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Last week, Unitrends released a new product -- Unitrends Free.  The product, which is unlimited in terms of VMs and sockets, will allow IT Pro’s to protect 1TB absolutely free, forever.


Features in Unitrends Free include:

• Free vSphere and Hyper-V Backup for Unlimited Virtual Machines (VMs) and Sockets. Unlike other tools that restrict usage by number of VMs or sockets, Unitrends Free provides hypervisor-level protection for up to 1 terabyte (TB) of data.
• Instant VM Recovery. Unitrends Free makes it possible to quickly run a VM directly from a backup to reduce downtime. Instant recovery also allows users to spin up copies of their VMs for recovery verification, testing and development.
• Automated Daily Scheduling. The product features “set it and forget it” scheduling with daily recovery points to keep a user’s system protected at all times – even when no one is around.
• Fast, Incremental Forever Backups. Unitrends Free delivers changed-block tracking and incremental forever backups to ensure that backups complete rapidly every day – without using a lot of storage.
• Cloud Integration. Users can also take advantage of low cost long-term storage via integration with third-party clouds such as Google Cloud Storage, Google Nearline and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3).
• Unitrends Community Integration. Users benefit from limitless support provided by the Unitrends Community. Directly integrated into the Unitrends Free user interface, IT professionals can search the forum and collaborate to help one another, while also earning attractive rewards.
  
  

VMware Fusion 7 Pro has been updated for OS X Yosemite. Visual changes include a new flatter application icon, changes to include translucent elements, and Yosemite style full-screen behavior. VMware Fusion Pro includes the latest virtual hardware revision with support for:

• Advanced Haswell processor features, including AVX2 inside a virtual machine
• A new virtual webcam, making it easier than ever to use your webcam with Windows applications
• An updated, virtual USB controller with support for XHCI 1.0
• A new approach to video memory that enables the VRAM limit to be specified per virtual machine
• The amount of VRAM configured is not limited by the VRAM available to the host.
• The ability to specify a preference for the integrated or discrete GPU
• On recent Mac Book Pros that contain both GPUs, this can result in increased battery life for lightly used virtual machines.
• VMware Fusion Pro is more efficient than ever with wake-ups reduced by over 60% for lightly used virtual machines.
• OS X Yosemite can now be used inside a virtual machine.
• VMware Fusion Pro now shows the status of each virtual machine in the library list view. This is particularly useful for power-users working with many virtual machines.
• Improved support for Retina displays, including changes to Unity mode and the ability to control how Fusion scales when moving between Retina-class and standard density displays.
• Direct sounds from virtual machines to a specific audio device on your Mac.
• Per-virtual machine shortcut keys make jumping quickly between operating systems a breeze.
• Improved support for Ubuntu 14.xx etc < New Linuxes here.

The ability to access virtual machines running on VMware vSphere, VMware ESXi, and VMware Workstation directly from VMware Fusion Pro including:

• Remote display, keyboard, and mouse control
• Ability to select media for CD, DVD, floppy devices, including files on your Mac
• Ability to power virtual machines on and off and configure the network they connect to
• Ability to move virtual machines from your Mac to a remote location by dragging and dropping
• Ability to move virtual machines from a remote location to your Mac by dragging and dropping
• See the state of your remote server with at-a-glance health summary based on Activity Monitor

InfraDog has officially released the addition of VMware support for both iOS and Android mobile devices. Now you can manage your virtual IT infrastructure anywhere, securely on mobile without compromising firewalls or access through VPN.

InfraDog’s advanced technology also provides the world’s fastest communications gateway available for VMware access on mobile. Besides common VMware host and guest operational tasks, InfraDog VMware support includes key features to dynamically scale # of CPUs and size memory usage on live VM guests.

Plus using vMotion, migrate VMs from one ESXi host to another. Key Features of VMware Support Quick and easy deployment – Discover ESXi or vCenter from the Management Point console, without agents. Fast access anywhere – Baseline access times less than 1 second from mobile to your VMware environment anywhere in the world.

VMware Management vCenter or standalone ESXi host Host level: CPU, Memory utilization, Shut Down, Reboot, and Maintenance Mode VM Guest level: CPU, Memory, Disk utilization, Power Off/On, Suspend/Resume, Reset, and Shut Down VM Guest live console VM Guest modify # of CPU and Size of Memory usage VM Guest migration (vMotion) Simple VM Host association to VM guest OS instance by single touch.

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