Tag Archives: vCloud

May 21, 2013 Posted in Business 4 Comments

The Empire Strikes Back – VMware Launches Hybrid Cloud Service

By Ben Kepes

There’s a fair few VMware folks scratching their heads today and wondering when the world changed quite so much. The company today announced its hybrid cloud solution, avialable today on an early access program. GA is slated for Q3 2013. Here’s some details: vCloud Hybrid Service Dedicated Cloud: Provides physically

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April 16, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

GreenButton Now Supports OpenStack

By Ben Kepes

I’ve written before about GreenButton, the awesome company (awesome for reasons other than the fact that they hail from my home town of Wellington, new Zealand, although that helps immensely) vendor of cross-vendor high performance compute cloud platform. I have to give a well times disclosure at this point, New

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November 20, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

On VMware’s Cloud Foundry Core and PaaS Portability

By Ben Kepes

Recently VMware announce Core, a baseline test that assesses how compatible an application is to the Cloud Foundry open source release. In order to derive this compatibility rating, Core is based on a base set of components – specific versions of runtimes and components that are currently within the Core

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August 16, 2012 Posted in Business 4 Comments

A Preview of VMworld–On VMware’s Cunning Plans

By Ben Kepes

In a couple of weeks I’ll be in San Francisco for VMware annual conference, VMworld. This will actually be my first time attending the even in person and I suspect I’ve chosen the best year to be there – there are some seismic shifts occurring in VMware’s business and I

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March 21, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Nimsoft Monitors vCloud

By Ben Kepes

Nimsoft (more on them here) is today announcing its monitoring toolset, Nimsoft Monitor, covers the performance monitoring of vCloud environments. I’ve long said that dynamic monitoring and control will become increasingly important in the future as organizations look to really leverage the elasticity that cloud brings – one can only

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February 13, 2012 Posted in Business 5 Comments

Nimbula Launches Version 2 of Director

By Ben Kepes

Ever since is launched, Nimbula has been focused on brining “Amazon-like” functionality to private data centers. There messaging has unwaveringly been about the agility and flexibility of the public cloud, for private data center operations. Their aim came another step closer today with the beta release of version two of

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February 13, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

6fusion Introduces Free Cloud Resource Meter for VMware vSphere

By Ben Kepes

One of the key traits of cloud computing is the fact that it follows a utility model with resources able to be metered by use. That’s a glorious thing as lots of benefits drop out of that – the ability to pay by use, the ability to cost recover with

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February 7, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

VMware Eases Service Provider Cloud Delivery with vCIM

By Ben Kepes

Service providers have an important role in helping drive the adoption of cloud computing. Part of ensuring that service providers are able to do this requires giving them a tool set that eases the creation of cloud services that their customers can use. I liken it to the automation of

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August 29, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

VMware Places a Bet on Enterprise Hybrid Cloud

By Ben Kepes

This morning at VMworld, VMware is announcing a number of things which together show they’re making a big bet on enterprises looking to hybrid cloud as their way of moving from a pure on-premise approach towards infrastructure. The announcements take the form of both partnerships and technologies to enable those

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July 12, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Citrix Acquires Cloud.com

By Ben Kepes

Massive news this morning for anyone even remotely interested in what’s happening in the cloud is the fact that Citrix has completed an acquisition of Cloud.com, the open source cloud computing platform vendor who was in the news just a week ago announcing the hiring of cloud luminary Christian Reilly

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Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, an investor, a commentator and a business adviser. Ben covers the convergence of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users.

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