ResearchThe business rationale for cloud workspaces
Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) provides the benefits of desktop virtualization while transferring the capital investment and technical difficulty to third-party service providers. Read more »
{"source":"http:\/\/search.gigaom.com\/company\/vmware\/wijax\/383af13036138b805db0da550b1f5914","varname":"wijax_f70673b4510604374310d62a7f47f56f","title_element":"h2","title_class":"widget-title","title_before":"%3Ch2%20class%3D%22widget-title%22%3E","title_after":"%3C%2Fh2%3E"}
VMware is a software company that provides cloud and virtualization software and services, and was the first to successfully virtualize the x86 architecture. VMware’s desktop software runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, while its enterprise software hypervisors for servers, VMware ESX and VMware ESXi, are bare-metal hypervisors that run directly on server hardware without requiring an additional underlying operating system.
MoreDesktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) provides the benefits of desktop virtualization while transferring the capital investment and technical difficulty to third-party service providers. Read more »
OpenStack backer Rackspace jumps on Azure bandwagon, Microsoft ally Apprenda embraces Amazon Web Serivces. What’s going on here? The week in cloud. Read more »
Dozens (hundreds?) of smaller software companies are at AWS Re:invent to preview products that can grease the skids to successful hybrid cloud deployments. Read more »
Rich Napolitano made a name for himself as top U.S. sales guy at Sun Microsystems and then as leader of EMC’s unified storage push. Now he’s CEO of Plexxi, a networking… Read more »
Technology entrepreneurs and investors alike have long regarded commoditization as a dark and dangerous force, a destroyer of high-margin businesses, to be avoided at all costs. An exciting new class of… Read more »
Docker said Thursday that Marianna Tessel, former VMware vice president of engineering, is now the container specialist’s senior vice president of engineering. During her six-year stint at VMware, Tessel oversaw the… Read more »
Four years in, OpenStack has a ton of mind share and interest, but general adoption still lags. Why? Because it’s still too hard. Customers want easy-peasy. Read more »
As it expands its hybrid/public cloud effort, VMware adds new Australia coverage, bringing the number of company-run vCloud Air regions to nine worldwide. Read more »
The San Francisco-based startup took in a seed round of $1.5 million. Its open-source software can virtualize the part of the network that handles intelligent routing with IP addresses. Read more »
Amazon Web Services, which debuted in 2006, has a huge lead in public cloud. But it’s unclear how long that lead will last, as Microsoft and Google gear up their IaaS efforts. Read more »