VMworld, the flagship annual event hosted by VMware, is bigger and better with each passing year. This year’s event was one of the most anticipated conferences in the industry, withcustomers and… Read more »
In cloud computing, “the stack” typically refers to a simplified three-tier view that divides the cloud’s components into infrastructure, platform or software/applications. While conventional wisdom suggests that vendors constantly try to… Read more »
Both VMware and Red Hat attracted some attention recently as they (separately) launched Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings. One of the most interesting aspects in each case was the freemium… Read more »
VMware yesterday launched Cloud Foundry, an open source Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering aimed directly at competitors such as Salesforce’s Force.com and Microsoft’s Windows Azure. A blog post by VMware… Read more »
We’ve already covered the trends that began to shape up in the infrastructure market in 2010 and will really materialize in 2011. Several companies played — and will continue to play —… Read more »
I read an interesting prediction today: By 2014, VMware will have split into an IaaS business and a PaaS business, and will have sold the former. If it sounds far-fetched, consider… Read more »
EMC and VMware both announced strong earnings today, and both should expect to see even stronger results as cloud computing adoption picks up. However, VMware might have a more interesting path… Read more »
Internal clouds are real and they’re here, but many efforts are still in their early days. The problem is that transitioning to a cloud-enabled environment can involve large degrees of technical,… Read more »
I was all excited to write about the spate of new Hadoop distributions, tools and integrations, and then I read that Google is seriously upgrading App Engine to make it more… Read more »
You’ve likely heard about the SpringSource/VMware acquisition of data-fabric vendor GemStone Systems this afternoon, so I figure I’ll spare the scalable data layer talk and get to the juicy stuff. SpringSource… Read more »