VMworld 2012 – recorded keynote demonstrations.
VMworld 2012 San Francisco started well with the usual fanfare, but in particular the CTO Steve Herrod keynote was interesting. I thought it was good to capture the live demonstration of the newly...
View ArticleOracle buys Xsigo
No doubt you would have read about the Oracle acquisition of Xsigo. I have found little information relating to what this means for the competitive Cloud landscape in terms of architecture. The two key...
View ArticleVMware joins OpenStack
The recent announcement of VMware joining OpenStack has created a lot of interest in the Cloud space – why would a commercial vendor join a partner program of an open source community? Well this is not...
View ArticleDynamicOps is now VMware vCloud Automation Center 5.1
There is no doubt that the VMware acquisition of DynamicOps has had a lot of press and has demonstrated that the Cloud and Virtualization market is starting to consolidate in terms of common access,...
View ArticleVMware and Nicira
The announcement for VMware to acquire Nicira has been in the market for some time, however I had not yet provided my opinion on this VMware acquisition which has provided as much press in the Cloud...
View ArticleCisco launches Hybrid Cloud enabler – Nexus 1000V InterCloud
We all have heard enough about Hybrid Cloud and to a degree some of the IT administrators out there lay claim to already running workloads in multiple locations or Cloud Service Providers. However when...
View ArticleAWS launches OpsWorks for DevOps
As I have discussed previously with the adoption of Cloud technology and associated operating models comes the ability to leverage levels of agility into the traditional waterfall based software...
View ArticleVMware launches Public Cloud Beta
When VMware announced the vCloud initiative in 2009, the core intent was to enable its customers, the Cloud Service Providers, access to a global vCloud Ecosystem of its partner peers and enterprise...
View ArticleVMware launches Public Cloud Beta – Images
Below are some screen shots from the VMware Public Cloud Beta portal. You can go back to the main article here Simply click any to zoom in. Related PostsPositioning a Software Defined Network in the...
View ArticleNews: VMware say OpenStack ready for the enterprise
It is clear that the turf war with VMware and OpenStack is hotting up as VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger postures up to defend VMware’s enterprise space from the open source community Cloud platform. However...
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VMware vSphere Client for iPad & vCMA (vCenter Mobile Access)
Thought I would give the VMware client for iPad a try. You can find more details at VMware labs in the flings area VMware Labs Flings for vCMA There is also a vCloud client for iPad which integrates to...
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Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery with AWS EC2 API Tools
As you may know the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (AWS EC2) platform provides a set of API Tools. You can perform a variety of functions but the one I recently tried was: “VM Import/Export enables you...
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Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery with EC2 VM Import Connector for VMware...
To assist with simple hybrid cloud deployments, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (AWS EC2) platform provides a plug-in for VMware vCenter called the EC2 VM Import Connector. This plug-in is simple to...
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VMware buys DynamicOps
Is this another bubble era? There definitely is a lot of mergers and acquisitions occurring, however I think vendors and Cloud adopters are taking a pragmatic approach and are not rushing in. VMware is...
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VMware to buy mobile security firm AirWatch for $1.54 billion
(Reuters) - Cloud software maker VMware Inc said it would buy privately held mobile security company AirWatch for $1.54 billion to tap into rising demand from companies to secure the smartphones and...
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VMware on Moving to Hybrid Cloud and its Top Considerations
Some of the public cloud's most popular features include its agility and scalability, but unfortunately, some of its less popular aspects, such as security and complexity concerns, can be hard to...
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