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• 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.

• HealthSMART grows on virtual servers, apps

  Victoria's whole-of-health ICT strategy, HealthSMART, has grown from eight to 1000 servers in four years as it gears up to provide application services to some 140,000 end-users across the state, including the occasional iPad-wielding clinician.

• Red Hat drops Xen from RHEL

  With Wednesday's beta release of its flagship operating system, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Red Hat has added a number of new capabilities that should help data centers better support virtualization and cloud computing.

• Citrix releases Xen 4.0

  Xen.org, part of Citrix, has launched a new version of the Xen open source hypervisor.

• Citrix bows to customer pressure on XenDesktop licensing

  Citrix Systems has added more licensing options and editions to its upcoming desktop virtualization platform XenDesktop 4, including the option to pay by the number of devices used, it said on Tuesday.

• Xen used by one in 10 of Fortune 500: Citrix

  Citrix Systems is talking up Xen, claiming that more than 10 per cent of global Fortune 500 companies have downloaded and activated its XenServer virtualisation platform for production use in the last four months

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  Open source Xen a 1-Stop for transport IT company

  Sydney-based transport industry data interchange and portal provider 1-Stop Connections has migrated most of its core infrastructure to virtual servers and iSCSI SANs to reduce its infrastructure requirements and management complexity.

• Virt Manager 0.8 sports new cloning, management wizards

  Virtual Machine Manager (virt-manager) has reached release 0.8 which includes a new graphical wizards for cloning disk images adding devices to existing virtual machines and a new system tray icon.

• Qld Health Commission injects virtual desktops

  The Queensland Health Quality and Complaints Commission (HQCC) is nearing completion of a $400,000 IT infrastructure overhaul that will see virtual servers and desktops used throughout the organisation.

• Citrix releases free XenServer 5.5, new community portal

  Citrix Systems has announced the availability of Citrix XenServer 5.5, a free server virtualisation hypervisor based on the open source Xen project.

• Xen 3.4.0 released with more client device, Hyper-V integration

  Xen, the de facto virtualization hypervisor for Linux and the basis of Citrix's commercial products, has reached version 3.4.0 bringing improved support for client devices, integration with Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor, better reliability and power management, and many CPU-level big fixes.

• HP releases automation tools for virtual data centers

  Hewlett-Packard hopes to play a bigger role in managing the virtual data center with updates to its Business Service Automation software announced on Tuesday.

• Citrix adds XenServer to XenApp 5

  Citrix has announced the latest generation of its core application virtualisation product, XenApp 5, now includes XenServer for server virtualization and improved management capabilities.

• SAP to virtualise 500 servers with Xen

  Citrix Systems has announced global software company SAP will use its XenServer to virtualise 500 servers by mid-2009.

• KVM, Xen battle for hacker interest: Horms

  If the Linux virtualisation space wasn't heated enough, the open source hypervisors Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM) and Xen are now duking it out for independent developer interest, according to Xen hacker Simon "Horms" Horman.