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VMWare wants to become Microsoft of the Cloud Computing era
September 07, 2010 | Author: Michael Stromann
Previously, when enterprise software was running on servers and desktops, Microsoft ruled the IT market. It supplied the operating systems for servers and desktops, as well as tools for developing applications for these OS. As the cloud technologies emerge, servers and desktops are no longer the central objects of IT infrastructure. Software moves to private and public clouds. Desktops are used just as thin clients (terminals with a browser) and the need in servers disappears at all. And since the basis of cloud technology is virtualization - the power goes to the company, that owns 80% of the virtualization market - VMWare.
Businesses for a long time have been implementing virtualization technologies in their data centers to reduce IT costs, increase its flexibility and reliability. So, now it is much easier for them to transfer their virtualized IT infrastructure to private or public clouds powered by VMWare, than to the Amazon cloud, or even to Windows Azure.
VMWare provides vSphere platform for private clouds and vCloud - for public clouds (vCloud is delivered by several VMWare partners, including Salesforce). Recently the company also released a vCloud Director, which allows companies to easily manage their IT infrastructure, which can be distributed among several private and public clouds, running on these platforms.
Also, VMWare has acquired MyOneLogin, the service which enables companies to implement a unified user authentication system for cloud environment where different applications run on different clouds. This reminds the Active Directory service in Windows.
And in order to control the cloud application development process, VMWare has released VMware vFabric - the Java IDE for cloud applications. vFabric is based on SpringSource framework that VMware acquired last year, and includes the tools to build applications optimized for VMWare cloud platforms.
Businesses for a long time have been implementing virtualization technologies in their data centers to reduce IT costs, increase its flexibility and reliability. So, now it is much easier for them to transfer their virtualized IT infrastructure to private or public clouds powered by VMWare, than to the Amazon cloud, or even to Windows Azure.
VMWare provides vSphere platform for private clouds and vCloud - for public clouds (vCloud is delivered by several VMWare partners, including Salesforce). Recently the company also released a vCloud Director, which allows companies to easily manage their IT infrastructure, which can be distributed among several private and public clouds, running on these platforms.
Also, VMWare has acquired MyOneLogin, the service which enables companies to implement a unified user authentication system for cloud environment where different applications run on different clouds. This reminds the Active Directory service in Windows.
And in order to control the cloud application development process, VMWare has released VMware vFabric - the Java IDE for cloud applications. vFabric is based on SpringSource framework that VMware acquired last year, and includes the tools to build applications optimized for VMWare cloud platforms.
See also: Top 10 Public Cloud Platforms
