Sun Microsystems today annouced the release of Virtualbox 2.2. According to the changelog this new version has 10 new features and over 30 bug fix or solutions added. Virtualbox 2.2 is said to be the world most favourite open source hypervisor with over 11 million downloads.

Jim McHugh, vice president for datacentre software marketing at Sun, said: “VirtualBox has always been a fantastic tool for developers to create multiple virtual machines, network them together and deploy them using nearly any operating system.”

NVIDIA introduced the NVIDIA SLI Multi-OS a new virtualized graphics workstation technology for virtualization application. This new technology delivers a faster, more efficient workflow to maximize productivity and lower the total cost of ownership for professionals in markets such as: digital content creation, sciences, manufacturing, and oil and gas.

Virtualization has change the way we look at thin computing and other area of a IT infrastructure. So the advent of virtualization was welcome with the hope that it will reduce the waste and help businesses to cut cost and save resources. Today’s thin client solutions are more: efficient, cost effective and powerful.

Wyse has announced that they will be collaborating with IBM through their Virtual Infrastructure Access service. Wyse is already a global leader in thin computing solutions will work with IBM Global Services division – also a world leader in IT services.

"Wyse has been a customer of IBM for some time, but this is a much more formal relationship," David Angwin, director of marketing for Wyse EMEA”.

Atos Origin an international IT services company, received the prestigious innovation award 'EMEA North Partner Award 2008 for most innovative use of virtual infrastructure' at the 2009 VMworld event in Cannes. This award was given to Atos Origin in recognition of its innovative use of VMWare technology across its customer base.

Two weeks after the release of Novell ZENworks Application Virtualization 7, Xenocode announced today the release of its latest version of application virtualization technology to Novell. The system has been release so that Novell customers those want it in house and service providers can take advantage of the new features in Novell ZENworks Application Virtualization 7.

AppDNA today announce the general availability of their virtualization compatibility Tool AppTitude 3.5. The new system now supports Citrix XenApp application delivery solution. The system promises to reduce the time, cost and risk associated with deployment of OS migrations, software upgrades, virtualization and other changes.

Citrix Essentials was release last month the same time Citrix announced that its XenServer is available as a free download. Building on their long term relationship with Microsoft, Citrix said it new virtualization management software – Citrix Essentials will manage both its XenServer and Microsoft Windows 2008 Hyper-V. The Citrix Essentials suite of products/features is aimed at businesses that have a heterogeneous architecture of both Citrix XenServer and Microsoft Hyper-V.

Citrix and Intel announced today that they will be collaborating on the Citrix, XenDesktop systems. Citrix said they will be optimizing their application and desktop virtualization solution for the Intel’s Core 2 and Centrino 2 laptops.

“We’re delivering a complete solution around virtualizing on the client that will allow local execution and central image management,” said Louis Shipley, group vice-president and general manager of the XenServer product group.

Hyperformix announced today that it has received a new round of cash injection at a sum of $3.8 Million from venture capital partners LTI, M/C Venture and Morgan Stanley Venture Partners. Hyperformix currently partners with HP, VMware and IBM is hoping this new round of funding will see them increase their current market share in the virtualization management market.