vcloud

New AWS Management Portal for vCenter

Jun

5

2014

IT Managers and Administrators working within large organizations regularly tell us that they find the key AWS messages — fast and easy self-service provisioning, exchange of CAPEX for OPEX, and the potential for cost savings — to be attractive and compelling. They want to start moving into the future by experimenting with AWS, but they don’t always ...

Microsoft keeps building its hybrid cloud with Windows Azure updates

Oct

25

2013

SUMMARY:A set of updates to Windows Azure include new backup services, an SDK, and a preview Hyper-V recovery manager. Microsoft continues to push out enhancements and updates to its cloud. This week it’s made Windows Azure Backup Services broadly available and announced a couple other updates including a new software development kit (SDK) that should ease debugging ...

OpenStack: is it a PaaS killer? The week in cloud

Oct

22

2013

SUMMARY:As the latest release of the open-source cloud infrastructure debuted, controversy swirled anew. Will OpenStack kill third-party PaaSes or vice versa? As the OpenStack Havana release went live last week, controversy over the viability of the open source cloud continued to swirl, this time thanks to a set of dueling blog posts. On Saturday, Simon Wardley posted a ...

Verizon launches new built-from-scratch enterprise cloud

Oct

8

2013

photo: Jordan Novet SUMMARY:New Verizon Cloud, parlaying CloudStack and Xen, promises easy movement of VMware workloads, the end of the noisy-neighbor … pretty much cloud nirvana. Now comes the hard part: winning users. Verizon isn’t the first name that comes to mind when you think of enterprise cloud, but it’s fielded respectable, mostly VMware-based ...

VMware and the one question that matters most in cloud marketing

Sep

30

2013

photo: Derrick Harris SUMMARY:James Urquhart examines the different technology concerns between developers and traditional IT buyers and how that affects their cloud-buying behavior. While VMware has a strong position right now, he argues, it might not last. I wrote in July about how cloud computing isn’t the same for every enterprise, and the true implications of ...

Fact sheet: VMware vCloud Hybrid Service

Sep

17

2013

Here is the rundown of what you need to know about VMware vCloud Hybrid Service. This fact sheet will be continually updated with new information about VMware vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS). Please check back often to see any updates or changes. The vCHS offers public cloud capabilities directly from VMware. For more information, please check out this video ...

VMware splits vCloud Director into vCenter, vCloud Automation Center

Sep

3

2013

SAN FRANCISCO — VMware is reshuffling its cloud computing cards with a plan to split intellectual property currently in vCloud Director into new integrations with vCenter and vCloud Automation Center, the company said this week. Exact details on which features of vCloud Director (vCD) will go into which part of VMware Inc.’s vCloud Suite are not available yet, but ...

Amazon and Microsoft, beware—VMware cloud is more ambitious than we thought

Aug

27

2013

Desktops, disaster recovery, IaaS, and PaaS make VMware’s cloud compelling. vCloud Hybrid Service integrates with on-premises VMware deployments. VMware VMware today announced that vCloud Hybrid Service, its first public infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud, will become generally available in September. That’s no surprise, as we already knew it was slated to go live this quarter. What is surprising is ...

VMware re-virtualizes networks and storage to keep pace with the cloud

Aug

27

2013

Virtualization giant makes its case as Microsoft and OpenStack gain recognition. So much hardware to virtualize, so little time. Intel Free Press SAN FRANCISCO—VMware is still the big kahuna in virtualization, and the company is hosting its annual VMworld conference this week to show off the latest shiny bits of software that businesses can buy for ...

Could VMware’s new networking product show it the way toward openness and growth?

Aug

27

2013

SUMMARY:VMware’s counting on its Nicira purchase to help it take its virtualization credibility from servers to networks. The launch of an ecosystem and new features around the NSX controller show it’s getting serious. The big news out of VMworld this morning is its NSX networking controller and the ecosystem designed to support it. With the ...