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CloudForms is Red Hat’s cloud management platform, built from the open source ManageIQ acquired in December 2012 and part of the company’s new open hybrid cloud program that aims to converge private, public and hybrid clouds.
Yesterday Red Hat announced version 3.1 of CloudForms, that will be generally available in September also as a part of Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure, this new release will introduces the following new capabilities:
Today at VMworld 2014 in San Francisco VMware announced version 5.8 of its cloud management solution: vCloud Suite.
This update is not as radical as we would have expected, the new features could be resumed as follows:
When VMware officially joined the OpenStack Foundation as a Gold member in September 2012 it created a little confusion because at the same time it was (and it is) proposing its proprietary cloud software: vCloud.
Considering Cloud Foundry, offered as an open-source PaaS and the acquisition of Nicira that has been an active OpenStack contributor, VMware has demonstrated in the last two years a change in its stance and today, during the first day at VMworld 2014 in San Francisco, announced its OpenStack distribution: VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO).
First day at VMworld 2014 in San Francisco, if the tradition is respected most of the big news will come out today, a good example is the announcement of the first hybrid cloud management platform from VMware: VMware vRealize Suite.
Many vendors have now understood that the near future of cloud computing is hybrid (with all the different meanings of this term, dependent on the level at which the environment is observed), in this case VMware has realized that the vast majority of the customers need to manage physical and multi-hypervisor platforms with the same level of automation and agility that private, public and hybrid clouds (including VMware vCloud Air [formerly known as vCloud Hybrid Service] and Amazon Web Services) currently offer.
VMware vRealize Suite is a management stack that offer three key capabilities, all present in Gartner’s Evaluation Criteria for Cloud Management Platforms:
All the major vendors in the cloud computing market are investing in their hybrid cloud programs, VMware is no exception and today has launched the new VMware vCloud Air Network program, an evolution of their existing VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP).
Red Hat is putting a lot of effort in its OpenStack distribution that reached version 5 in July introducing the Icehouse OpenStack release.
The Raleigh open source giant has just announced a ready-to-deploy Open Virtual Appliance that aims to encourage the companies with a VMware-based infrastructure to evaluate Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, the download will be available starting from next week from the Red Hat Customer Portal Page.
The Pivotal Initiative is the organization, born in December 2012 from the merge of EMC and VMware cloud application and big data offerings and well known for Pivotal CF, its commercially supported hybrid Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) based on Cloud Foundry.
Yesterday Pivotal announced a set of new capabilities specifically aimed to facilitate the developers community to build and deploy next-generation mobile applications.
These new features, delivered in a package called Pivotal CF Mobile Services and partially derived from Xtreme Labs acquisition, include:
Configuration, Automation & Provisioning of cloud-based applications, or DevOps generally speaking, have started more then one “holy war” on the best tools to adopt among several players like Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Salt, etc.
Luminal enters this flaming scene announcing a $10 million Series B funding led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and including Core Capital Partners and the Merylan Venture Fund, all of them also involved in the $3.8 million Series A financing raised in April 2014.
Platform9, founded in 2013 from former VMware Engineers Sirish Raghuram (former Staff Engineer and now Platform9’s CEO), Madhura Maskasky (also former Staff Engineer and now Head of Product), Roopak Parikh (former Staff MTS at VMware and now Head of Engineering) and Bich Le (former Principal Engineer at VMware and now Chief Architect), exits today from stealth mode announcing its homonymous SaaS cloud management platform that promises to transform the on-premise servers infrastructures into an AWS-like private clouds.
This new platform aims to reduce operational complexity offering non-disruptive setup and upgrades, a single pane of glass (unified management) for KVM, Docker (which is becoming more and more relevant) and VMware vSphere (but currently only KVM is supported), a native support for teams collaboration and a solid OpenStack base (which translates into an OpenStack controller, with Nova, Keystone and Glance modules, that you have to install into your on-premise infrastructure to provide the management stack).
In less than two weeks IBM announces two important acquisitions, first it has acquired CrossIdea on July 31 an Identity and access management (IAM) provider, and today it has announced to have signed a definitive agreement to acquire the business operations of Lighthouse Security Group, a cloud security services provider.