Cloud Computing is still getting a lot of press these days. Some of it is negative, but most is positive.

I haven’t really been following all the developments in this area as they do not have a direct effect to my workplace. But things are starting to get interesting as the various Cloud provides are starting to introduce services based on the proven technologies such as VMWare and XenServer.

VMWare’s vCloud beta looks interesting and provides a good option for launching cloud based services. VirtualizationAdmin.com has put this together this interesting demo about the VMWare vCloud product and what it does right now.



It looks quite interesting to me.

Would I throw all my servers in the Cloud? No way, but there has certainly been improvements to what is being offered.

Microsoft has announced a number of upcoming licensing changes. Included in those changes are some new licenses for VDI (Virtualization Desktop Infrastructure) implementations on Microsoft products.

There will be two new licenses:

• Microsoft VDI Standard Suite
• Microsoft VDI Premium Suite

These new licenses will match the other well known license normally associated with VDI, Virtual Enterprise Centralized Desktop (VECD).

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XenServer 5.0 has not been released for that long, but already a minor update has occurred. XenServer 5.5 is out now.

While largely I think XenServer 5.5.0 is a release to address some general bugs it also adds improved support.

The features added as part of the update are:

• Improved Backup and snapshot support
• Active Directory Integration
• Workload balancing
• Improved operating system support
• XenCentre improvements

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MokaFive has released version 2 of their MokaFive suite. MokaFive was designed as a Desktop-as-a-Service (DAAS) platform for small to medium enterprises. Offering a tailored option in the hosted MokaFive Service so they don’t have to deal with deploying a server, maintenance and upgrades. This is a great option for small businesses who simply do not have the time or technical resources to manage their IT environments.

The MokaFive suite goes that step further now offering a scalable and fully managed product for large enterprises. Not only providing fully contained virtual machines called LivePC’s but also the ability to deliver applications to these Live PC’s. These virtual machines are cached and run locally.

I have talked about MokaFive previously as well.

The features that MokaFive provide are:

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