VMware: VMTN Blog: VMworld Monday grab-bag

I see how it's going to be this year. Crazy.

Articles covering the VCD-OS announcement:

Maureen O'Gara @ SYS-CON Media: VMware to Microsoft: Choke on My Dust. heh.
Scott Ferguson @ eWeek: VMware Adds Cloud, Desktop Infrastructure to its Virtualization Roadmap.
Patrick Thibodeau @ ComputerWorld: VMware, virtualization rivals step into the ring at VMworld.
Toon Vanagt @ virtualization.com vCloud: Vmware to be cloud computing provider too, but inside your private DC and not tomorrow. Toon makes a good point, but I don't think it's internal vs. external clouds, it's more of an 'and' rather than an 'or.' You can both have a choice of external providers + your own data center, depending on needs, scale, SLAs, etc.
James Niccolai @ PC World (and CIO.com) VMware Tries to Expand Throughout the Data Center.

Blogs discussing it:

Duncan Epping: VMware’s first announcements. » Yellow Bricks. (Big vision backed up by real hot features.)
Scott Lowe
- Link: VMware’s Virtual Datacenter OS (talking about the big picture)
- Link: Follow Up on the VDC-OS Announcement (talking about individual features)
Rich Brambley
Chris Hoff: Link: Rational Survivability: VMWorld 2008: Forecast For VMware? Cloudy...Weep For Security?.
Chuck Hollis (EMC): Chuck's Blog: Big Visions From VMware. Just read it. VDC-OS as an extension of where we are today in 2008 -- not vapor. Concept of multiple clouds, including the "enterprise resource cloud."
Scott Ossterreich (Cassatt): Fountainhead: An early analysis of VMware vCloud and VDC-OS
James Urquardt: The Wisdom of Clouds: Let the Cloud Computing OS wars begin!.
Mark Twomey sees a new world being exposed through vStorage APIs: Storagezilla: vStorage, PowerPath and a few random thoughts..

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