It's hurry up and wait when it comes to VMware's bid to become part of OpenStack's inner circle. Its application for Gold membership status -- along with applications from Intel and NEC -- will have to wait for the next Open Stack Foundation meeting.…
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VMworld shows a VMware in flux
Nearly all the news out of VMworld 2012 shows a company in flux. With a new CEO and its core server virtualization market commoditizing, VMware continues to push into new areas -- end user computing, open source -- where it is not a leader.…
Read MoreVMware to join OpenStack: Now what?
VMware's decision to join the OpenStack Foundation could be a huge or not-so-huge deal. Some see the move as a way to outflank Citrix, others say VMware's Nicira, DynamicOps buys signaled a desire to at least appear more open in the era of cloud computing.…
Read MoreCitrix plans LEED Gold facility in Raleigh
Citrix aims to remake an old steel warehouse in Raleigh, N.C. into a LEED Gold certified headquarters for its Data Sharing Product Group. The group, rooted in Citrix's purchase of ShareFile, will also add 337 new jobs, said GM and VP Jesse Lipson.…
Read More6Wunderkinder: Berlin needs less hype, more focus
Productivity startup 6Wunderkinder made a big noise on the Berlin scene when it launched, but it's been quiet for a few months. Now CEO Christian Reber explains why other German startups should follow suit and focus on their product -- and why he's worried about Windows 8.…
Read MoreIs it the year of desktop virtualization yet?
For the last two, three maybe more years, various pundits have said that the year of desktop virtualization is just around the corner. And each year, they were wrong. Still, we gotta ask, will 2012 be the year of desktop virtualization?…
Read MoreIs it too late for OpenStack?
Amid all the OpenStack news this week, there is a feeling in some quarters that two years after Rackspace and NASA launched this attempt to counter Amazon Web Services and VMware, it may be too late for the effort to take hold.…
Read MoreIt’s official: IBM and Red Hat get with OpenStack
OpenStack filled in some important checkmarks this week by adding IBM and Red Hat to its roster of corporate backers. Eighteen companies are slated to become members of the evolving OpenStack Foundation which is expected to come online in the third quarter.…
Read MoreHP ups its cloud bet on OpenStack — and KVM
Hewlett-Packard is putting more of its chips on OpenStack as a key foundation for its upcoming public, private and hybrid cloud implementations. HP says its Converged Cloud will amalgamate existing HP technologies and OpenStack so applications can be managed uniformly across cloud types.…
Read MoreRed Hat, IBM sign on for OpenStack
Two major tech players -- IBM and Red Hat -- are ready to sign on the dotted line to join OpenStack, sources said. That should go a long way to ease the pain of Citrix's decision to set up CloudStack as an OpenStack rival.…
Read More5 takeaways from the CloudStack-OpenStack dustup
Now that at least some of the smoke has cleared from the blockbuster news that Citrix is putting its CloudStack technology into the Apache process to compete with former partner OpenStack, here are 5 takeaways emerging from the latest cloud kerfuffle.…
Read MoreThere’s a new open source cloud in town. Meet Apache CloudStack
It looks like OpenStack won't have the open-source cloud spotlight to itself anymore. Citrix has released the CloudStack software it acquired along with Cloud.com to the Apache Software Foundation, creating a competitive option to the OpenStack project of which Citrix was an early member.…
Read MoreWho will be the ‘Dropbox of the enterprise?’ The race is on
It seems like every cloud storage company really, really want to be the Dropbox of the enterprise when it grows up. It' s easy to see why. Dropbox, which now claims 50 million users, is the sweetheart of the cloud storage, file-share-and-sync world.…
Read MoreDoes Zynga need to compete with Facebook on infrastructure?
Zynga is in a tricky position technologically thanks to its new frenemy status with Facebook. Zynga claims 240 million active users, and it wants a lot more, but scaling to those heights might require one heck of a computing infrastructure.…
Read MoreProposed spec aims to nix cloud lock-in
A group of tech companies led by IBM and including CA, Cisco, Citrix, EMC, NetApp, Red Hat, SAP -- is throwing its weight behind a proposed standard to assure that applications can move between clouds. Amazon, RackSpace, Microsoft? They're not on board, at least not yet.…
Read MoreCitrix and Cotendo team up to accelerate enterprise SaaS apps
Citrix Systems has partnered with Cotendo to introduce a product to add more speed and security to enterprise applications that need remote availability with LAN-like reliability. The NetScaler CloudConnector, which the companies announced today, combines the Citrix NetScaler infrastructure with Cotendo's web and mobile acceleration services.…
Read MoreBlueStacks raises $6.4M to bring Android apps to PCs
A little over a week after releasing its App Player for Windows software that lets computer users run Android apps, BlueStacks now says that it has raised a strategic investment from AMD and Citrix Systems along with funding from existing investors.…
Read MoreOpenStack wish list: More documentation, better feedback loop
As the OpenStack project moves into its second year and more companies evaluate the open-source cloud technology, prospective users have some requests. Documentation, for one. A longer-term roadmap, for another. A more formal process for submitting and receiving feedback, for yet another.…
Read More4 trends to watch for at VMworld
In our cloudy times, VMware is a barometer for IT, and VMworld is what CES is to the consumer electronics industry. So check out what this week's hoopla in Las Vegas is telling us about enterprise IT and the cloud.…
Read MoreEx-NASA CTO builds cloud dream team, launches Nebula
Former NASA CTO Chris Kemp left his post in the spring to pursue a startup venture, and on Wednesday morning he introduced his new company, Nebula. It's selling an OpenStack-based appliance for managing scale-out cloud deployments, and is backed by premier talent and investors.…
Read MoreDell wants to make OpenStack as easy as 1-2-3
On Tuesday Dell announced a reference architecture, open-source software and services offering designed to make deploying an OpenStack-based cloud as easy as following directions. Called the Dell OpenStack Cloud solution, the collection of tools shows that OpenStack will be a driving force in the private-cloud space.…
Read MoreOpen source and the IT company, a lucrative proposition
[OpenStack] looks not only like an open-source alternative to Amazon Web Services and VMware vCloud in the public Infrastructure as a Service space,…
Read MoreOpenStack turns 1. What’s next?
OpenStack, the open-source cloud-computing software project founded by Rackspace and NASA, launched a year ago today. It has been a busy year for the project, which appears to have grown much faster than even its founders expected it would, and it's only picking up steam.…
Read MoreThe cloud is like MMA; VMware, Citrix in main event
The sport of mixed martial arts combines the multiple disciplines of wrestling, boxing, and jiu jitsu into one combat sport. The cloud battle between VMware and Citrix is a metaphor for two highly trained MMA fighters stepping into the ring after a two-year training camp.…
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