Can Pivotal really offer cloud nirvana?
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Will Pivotal’s corporate overlords let Paul Maritz do as he pledges — offer a cloud-agnostic operating layer? I’m sure business customers hope so. Read more »
GE to pour $105M into EMC and VMware’s Pivotal Initiative
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GE said it will use its 10 percent stake in the nascent Pivotal Initiative to bolster its industrial internet push Read more »
EMC’s Paul Maritz: it takes leadership to move companies toward a data-driven future
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What does it take to move companies toward a data-driven future? EMC chief strategist and Pivotal Initiative leader Paul Maritz spoke at Strucuture:Data in New York on how to move toward the future through human leadership and strategy. Read more »
The world is ready for the consumer-grade enterprise
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Former VMware CEO and current Pivotal Initiative leader Paul Maritz shares his thoughts on how the future of enterprise IT must mirror the practices of consumer web companies. Read more »
The week in cloud: VMware fesses up; Amazon adds features; Newvem watches Amazon
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It was a busy week in cloud as VMware took the wraps off its public cloud play; Newvem added still another way to watch your Amazon account; and Amazon itself churned out a ton of new AWS features. Read more »
The Pivotal Initiative, in case you were wondering, is now official
Pivotal Initiative is finally here. EMC Chairman Joe Tucci kicks off his latest venture in New York with help from Pat Gelsinger, Paul Maritz and others. Read more »
The week in cloud: VMware cloud saga continues; Amazon kicks up monitoring wars
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There was lots of chit-chat on what VMware could/should/would/will do about its Amazon public cloud problem, and Amazon raised a ruckus with a free preview of Trusted Advisor. Read more »
Cloud Foundry faces fear of forking
Forking of open-source projects can be good or bad. Developers love freedom of choice but big customers fear lack of compatilbility. In either case the prospect of a Cloud Foundry fork is worth examining. Read more »
This week in cloud: Amazon upsets Apple; NTT backs Cloud Foundry; cloud taxes in dispute
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Amazon is numero uno in consumer appeal, beating out even Apple and Google, according to Harris Interactive. Also, Cloud Foundry gets big backer in NTT and states reconsider sales taxes on cloud services. Read more »
VMware’s Tod Nielsen follows Maritz to Pivotal Initiative
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Tod Nielsen, who helped lead VMware’s applications platform group, has moved over to the Pivotal Initiative spin-off where he’ll report to old pal Paul Maritz. Read more »
Lucovsky moves from Cloud Foundry back to VMware in Pivotal shift
Star engineer Mark Lucovsky appears to be back at VMware, after handing the Cloud Foundry PaaS over to VMware/EMC’s Pivotal Initiative spin-off. Read more »
VMware pours $30M more into Puppet Labs
Puppet and VMware will work on joint solutions to ease the configuration and management of IT environments, says Puppet Labs CEO Luke Kanies. Read more »
And whomp, here it is: The Pivotal Initiative brought to you by VMware and EMC
With its newly minted Pivotal Initiative, EMC and VMware are cordoning off key technologies to attack the big data and cloud application spaces. Paul Maritz, EMC’s chief strategy officer and former VMware CEO, will spearhead this effort. Read more »
