VMware has agreed with Terremark to purchase 4 million shares at $5 per share, which will see total investment of $20million. The $20million investment will give VMware a 5% share in Terremark.

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.

Wyse announced yesterday at this years VMworld conference in Cannes, France that their entire line of thin client systems are VMware View ready. Wyse said they have passed the rigorous testing and quality assurance required to be compliant with VMware View.

Being VMware View ready Wyse said their customers will be better positioned to take advantage of the changing virtualization infrastructure including cloud computing.

Tripwire have released a new tool along with a new community at vWire.com the tool OpsCheck (find link in our virtualization tools section) will check for compatibility or readiness for VMotion.

OpsCheck will join their other security tool ConfigCheck. OpsCheck will analyze your ESX3.0 and ESXi hypervisors, and provide troubleshooting guidance for VMware VMotion.

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:

As more and more companies implement virtualization as part of their infrastructure there are certain basic security measure that must be put in place. Below I have list 10. They are specific to VMware, but if you are using other provider the list will help you to think about your implementation and how you can make it more secure.
 
1. Secure virtual machine as you would secure physical machines

VMmark was developed by VMware as a benchmarking tool to give us accurate measurement of application performance in a virtualized environment. It’s the industry’s first virtualization benchmarking tool for x86-based systems. The system uses a unique tile-base implementation.

VMware Server 2 is now available for download-free. Here are some of the features:

VMware and Tripwire have teamed up to release configcheck a free security tool for the VMware virtualized infrastructure. This tool will audit your systems for security settings you might have overlooked during system setup. Configcheck is now available for download fron the Tripwire website.