Comments on: VMware’s Grand Ambitions

By: EMC and the Cloud, Or Le Nuage et Le Petit Prince

EMC and the Cloud, Or Le Nuage et Le Petit Prince — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:48:08 +0000

[...] all, what is VMWare’s second act? Nothing less than to try and make cloud computing synonymous with VMware in the same way that [...]

By: tecosystems » VMworld 2009: Head in the Clouds

tecosystems » VMworld 2009: Head in the Clouds — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:46:03 +0000

[...] year ago around this time I was in Las Vegas seeking answers about what VMware had up its sleeve for Act 2. The answer, then as it is now, was simple: cloud. [...]

By: tecosystems » VMware Taps a new SpringSource: The Q&A

tecosystems » VMware Taps a new SpringSource: The Q&A — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:55:11 +0000

[...] while VMware has, as discussed previously, charted themselves a long term growth strategy in the cloud, it’s just that: long term. [...]

By: tecosystems » The Private Cloud: Opening the Door for Open Source

tecosystems » The Private Cloud: Opening the Door for Open Source — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:15:58 +0000

[...] existing suppliers for replicating cloud-like environments inside their firewalls. VMware, clearly, would like to be the provider of choice. Microsoft will say Azure. IBM will start with CloudBurst. HP, with Assure. [...]

By: James Governor’s Monkchips » 15 Ways I Am Wrong About Enterprise Cloud Computing

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:50:34 +0000

[...] So what about these “puzzled looks” from folks that Eric says have built their own behind the firewall cloud. An enterprise guy is welcome to call the infrastructure they’ve been building out a cloud. Everything is a cloud these days, right (one of the reasons I wrote 15 ways of course)? An end to end VMWare shop is going to be in pretty good shape for rapid provisioning, for example – which is why VMware is certainly in the running as a CloudOS player. [...]

By: tecosystems » OS and Virtualization or Virtualization and OS: Red Hat Analyst Day

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 02:23:31 +0000

[...] to our nature. It should come as no surprise, then, to learn that while a virtualization supplier believes that the operating system is, effectively, a feature, an operating system vendor would argue that [...]