HyTrust, Inc., the leader in policy management and access control for virtual infrastructure, announced today that it has secured $10.5 million in Series B financing. New investors Granite Ventures and Cisco Systems participated in the round of financing, as did existing investors Trident Capital and Epic Ventures. Len Rand, partner at Granite Ventures, will take a seat on the HyTrust Board of Directors. HyTrust will use the capital to drive development, sales and marketing, and fuel the company’s next stage of growth.

“We are excited to welcome Cisco not only as a HyTrust partner but now also as a strategic investor,” added Chiu. “It’s great validation for HyTrust when the worldwide leader in networking places its confidence, via financial backing, in our approach to policy management and access control for virtual infrastructure. We look forward to deepening our relationship with the Server Access & Virtualization business unit at Cisco, tightening our existing integration with Cisco Nexus 1000v and Unified Computing System products, and working closely with Cisco’s Security business unit to address the needs of our joint customers. We feel strongly that policy management is key to enabling the ‘next generation data center’ and we couldn’t be more excited to have gained the backing of the company that coined the phrase.”

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AUSTIN, Texas – Jan. 20, 2010 – Despite a tough economy and increased competition in the virtualization market, Hyper9, Inc. today announced the close of a banner year in 2009, capped off by a fourth quarter that was the company’s strongest quarter to-date. Demonstrating positive momentum across all areas of the business, Hyper9 won numerous industry accolades in 2009, most recently landing on CIO.com’s third-annual list of intriguing innovators in virtualization management, 10 Virtualization Vendors to Watch in 2010.

“Virtualization is no longer a buzzword that people just talk about,” said Bill Kennedy, CEO of Hyper9. “In 2009, more enterprises embraced virtualization as an effective way to optimize IT operations. As organizations continue to face the challenge of doing more with less, virtualization will play a strategic role in enhancing the performance and agility of key business initiatives.”

Here are the details:

Date

Monday, August 31, 2009 @ 6:30 PM local time

Address

Golden Gate Bridge (Shuttles will be provided from Moscone Center to the bridge and back)

Fees

$ 10,- (includes Nike dri-fit/cotton shirt)

Registration Closing Date

Sunday, August 23, 2009 @ 11:59 PM

Brief Description

Come join us for the first VMworld Fun Run. This event is only open to registered attendees of VMworld 2009 conference, sponsoring companies, partner companies and others associated with VMworld 2009. Event badges will be required to participate.

Course

The course will take the runner over the Golden Gate Bridge and back. We are planning on a 5K course and a 10K course. The exact distance(s) may change due to logistics.

Transportation

Shuttle bus transportation will depart from Moscone Center (VMworld HQ) and drop you off near the run launch pad. The buses will also return you to Moscone when you have finished. Bus schedules will be sent to you next week.

Beneficiary

All proceeds and sponsorship donations will be donated to Save The Bay. Save the Bay is the largest regional organization working to protect, restore and celebrate San Francisco Bay. (www.savesfbay.org)

Additional Information

Special thanks to the event sponsors: – list is coming

Be a part of this great initiative… REGISTER NOW!

Additional New Features:

• Support for VMware vSphere (ESX 4.0 and vCenter 4.0)
• Support for VMware ESXi (all versions)
• Two‐factor authentication including RSA SecureID
• Label‐based policy enforcement
• VM‐to‐host and VM‐to‐network segment control
• VM tag policy import
• XACML policy import/export
• AD policy import for virtual machine management

This is when the idea of a book series was born, which I for obvious reasons did not share with the twitter community. This book, and hopefully the rest of the following books, is written by six well known VMware community members. I don’t think they need further introduction so here are there names: Bernie Baker(thanks Chad for the tip), Thomas Bryant III, Stu Radnidge, Dave Mishchenko, Alan Renouf and myself of course.

The original idea was to publish a series of short topics, deep-dives, with each book limited to 150 pages, pocket size, sold at a minimum price and completely “diy”. For those unfamiliar with the term “diy” it means “do it yourself”. In other words we do not have a publisher helping us or funding it. We also don’t have a marketing budget, so we are relying on you guys to spread the word and we will be relying on Lulu.com for distributing/selling it.

When we started outlining our first book Ron Oglesby gave us the opportunity to rewrite the Quick Start Guide he and his team at RapidApp published in March 2007. We all agreed that this would be a good start of the series. Thanks again Ron! Of course this book will exceed the limit we agreed on of 150 pages, but it is worth it. We hope to get it done before VMworld and bring a couple of copies to VMworld but the clock is ticking fast and we are not there yet. We will keep you informed!

I just hope we can get all you guys as excited about new technology and VMware products in general as we are!

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We are pleased to announce that VMworld Europe will be held in October 2010. The VMworld Europe conference will follow our Global VMworld conference, scheduled for San Francisco in September 2010, to ensure that we are able to roll out key initiatives to customers and partners more quickly and consistently worldwide. As the leading virtualization conference, VMworld will continue to offer its diverse global audience the latest information on how virtualization is revolutionizing the next generation of computing.

More information on the specific dates and location for VMworld Europe 2010 will be announced soon!

You’ve probably already read the comments of the bloggers on this decision and if not you might want to read these articles:

• Gabes Virtual World
• PlanetVM
• RTFM Education

Personally I don’t know what the reason is for moving the conference to October instead of February. Of course I share some of the concerns mentioned in the blog articles above. I personally hope a new location will be chosen. Cannes was a nice location the last two editions but my guess is that Milan, Madrid, Barcelona and even Nice would be more appealing to most European attendees. (Definitely cheaper!) I guess we will just have to wait and see what the VMworld Europe team comes up with.

Another thing I’m personally excited about is the Golden Gate Bridge Run. This is an initiative that also started on twitter. As some of us will be bringing our running shoes we decided to do a daily run. Another idea we had was to do the Golden Gate Bridge. If you are interested in joining head over to this blog post and leave a comment if you want to tag along. We might be getting every attendee a t-shirt, and are also looking in to getting this sponsored and donating to charity. Cool huh!

Now, my comment to Citrix… As Scott openly challenged you guys to show benchmark reports(Spec etc) and compare them to VMware’s reports please step up to the plate! That’s what ours and your customers would like to see!

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