VMware’s Cloud And The Fit With IT, Cloud Foundry And OpenStack
August 27, 2013
Grazed from TechCrunch. Author: Alex Williams.
VMware announced general availability of VMware vSphere 5.5 and VMware vCloud Suite at VMworld today. The new version of its virtualization technology includes the integration of Cloud Foundry, the platform-as-a-service that is now part of Pivotal, which spun out from VMware parent company EMC.
Cloud Foundry used to be VMware’s crown jewel. But now it will work as a platform that Pivotal will build for VMware to integrate with its new cloud, vCloud Hybrid Services. Dubbed Pivotal CF, the service will be made available later this year on VMware vSphere and vCloud Hybrid Services. vSphere is designed as an enhanced set of virtualization-management tools for cloud computing. vCloud Suite manages vSphere to help companies pool resources for more elasticity…
Gelsinger highlighted vSphere 5.5 as part of the company’s overall strategy to be the leader in what it calls the “software defined data center.” vSphere 5 represents the compute aspect of the architecture. Its new virtual storage will be wrapped into its newly introduced “virtual SAN.” The networking is embodied in NSX, the new network hypervisor it launched today. The concept is to pool the resources and leverage cloud when need be…
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