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Out With the Old, In With the New. VMware’s New Reality and the Carnage to Come

August 27, 2013

Business

Cloud Foundry, emc, gartner, Nicira, Pat Gelsinger, vCloud, VMware, VMworld

VMworld this year was an interesting example of just how different the technology industry is today from only a handful of years ago. Solid partners of old have suddenly become, if not outright enemies, at least frenemies. Meanwhile a…

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On Big Cloud Threats–Watch out for Google Compute Engine

March 6, 2013

Business

amazon web services, AWS, emc, google, Nicira, OpenStack, rackspace, VMware, Werner Vogels

Last year saw the long-expected, and oft-delayed announcement by Google that it was entering the cloud infrastructure market. Google Compute Engine (GCE) is a fairly immature (in terms of product breadth) raw infrastructure service that initially at least, seems…

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A Preview of VMworld–On VMware’s Cunning Plans

August 16, 2012

Business

AWS, cisco, cloudcomputing, emc, Nicira, Simon Wardley, vCloud, VMware

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 –…

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VMware Acquires Nicira–Quick Analysis

July 23, 2012

Business

cloudcomputing, data center, DynamicOps, Nicira, OpenStack, SpringSource, Virtual machine, VMware

Yet another day of massive news with today’s blast coming from VMware who are acquiring Nicira, a five year old veteran of software defined networking (SDN). This follows closely on the heels of VMware’s acquisition of DynamicOps, a heterogeneous…

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Blog Archives

Out With the Old, In With the New. VMware’s New Reality and the Carnage to Come

On Big Cloud Threats–Watch out for Google Compute Engine

A Preview of VMworld–On VMware’s Cunning Plans

VMware Acquires Nicira–Quick Analysis