VMware

| September 25, 2013

Citrix Tuesday updated its cloud computing strategy, saying that its platform --which is based off the Apache CloudStack project -- can span both private on-premises deployments and public clouds and is the only one in the market that takes an application-centric approach to architecting clouds. Citrix officials say that the company's chief competitors, VMware and Amazon Web Services, "pigeon-hole" users into architecting clouds a certain way. VMware is ideal for virtualized legacy applications,...

| October 15, 2013

VMware has rolled out expanded support for non-VMware workloads in its management tools, including the added ability to manage OpenStack clouds and providing better visibility into Amazon and Microsoft clouds. The moves reflect VMware's desire to be a central management platform for multiple types of workloads in an IT shop. They also highlight the delicate nature of the cloud computing industry in which there are resources from various vendors, forcing companies like VMware to balance between e...

VMware | November 12, 2013

Pivotal, the ambitious big data venture led by former VMware CEO Paul Maritz, has finally pulled back the curtain on Pivotal One, a platform for building data-intensive cloud applications. Key elements include Pivotal CF, Pivotal's distribution of the Cloud Foundry PaaS, and Pivotal HD, the company's distribution of Apache Hadoop. Among its selling points: It makes deployment and management of Hadoop -- normally a pain -- a snap. That's one of the ways Pivotal could stack up against the rest of ...

VMware | July 16, 2014

Virtualisation incumbent VMware has inked partnerships with China Telecom and SoftBank in a move that will see both telcos host and help sell the company’s hybrid cloud service in the region. The move marks a significant expansion of the service as VMware looks to take its hybrid cloud offerings beyond North America and Europe....