This months excellent vNews is a review of this years virtualisation activity across the industry, from VMware to Citrix to Microsoft.
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Show Notes:
VMware
vSphere 5.1
vCloud Suite -
software defined datacenter
Paul Maritz moved on and replaced by Pat Gelsinger
Microsoft
Server 2012 with Hyper-V 3.0
Citrix
Bringing XenDesktop and XenApp into into one
Project Avalon Excalibur
Who bought whom!
Microsoft
2012 October 16, 2012 StorSimple Inc. – talk
2012 October 4, 2012 PhoneFactor Inc.
2012 July 9, 2012 Perceptive Pixel Inc.
2012 June 25, 2012 Yammer Inc.
Citrix
In April 2012, Citrix acquired Podio [31]
In May 2012, Citrix acquired Virtual Computer
In June 2012, Citrix acquired Bytemobile
In September 2012, Citrix acquired Beetil
In December 2012, Citrix acquired Zenprise
VMware
On 24 April 2012, VMware acquired Cetas Software.
On 22 May 2012, VMware acquired Wanova.
On 2 July 2012, VMware acquired DynamicOps.[20]
On 23rd July 2012, VMware acquired Nicira Inc.[21] – $1.2BN
Cisco bought cloudia
Dell buys wyse