VMware Acquires Nicira–Quick Analysis
Yet another day of massive news with yesterday’s blast coming from VMware who are acquiring Nicira, a five year old veteran of software defined networking (SDN). This follows closely on the heels of VMware’s acquisition of DynamicOps, a heterogeneous cloud management tools and really speaks to VMware’s view on a future that is far from [...]
VMWare Disrupts PaaS Space With Cloud Foundry – An Analysis
VMware (previous CloudAve coverage) today announced Cloud Foundry, its Open Platform as a Service product, at a special event in Palo Alto. Cloud Foundry is both hosted and available as open source. More interestingly, it can run on your laptop or a single server or 1000s of VMs or, even, hundreds of dedicated servers. Apart [...]
VMware Integrates Its Recent Acquisitions As It Gets Ready For A Cloudy World
Some may think Project Redwood is dead but VMware is busy integrating its recent acquisitions while laying the groundwork for the cloudy future. While the VMware acquisitions like Springsource, Hyperic, RabbitMQ, Redis, GemStone, kept the pundit guessing for a while, we are slowly seeing some action around the acquisitions. VMware is expected to announce their [...]
SpringSource Acquires Cloud Foundry And Adds Momentum Towards Widespread Enterprise Adoption
SpringSource, the open source company VMWare acquired recently, appears to be in a mission. Now, they have acquired Cloud Foundry, the little company that helps users deploy Java applications on the cloud. Cloud Foundry is a self service, pay as you go platform which offered complete set of tools to manage the lifecycle of the [...]
Zendesk Scores Series B Funding and Ditches Freemium
I’m a big fan of both the Zendesk product offering, and the company. I’ve spent a significant amount of time with the Zendesk crew, written about them since the very early days and had something of an inside view of what makes them tick. In an industry that seems sadly full of wannabe prima donnas, [...]
