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Oracle ships VDI 3.2

By | August 16, 2010, 7:40am PDT

Summary: Oracle’s patent infingement case against Android Linux made all the big headlines last week yet the company also stepped up its attack on VMware with the release of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure 3.2. The revamped platform, part of the company’s expanding virtualization portfolio following its acquision of Sun, offers improved scalability as well as enhanced management and [...]

Oracle’s patent infingement case against Android Linux made all the big headlines last week yet the company also stepped up its attack on VMware with the release of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure 3.2.

The revamped platform, part of the company’s expanding virtualization portfolio following its acquision of Sun, offers improved scalability as well as enhanced management and multimedia capabilities.

For example, version 3.2 offers global hot-desking, multi-company features, enhanced audio/video capabilities and administrative enhancements, such as built-in Windows virtual desktop provisioning, desktop re-provisioning and memory sharing/memory ballooning for Windows virtual desktops.

Oracle’s VDI platform — whose availability was announced Aug 11 — supports multiple industry virtualization hosts as well as multiple operating systems and hardware but ships with Oracle VM VirtualBox 3.2 and Solaris 10.

Oracle plans to host an online VDI summit this week that will solidify its virtualization strategy and hint toward future desktop virtualization plans.

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Paula Rooney has covered the technology industry for more than 15 years, starting with semiconductor design and mini-computer systems at EDN News and later focused on PC software companies including Microsoft, Lotus, Oracle, Red Hat, Novell and other open source and commercial software companies for CRN and PCWeek. She received a silver award from the American Society of Business Publication Editors in 2005 for her profile on Linus Torvalds and edited and co-authored "Partnering With Microsoft," a book about Microsoft's channel published by CMP Publishing in 2004. Rooney graduated from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1997. In her off time, she enjoys scuba diving, sailing, sun worshipping, running and reading. She resides on the shores of Scituate, Massachusetts.

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