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VMware vs. Amazon … ROUND TWO … FIGHT! — VMW Conceding Impotence?

VMware vs. Amazon … ROUND TWO … FIGHT! — VMW Conceding Impotence?

By Randy Bias on March 5, 2013

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 […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged Amazon Web Services, aws, cloud computing, Elastic Block Storage, elastic cloud infrastructure, salesforce.com, vcloud, vmware | 1 Response

On VMware’s Cloud Foundry Core and PaaS Portability

On VMware’s Cloud Foundry Core and PaaS Portability

By Ben Kepes on November 20, 2012

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 […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged ActiveState, cloud computing, Cloudfoundry, platform services, rightscale, vcloud, vendor lock-in, vmware | 1 Response

A Preview of VMworld–On VMware’s Cunning Plans

A Preview of VMworld–On VMware’s Cunning Plans

By Ben Kepes on August 16, 2012

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

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged aws, cisco, CloudComputing, emc, Nicira, simon wardley, vcloud, vmware, vmworld | 1 Response

Nimsoft Monitors vCloud

Nimsoft Monitors vCloud

By Ben Kepes on March 21, 2012

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 […]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged data center, nimsoft, vcloud, vmware, VMware vSphere

Tier 3 Brings Out The Heavy Guns!

Tier 3 Brings Out The Heavy Guns!

By Adron Hall on February 21, 2012

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 […]

Posted in Business, Enterprise, Featured Posts, General, Infrastructure, Platforms | Tagged .NET Framework, business, cloud foundry, CloudComputing, Cloudfoundry, e-commerce, federated cloud, iron foundry, Jared Wray, platform services, vcloud, vmware

Nimbula Launches Version 2 of Director

Nimbula Launches Version 2 of Director

By Ben Kepes on February 13, 2012

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

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged amazon, cloud computing, Cloudfoundry, nimbula, openstack, vcloud, vmware, VMware ESX | 1 Response

6fusion Introduces Free Cloud Resource Meter for VMware vSphere

6fusion Introduces Free Cloud Resource Meter for VMware vSphere

By Ben Kepes on February 13, 2012

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

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged 6fusion, Central processing unit, CloudComputing, vcloud, vmware, VMware vSphere, vSphere Client

VMware Pushes Hard With vCloud Integration Manager

VMware Pushes Hard With vCloud Integration Manager

By Krishnan Subramanian on February 8, 2012

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 […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged iaas, Infrastructure as a service, Infrastructure services, insights, service providers, vcloud, vcloud director, vcloud integration manager, vmware | 8 Responses

Contegix Moves Beyond VMware To Offer Their Cloud Solutions

Contegix Moves Beyond VMware To Offer Their Cloud Solutions

By Krishnan Subramanian on October 19, 2011

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, […]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged briefs, contegix, iaas, infrastructure, Infrastructure services, vcloud, vmware, xen | 3 Responses

Understanding VMware vShield Endpoint And Agentless Malware Protection

Understanding VMware vShield Endpoint And Agentless Malware Protection

By Krishnan Subramanian on September 10, 2010

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 […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Security | Tagged antivirus, cloud computing, deep security, endpoint security, malware, Security, trend micro, vcloud, virtualization, vmware, vshield, vsphere | 6 Responses

VMware’s Cloud Strategy: Neither Deadwood Nor Sandalwood But More Than A Collection Of Driftwoods

VMware’s Cloud Strategy: Neither Deadwood Nor Sandalwood But More Than A Collection Of Driftwoods

By Krishnan Subramanian on September 7, 2010

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 […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged analysis, cloud computing, redwood, vcloud, vfabric, virtualization, vmware, vmworld, vmworld 2010, vshield | 3 Responses

VMware Integrates Its Recent Acquisitions As It Gets Ready For A Cloudy World

VMware Integrates Its Recent Acquisitions As It Gets Ready For A Cloudy World

By Krishnan Subramanian on August 4, 2010

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 […]

Posted in Platforms | Tagged cloud computing, hyperic, project redwood, springsource, vcloud, vmware, vsphere | 1 Response

Weekend Bits: Difference Between Amazon And VMware Explained

Weekend Bits: Difference Between Amazon And VMware Explained

By Krishnan Subramanian on July 11, 2010

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 […]

Posted in General | Tagged amazon, aws, cloud computing, george reese, iaas, vcloud, vmware

CohesiveFT Rocks With VPNCubed For vCloud

CohesiveFT Rocks With VPNCubed For vCloud

By Krishnan Subramanian on October 2, 2009

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 […]

Posted in Analysis, Enterprise, Security | Tagged cloud computing, cohesiveft, vcloud, vpncubed

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