Posts Tagged ‘VMware cloud server’

VMwareCloud Server Company Shavlik Technologies

Monday, May 16th, 2011

VMware this morning announced that it has agreed to acquire Shavlik Technologies, a provider of cloud server IT management solutions for small and medium businesses.

The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed but valued in the muti-millions.  Shavlik is said to have more than 3500 customers using it’s cloud hosting platform and cloud products.  Their SaaS-based management solutions helps enable SMBs to manage, monitor and secure their IT environments when moving to virtual and cloud computing IT deployments

VMware and Shavlik already had a partnership in place with regards to the former’s VMware GO product, a joint SaaS offering that has been available since 2009 and basically assists SMBs with the installation and management of VMware’s vSphere.

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VMware’s And The Cloud

Friday, July 16th, 2010

VMware now wants to be a player in the IT world.  They want people to view it as more than simply an important middleware cloud software provider. VMware’s ESX cloud server and vSphere management platform certainly have become pervasive in the data center, despite intense competition from Citrix XenServer and Microsoft Hyper-V.

VMware released a new version of its main product, vSphere 4.1, on July 13, about 14 months after vSphere 4 started shipping; VMware hadn’t updated the platform for three years prior to Version 4. It also lowered its prices to attract more midrange and smaller businesses.

“A year ago, when we shipped vSphere [4.0], we talked about vSphere being a foundation for the cloud. At that time, a lot of the industry was equating the cloud [only] to services provided by Google services and Amazon services on line,” Raghu Raghuram, VMware’s senior vice president and general manager of Virtualization and Cloud Platforms, told eWEEK.

“Back then, we viewed vSphere as sort of industrial architecture for IT. We saw that IT has moved from mainframes to client/server and to the Web; cloud is the next thing. Now we’re beginning Internet-scale deployments and starting to build clouds in the data center — private clouds. Just over the course of the last 12 months, we have seen this become a reality.”

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New Business Version of Google App Engine

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

Google has been making a strong pitch to enterprise programmers at its I/O developer conference yesterday and today with the unveiling of a business version of its App Engine application hosting service and with new cloud portability initiatives in partnership with VMware.

“What we hear loud and clear from medium and large enterprise customers is wanting that cloud platform to build their own applications on,” said Matthew Glotzbach, Google Enterprise director of product management.

Google launched App Engine two years ago was only for developers of consumer-oriented Web applications who wanted to host their software on the Google cloud infrastructure.

App Engine for Business lets IT administrators set security policies for accessing the organization’s applications, and features a pricing scheme of US$8 per user per month, up to a $1,000 monthly maximum. The product is only  available to a limited number of customers(I would imagine just the big guns), but Google hopes to open up access to it later this year.

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