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virtualization.info Newsletter <http://www.virtualization.info/home.html> <http://fusion.google.com/add?source=atgs&feedurl=http://feeds.feedburner.com/Virtualization_info> [image: Link to virtualization.info] <http://www.virtualization.info/home.html> ------------------------------ - Oracle details Sun merger plans - UPDATED <#12674a4073c68cc3_1> - Pancetera to enter virtualization market with storage management for VMware <#12674a4073c68cc3_2> - Is there any real need for application virtualization?<#12674a4073c68cc3_3> - Cisco announces IaaS cloud offering for service providers<#12674a4073c68cc3_4> Oracle details Sun merger plans - UPDATED<http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/Virtualization_info/%7E3/6y-8WYgUyjw/oracle-details-sun-merger-plans.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email> Posted: 28 Jan 2010 12:12 AM PST [image: oracle logo] <http://www.oracle.com> After months of wait, today Oracle can finally disclose<http://www.virtualization.info/2010/01/oracle-to-announce-sun-merge-plans-next.html>its roadmap to integrate the Sun product portfolio, acquired for $7.4 billion<http://www.virtualization.info/2009/04/oracle-acquires-sun-and-gets-its-whole.html> . To introduce this all day online event the company prepared a long introductory video that shows the entire computing stack that the two giants now have in common. Each hardware piece has the new Sun|Oracle logo. In these months several people suggested that Oracle may want to drop the Sun hardware business to focus on other parts, more in line with its current strategy. The introductory video does everything but giving this idea. Quite the opposite, it seems to emphasizes the potential that Oracle now has in the hardware market, and the presence of three racks on stage is a further sign of the company commitment in this area. The event starts with a tagline that tells everything: *Software. Hardware. Complete.* Oracle is about to spend $4.3 billion in R&D for the first fiscal year together. This impacts virtualization too as Oracle plans to invest more on the Solaris operating system and the virtualization technologies that it embeds. Edward Screven <http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/016340>, Chief Corporate Architect, is on stage, ready to discuss about the Oracle plans about operating systems and virtualization. First of all Oracle is going to continue delivering and investing in both Linux and Solaris. Oracle VM Server is going run on both x86/x64 and SPARC architectures. Oracle VM Manager is going to manage both kind of hosts side by side, and Solaris will become a fully supported guest OS: [image: SunOracle_Virtualization]<http://www.virtualization.info/images/OracledetailsSunmergerplans_FC97/SunOracle_Virtualization.png> Plus Oracle will continue to have the OS virtualization products Solaris Containers (for x86/x64) and Logical Domains (for SPARC). Oracle plans to integrate Sun VirtualBox as part of the Oracle VM family and use it as a sort of sandbox, which means that the company may want to integrate its offering with the acquisition of some virtual lab automation companies out there in the near future. More than that, Oracle plans to support the Sun VDI connection broker inside Oracle VM Server, providing an end-to-end VDI solution. And this means that the current Sun VDI support for VMware may be dropped soon: [image: Oracle_VirtualBox]<http://www.virtualization.info/images/OracledetailsSunmergerplans_FC97/Oracle_VirtualBox.png>And about the relationship with VMware, Oracle doesn’t waste time to clarify that it wants to compete with the virtualization player: [image: Oracle_vs_VMware]<http://www.virtualization.info/images/OracledetailsSunmergerplans_FC97/Oracle_vs_VMware.png> The interesting part of this comparison is that Oracle is taking the same approach Microsoft has to attack VMware: both vendors keep saying that they offer physical and virtual management while VMware is limited to its virtual world. The reality is that while VMware wouldn’t admit anytime soon that it’s turning into an infrastructure management company<http://www.virtualization.info/2009/03/vmware-is-becoming-infrastructure.html>, there is evidence that virtualization is no more its only focus<http://www.virtualization.info/2010/01/vmware-acquires-zimbra-but-big-news-is.html>. The acquisition of SpringSource<http://www.virtualization.info/2009/08/vmware-acquires-springsource.html>, the acquisition of Zimbra<http://www.virtualization.info/2010/01/vmware-acquires-zimbra-but-big-news-is.html>, the interest for middleware products<http://www.virtualization.info/2010/01/after-springsource-and-zimbra-vmware.html>, all confirm that the company is not standing still while others are pointing out its limitations. So Oracle will have to execute very well its virtualization plans, which didn’t detail much today, to become an interesting alternative to VMware for customers. <http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/Virtualization_info?a=6y-8WYgUyjw:tFiOICx3xfg:yIl2AUoC8zA> <http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/Virtualization_info?a=6y-8WYgUyjw:tFiOICx3xfg:gIN9vFwOqvQ> <http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/Virtualization_info?a=6y-8WYgUyjw:tFiOICx3xfg:V_sGLiPBpWU> <http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/Virtualization_info?a=6y-8WYgUyjw:tFiOICx3xfg:cGdyc7Q-1BI> <http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/Virtualization_info?a=6y-8WYgUyjw:tFiOICx3xfg:XAVGb8Xj5zA> <http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/Virtualization_info?a=6y-8WYgUyjw:tFiOICx3xfg:qj6IDK7rITs> <http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/Virtualization_info?a=6y-8WYgUyjw:tFiOICx3xfg:F7zBnMyn0Lo> Pancetera to enter virtualization market with storage management for VMware<http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/Virtualization_info/%7E3/TJlHFYb1Mo0/pancetera-to-enter-virtualization.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email> Posted: 27 Jan 2010 06:59 AM PST [image: pancetera logo] <http://www.pancetera.com> A new US startup, currently in semi-stealth mode, is about to enter the virtualization market: Pancetera <http://www.pancetera.com>. The company was founded in early 2009 by four people: - Henrik Rosendahl <http://www.linkedin.com/in/hrosendahl>, the former CEO of Thinstall, acquired by VMware<http://www.virtualization.info/2008/01/vmware-acquires-thinstall.html>in January 2008 - Bart Bartlett <http://www.linkedin.com/in/bartb>, the former Director of Sales Operations/Marketing/Channels at Data Domain, acquired by EMC<http://www.datadomain.com/news/press_rel_070809.html>in July 2009 - Mitch Haile <http://www.linkedin.com/in/haile>, a former Senior Software Engineer at Data Domain - Greg Wade <http://www.linkedin.com/pub/greg-wade/11/268/723>, another former Software Engineer from Data Domain Pancetera is funded by Hummer Winblad Ventures and ONSET Ventures for an unknown amount. Hummer Winblad already invested in Scalent and VKernel. On top of that, Claude Robinson III<http://www.linkedin.com/pub/claude-robinson-iii/0/8a6/709>appears in its advisory board. Robison was the Director of Business Development at Data Domain for over three years. After the EMC acquisition he joined Symantec as Senior Manager of Business Development, which highlight the security giant interest for the storage market. Another key advisor sits in the board: Violet Wade<http://www.linkedin.com/pub/violet-wade/2/4a9/bab>, who has been Manager of Technical Support & QA at Legato, acquired by EMC in 2003, for over 10 years. Wade may or may not be connected to Brian Wade<http://www.linkedin.com/in/brianwade>, another former Legato employee that is now a Technical Global Advisor at NetApp. Both Robinson and Wade offer nice hints about possible exit strategies for Pancetera. What sort of project is working on this team? It seems it is a company focused on virtual machines storage management, an area where there’s almost no competition. But it may also mean that Pancetera will leverage the technology to offer a sort of disaster recovery product, which would mean competition with established players like Quest/Vizioncore, Veeam and of course VMware. The minimal website in fact promises the following features: - Changes the way you access, backup and protect your virtual machine data - Leverages your existing enterprise backup software while eliminating lots of agents - Reduces your primary storage load without additional servers or storage - Installs as a virtual appliance in minutes For sure the company’s first product, which may be called TeraCapture, is going to support VMware platforms, as confirms a job announcement where Pancetera is looking for Senior QA Engineers that are proficient in ESX administration and scripting. The virtualization.info Virtualization Industry Radar<http://www.virtualization.info/radar>has been updated accordingly. <http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/Virtualization_info?a=TJlHFYb1Mo0:2fhsG1oFFIs:yIl2AUoC8zA> <http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/Virtualization_info?a=TJlHFYb1Mo0:2fhsG1oFFIs:gIN9vFwOqvQ> <http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/Virtualization_info?a=TJlHFYb1Mo0:2fhsG1oFFIs:V_sGLiPBpWU> <http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/Virtualization_info?a=TJlHFYb1Mo0:2fhsG1oFFIs:cGdyc7Q-1BI> <http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/Virtualization_info?a=TJlHFYb1Mo0:2fhsG1oFFIs:XAVGb8Xj5zA> <http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/Virtualization_info?a=TJlHFYb1Mo0:2fhsG1oFFIs:qj6IDK7rITs> <http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/Virtualization_info?a=TJlHFYb1Mo0:2fhsG1oFFIs:F7zBnMyn0Lo> Is there any real need for application virtualization?<http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/Virtualization_info/%7E3/NfEbh8rdcpc/is-there-any-real-need-for-application.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email> Posted: 27 Jan 2010 06:10 AM PST Despite its huge potential, it’s pretty evident that the market is not embracing the application virtualization approach (to not be confused with presentation or desktop virtualization) anytime soon. All the biggest vendors in the IT industry invested in application virtualization: Microsoft acquired Softricity<http://www.virtualization.info/2006/05/microsoft-to-acquire-softricity.html>in May 2006, VMware acquired Thinstall<http://www.virtualization.info/2008/01/vmware-acquires-thinstall.html>in January 2008, Symantec acquired Altiris<http://www.virtualization.info/2007/01/symantec-acquires-altiris.html>in January 2007 and AppStream<http://www.virtualization.info/2008/04/symantec-acquires-appstream.html>in April 2008, Novell distributes XenoCode<http://www.virtualization.info/2008/09/novell-enters-application.html>with an OEM agreement since September 2008, and Citrix has its own engine as part of XenApp since a long time. Regardless of this massive commitment, the top players above spent almost zero effort to push for application virtualization adoption. The startups that were not acquired in the last three years are struggling to make any impact. See Endeavors Technologies (which is in a sort of limbo<http://www.virtualization.info/2008/08/endeavors-technologies-enters-into.html>), AppZero (formerly Trigence<http://www.virtualization.info/2008/09/novell-enters-application.html>), Ceedo or Trustware. Microsoft, which owns a large part of the application ecosystem, and can deeply influence the rest of it, doesn’t seem to have any interest in winning the race, even if it owns what was considered one of the best application virtualization engine in 2006: SoftGrid (now App-V). This year we are going to see a virtualized and stream version of Office 2010<http://www.virtualization.info/2009/11/microsoft-to-virtualize-and-stream.html>, which is good start but nowhere near the kind of effort required to facilitate a mass adoption. Or the industry is still too busy pushing for the adoption of hardware virtualization and its related applications (VDI, IaaS cloud computing), or the application virtualization technology is not mature enough to be useful outside specific niches, or simply there’s no need for application virtualization, and all the companies above just went deadly wrong with their investments. On top of these options there’s another one: customers are looking for alternatives to application virtualization that are perceived as more flexible. One of them may be the so-called *offline VDI*, powered by client hypervisors that expected later this year. <http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/Virtualization_info?a=NfEbh8rdcpc:5KcnC6RBlyQ:yIl2AUoC8zA> <http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/Virtualization_info?a=NfEbh8rdcpc:5KcnC6RBlyQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ> <http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/Virtualization_info?a=NfEbh8rdcpc:5KcnC6RBlyQ:V_sGLiPBpWU> <http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/Virtualization_info?a=NfEbh8rdcpc:5KcnC6RBlyQ:cGdyc7Q-1BI> <http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/Virtualization_info?a=NfEbh8rdcpc:5KcnC6RBlyQ:XAVGb8Xj5zA> <http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/Virtualization_info?a=NfEbh8rdcpc:5KcnC6RBlyQ:qj6IDK7rITs> <http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/Virtualization_info?a=NfEbh8rdcpc:5KcnC6RBlyQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo> Cisco announces IaaS cloud offering for service providers<http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/Virtualization_info/%7E3/UyNnkONIVTY/cisco-announces-iaas-cloud-offering-for.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email> Posted: 27 Jan 2010 03:22 AM PST [image: cisco logo] <http://www.cisco.com> Thanks to the help of VMware, it really seems that Cisco is turning into a virtualization vendor. The company’s interest in virtualization has its roots in mid-2007, when it invested $150M in VMware<http://www.virtualization.info/2007/07/cisco-invests-150-million-in-vmware.html>, but the ambition to play a major role in this industry became evident with the launch of Unified Computing System (UCS)<http://www.virtualization.info/2009/03/cisco-unveils-its-virtualization-blade.html>and the announcement of a coalition with EMC and VMware<http://www.virtualization.info/2009/11/vmware-cisco-and-emc-form-virtual.html> . Just yesterday, Cisco announced a second alliance with NetApp<http://www.virtualization.info/2010/01/vmware-cisco-and-netapp-announce-secure.html>to jointly deliver a private cloud architecture called Secure Multi-Tenancy. Of course such cloud is powered by VMware virtualization. A much bigger anyway was announced a couple of days ago and passed under the radar of most: Cisco launched<http://blogs.cisco.com/sp/comments/announcing_cisco_infrastructure_as_a_service_iaas_solution_for_service_prov/>an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud offering for service providers. With this initiative, Cisco is basically pushing a specific architecture to simplify the jumpstart to IaaS cloud computing. The recommended design implies the use of many Cisco gears (from the MDS to the Nexus 700), of any storage backend of choice (even if EMC is the first suggestion) and, guess what, VMware vSphere 4.0 as the foundation virtualization platform: [image: Cisco_IaaS]<http://www.virtualization.info/images/CiscoannouncesIaaScloudforserviceprovide_1468F/Cisco_IaaS.png> Service providers that want to embrace this approach just have to call Cisco which will provide pre-tested and validate product configuration guides and obviously all the components. Cisco is truly leveraging the cloud computing opportunity by suggesting that its complexity can be tackled with ready-to-go solutions for the customers’ piece of mind. In doing so, the company is turning into a formidable selling machine for VMware that, over the long run, will disturb the partnership and joint activity of VMware and HP (which is preparing to react after the acquisition of 3Com<http://www.virtualization.info/2009/11/hp-acquires-3com-whats-next.html> ). <http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/Virtualization_info?a=UyNnkONIVTY:Ur3OnoEkFM4:yIl2AUoC8zA> <http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/Virtualization_info?a=UyNnkONIVTY:Ur3OnoEkFM4:gIN9vFwOqvQ> <http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/Virtualization_info?a=UyNnkONIVTY:Ur3OnoEkFM4:V_sGLiPBpWU> <http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/Virtualization_info?a=UyNnkONIVTY:Ur3OnoEkFM4:cGdyc7Q-1BI> <http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/Virtualization_info?a=UyNnkONIVTY:Ur3OnoEkFM4:XAVGb8Xj5zA> <http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/Virtualization_info?a=UyNnkONIVTY:Ur3OnoEkFM4:qj6IDK7rITs> <http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/Virtualization_info?a=UyNnkONIVTY:Ur3OnoEkFM4:F7zBnMyn0Lo> You are subscribed to email updates from virtualization.info<http://www.virtualization.info/home.html> To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now<http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailunsubscribe?k=y8ClGNniQyYJPisMFSwm6kItC7E> . 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