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• Local Telstra customers testing global Cisco cloud

  Telstra on Monday said the Cisco Intercloud platform is now in live trial mode for selected customers in Australia, which the telco has declined to name.
  

• Cisco extends Microsoft support in datacentre portfolio

  Cisco last week extended its datacentre product line to support Microsoft's Windows Server 2012 hypervisor and VM management features to more tightly align their respective datacentre and Cloud architectures for joint customers.

• NEC rolls out OpenFlow for Microsoft Hyper-V

  NEC this week unveiled a virtual switch for Microsoft's Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V hypervisor which is designed to bring OpenFlow-based software-defined networking and network virtualization to those Microsoft environments.

• What's next with hypervisors?

  The world of hypervisors is complicated by the fact that there are proprietary and open source tools and the latter are often pressed into service in different ways, say nothing of the fact that the whole market is evolving quickly.

• New local Cloud built with Linux-based KVM hypervisor

  A Sydney-based IT services provider has built a public Cloud with the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) virtualisation hypervisor instead of one of the better-known commercial or open source products making it one of the first of its kind in Australia.

• Citrix unveils bare-metal desktop hypervisor, ahead of VMware

  Citrix is unveiling its bare-metal desktop hypervisor, known as XenClient, with a test version being released for download this week and general availability expected within a few months.

• Researchers to cure Blue Pill virtualization attacks

  Two researchers from North Carolina State University have developed software that they say can protect virtualization hypervisors from malicious "<a href="http://bluepillproject.org/">Blue Pill</a>" rootkit threats.

• Microsoft: We’re gaining server virtualisation market share

  Microsoft is starting to make serious headway in the server virtualisation market based on a ‘free’ technology and lower cost of management argument, according to the company’s global head of virtualisation, Zane Adam.

• Parallels launches bare-metal hypervisor

  It took some time to arrive but Parallels has entered new territory with the launch of its bare metal hypervisor. Parallels Server Bare Metal is aimed squarely at cloud computing providers enabling them to offer a range of new services to their customers.

• Red Hat virtualization, cloud strategy targets major players

  Red Hat this week lined up nose-to-nose with VMware and Microsoft laying out its bid to become a top-tier provider of virtualization and cloud computing infrastructure software for both the enterprise and service providers.

• Linux virtualisation hypervisor KVM hits release 87

  The native Linux virtualisation hypervisor Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) has reached milestone 87 and now integrates the qemu emulator into a single package.
  

• Users warned of virtualisation's 'dark side'

  Users are paying little attention to some of the downsides of virtualisation in their haste to reap the benefits that the technology can bring.

• HP automates management of VMware, virtualisation systems

  HP Wednesday announced updates to its business service automation suite designed to help customers cut the cost of managing virtualisation and improve service quality.

• Citrix drops price of hypervisor to zero

  Citrix on Monday is making its core virtualization platform free, and announcing an enhanced partnership with Microsoft to promote interoperability between Citrix's XenServer hypervisor and Microsoft's Hyper-V software.

• Citrix plans 'bare metal' desktop hypervisor

  Citrix Systems is working with Intel to develop a "bare metal" hypervisor for client PCs, which proponents say could broaden the use of desktop virtualization by overcoming some of the technology's shortcomings today.