Collaborating with VMware
VMware is on fire. The company recently reported year-over-year growth at 49%, ending FY2010 at $2.9 billion. Included in that top line is 95% increase in operating income. Q111 revenue is 33% higher than Q110.
In UC, VMware is everyone's buddy. …
PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: Cloud Foundry Supports Scala
Cloud Foundry (previous CloudAve coverage), VMware’s attempt at multi cloud PaaS, today announced that they are supporting Scala, a language for highly scalable applications and platforms. Cloud Foundry was earlier supporting Spring, Rails and Node.js. Since Cloud Foundry platform is designed to support multiple application frameworks, adding support for additional languages is very easy. For [...]
VMware Horizon App Manager – A Quick Analysis
Whether you want to call it consumerization of enterprises or democratization of IT, we know that it is happening already and no FUD can stop them anymore. Instead of fighting this process, today’s smart enterprises are embracing them by empowering their users to securely use SaaS and other consumer applications. VMware realized this trend and [...]
Out of Left Field: Vmware Acquires Sliderocket
Quick initial reaction: scratching head. Vmware recently shook up the Cloud Computing world with the launch of Cloud Foundry and I think most of us would have pegged them as an infrastructure company. Then all of a sudden they buy Sliderocket, the great collaborative presentations company. Why is this a big deal? Probably not for [...]
The Main Performance
If you’ve been following breaking developments in Cloud this past week, it will probably have included at least eleventy-six references to vmware’s Cloud Foundry announcement along with some excellent write ups on the topic – including this one from my Cloudave brother, Krish Submaranian and this, quite literally from the horse’s mouth, ex-Spring head honcho, [...]
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 [...]
rPath Announces Support For OpenStack and vCloud Director
rPath (see previous CloudAve coverage), the North Carolina based company offering deployment and maintenance solutions across physical, virtual and cloud environments, today announced additional features to their newly launched product, called rPath X6. rPath X6 now supports OpenStack (see previous CloudAve coverage) and vCloud Director. This clearly makes rPath attractive for enterprises with the expected [...]
Firehost Gives Customers A Peep Into Their Security
Firehost (see previous CloudAve coverage), the managed hosting provider with strong focus on security, today announced a new feature called “Security View”, available through the customer portal, which will give them a first hand view on how the company blocks hack attacks on the servers and applications. This allows the customers to gain better visibility [...]
AWS Planning To Add VM Export?
Little more than a week back, Amazon Web Services announced a new tool called VM Import, which can be used to import virtual machines into Amazon EC2. It was a pretty good tool which will help organization move their VMware based workloads to Amazon cloud. VM Import lets you bring existing VMware images (VMDK files) [...]
In a world of niche Clouds, how do you define a useful niche?
There are a couple of interesting posts on the blog of the UK’s FLESSR project, detailing their efforts to work out how feasible it might be to offer a new Cloud service to universities. More on that in a moment. I don’t think I’ve ever really been convinced by the argument that everything will end [...]
iPad And IT Admins: VMware Jumps Into iPad Mania
This is my third post in the last ten days on the iPad in the enterprise meme and the main reason is that this meme is refusing to die anytime soon. VMware is the culprit this time. At the VMworld Europe conference on Tuesday, VMware CTO, Steve Herrod, announced about VMware’s plan for this device [...]
What Cloud Computing Means to Your Network
What Cloud Computing Means to Your Network As organizations seek to reduce costs, improve efficiency, and increase scalability, virtualization and cloud computing are becoming an integral part of their IT strategies. However, cloud computing also presents new challenges for testers and network/data center operators. Because applications and networks are no longer independent entities, these groups [...]
Firehost Enhances Transparency Over Their Performance
Firehost, one of the managed hosting providers focussing more on security, today announced enhanced visibility and control for their customers on their servers. Yes, this is a cloud blog and Firehost is not a cloud provider per se. However, there are certain use cases for which Cloud is not 100% ready yet. One such scenario [...]
Understanding VMware vShield Endpoint And Agentless Malware Protection
When I wrote my analysis on VMware’s VMworld 2010 announcements earlier this week, I didn’t cover a product which piqued my interest. It is about VMware’s moves to beef up virtualization and cloud security through their vShield offering. I decided to wait because I wanted to talk to one of VMware’s partners, Trend Micro, before [...]
VMware’s Cloud Strategy: Neither Deadwood Nor Sandalwood But More Than A Collection Of Driftwoods
Last week VMworld happened and some of the Clouderati were busy hanging out in the halls of Moscone Center at San Francisco. I was planning to attend the event but had to cancel due to personal reasons. But a steady stream of tweets and blog posts kept me updated about everything from the keynotes to [...]
