Posts Tagged ‘ VMForce ’

How to Use the Cloud for Development, Safely

April 21, 2011
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When CloudFoundry was announced, my first thought was this is a nightmare waiting to happen. Why do I think this, because I was not thinking about Open Source developers but enterprise developers and the biggest issue with enterprise development is that the data used by developers is either made up data, but more often than…

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Performance Management for Platform as a Service (PaaS) Clouds

December 8, 2010
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Performance Management for Platform as a Service (PaaS) Clouds

For a developer, and subsequently the team of people that has to support certain kinds of applications in production, a PaaS cloud can be a wonderful thing. Why can a PaaS cloud be so wonderful? Because if you have a web based application based upon Java, Ruby-on-Rails, or .NET you can find a cloud provider…

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VMware positions for the future around vFabric and vCloud

September 3, 2010
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Looking in from 5000 miles (no I didn’t make it to VMworld this year), the two most significant announcements involved the consolidation of VMware’s bulging product lines into clearly-defined vFabric and vCloud strategies, which are respectively PaaS and IaaS plays that compete feature-wise with the established market leaders.

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Oracle sues Google over Android and Java, Microsoft Smiles, VMware Grimaces

August 13, 2010
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Oracle has sued Google over Google's development of a Java compatible JVM in the Android operating systems called Dalvik. This has the potential to have impacts outside of the smart phone industry as VMware is basing its entire applications platform strategy on a Java compatible JVM developed by SpringSource.

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VMware – The Applications Platform Company

May 7, 2010
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VMware will offer enterprises a very inexpensive Java run time platform that is tuned to virtualization, that facilitates very rapid deployment of Java applications into a virtualized environment, and that offers applications portability between VMware TC-Server run time environments and Java PAAS clouds like VMforce. This may well prove to be an irresistible combination to…

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VMforce = Java + Spring Java Platform + vCloud + SalesForce Data Center

April 28, 2010
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VMforce = Java + Spring Java Platform + vCloud + SalesForce Data Center

VMware and SalesForce.com have come together to provide a robust, scalable PaaS offering for Java Developers. Existing Force.com developers will now have the ability to use Java to build and extend their applications and all Java developers will have a significant and productive new run time option for their applications. VMware and SalesForce.com have both…

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VMForce – Speculation on the new Salesforce.com and VMware alliance

April 14, 2010
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VMForce is going to get announced on April 27th. Could this be a brand new cloud based upon SpringSource tc Server as a Java based Platform as a Service play for Force.com applications? This would benefit VMware, SalesForce.com, and the Force.com developer community.

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