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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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 [...]
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VMware is buying privately held SpringSource, the San Mateo, California outfit behind the open source Spring Framework for Java application development, a totally new direction for VMware having nothing at all to do with virtualization – at least not on the surface. The acquisition will give it an application platform that can be used to [...]
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There’s a new kid on the block by the name of HyTrust Inc that claims it can take the risk out of virtualization. And it has VMware, Symantec, Cisco and Citrix in its corner as budding partners. It’s supposed to be the only player in its space trying to make virtual infrastructure as secure as [...]
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