Category Archives: VMware

EMC’s Pivotal One Attempts To Bring IT Infrastructures Of Facebook, Google and Amazon Web Services To Enterprise

Posted on April 29, 2013 by

This week, EMC and its subsidiary VMware revealed details of the vision behind Pivotal, its spin-off company financed in part by $105 million in capital from GE. In a webcast announcing the launch of Pivotal on Wednesday, Pivotal CEO Paul … Continue reading →

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Three Quick Thoughts On The Puppet Labs Partnership With VMware

Posted on January 27, 2013 by

This week, Puppet Labs announced VMware’s investment of $30 million. This is a huge investment by VMware, and one that bears significant implications for cloud automation and IT automation more generally. Puppet’s total capital raise now stands at $46 million. … Continue reading →

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Dell’s Project Fast PaaS Illustrates Currency Of Cloud Foundry

Posted on January 2, 2013 by

Dell is incubating a new platform as a service offering built upon the Cloud Foundry PaaS infrastructure. The product, Project Fast PaaS, claims enhancements to the Cloud Foundry PaaS project. Project Fast PaaS boasts compatibility with Ruby, Node.js, Java, PHP … Continue reading →

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VMware, Intel and NEC Become Gold Members Of OpenStack Foundation

Posted on September 9, 2012 by

On Friday, VMware, Intel and NEC were approved by the OpenStack Board of Directors as gold members of the OpenStack Foundation. Gold members of the Foundation provide the foundation with .025% of their company revenue, with a minimum contribution of … Continue reading →

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VMware Acquires Virtual Networking Leader Nicira For $1.26 Billion

Posted on July 25, 2012 by

VMware announced plans to acquire Nicira Inc., the leader in software-based networking and open source network virtualization. VMware will acquire Nicira for $1.26 billion composed of a cash payout of $1.05 billion and $210 million in “assumed unvested equity awards”. … Continue reading →

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Piston Cloud To Develop Interface Betwen OpenStack And Cloud Foundry As IaaS Converges With PaaS

Posted on April 30, 2012 by

Piston Cloud Computing announced a new engineering initiative to develop an interface between OpenStack and VMware’s Cloud Foundry. Piston proposes to develop the interface and incorporate it into a subsequent release of its flagship product pentOS™. The interface will be … Continue reading →

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Piston Cloud Computing Reveals General Availability Of OpenStack Based Private Cloud

Posted on January 20, 2012 by

Piston Cloud Computing disclosed the general availability of Piston Enterprise OS, an enterprise grade deployment of OpenStack for private clouds, on Wednesday. With the announcement, Piston Cloud Computing becomes the first vendor to offer a commercialized version of the OpenStack … Continue reading →

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Uhuru Enables .NET Support For VMware’s Cloud Foundry

Posted on December 15, 2011 by

Developers seeking to deploy applications through VMware’s Cloud Foundry Platform as a Service environment now have an option through Uhuru Software Inc’s Uhuru .NET Services for Cloud Foundry. Uhuru .NET Services for Cloud Foundry empowers Windows .Net developers and IT … Continue reading →

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