VMware vs. Amazon … ROUND TWO … FIGHT! — VMW Conceding Impotence?
Two and a half years ago I wrote about the inevitable throwdown between VMware and Amazon Web Services (AWS), but recently VMware’s senior leadership appeared to outright admit defeat. The message to VMware’s partners was simple: “We want to own corporate workload,” said Pat Gelsinger, VMware’s CEO. “We all lose if they end up in […]
On VMware’s Cloud Foundry Core and PaaS Portability
Recently VMware announced Core, a baseline test that assesses how compatible an application is to the Cloud Foundry open source release. In order to derive this compatibility rating, Core is based on a base set of components – specific versions of runtimes and components that are currently within the Core stable. Krish Subramanian has written […]
A Preview of VMworld–On VMware’s Cunning Plans
In a couple of weeks I’ll be in San Francisco for VMware annual conference, VMworld. This will actually be my first time attending the even in person and I suspect I’ve chosen the best year to be there – there are some seismic shifts occurring in VMware’s business and I
Nimsoft Monitors vCloud
Nimsoft (more on them here) is today announcing its monitoring toolset, Nimsoft Monitor, covers the performance monitoring of vCloud environments. I’ve long said that dynamic monitoring and control will become increasingly important in the future as organizations look to really leverage the elasticity that cloud brings – one can only drive elasticity if one has […]
Tier 3 Brings Out The Heavy Guns!
There are cloud offerings and then there are cloud offerings. As of today, Tier 3 just loaded up some big guns. Over the years Tier 3 has provided an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) play using various geographically located data-centers with high level disaster recovery, high availability (99.999%), utility compute, and high speed storage to […]
Nimbula Launches Version 2 of Director
Ever since is launched, Nimbula has been focused on brining “Amazon-like” functionality to private data centers. There messaging has unwaveringly been about the agility and flexibility of the public cloud, for private data center operations. Their aim came another step closer today with the beta release of version two of
6fusion Introduces Free Cloud Resource Meter for VMware vSphere
One of the key traits of cloud computing is the fact that it follows a utility model with resources able to be metered by use. That’s a glorious thing as lots of benefits drop out of that – the ability to pay by use, the ability to cost recover with
VMware Pushes Hard With vCloud Integration Manager
Yesterday, VMware announced the release of vCloud Integration Manager, a missing piece in their quest to create a service provider ecosystem running VMware’s cloud infrastructure platform. Essentially, it is an orchestration and automation piece needed for service providers to provision resources requested by their customers using a REST API or a web GUI. Many other […]
Contegix Moves Beyond VMware To Offer Their Cloud Solutions
Contegix, St. Louis based managed hosting provider morphing into a cloud provider, this week unveiled their cloud strategy with the introduction of their Miracloud platform. Contegix is offering a public cloud service with a twist. Unlike Amazon Web Services who offer a self service cloud solution, they offer tiered cloud services where the lowest tier, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Weekend Bits: Difference Between Amazon And VMware Explained
If you look out on the web, you can find tons of articles comparing and contrasting the cloud offerings from Amazon Web Services and VMware. But you may not find many tweets that articulate the differences well in 140 characters or less. Today, I came across a set of tweets from George Reese, CTO of […]
CohesiveFT Rocks With VPNCubed For vCloud
On Wednesday, CohesiveFT (our previous coverage of VPNCubed here and here) announced the release of VPNCubed for VMWare’s vCloud ecosystem. VPN-Cubed provides a security perimeter for the IT infrastructure whether it is inside a single cloud or multiple cloud or hybrid cloud-datacenter ecosystem. VPN-Cube uses the popular Open Source VPN software, OpenVPN, to act as an […]
