D’après un article d’Alessandro Perilli sur Virtualization.info, HP quitterait le marcher du postes de travails virtuels en arrêtant de développer son broker (SAM) et surtout en se séparant du protocole RGS (Remote Graphics Software). Protocole qui doit être intégré dans la version 3.1 du client VMware View.
After trying for years to impose its high-performance remote desktop, Remote Graphics Software (RGS), the company has finally given up and will phase it out by the end of this year.
virtualization.info has learned from very trusted sources that HP will not only drop RGS but it will also exit the VDI market completely, stopping the development of its connection broker Session Allocation Manager (SAM).
Starting 2010 the company will rely on third party offerings provided by Citrix, VMware and Microsoft. HP is especially looking at two protocols: the Citrix Prism/HDX and the software implementation of the PCoIP protocol that VMware and Teradici are developing.
Same story for the connection broker: HP is working to adopt Citrix XenDesktop and VMware View.
Of course HP will continue to develop thin clients/blade workstations for SBC/VDI environments where it has a serious profit.
The HP moves in the VDI market started to seem strange already in December 2008 when the company closed a major OEM deal with Quest/Provision Networks.
It will be interesting to see what Quest has to say about this radical change in the strategy.
The company is already informing its customers about the decision as confirmed by an anonymous comment we just received on another article:
« I have heard that HP is cancelling the RGS product. Does anyone else have information about this? My information comes from a colleague who is the IT director at a company which is a large HP customer. They have been using RGS and are now politely being asked to look elsewhere. »
Sur la page des tests VMmark (Measure Virtualization Performance with the Industry’s First Benchmark) est apparu en début de semaine le premier bench de l’UCS B200 de Cisco sous vSphere 4.
Bernard Haller s’en est allé hier. Le comédien était la voix de Pollux dans le Manège enchanté, le dessin-animé culte des années 60.
Poète, mime, artiste de cirque et acteur, Bernard Haller aimait se décrire comme « un clown de l’absurde », à l’instar de Raymond Devos qu’il admirait.
Il est mort vendredi en Suisse, des suites d’un problème pulmonaire, à l’âge de 75 ans.
Au cinéma, il a notamment incarné le Cardinal de Richelieu dans Les Quatre Charlots mousquetaires et Les Charlots en folie : À nous quatre Cardinal !. Bernard Haller a également tourné dans Signé Furax de Marc Simenon, La Soif de l’or de Gérard Oury. La dernière fois qu’il est apparu sur le grand écran c’était dans le film Sa Majesté Minor de Jean-Jacques Annaud en 2007.
Lundi 27 avril, 2 vExperts et acteurs majeurs de la virtualisation « VMware » en France, participeront à une soirée organisée par Pillar Data Systems (premier fournisseur du marché du stockage à fournir un système de stockage sensible aux applications) et Komposite (intégrateur de solutions de stockage, de sauvegarde et d’archivage de données).
SAN JOSE, Calif. and PALO ALTO, Calif., April 21, 2009 – Cisco and VMware today announced that the Cisco Nexus® 1000V virtual switch will be supported in VMware vSphereTM 4, which is being announced today. The combined solution is designed to help customers simplify virtualization and network services management for cloud environments. VMware vSphere 4 is the industry’s first operating system for building the internal cloud, enabling the delivery of efficient, flexible and reliable IT as a service in the data center to help reduce IT costs while increasing IT responsiveness. [...]
Supporting Quotes:
« The combination of VMware vSphere 4 and Cisco’s Nexus 1000V is simply a revolution in computing that is provided by two unbeatable players that have the same vision of the datacenter, » said Julien Mousqueton, Technical Solutions Architect for AGRICA. « The combination of these two solutions allows our IT teams to discover new benefits to virtualized infrastructure because we can now administer a network in a virtual environment the same way as we have done in the physical world-it is simplified and intuitive. »
C’est donc au musée Dapper que VMware France a décidé d’annoncer la nouvelle génération des produits et technologies VMware.