VMware had officially announced the acquisition on Zimbra to boost the company vCloud effort. Zimbra provide free email client and collaboration software to the users. Zimbra was previously owned by Yahoo Inc. Under the terms of the agreement, VMware will purchase all Zimbra technology and intellectual property. Yahoo! will have the right to continue to utilize the Zimbra technology in its communications services, including Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Calendar.
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Finally, I received my VCP 4 Certification today in my home mailbox. It take 3 months plus to reach me since I pass my exam at Sep 2009. I am happy to have it and will move forward to proceed with VCDX 4 when the certification exam is available later.
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Desktop virtualization had become the hot topic in town. Many of us had adopted server virtualization for years and now had be the right time to seriously consider desktop virtualization with the latest release from VMware View with PCoIP. As part of the deal in VMware View, they bundle together with VMware Thinapp to enable application virtualization in VMware View Premier. You can also purchase VMWare Thinapp without VMware View.
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I went through this article from Information Week and I absolutely agreed with the point been brought up by the author about the reason why Hyper-V is just not ready for Enterprise use. No question about Microsoft capabilities about the software they had developed. In fact, I had been with Microsoft platform for long year. But when come to virtual data center, I really believe CHEAP do not meant everything and they have a huge gap to close up the competition with VMware anyway.
You can read more from the original post here, have fun.
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Just came across the release note from Cisco and VMware about the latest version Nexus 1000V R1.2 for VMware vSphere 4. According to the original blog there are new improvement on the area below
- GUI setup following software install
- Layer 3 control between VSM and VEMs
- Virtual Service Domains for classifying and separating traffic for network services
- iSCSI Multipath—supporting multipath feature introduced in vSphere 4
- XML API for developing client apps for managing/monitoring the Nexus 1000V
- DHCP Snooping for validating DHCP messages and filtering invalid responses
- Dynamic ARP Inspection for validating ARP requests and responses
- IP Source Guard for filtering traffic on interfaces to valid MAC and IP addresses
- MAC Pinning for assigning Ethernet port members to particular port channel subgroup (where upstream switches do not support port channels)
- Static Pinning
There are more new features in the latest release and please read more from here.
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