by Simon Quicke
15 September 2008
There have been several announcements coming out of VMworld that should take the
vendor on from its server virtualisation routes.
VMware is facing a certain
amount of pressure to keep its momentous rise going, particularly after its CEO Diane Green was axed after failing to
deliver enough growth.
One of the launches surrounded the vCould iniative, which is supported by
BT, Rackspace, Sungard and others that is designed to link the resources of
internal and external could activities together to make a hosted environment
more attractive to enterprises.
In a statement, Paul Maritx, president and CEO at VMware, said that it
wanted to reduce the barriers to cloud adoption and reduce the need for
infrastructure upheaval.
The vendor is rolling out a tiered model ranging from the basic cloud
services, through the optimised package to the integrated option that uses
vCenter to make sure hosted environments inside and outside an organisation are
ready to go.
The other major piece of news from the first day of the event was the launch
of the virtual datacentre operating system. The VDC-OS is designed to develop
the VMware relationship with customers beyond simply an application to an
architecture.
The OS allows customers to pool together virtualised resources – servers,
storage and network – onto an aggregated on-site cloud as well as having the
option to open up some of the information to external clouds.
