Parallels and Quest Software Inc. announced launching a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solution that offers enterprises a centralized Windows desktop deployment and management platform. The bundle promises to reduces the management and security headache of desktop computing, and reduces the investment required in hardware and software licenses.
The solution aims to deliver up to three times the number of virtual desktops on each physical server dramatically cutting cost associated and increasing efficiency.
“The bundled VDI solution from Quest Software and Parallels provides customers with a unique offering of high consolidation ratios and …

Fusion has come out number one in in the annual PC world awards for best virtualization product placing 79th overall in rankings of the best products of 2008.
“These awards go to the best technology products we’ve seen in the last 12 months,” said Edward N. Albro, editor of PC World. “Our editors looked at hundreds of hardware, software and Web products to compile this list of outstanding performers. Congratulations to VMware Fusion.”
The full story can be found at vmware.com and at PCWorld.com

Sun’s recently acquired VirtualBox hypervisor has been gaining popularity at an astonishing rate with current estimates stating that the virtualization platform has been averaging 10,000 downloads a day.
VirtualBox is an open source hosted VMM for desktops that allows users to run mulitple operating systems on one computer.
VirtualBox is available for free through the Sun website. Read this article at sun’s website.

VMware released a new Desktop Virtualization package with the aim of helping IT departments roll out virtual desktops to their employees. The new solution is to “deliver a complete desktop experience that is easy to manage, fast to deploy, less costly to maintain, always-current and radically more secure.” the San Alto based virtualization provider claims.
Desktop Virtualization involves a single powerful server hosting multiple instances of a standard operating system eg. Windows allowing people to work remotely with greater ease and security while also reducing IT costs.

A recent article by Bloomberg indicates that EMC may be considering selling their stake in Virtualization solutions provider VMware.
Sources at virtualization.info state that Intel may be interested in an acquisition, however its not likely to happen before Jan 09 in order to complete a tax free distribution of the shares.
The move would allow VMware to place the hypervisor directly onto the CPU leading to all kinds of new possibilities within the market.
Intel and Vmware have teamed up in the past on various collaborations and Intel already own a small 2.5 …