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TOLIS Group Teams Up With Parallels, Its Backup Solution Gets Certification

TOLIS Group yesterday announced a partnership with Parallels, as its BRU Server network backup solution has been successfully tested for compatibility with Parallels Server for Mac virtualization software. BRU Server is now listed in the Parallels Certified Products Catalog.

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VMware Offers US Employees A Chance To Swap Their Post-IPO Stock Options

VMware today disclosed in an SEC filing that it plans to offer employees a chance to swap their post-IPO, “underwater” stock options for an equal number of options with an exercise price equal to the share price on the day immediately following the data the exchange is finished.

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Vizioncore Updates vRanger and vCharter Pro

Vizioncore has released an upgrade to its backup and restore solution for virtualization environments, vRanger Pro 3.2.4. In addition, Vizioncore has released a minor dot release to its enterprise-level virtualization monitoring solution, vCharter Pro 3.0.1.

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ScaleMP Takes vSMP Foundation to Dell PowerEdge Servers

ScaleMP today announced the availability of its vSMP Foundation Standalone software on the Dell PowerEdge server platforms. The vSMP Foundation Standalone software aggregates multiple x86 and cluster-based systems into a single virtual shared memory system.

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BlueBear Says Kodiak and Koala Can Unchain Virtualization from Data Centers

We’re going to let you discover what the company BlueBear is trying to do with Koala (”the world’s smallest, most powerful virtualization-ready server”) and Kodiak (”the industry’s only application that’s both hypervisor-agnostic and cross-platform”) for yourself on their fun and informative website.

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Microsoft To Release System Center VMM 2008 Soon

Diane Prescott, Product Manager, System Center at Microsoft posted an article on the official SC blog today sharing that the launch of the next version of Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) is imminent, specifically in Q4 2008. The beta was formally introduced by the company end of April 2008.

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New Linux Kernel: More Support for Virtualization

Nearly three months in the making, the new Linux kernel (version 2.6.26) announced by Linus Torvalds through a mailing list, boasts read-only bind mounts, “big-iron” KVM ports, USB webcam support, 802.11s mesh WiFi, built-in support for remote kernel debugging, and a host of embedded architecture improvements, among other enhancements.

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VMware Formally Releases ThinApp 4.0 Into The Wild

Only a few days later than anticipated, VMware has released ThinApp 4.0, its first application virtualization solution (formerly called Project North Star) after snapping up Thinstall earlier this year.

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Citrix Aims To Make Creation of Hypervisor-Independent Application Workloads Easier with Project Kensho

Citrix today announced “Project Kensho,†which will deliver Open Virtual Machine Format (OVF) tools that allow independent software vendors (ISVs) and enterprise IT managers to easily create hypervisor-independent, portable enterprise application workloads. These tools will allow application workloads to be imported and run across Citrix XenServer, Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and VMware ESX environments.

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Phoenix To Integrate HyperSpace into NEC Notebooks

Phoenix Technologies announced that NEC will be among the first PC manufacturers to integrate Phoenix HyperSpace, a virtualized operating environment that enables instant-on applications running independently and alongside Windows.

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FastScale Ships New Release of Composer Suite, Adds Windows and RHEL 5.2 Support

FastScale Technology today announced the newest release of its flagship product, FastScale Composer Suite, which it claims to be the only technology on the market today to fully automate the process of building, managing and deploying server software environments for enterprise class data centers and Web farms, whether the infrastructure is physical, virtual or both.

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BitLeap LeapServ Backup Software Goes Virtual

Offsite backup provider BitLeap today announced it has extended its LeapServ software platform to customer provided VMware environments. The new LeapServVM product will consist of a custom built VM system file supplied to the customer, which can be loaded into existing VMware environments to perform all of the services typically provided by a dedicated LeapServ network appliance.

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