Posts Tagged ‘ VMware ’

VMware should merge CloudFoundry with OpenStack

August 3, 2012
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Agile Cloud Development

We suggest that to ensure CloudFoundry's dominance, VMware should merge the dominant Open Source IaaS and PaaS initiatives into a single Foundation.

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Here Comes the Heterogeneous Distributed Enterprise Cloud

August 2, 2012
By
ITasaService

Taking your cloud from a dev/test/pilot/training use case to an enterprise cloud introduces significant new requirements that first generation cloud management platforms were not designed to meet. Elasticity and self-service are nice features, but these features alone fall far short of what is needed to provision and run enterprise applications in clouds. With the acquisition…

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Is the Software Defined Data Center the Future?

August 1, 2012
By
ITasaService

VMware purchased Nicira, backed the Openflow Community, and is now touting software defined data centers (SDDC). But what is a software defined datacenter? Is it just virtualization or cloud with a software defined network? Or is it something more than that? Given heavy automation and scripting of most clouds, do we not already have SDDC?…

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Type 0 Hypervisor – Fact or Fiction

July 26, 2012
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DataCenterVirtualization

While looking around the web for anything new with virtualization, I kept seeing more and more posts and articles about the new type of virtual hypervisor. Type 0, now this sounds interesting and I found these definitions for each type of hypervisor.

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News: VMware buys the network in $1.26B Nicira acquisition

July 24, 2012
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VMware100x30

VMware announced its biggest ever bet yesterday buying up virtual networking startup Nicira for $1.26B.

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VMware’s Executive Shuffle! Maritz Out and Gelsinger In

July 18, 2012
By
VMware100x30

VMworld 2012 is right around the corner and the time leading up to the conference is usually the time major announcements are made about new technology and/or new products to strike interest in different technologies that will be presented at the conference. Today a different kind of announcement has been made, in that Paul Maritz…

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Virtualization Management – VMware and Dell, Big 2 or Big 6?

July 10, 2012
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Virtualization Management

Virtualization Management is sufficiently different from systems management so that it is likely that VMware and Dell will disrupt the traditional systems management business instead of simply participating in it. This will hasten the demise of the legacy systems management vendors like IBM, CA, HP, and BMC.

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News: VMware to Acquire DynamicOps, Inc.

July 2, 2012
By
VMware100x30

The big news (so far this year) is "VMware to Acquire DynamicOps". Now VMware is a multi-cloud and physical/virtual management vendor. Coming on the heels of the Dell buy of Quest, this means that VMware has signaled that it intends to compete in the new virtualization management market with all available weapons.

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Does RES Software portfolio update deliver DaaS?

July 2, 2012
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PresentationVirtualization

If DaaS provider is only focused on hosting a virtual desktop they are failing you. If you only provide a desktop to your customers - you will annoy them. You don't deliver "a desktop" you deliver "a workspace". RES Software have recently released a number of updates, new releases and patents that help put the…

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