Under the slogan “Connecting Clouds” Zimory has launched its cloud computing marketplace. The Zimory system will allow enterprises large and small to participate in this eBay style marketplace. The system will broker cloud computing services between businesses as well as it will optimize your existing data centers so you can better utilises your computing resources. Zimory is offering it services to those who have data space to sell and those who need space and processing power to buy. Unlike Amazon (EC2) you can sell your space via Zimory rather than just buying.

The Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) initiative from Microsoft touches every area of our virtual and physical computing environment. By the end of this year or before, MDOP will be what Windows administrator’s will be talking about. The MDOP model has taken a holistic view of customers computing environment, from desktop management, Active Directory, application deployment to inventory management.

On the 29 of January CiRBA announced the general release of its capacity management system CiRBA 5.1. Version 5.0 was released in the 2nd half of last year. CiRBA 5.1 is said to “enable advanced analytics and collaborative capabilities that enable enterprise views of capacity health for both physical and virtual infrastructure “.

Virtualization has seen many products in the last year and at the rate at which the industry is moving 2009 will be no different. In fact, we will see a lot more virtualization products coming into the market for this year. We are in the 4th week of 2009 and so far we have herd many announcements and seen many new releases, from TourtVirtual, Xcedex, Microsoft and many others.

VMware Fusion was voted best software for 2008 by Amazon.com, seeing off Parallel and VirtualBox by Sun Microsystems. VMware Fusion allows you to run Windows XP, Windows Vista and Linux operating systems on you Apple Mac system.
VMware Fusion now at version 2 comes with many features that doesn't take away much from your Mac experience:

Toutvirtual releases new Virtualization management product and it is free to download. You can use VirtualIQ to manage up to 5 CPUs and 25 VMs for Free. Earlier in December last year Xcedex released their virtualization planning system X_Factor.

OK Labs the developers of OKL4 and OK Linux received a major capital injection of $7.6 million from venture capitalist Chrysalis Ventures and Neo Technology Ventures and Citrix® Systems, Inc. OKL4 one of their product is a market-leading embedded hypervisor, which offers the highest performance combined with strong protection and security features.

ServInt announced that it will including a virtualization layer in its new line of Dedicated Server Solutions. The new feature will be of benefit to companies that has a e-commerce in their web presence and those that need application hosting solution with high performance. ServInt's new line of Dedicated Servers is comprised of six offerings, each of which include the virtualization layer by default.

Virtual Iron has seen a 65 percent increase in revenue. The increase in revenue was helped my government deals and the company’s penetration into the small to medium size business market. 24 percent was as a result of deals from government sales.

With the increase in virtualization implementation and the need to manage virtual environment there is a growing need to manage all those virtual machines. Vizioncore – a virualization server management software specialist has released vOptimizer Pro. A software that will enable IT departments to reclaim over-allocated and unused space in their virtual environment.