Posts belonging to Category VMWare

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 Buys Open Source Company

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 [...]

Start-up Claims To Make VMware Safe

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 [...]