Breaking: Savvis to buy AppFog
With AppFog, Savvis will get a Cloud Foundry-based Platform as a Service to run atop its own VSphere or vCloud Director-based infrastructure. Read more »
VMware to take on Splunk in managing log data big and small
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VMware sees an opportunity to help customers get a hold on unstructured data to understand what’s going on with their infrastructure. Its new Log Insight software will let companies do that. Read more »
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Getting your organization ready for SDN: Part 1
Today, functioning networks hide many faults. Software-defined networking (SDN) offers network operators a solution for poor traffic visibility and clumsy operational systems. A network actively, reactively, and proactively defined by software is far more ready than one constructed of static devices, connections, and configurations. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Microsoft will offer Azure by the minute to take on Amazon’s cloud
At TechEd, Microsoft will keep pitching that Azure running in Microsoft data centers and Windows Server and Systems Center running at customer sites is the best of the hybrid cloud universe. Read more »
The week in cloud: Can Windows Azure disrupt Amazon’s cloud? Stay tuned.
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The public cloud computing landscape gets more interesting with Microsoft pushing its new Windows Azure infrastructure services vs. Amazon (and Google.) Read more »
Here’s why CERN ditched OpenNebula for OpenStack
CERN has been testing options for a massive private cloud to serve 11,000 physicists around the world. It’s dropped OpenNebula in favor of OpenStack, but was that a valid or hype-driven decision? Read more »
Surprised? Cloud providers bring in $2B in first quarter
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What company remains atop the heap of IaaS/PaaS providers in Q1 2013? I’ll give you three guesses and the first two don’t count. Read more »
Killer cloud: report says Amazon Web Services threatens all IT incumbents
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New Morgan Stanley research expects AWS to hit $24 billion in revenue by 2022 and to put the hurt on legacy IT providers in the process. Read more »
VMware’s revolving door keeps on spinning
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Javier Soltero, CTO of applications and SaaS for VMware and Kevin Henrikson, who worked on Zimbra, both signed on with Redpoint Ventures. Read more »
SAP cloud chief Lars Dalgaard steps down as company consolidates development
Dalgaard is off to become an investor, although he will remain a cloud advisor to SAP. Meanwhile, the company is consolidating its cloud development processes, with a view to eventually streamlining its portfolio. Read more »
VMware lays out prices for hybrid cloud offering — now customers have the ball
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VMware executives shared the prices that its customers will pay to use its new vCloud Hybrid Service launching later this year, but it’s unclear if customers and partners will be happy with the offering. Read more »
AWS is the McDonald’s of the cloud. Who’s the Burger King?
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It’s easy to characterize the cloud computing market as being Amazon Web Services’ to lose, but that doesn’t tell the whole story. McDonald’s dominates the fast food world, but life isn’t exactly bad for its dozens of competitors. Read more »
VMware takes on the BYOD problem with — you guessed it — virtualization
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A new service — two years in the making — from VMware and Verizon claims to enable true “dual persona” smart phones for enterprise use. Read more »
PernixData nets $20M to virtualize your server-side flash
The self-proclaimed VMware of server-side flash now has more money to build out enterprise-class sales and marketing staff and to add features to its software. Read more »
OpenNebula 4.0 guns for the vCloud crowd
With VMware users now accounting for 70 percent of OpenNebula’s customer base, the focus in the new release is very much on making OpenNebula a no-brainer replacement for vCloud. Read more »
How EMC’s CTO is trying to keep EMC, VMware and Pivotal orbiting the same sun
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EMC CTO John Roese has a tough, but important job trying to keep EMC, VMware and Pivotal all moving in the same direction. While the three are separate companies, their fates are also very much aligned. Read more »
EMC plots software-defined data center journey from ViPR storage virtualization base
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EMC says ViPR will abstract out a company’s storage and automate how it gets divvied up by the workload. The company will roll out its software-defined data center plan this week. Read more »
VMware garage sale continues as it offloads WaveMaker to Pramati
Just two years after acquiring WaveMaker for its enterprise Java expertise, VMware is selling those assets to Pramati. Read more »
Amazon offers cloud certifications; more proof that AWS is all grown up
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Amazon is following the lead of its IT elders by rolling out technology certifications for developers, solution architects and admins. Read more »
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 »
Ubuntu Server 13.04 targets carriers and the big data crowd
Ubuntu Server is all about virtualization and OpenStack these days, and the new version reflects that. It’s not a long-term support release, but rather a good opportunity to test out new integrations. Read more »
VMware boosts quarterly revenue and sees a good year ahead
With hybrid-cloud and network-virtualization products on the way, VMware expects more revenue growth this year on top of a strong first quarter. Read more »
The week in cloud: SAP stakes cloud claim; legacy and new-look vendors arm for battle
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Sometimes we forget: cloud adoption is just in the baby step phase; SAP says it’s profiting from cloud; battle for legacy and new app workloads gets more nuanced. Read more »
Yes, people really are still debating the definition of SDN (software-defined networking)
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If vendors are still debating the definition of software-defined networking, enterprises will be left unsure what products could solve their problems. And that is exactly what’s happening. Read more »
Rackspace to telcos: build your OpenStack cloud on us
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Telcos and service providers wanting to compete with Amazon in public cloud services can jump-start that effort by tapping Rackspace, says Rackspace. Read more »
The week in cloud: Bezos rationalizes AWS feature churn; OpenStackers cue up news
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Amazon’s chief vows to keep up the AWS feature race; OpenStack gets two more big backers as vendors cue up news for the OpenStack Summit. Read more »
Amazon takes another step to suck up more enterprise data
Amazon Storage Gateway can now run in Microsoft Hyper-V as well as VMware ESXi (and of course Amazon EC2) environments. Welcome to the world of blurred boundaries. Read more »
Flexiant raises $5.7M to push its cloud orchestration tools into the U.S.
Flexiant targets service providers – particularly telcos – that want to become infrastructure-as-a-service wholesalers. It’s just starting to gain traction in Europe, and now it wants to push into the U.S. as well. Read more »
What is SignalFuse and why should we care?
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Stealthy Silicon Valley startup is in the market for engineers who know distributed systems, data science and statistics. But it’s heritage — co-founders are Karthik Rau formerly of VMware and Phillip Liu out of Facebook — is what piques curiosity. Read more »
The week in cloud: AWS goes mobile; Google vows patent pledge; cloud wars rage on
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New AWS group appears to gird for mobile development; Google issues non-aggression patent pact; and PayPal caught in cloud war crossfire. Read more »
Will “hybrid public” cloud give VMware its mojo back?
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VMware is banking that its brand and customer base will make it a power in public cloud infrastructure. Others bet that VMware’s “hybrid public” cloud plan is too little too late. Read more »
PayPal to stick with VMware, at least in part, says VMware
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A claim by a third party that PayPal, a big VMware customer, was dumping VMware for OpenStack, touched off firestorm, this week. Read more »
Mirantis open-sources its OpenStack cloud management tools
Mirantis, the OpenStack system integrator to the stars, is making its “Fuel” OpenStack automation libraries freely available under the Apache 2.0 license. 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 »
EMC is just not that into SoftLayer, but IBM may be
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EMC is not in the race for SoftLayer, the cloud services provider, but IBM is on the prowl for cloud expertise and has looked at both SoftLayer and Rackspace, sources say. Read more »
Vagrant gets busy with VMware Fusion, Rackspace support
Version 1.1 of Vagrant, an open source tool for creating virtual development workspaces, is adding support for VMware Fusion and Rackspace Open Cloud. Read more »
VMware to virtualize networks with software incorporating Nicira’s capabilities
New VMware software can work with customers’ existing hypervisors to dynamically add or subtract virtual machines based on compute and storage needs. Read more »
VMware’s hybrid vCloud takes on Amazon. Kinda.
VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger sketches plans to take on Amazon Web Services in public cloud. Hint: The strategy keys on existing vCloud private cloud customers and the channel supporting them. Read more »
