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November 3rd, 2009
Cisco, EMC, VMware announce joint integrated datacenter venture
Cisco, EMC and VMware announced Tuesday a joint venture to sell a new integrated data center product called V-Block.
Their venture, called the “Virtual Computing Environment coalition,” will sell and provide maintenance and service support for V-Block, and will combine EMC storage equipment, Cisco virtualized servers and networking equipment and VMWare virtualization technology.
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Rumors of the deal — code-named “Alpine” — have been going around since September.
October 21st, 2009
VMware posts solid third quarter, tops estimates
VMware’s third quarter financial results were better than expected based on maintenance renewals and federal IT spending.
The company reported net income of $38 million, or 9 cents a share, down from $83 million, or 21 cents a share a year ago. Non-GAAP net income of $95 million, or 24 cents a share, flat with a year ago. Wall Street was expecting earnings of 20 cents a share. Revenue for the quarter was $490 million, up 4 percent from a year ago.
By the numbers:
October 12th, 2009
With AppSense, making sense of managing the virtual desktop user experience
As more enterprises turn to virtual desktop infrastructure to save money and leverage the infrastructure they already have, managing the user experience has become critical.
But how do you maintain standardization across large organizations while keeping the user happy at each log on?
AppSense might have the answer. The U.K.-based company goes beyond profile management to offer non-persistent, leveraged corporate OS and apps on demand from a central location.
By viewing the desktop in three separate layers — the OS, the applications and user environment management – AppSense tries to allow IT to standardize the corporate desktop and automate the delivery of the user’s working environment, without restricting a user’s choice of screensaver, wallpaper, font size and so forth.
Its technology is used by some of the world’s biggest corporations, including JPMorgan Chase, Lowe’s, United Airlines, Wachovia, Walmart, ESPN and CB Richard Ellis.
I spoke with AppSense’s VP of Strategy, Martin Ingram, about what his company is doing now in the VDI space.
September 15th, 2009
Feds launch Apps.gov; Cloud computing players salivate
Updated: The Federal government launched Apps.gov, a site designed to be a storefront for approved cloud computing applications. The move is designed to streamline application adoption at federal agencies.
U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra said in a briefing Tuesday that Apps.gov is designed to lower costs and push innovation into government agencies. The cloud-based software on Apps.gov are housed centrally and available via various devices. Kundra billed the effort as “a one-stop source for cloud services.” The site features business applications, cloud services, productivity apps and social media software.
September 4th, 2009
Virtualization: By definition, it's a moving target [video]
Yesterday, I posted a video clip of some VMWorld coverage that I shot with my handy-dandy FlipCam. But once I handed over my footage to the editing team, I wasn’t quite done playing - so I headed back out to Moscone for some more footage.
A colleague made a suggestion of something that could be kind of fun - go around and ask people for their quick definition of “virtualization,” the big buzz word at VMWorld. So that’s what I did. It came as no big shock that everyone I spoke with had his or her own definition for the word.
As I said yesterday, these video experiments are still kind of new for me - so, please forgive shaking hands or a stuttering narrator. I’m working on getting better.
Enjoy
September 3rd, 2009
App virtualization meets the mobile device
At VMworld in San Francisco, VMware CTO Stephen Herrod shows a Visa mobile application on a Microsoft Windows CE device that is also running virtually on Google’s Android OS. The functionality allows users to run “any app on any device,” the VMware executive says.
September 2nd, 2009
Virtualization: a good idea but still some growing pains to consider
I sat down with a group of execs from NetIQ during a break from the VMWorld show yesterday. They wanted to talk about the company, which offers a lineup of software products for improving IT processes, and its role in the virtual world, specifically process automation.
But what was interesting about the conversation was the idea that virtualization - which is considered by some to be the holy savior of the IT industry - could also have some downsides. Mind you, the benefits still seem to outweigh those downsides over the long term but the points that the execs raised as we were talking about challenges of a virtual environment were worth pondering.
One of the messages that Paul Maritz, CEO of VMWare, was trying to drive home in his Tuesday morning keynote speech was the idea that virtualization reduces complexity, lowers costs and increases efficiency. Those are all true statements - but let’s not forget that, with anything new, there is bound to be some level of complexity, at least an initial investment and likely some stumbling blocks for those working hands-on in the new environment.
September 2nd, 2009
Tinkering with the virtual desktop
At VMworld in San Francisco, VMware CEO Paul Maritz talks to HP’s director of software virtualization, Steve DuPree, about how the company’s VMware View product fits into HP’s virtualization plans. Maritz adds that there are 1 million desktops deployed with VDI, mainly in sectors where security and compliance are crucial, like the health care and finance industry.
September 1st, 2009
VMWare's Maritz: IT spending patterns need change if industry intends to grow
The theme of the opening keynote at VMWorld 2009 was centered around two ideas: reducing complexity and offering freedom.
In its quest to shift from a virtualization company to the tech industry’s cloud infrastructure giant, VMWorld CEO Paul Maritz on Tuesday touched on a number of topics - including new tools, a strategy for reaching small and medium businesses and a Web-based “express” version for light workloads.
Of course, the bigger message surrounds saving money and operating more efficiently through virtualization. In his opening remarks, Maritz spoke of the need to transform IT spending. The majority of IT spending goes into things that don’t benefit the company’s growth. Instead, he said, it goes into keeping the lights on, the train running, the plumbing flowing or (enter your favorite analogy here.)
That way of doing business has to be inverted if the industry expects to keep growing, he said. And virtualization is “one of the few technologies, maybe the only one that can provide that evolutionary path to that transformation,” Maritz said.
August 31st, 2009
Trend Micro launches enhanced security, tools for tracking Web usage
It used to be that an IT administrator could warn employees about opening attachments from unknown sources or clicking on links from unknown e-mail senders as the first line of defense against spam, malware and other bad stuff on the Internet.
Today, the seedy side of the Internet comes in many different forms and from many different sources. Stop for a moment and think about the new places where malware might be buried, hidden, released and shared - a legitimate site that’s been hacked, a bit.ly link on Twitter or even an image on a Facebook friend’s page. Now, think about how many of these links you’ve clicked on from within the corporate network.
Trend Micro, in an effort to fight a modern-day Internet security war, is announcing today the launch of its Web Gateway Security, a product that does more than just enhance URL filtering or expand the database of trouble spots, red flags and other information used to keep its customers safe. The product also comes with tools that provide IT admins with detailed information about who on the network is doing what, when and from where - even just a few moments ago. The dashboard (pictured below) gives the admin a nearly real-time look at the users, the traffic and the sites being downloaded across the entire with just a glance.
It’s a tool that gives companies the ability to monitor for unusual activity and track it - nearly in real-time - to a particular site or particular user. No more waiting for reports the next morning to make some sort of discovery or identify the root of a problem.
Sure, there’s potential for companies to take “big brother” to a new level. But the execs at Trend Micro pointed instead to the ability to identify a problem at a company-approved site. If a particular user is using an excessive amount of bandwidth, for example, but isn’t visiting any out-of-the-ordinary sites, it may be the result of a problem at one of those sites.
Companies have long reserved the right to monitor or restrict Web surfing activities for the sake of protecting the network and sensitive company data. In a recent survey of IT executives by Trend Micro, 75 percent said they were concerned about unauthorized online activities at work and that nearly 70 percent would consider prohibiting access to certain sites, such as shopping or social networking properties. But the company also highlights another statistic - 42 percent say they’re willing to accept the risks of social networking on office computers because they see social networking as something that will benefit the company in the long run.
The company today also announced a virtual appliance, which allows companies to either dedicate their own standardized hardware to the app or install in a VMWare environment with other apps.
Previous coverage: Trend Micro wants enterprise to re-think security
August 30th, 2009
VMware to step up data center automation game
VMware on Monday will roll out a product family dubbed vCenter to automate data center tasks and manage to service level agreements.
The announcements will kick off VMworld 2009 in San Francisco this week.
VMware’s vCenter products are designed to ride shotgun with the company’s vSphere cloud computing operating system.
In a nutshell, vCenter is designed to automate tasks such as data center provisioning, monitoring, change and performance management. VMware added that vCenter is also designed to manage toward policies and service level agreements. Each virtual server that is deployed will operate to a specified service level.
The vCenter family includes:
- AppSpeed to manage service level reporting for virtualized applications;
- CapacityIQ to manage capacity levels of virtual machines resources and data centers;
- ConfigControl, which checks compliance and configuration states;
- Site Recovery Manager, which automates disaster recovery tasks;
- LifeCycle Manager, which automates virtual machines from provisioning to retirement;
- Chargeback, which allocates infrastructure costs;
- And Lab Manager, which aims to ease development, quality assurance and pre-production environments.
The vCenter apps will be sold a la carte per processor. Most of the vCenter family is generally available.
Separately, VMware will announce VMware Go, a free beta service to get small and midsized businesses using virtualization tools quickly. VMware Go is a Web-based service that will walk customers through the ESXi, the company’s free hypervisor. The VMware Go beta will start Monday and be generally available in the fourth quarter.
More on VMware: TechRepublic: Most CIOs refuse to buy the hype on desktop virtualization
August 20th, 2009
TechRepublic: Most CIOs refuse to buy the hype on desktop virtualization
One of IT’s hottest buzz topics of 2009 is desktop virtualization. The concept is basically a new spin on thin client infrastructure, which was rejected by most IT departments over the past two decades, with the exception of a few niche cases.
The renewed interested and hype around thin clients in the form of desktop virtualization is being driven by two factors — the success of server virtualization in lowering costs in the data center, and the unrelenting pressure that IT departments are feeling to squeeze out more cost savings during the current recession.
But, most CIOs aren’t buying the hype or jumping on board with desktop virtualization. TechRepublic’s CIO Jury has indicated that the vast majority of IT leaders have no plans to adopt desktop virtualization, although there is a minority group of IT chiefs that are enthusiastic about it.
On August 17, TechRepublic polled its 90-member panel of U.S. IT leaders and asked, “Is your IT department strongly considering a deployment of virtual desktops?” The jury, made up of the first 12 respondents, answered with nine “no” votes and three “yes” votes.
TechRepublic’s CIO Jury is based on the original CIO Jury concept developed by Silicon.com, where you can find lively opinions from IT leaders based in the UK.
Our CIO Jury for this issue was:
August 11th, 2009
VMware's SpringSource purchase sparks head scratching; Still doesn't solve the Microsoft problem
VMware’s purchase of SpringSource for $420 million has sparked a fair amount of head scratching among analysts who argue the virtualization software company paid too much and still failed to solve its Microsoft problem.
Global Equities analyst Trip Chowdhry noted that SpringSource had roughly $10 million in annual revenue. Cowen and Company analyst Walter Pritchard put SpringSource’s revenue at $20 million to $40 million a year. Either way, VMware’s purchase (Techmeme) was deemed expensive by most analysts.
Wells Fargo analyst Philip Rueppel said:
August 10th, 2009
VMware goes shopping: Buys SpringSource for $420 million; Can it keep the open source mojo?
VMware said Monday that it will pay $420 million for privately held SpringSource in a bid to become a bigger player in cloud computing application management and the open source community.
VMware, a virtualization leader that is angling to become a cloud infrastructure OS giant, said that SpringSource will put it at the intersection of virtualization, application frameworks and cloud computing.
In a statement (Techmeme), VMware added that the deal will cost $362 million in cash and equity and the assumption of $58 million in stock options. The deal is expected to close in the third quarter.
In a call with analysts today, the company said it was reaffirming its third quarter and fiscal year guidance to reflect the deal. While the company said it expects the deal to have an impact on Q3 non-GAAP operating margins, it remained comfortable with the guidance it announced in its second quarter earnings call.
SpringSource is expected to round out VMware’s platform-as-a-service plans. The companies plan to launch integrated platform as a service bundles with SpringSource software and VMware’s vSphere cloud operating system.
SpringSource, which is five years old, has a vibrant open source developer community and some big-name clients. VMware said it will continue “to support the principles that have made SpringSource solutions popular: the interoperability of SpringSource software with a wide variety of middleware software, and the open source model that is important to the developer community.”
In a blog post, CEO Rod Johnson explained the opportunities as IT transforms itself. He wrote:
The way in which people think about software stacks is changing. Virtualization is reshaping the data center, and cloud computing is set to drive far-reaching changes. Significantly, cloud computing blurs the division between development and operations, bringing new power (and responsibility) to developers… At the SpringOne conference earlier this year we demonstrated just a small part of our vision in this area, with direct deployment of Spring applications from the SpringSource Tool Suite to virtual machines running in a data center under the control of VMware’s Lab Manager product. The audience reaction was enthusiastic. Spring-powered applications have an application blueprint that describes how the various components fit together. With VMware’s vApp concept we can introduce a deployment blueprint that describes how the various machine images, middleware, and management components fit together – and then we can take that blueprint and “make it so” with a single click, in the data center, and in the cloud.
Credit: SpringSource Blog
The purchase of SpringSource definitely puts VMware at the forefront of some key areas. The Spring Framework supports half of all enterprise Java projects. And SpringSource supplies more than 95 percent of the bug fixes for Apache Tomcat, a popular Java application server. And SpringSource also has the Hyperic application monitoring tool.
Now the big question: Will VMware be able to maintain SpringSource’s open source mojo?
May 26th, 2009
VMWare executive shows off fluid network switching
At the Interop Conference in Las Vegas, VMWare CTO Stephen Herrod explains what the additional features in the company’s network switching distribution will bring to virtualization. One of the benefits will be allowing other companies, like Cisco, to create a virtual switch within VMWare’s cloud so that businesses can choose whoever they want to handle their networking. Rob Noth of VMWare demonstrates the Cisco command line.
May 20th, 2009
EMC: Virtualization is ready to run the world's biggest applications
Typically, when IT departments decide to use virtualization in the data center, the big question is which workloads to virtualize. The conventional wisdom has been to avoid virtualizing anything that was too I/O-intensive, such as databases and e-mail systems.
However, EMC wants to put that idea to rest. The company, which owns virtualization market leader VMware, spent a lot of time at EMC World 2009 this week driving home the point to IT professionals that the entire data center can be virtualized.
“Virtualization is now ready to run the biggest applications,” said EMC CTO Chuck Hollis (right). “It’s ready for the biggest applications today.”
In fact, Hollis said that virtualization is already running a lot of the biggest applications for many of the world’s largest companies. America’s top auto makers are one example. Driven by intense economic pressures to reduce costs, the auto makers have recently accelerated their adoption of virtualization.
Another industry that is extensively using virtualization is oil and gas, where they have to deliver the same enterprise applications to both desktops and supercomputers. Plus, they also have a wide diversity of sites across the globe that need access to these applications. As a result, they’ve embraced virtualization to get the kind of flexibility they need on the backend.
EMC itself is committed to eventually moving its entire internal server infrastructure to virtualization, but CEO Joe Tucci said in his keynote on Monday that the company isn’t even halfway there yet. That said, Hollis noted that EMC is doing big stuff with virtualization. “We put big, hairy Oracle and Exchange workloads on VMware,” he said.
And, there are some companies that have taken the plunge and gone 100%. Hollis remarked, “We work with outsourcers that are now completely virtualized.”
Also see: Gallery: EMC World 2009
In some cases, it’s happening very quietly in the background. Hollis told the story of an IT manager who had virtualized over 3,000 servers. Hollis asked him, “How did you get your users to accept this?” The IT manager smiled and replied, “I didn’t tell them.” Apparently, no one noticed.
That’s what EMC believes will happen in nearly all cases, when virtualization is deployed correctly. Meanwhile, virtualization gives IT a lot more flexibility in managing the company’s technology infrastructure.
Hollis said that the new premise of virtualization is “architecting for choice.” He characterized virtualization to a shipping container for server workloads. This was also reflected in Tucci’s slide on virtual infrastructure:
EMC is also trying to make the case that building a virtualization infrastructure inside the firewall will enable companies to create an “internal cloud” now, and better take advantage of the opportunities presented by cloud computing (”external cloud”) in the future. It’s all conceptual and a bit of a stretch, but it’s a fairly compelling idea. Here’s Tucci’s slide on it:
For this concept to really take off, it would likely require standardization and cooperation among the various enterprise vendors, including EMC, Dell, IBM, Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, and Citrix. It would require more than just compatible hypervisors in the virtualization layer.
That kind of collaboration is probably unlikely. EMC is one of the more open collaborators in that group and they show no interest in reaching out. Hollis claimed that VMware currently owns 97% of the virtualization market, so he argues that it is the de facto standard. While there’s some truth to that, it’s difficult to imagine that the virtualization market won’t get a lot more crowded in the years ahead because so many of the companies listed above are putting so much emphasis on it — especially since it can now handle virtually any type of server load out there.
May 19th, 2009
EMC's Tucci: The four "next big things in IT"
In his keynote address at EMC World 2009 in Orlando, CEO Joe Tucci named “The Next Big Things in IT” as part of his vision for where both IT world and EMC as a company are headed over the next few years.
Here’s Tucci’s slide:
After the keynote, Tucci came to the press room and answered our questions for over an hour. As part of that conversation I was able to ask him about his four “next big things” and clarify a few points — especially the difference between cloud computing and virtual applications, as EMC sees it.
Here’s a summary of each of these four, in terms of how EMC is defining them:
May 18th, 2009
Tucci, Maritz talk acquisitions, customers and competition
The CEOs - EMC’s Joe Tucci and VMWare’s Paul Maritz - took some time this afternoon to meet with reporters at EMC World for a Q&A session about the companies, the technologies and the future.
Some highlights from the Q&A session:
- With $9.8 billion in cash and investments, EMC could gain some ground in technology via acquisitions. Tucci said one of the uses for the company’s cash will be to “strengthen our position in the marketplace through acquisition.” He wouldn’t say which areas or companies the company might be thinking about but did say that the he’s “much more inclined” to make acquisitions in areas where the company is already strong, notably virtualization, storage information management and security.
- Asked if the company might become a target for acquisition by another player, Tucci was quick to state that the company is not for sale. He also notes that, given EMC’s sizable market cap, there aren’t too many companies that could pull off such a transaction. Still, Tucci notes that, as executives, he and Maritz have to act with their best interest of the shareholders in mind.
- Asked about the impact of Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, Maritz said it doesn’t prompt too much change for the companies anytime soon. A lot of the companies’ customers already use Oracle’s database software and they don’t see that changing anytime soon.
- In his keynote speech earlier in the day, Tucci said that EMC plans to “get closer” and communicate more with customers. During the Q&A he clarified that the company getting close to customers is not a new idea. Instead, he said that - during tough economic times - it’s important to stand by your customers. “When things are going great, you’ve got a lot of friends,” he said. : When something bad happens, you see how many true friends you have.” A rough economy will test a company and its companies, as well as its attitude and will to win. These are the times to put in an added layer of connectivity, he said, to “pick it up a notch.”
- Responding to a question about competition in the virtualization space and the plans to step up the game with the vSphere news, Maritz said there were no plans to idle and watch as competitors enter the market. Standing still simply allows competitors to come in and commoditize what a company does, he said. “If you want to stay valuable, you have to innovate.” He pointed to a “substantial” R&D team and said “we have no intention of standing still.”
May 18th, 2009
EMC World: A view of the enterprise from above the cloud
In his keynote speech at EMC World, CEO Joe Tucci talked about what’s hot - not just for EMC, but for the business of technology as a whole - and looked closely at the things that will have the biggest impact on enterprise technology as the economy continues to have its own impact.
Today, as IT departments struggle with fewer resources, scaled-down budgets and increased demand, they turn to companies like EMC for solutions, Tucci said. What do they want? Well, they want to implement strategic initiatives that will have a fast return on investment and reduce their risks while also preparing them for the next generation of technology and the evolution of the data center. And they want it faster, cheaper and, of course, greener.
Also see: Gallery: EMC World 2009
That’s no easy task - but it can be done by taking a big picture look - the 30,000-foot view from “above the clouds,”, if you will. EMC has two strategies - one around information infrastructure and other other around virtualization infrastructure through VMWare.
On the information infrastructure side, the offering consists of the storage and data management layers such as EMC Atmos OnLine, which was announced this morning. Through these cloud-based offerings, customers have the power to manage the exponential growth in storage demands. Tucci noted that, in 2000, EMC had two customers storing more than a petabyte of storage. Today, that number is more than 2,000 customers.
But the problem with storage is that customers have always had to buy more than they need so they would have it available to meet their future needs. Through EMC’s model, there’s an ability to pay for what you use, as you go, and scale up or down as the demands change.
The other side of that problem, however, is the type of information that can be stored on the cloud. On the consumer side of the world, the cloud consists of new applications (at least for the user.) Customers who use consumer cloud apps like Flickr or Gmail usually start fresh, though they may migrate data (photos, contact lists, etc) into the cloud.
On the enterprise level, shifting to a new app isn’t as easy. And putting existing apps into the cloud - and giving the same types of access - into the cloud is far more complicated. That’s where the virtual infrastructure comes into play.
Tucci handed the keynote baton to VMWare CEO Paul Maritz about halfway through his presentation for an explanation of a new software layer called vSphere, the next-gen upgrade from VMWare Infrastructure. Think of vSphere as an operating system in the cloud - a layer of software and tools in the data center that unleashes the infrastructure into the cloud. The idea is that the software does, in the cloud, what is already being done behind the walls: managing and controlling user access on various platforms and devices while protecting the data.
And by bringing that technology into a protected cloud - along with EMC’s offerings of data backup and archiving, as well as smart software that takes issues such as compliance matters into consideration - users can access data anywhere, anytime and from pretty much any device.
Also see: Amazon beefs up cloud visibility and monitoring tools
EMC rolls out new high-end storage lineup; Aims to push data center flash adoption
Data center survey: Cisco’s server push sparks interest; VMware, EMC, NetApp shine
May 11th, 2009
Data center survey: Cisco's server push sparks interest; VMware, EMC, NetApp shine
Cisco’s Unified Computing System is garnering interest, but storage appears to be the focus of CIOs as they ponder the next generation data center and that’s good news for EMC and NetApp, according to a Goldman Sachs survey.
Goldman Sachs surveyed 100 IT executives at Fortune 1000 companies to get a read on their data center plans two to three years from now.
Among the takeaways:
Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) has found “a surprisingly receptive ear,” according to Goldman Sachs. Indeed, 18 percent are planning to evaluate Cisco’s UCS in the next 12 months, an impressive figure for a product that was announced a few weeks ago. Another two-thirds of IT execs say that they expect Cisco have a larger server presence over the next 2 to 3 years.
Among those surveyed, 18 percent said they will evaluate UCS in the next 12 months, 44 percent said no and 38 percent were unsure.
Cisco, HP and Dell were vendors expected to increase data center share, according to respondents. Sun and IBM are seen decreasing.
These charts tell the tale:
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