Comments on: VMware Wants to Provide the OS for the Cloud

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VMware Goes Beyond Data Centers to Control the Cloud — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:42:06 +0000

[...] of news, what’s the bottom line here for VMware? After last year’s VMworld conference, I wrote that the company wanted to be the operating system for the data center and would likely also launch a platform-as-a-service strategy to compete with Microsoft’s [...]

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More Cash for Hot New Cloud Startup, VMPOps – GigaOM — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:08:06 +0000

[...] That pile of cash gives VMOps enough cushion to fine-tune its offering as it starts to compete with the likes of VMware’s vCloud and Eucalyptus, for this is going to be a fiercely contested marketplace. Eucalyptus, which raised [...]

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By: The Cloud, Hadoop Marched Toward the Mainstream in Q3

The Cloud, Hadoop Marched Toward the Mainstream in Q3 — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:55:12 +0000

[...] internal cloud market made big strides, too, with VMware putting meat on the bones of its vCloud strategy. The virtualization leader rolled out more tools to assist companies in building virtualized clouds [...]

By: Cloud API « すでにそこにある雲

Cloud API « すでにそこにある雲 — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:20:54 +0000

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By: beenieweenie

beenieweenie — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:36:13 +0000

@geek is correct, vCenter is not new and the basic management component has been around for a while as “VirtualCenter”…but now it is expanding into a product family with automation for application performance monitoring, chargeback, etc.

I’m actually surprised vCloud Express wasn’t mentioned in this article….

By: BotchagalupeMarks for September 4th - 13:37 | IT Management and Cloud Blog

BotchagalupeMarks for September 4th - 13:37 | IT Management and Cloud Blog — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 13:48:13 +0000

[...] VMware Wants to Provide the OS for the Cloud – If the data center is the new computer, then the job of providing the de facto operating system of that new computer is up for grabs, as was made clear this week at VMware’s industry conference, VMworld — a vendor event-turned-virtualization trade show. VMware has had its eye on that prize for some time, but more recently, so has Microsoft. [...]

By: geek

geek — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:52:57 +0000

“This week it launched vCenter, which adds management capability to a product VMware released in April for creating and linking computing clouds, called vSphere 4. ”

This is incorrect. VMware has long had the vCenter (previously called VC) product to manage ESX and ESXi hosts. This announcement is about the “vCenter Product Family”, a family of products that extends the value of the core vCenter product