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We had a record crowd today to find out more about VMware's vCloud initiative. Bill Shelton joined us as our guest. We talked about topics like REST-based provisioning and lifecycle APIs, service providers, massive VC scalability, VDI, and failover out of the cloud. Listen with the widget at right, the mp3, or iTunes. (1:04 duration)

• VMware Cloud vServices
• Cloud vServices FAQ
• VMware Ready vCloud Service Providers
• VMware Virtual Appliance Marketplace
• Building a Virtual Appliance
• Open Virtualization Format
• Rodney Haywood: Gartner validates Nick Carr

  With the current cloud offering one needs to rearchitect your applications or do things in different ways. This is not a standardised approach which is what the utility of computing requires. After all you can plug into any electical point and things work. With virtualisation and the VDC-OS and vApp framework you will not need to change your work loads. This is where I think we will see the Carr vision turn into reality.

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