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• VM configuration tool

  Tripwire and VMware have teamed up to produce a free tool that VMware customers can use to automatically audit the security configuration of physical and virtual servers.

• Lion Nathan among early adopters of Server 2008

  The launch of Windows Server 2008 shows the operating system's native virtualisation capability, dubbed Hyper-V, is likely to be a big driver of adoption.

• NetApp automates VMware backup

  Network Appliance last week unveiled software that it said can ease backup and storage management tasks for corporate IT operations running VMware virtual servers.

• Port shores up IT with virtualisation

  Three years ago, whenever Ports of Auckland needed a new server, it bought two — one for its production environment and one for a nearby backup datacentre.

• VMware blogger challenges Oracle claim about VM

  Benchmark wars are back in the virtualisation world, with VMware rebutting Oracle's claim that its newly-released virtualisation hypervisor is three times faster than VMware's.

• VMware to release SMB virtualisation kits by year end

  VMware said on Monday it will release three software packages by the end of the year to help small and medium-size businesses take on virtualisation projects.

• Selling the virtues of virtualisation is vital: conference-goers

  Frank Sabatelli believes in virtualisation, but his customers don’t always share his faith.

• Hypervisors becoming key issue in virtualisation race

  At WMworld 2007, VMware’s annual user conference, held earlier this month in San Francisco, you could find VMware rival XenSource tucked away in a booth in the furthest corner of the trade show floor.

• Cisco and VMware demo datacentre integration

  Cisco Systems has expanded its Data Center 3.0 vision by announcing the integration of its VFrame DC datacentre virtualisation appliance with VMware’s Virtual Infrastructure.

• EMC adds Avamar backup to VMware

  EMC has introduced the Avamar Virtual Edition for VMware and pre-packaged EMC Avamar Data Storage System offerings.

• Cisco to take stake in VMware

  Cisco Systems plans to acquire a 1.6% equity stake in virtualisation software company VMware, mirroring a step Intel took earlier this month.

• VMware to get Intel as investor, board member

  Intel plans to buy a US$218.5 million (NZ$281 million) stake in VMware, which will bolster the companies’ existing arrangement under which VMware’s virtualisation software runs on Intel’s processors.

• VMware unveils performance measurement tool

  VMware has released the first public beta of a VMark, a benchmarking tool VMark. Until now, VMware has refused to allow anyone, via its licensing terms, to benchmark its products. Its change of heart is the first concrete evidence that it’s being forced by market pressure into changing its policy. VMware’s plans to produce it were first revealed last year, just before VMworld, its annual developer and user conference.

• XenSource expands its virtualisation capabilities

  A new version of the XenSource virtualisation hypervisor, released on Monday, now works on servers running the Windows 2000 operating system from Microsoft.

• Wyse VMware thin client already bound for NZ

  Thin-client company Wyse is riding the virtualisation trend with a desktop client developed in collaboration with VMware.