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NTT America Deploys VMware vCloud

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

NTT America announced that it is using VMware vCloud Director to offer cloud services to customers. VMware vCloud Director is software that extends the resource pooling capabilities of VMware vSphere to enable enterprises and service providers to create pools of compute, networking and storage resources with defined management policies and performance levels.  This is helping establish a common model for provisioning IT services with consistent security, compliance and manageability across public and private cloud environments.

VMware vCloud enables NTT America to offer cloud services for its U.S.-based enterprise customers that empowers enterprises to leverage cloud resources globally to efficiently deliver resources to its internal organizations in a secure yet agile manner. Executives from NTT America will be on site to discuss the company’s virtualized offerings at VMworld 2010 (booth #331) in San Francisco, CA. from August 30th through September 2nd, 2010. NTT Communications is a silver sponsor of the event.

“We are pleased that NTT America adopted VMware vCloud Director to deliver enterprise-class services based on the industry-leading VMware platform,” said Dan Chu, vice president, Cloud Infrastructure and Services, VMware. “With VMware vCloud Director, NTT America will be able to bring customers increased datacenter efficiency and business agility by building secure, scalable, and cost-effective private clouds to deliver IT as a service.”

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HP CloudStart

Monday, August 30th, 2010

HP announced earlier today an all-in-one solution for deploying an open and flexible private cloud environment in a month’s time. HP CloudStart is capable of deploying a private cloud 30 days after deployment. It is designed to provide all the expertise needed for clients to transform their existing delivery approaches into more efficient shared-services models.

“To better serve the needs of their enterprises, clients are asking us to help them become internal service providers with the ability to deliver applications through a highly flexible private cloud environment,” HP technology services senior vice president and general manager Gary M. Budzinski said in a statement. “With CloudStart, HP is enabling clients to optimize applications for private cloud computing today, while providing a platform for a comprehensive, open and hybrid environment in the future.”

I wonder if HP is launching this because of of the recent 3Par acquisition that they are trying to get?  It seems that Dell and HP are still trying to buy 3Par and then HP goes and launches something like this… I wonder if it has something to do with the acquisition that is trying to happen.

Will HP CloudStart or HP Cloud Start be a good thing for private clouds or a bad thing?  The fast that you can launch your private cloud and have it up and deployed in 30 days is pretty sweet, but will it have everything that you need?  Thoughts?

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HP and Dell Keep Biddin On 3PAR

Monday, August 30th, 2010

HP and Dell Keep Biddin On 3PAR.  This has been going on for 2 weeks now. HP appears to have the edge right now, but the good news for whichever tech giant ultimately loses the battle for 3PAR is that there are other huge cloud storage providers out there.

HP raised its offer to $30 per share, a $3 increase over Dell’s bid, bringing the bidding to $2 billion. Dell had launched the opening salvo in mid-August when it had offered just over $1 billion to buy 3Par. As of this writing, 3Par had deemed HP’s bid “superior” and Dell was mulling over its response.

Dell/HP 3Par deal updates to come!

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