Archive for the ‘VMWare’ Category
VMware Goes Cloud Size
VMware is expected to make its vSphere virtualization platform “cloud scale” Tuesday, capable of juggling 3,000 virtual machines in a single 32-node cluster, double what it could before. And its vCenter management software will be able to keep tabs on 1,000 hosts and somewhere between 10,000 and 15,000 VMs, triple its previous capabilities. The company [...]
VMware & Salesforce Percolate Java Cloud
Shouldn’t Oracle Be Doing This? So VMware and Salesforce’s heralded little secret is a joint Java cloud for developers. A little off the beaten tract for Salesforce whose own widgetry is based on a proprietary Apex language and who isn’t exactly in the developer-catering business but a sensible, non-competitive infrastructure consort for VMware, who’s got [...]
Cisco, VMware, NetApp in Petite Entente
First there was the great alliance between Cisco, VMware and EMC and now there’s a littler, less trumpeted triumvirate made up of Cisco, VMware and EMC rival NetApp assembled in the name of virtual and cloud security. It means they’ll have some recommended, pre-tested, and validated end-to-end configurations that they’ll promote as their so-called Secure [...]
Cisco, EMC, VMware & Intel Form Acadia JV
Cisco and EMC Tuesday kicked off a cloud-chasing joint venture called Acadia that includes VMware and Intel as minority investors. Presumably they took the name from the ancient Greeks who used the word to mean a refuge or idyllic place and not the uprooted and deported North American Acadia captured in Longfellow’s magnificent tear-jerker “Evangeline,” [...]
Oh, Look, SpringSource Has an Enterprise Java Cloud
SpringSource Wednesday trotted out an Enterprise Java Cloud, an announcement that’s supposed to shed some light on the synergies between SpringSource and the cloud-smitten VMware, which said last week that it’s buying SpringSource for upwards of $400 million. Seems the acquisitive SpringSource, in turn, recently bought Platform-as-a-Service start-up Cloud Foundry Inc, the source of its [...]
VMware’s Newfangled Cloud OS Positioned for Takeoff
VMware Tuesday announced what it calls the industry’s first cloud operating system ahead of delivering the thing sometime before the end of June. Branded vSphere 4, the expected widgetry, which promises a 100% virtualized cloud, is meant to reinforce VMware’s virtualization leadership and push it out further ahead of Microsoft, which is nipping at its [...]
VMware Open Sources Virtual Desktop Code
VMware is going open source. It’s conjured up View Open Client, an open source client for virtual desktop infrastructure meant to be used by data centers for hosting user desktops and making personalized user desktops accessible from most any device all of the time. The move pressures both Microsoft and the traditional PC makers. Gartner [...]