Ah, the gloves are coming off. VMware, under the guise of a proprietary virtualization company, is inching up the software stack to horn in on Microsoft’s prized Office turf, a piece of ground well-known to its CEO, ex-Microsoft nabob Paul Maritz. It’s bought SlideRocket, a five-year-old San Francisco SaaS-based business presentation ISV that leverages cloud [...]
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In a shameless bid for the hearts and minds of application developers, VMware rolled in a field of open source catnip before jumping into the Platform-as-a-Service business Tuesday with a thing called Cloud Foundry, the industry’s first “Open PaaS,” reportedly designed to built applications that run and scale in the cloud, anybody’s cloud, public or [...]
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Cisco, EMC and VMware have abandoned the clumsy and confusing bifurcated structure that has marked their formal alliance since it got off the ground in November of 2009 in favor of a single cloud-chasing company, the Virtual Computing Environment Company – VCE. The Acadia joint venture oddly appended to the original VCE Coalition is gone, [...]
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Novell, which was put in play in March when Elliott Associates, a hedge fund, offered to buy it for $2 billion, has struck an agreement-in-principle to break in two and spin off SUSE Linux to a strategic buyer with most of the rest of the company going to a private equity house, the New York [...]
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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 [...]
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Google and VMware have never been particularly chummy but now they’re suddenly each other’s new best friend and a little cloud brought them together. As a result Google is going to support some of the Java tools VMware got with its acquisition of SpringSource, enough so users can move relatively painlessly between Google’s cloud, any [...]
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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 [...]
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Microsoft and Citrix got together Thursday to beat up VMware and warn it off their desktop turf. They position VMware as a server virtualization company with little skill or interest in the desktop that’s using View, its desktop virtualization product, as a “sweetener to sell server virtualization” and screwing up the customer and the VDI [...]
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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,” [...]
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Citrix is going to try to bar VMware from getting its hooks deep in the cloud by developing the open source Xen hypervisor, already used by public clouds like Amazon, into a full-blown, cheaper, non-proprietary Xen Cloud Platform (XCP). It intends to surround the Xen hypervisor with a complete runtime virtual infrastructure platform that virtualizes [...]
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