Published: September 13 2010, 06:46 PM | no comments
by CA Community

You may have missed it in the flurry of news from Apple, but VMware recently had their annual get-together at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. On stage VMware shared two key insights: successful virtualization is becoming more about orchestration and automation than about hypervisors. And, private clouds will rapidly develop into hybrid clouds. I agree on both but believe the combination of these two trends has some distinct consequences that did not get picked up by the media. Let me start with a disclaimer and some disclosure. I followed the event not on-site but through the California blogosphere reporting on the event , and I work for CA Technologies . A third trend, by the way, was that more and more vendors (like VMware recently and...
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Published: September 08 2010, 10:51 AM | no comments
by Jay Fry

VMware threw another great VMworld event this year. If you didn't attend, you missed another step in VMware's evolution toward being a very mainstream, enterprise-focused software vendor. They are at that stage as a vendor where they are reaching out beyond what they grew up doing and are trying to expand into something broader and different. Last year , in my book, was a bit light on news (aside from explaining their early plans for SpringSource) and more about describing these big ambitions. This year, however, was about trying to look the part and making sure they had credible solutions and stories to tell their enterprise customers, thanks to a few well-timed acquisitions. Oh, and I guess I should mention the cloud. VMware certainly...
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