Vmware News & Articles

 Microsoft has been taking big steps to make its cloud platform, Windows Azure, more attractive. Just last week the company announced support for several popular open source development tools including Node.js and Hadoop. It seems that the company is intent on ensuring that Windows Azure remains the leading choice for Microsoft-based cloud services, but the company shouldn’t get too comfortable on its throne. VMWare and little-known Tier 3 have stepped forward to provide Microsoft a little competition. Game on, Azure.

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Virtualization used to focus on moving the desktop and your apps between PCs. Now, the industry led by VMware is looking away from the PC entirely at its big Las Vegas show.

Earlier in the week, Microsoft talked up a storm about its Dynamics CRM Online as well as cash incentives to take it up. But the tough talk was only part of a wider piece from Microsoft about its cloud strategy. Could it be that Microsoft is finally nailing down the nuts and bolts of what it wants to do in the cloud?

There are a couple of major events this week so GRC has been busy. Force.com now offers ClearGRC for social governance, OpenText has released content management for the legal vertical, we looked at why SharePoint is barely legal and Clearwater has upgraded its HIPAA auditing tool. Symantec, meanwhile, offers new backup possibilities.

This week, RecMan extended its records management for Google Apps by adding to Gmail, IdentityLogix adds security module to VMWare, M-Files and NetSuite integrate, CaseCentral puts R5 on general release and Recommind’s Axcelerate e-Discovery is named trend-setting technology for 2011.

With the release of Office 365 and all Microsoft’s talk about the cloud and its potential, it was striking that many of the cloud migration tools for MS cloud products recently have been from third-party vendors. However, Microsoft has announced the release of Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 6.0 that appears to be redressing that balance.

EMC’s (news, site) earning for the second quarter jumped dramatically by 28%, which the company is attributing to increased spending on storage products and software licenses, as well as to a growing interest in its Big Data products and cloud computing offerings.

While one side of the Enterprise was totally obsessed with buttons this week, the other side got a hot peek at some up and coming Apple goodness, more Yammer perks and a set of handy tools newly available to the iPad and iPhone.

VMWare (news, site) makes another buy to broaden its SaaS appeal, picking up enterprise microblogger service Socialcast for an undisclosed amount.

This week, SAP brings business analytics to GRC, researchers in Germany say they have identified a security hole in Android, Autonomy has bought the digital assets of Iron Mountain, VMWare has been on the acquisition trail and Compliance 360 releases Universal Assessments.

EMC’s (news, site) presence in the cloud is to be substantially increased with the announcement at EMCWorld that it is making Captiva, Document Sciences, CenterStage and Documentum available on demand on either private clouds, or on public clouds through appropriate service providers.

The number of IaaS, PaaS and SaaS cloud services is growing. After software-as-a-service (SaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS) represents one of the largest growth areas in the cloud. Now, there is a new entrant in the PHP PaaS market -- something we are likely to hear frequently of over the next few years.

VMWare is big in a backroom service kind of way, while SlideRocket (news, site) helps those pesky end users do slick-and-groovy presentations, so why would the two get together?

Socialtext Virtual Appliance, a new offering built for VMWare, provides organizations with the ability to install social software securely behind the firewall, as well as scale server resources as needed.