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 »
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 »
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How fourth-quarter 2012 will affect IT spending in 2013
Worldwide IT spending finished out 2012 with a growth rate of 3.8 percent over 2011, the lowest growth rate since 2009. Fourth-quarter 2012 earnings reports and guidance were notable in their lack of any decisively positive news to raise 2013 spending expectations much. Those optimistic about […] Read more at GigaOM Pro »
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 »
VMware’s SlideRocket finds a home with ClearSlide
A few months ago, VMware said it was going to sell off SlideRocket — well now it’s found a home, right in San Francisco, with ClearSlide. Read more »
Exclusive: Markley Group adds cloud services to take on Amazon for business workloads
Boston-based data center provider adds on-demand cloud services to take on Amazon Web Services and other cloud providers for business workloads. Read more »
VMware: Stick with us because Amazon will kill us all
VMware, the king of in-house server virtualization, wants partners to help it defeat Amazon for corporate cloud workloads. One problem: VMware has its own issues with its partners. 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 »
Managed hosting providers offer up early-stage SDN use cases
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Software-defined networking vendors such as Embrane and Nicira have found customers in the managed-hosting realm, and with more startups bringing products to market, enterprises could follow suit later this year. Read more »
PernixData comes out of stealth to attack server-side flash problem
Startup founded by two VMware veterans aims to make server-side flash more scalable by pooling it into a shared resource and — wait for it — virtualizing it. Read more »
OnApp’s federated cloud storage platform hits production
As a major step in its quest to take on Amazon in a federated fashion, the OnApp Cloud platform now includes fully-fledged distributed storage, VMware support and a more useful federated CDN. 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 »
Developers rejoice! Vagrant finds a home in the Amazon cloud
Hashicorp was already extending Vagrant into VMware virtualized environments and now it’s adding a connection into Amazon Web Services as well. This is good news for developers. Read more »
Facebook experiments with small-scale software-defined networking
Facebook and others want to see use cases to better understand how software-defined networking can improve the cloud, so Facebook is testing it out in a sandbox environment. 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 »
VMware shares get slammed
VMware shares took it on the chin Tuesday, a day after the company talked down its projected earnings for the next quarter. Read more »
Engine Yard vet starts Cloud Foundry consultancy
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Dr. Nic Williams has left Engine Yard to promote the use of the rival Cloud Foundry Platform as a Service. Read more »
VMware sharpens its focus — and its knife
Hybrid cloud, software-defined data center, and end-user computing are all in. Other VMware efforts will be out in the upcoming year as the company seeks to regain focus. Read more »
OpenNebula open-sources service management layer with enterprise in mind
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Partly to differentiate itself from the likes of OpenStack and Eucalyptus, and partly to boost enterprise adoption, OpenNebula is moving beyond its traditional business of infrastructure management. Read more »
This week in cloud: VMware-EMC shuffle and Cisco-Netapp tighten ties
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Lots of personnel moves at and between VMware and parent company EMC (and spinoff Pivotal Initiative as it gets ready to launch.) Also: Cisco and NetApp launch more FlexPods. 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 »
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The fourth quarter of 2012 in cloud
The last quarter of 2012 saw the rise of cloud-based databases, the cloud awakening of software giants such as HP, and many cloud outages that have left question marks. Enterprises found more IT dollars, and they will focus on the cloud for much of that spending. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
VMware CTO Herrod leaves to join VC firm
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VMware CTO Steve Herrod is leaving his post to join venture capital firm General Catalyst, where he’ll be managing director. I think this is a big loss for VMware, which has already been hemorrhaging technical talent to younger, nimbler companies. Read more »
Software-defined networking forces Juniper’s big shift
The threat of software-defined networking has prompted Juniper to revamp its business model — switching from a hardware-based model to one more familiar in enterprise software. It has also unveiled an SDN strategy that preserves the importance of specialty hardware at the lowest level of the network. Read more »
This year in cloud: Amazon-almost-all-the-time and the other 5 top stories of 2012
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Last year, AWS saw big success and big snafus; Superstorm Sandy prompted worry about data center location; legacy IT giants bought their way into SaaS; VMware regroups; the OpenStack crowd got their clouds off the ground; and Europe starts to buy into cloud. Read more »
This week in cloud: Red Hat snags ManageIQ; Amazon builds on devs’ devotion
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Red Hat’s $104M buyout of ManageIQ gives it a stronger cross-cloud management story; Developers love their Amazon EC2 instances and will likely use more of them next year, according to new Forrester research. Read more »
PaaS not cheap enough? AppFog has a deal for you!
How low can PaaS pricing go? AppFog says it’s cutting the price of the paid version of its polyglot, multi-cloud PaaS in half for developers. That’s great for developers, but will it boost corporate adoption? Read more »
Research: Agile developers rule the roost, experience trumps toolsets
A headhunter finds that the number of agile development jobs posted outnumbers the number of qualified candidates by a ratio of almost 5:1. Familiarity with the agile process is more important than knowledge of specific toolsets, in making a good hire, according to Yoh research. Read more »
What next for Cloud Foundry?
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VMware aggressively recruited partners to base platforms on its open-source Cloud Foundry stack. Now as it preps the Pivotal Initiative spinoff, those partners worry about more intense competition with the Cloud Foundry mothership. Read more »
Juniper to buy SDN startup Contrail in deal worth $176M
Juniper will spend up to $176 million on stealthy software-defined networking startup Contrail. The move coming just weeks after Cisco’s own SDN buy and months after VMware’s $1.3 billion grab for Nicira show how aggressively the established vendors are about staking a claim. Read more »
EMC follows VMware, rest of world into OpenStack
With the storage leader now formally aboard the OpenStack Foundation, it’s almost easier to count the IT vendors who have not climbed aboard this open-source cloud bandwagon. Read more »
This week in cloud: Rackspace whoops, sizing Amazon cloud and more
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Cloud news you can use this week: rough times for Rackspace; a look at Amazon Web Services revenue; EMC-VMware come clean (kind of) about spinoff; and Heroku spiffs up its add-on marketplace for developers. Read more »
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IT spending update, fourth quarter 2012
Many factors have driven the recent high demand for IT products and services. However, relentless global economic weakness and uncertainty have resulted in a deterioration of worldwide IT spending through the third quarter and will continue to be an anchor in the fourth quarter. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
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 »
Why VMware is spinning off Cloud Foundry and SpringSource
The decision by VMware and parent EMC to spin out VMware’s “tier 2″ technologies into a separate subsidiary shows that they’re under pressure to compete with massive cloud providers like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft in the enterprise. Read more »
Piston Cloud taps VMware vet Morrisroe as new CEO
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Openstack private cloud player Piston Cloud Computing names Jim Morrisroe, who formerly headed VMware’s Zimbra group, as its new CEO. Co-founder and former CEO Joshua McKenty stays on as CTO. Read more »
Startup HashiCorp wants to take the grind out of development setup
Vagrant, open-source software that eases set up of test-and-dev machines, will get a boost this week with the launch of HashiCorp, a company that will expand the tool to VMware and offer paid services, support and add-ons to the popular tool, says Mitchell Hashimoto. Read more »
