IntraCloud, a primer for the private cloud environments. They are:

VMlogix Lab Manager
VMlogix Stage Manager

Obviously that is not the only reason for Oracle [or for that matter other virtualization wannabe to go [...]

Netbooks, iPhones of the world : Ever heard of the FREE Citrix Receiver? - Well now is the time to tune in!

LAS VEGAS — May 5, 2009 — Today at Citrix Synergy™ 2009, the conference where virtualization, networking and application delivery meet, Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CTXS), announced the general availability of Citrix® Receiver™ – a new lightweight software client that makes accessing virtual desktops and applications on any device as easy as turning on your [...]

Citrix Synergy 2009 - Citrix and Amazon tie up to give computing to all consumers

LAS VEGAS — MAY 6, 2009 — Today at Citrix Synergy™ 2009, the conference where virtualization, networking and application delivery meet, Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CTXS), announced a new cloud solution called Citrix C3 Lab that will allow companies of all sizes to use Amazon Web Services (AWS) as part of their standard technology infrastructure.  [...]