Comments on: Structure 2010: The Cloud Is the New Hardware, Says CEO of VMware

By: The Economics of Servers Could Soon Change: Tech News «

The Economics of Servers Could Soon Change: Tech News « — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 01:20:51 +0000

[...] on the architecture. It brings us closer to the idea of the data center as a computer with the real operating system being at the management layer. If you can make the management layer play nice with a variety of hardware (x86 or not), then the [...]

By: VMware Goes Beyond Data Centers to Control the Cloud

VMware Goes Beyond Data Centers to Control the Cloud — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:42:01 +0000

[...] product today, which is based on its acquisition of Spring Source, and hinted at during our Structure 2010 conference in June. However, it’s the operating system stuff that’s pretty interesting. Last September I [...]

By: OpenStack: An Open Source Cloud Project Emerges | Digital Asset Management

OpenStack: An Open Source Cloud Project Emerges | Digital Asset Management — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 06:53:01 +0000

[...] to compete with several proprietary cloud platforms including those being developed by Microsoft and VMware. RackSpace is spearheading the project and is donating the code that powers its Cloud Files and [...]

By: OpenStack: An Open Source Cloud Project Emerges

OpenStack: An Open Source Cloud Project Emerges — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 04:02:25 +0000

By: VMware Knows the Cloud Doesn’t Need Server Virtualization

VMware Knows the Cloud Doesn’t Need Server Virtualization — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 00:01:54 +0000

[...] Structure 2010, Maritz said that “clouds at the infrastructure layer are the new hardware.” The unit of cloud scaling today [...]

By: Microsoft To Sell Azure-Based Cloud Appliances. Eyes Private Cloud Market.

Microsoft To Sell Azure-Based Cloud Appliances. Eyes Private Cloud Market. — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:31:45 +0000

[...] VMware CEO Paul Maritz in a fireside chat with me said that his company was betting big on helping large companies make the transition to private cloud with its new offerings. Microsoft’s strategy seems closer to IBM’s which has both hardware (CloudBurst) for company’s that want to build their own clouds and a variety of workload-specific platforms on offer to clients, as opposed to VMware which is building platforms as a service with no hardware in sight. This strategy also puts Microsoft in competition with Cisco Systems, which is working on its own strategies to compete in the emerging cloud marketplace using specialized and easily configurable hardware. Microsoft, it seems is merely following what is en vogue these days. [...]

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Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:17:11 +0000

[...] VMware’s Paul Maritz calls the cloud the new hardware [...]

By: adam gold

adam gold — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 01:44:28 +0000

Virtualization makes sense. It doesn't make sense to pay for CPU power you only need 5% of the time. But you want to make sure you can get it when you need it. It is why Rackspace looks attractive too. On a side note, Twitter needs to get into the cloud immediately. IT might get rid of the fail whale.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 23:38:49 +0000

Paul sounds like a smart guy. There are very few execs in the valley who can talk about x86 architecture and understand the cloud computing shift. I'm kinda impressed. Good for VMWARE!