Last week we have announced our plans to acquire Nicira, which is a pioneer in software-defined networking space, and a leader in network virtualization for open source initiatives. The deal has been approved by the boards of directors of both companies, and is expected to close in the second half of this year.
Cloud computing is about agile, elastic, efficient, and reliable services, and it is achieved through sophisticated software that abstracts hardware resources, pools it into aggregate capacity, enabling automation to safely and efficiently dole it out as needed for applications. Tenants or customers utilizing the software-defined datacenter can have their own virtual datacenter with an isolated collection of all the compute, storage, networking, and security resources that they are used to. Furthermore, this virtual datacenter can grow and shrink to efficiently utilize physical resources. This is what the software-defined datacenter is all about, and it is the architecture for the cloud.
Managing networks and network services to support cloud architectures is complex, time consuming and limits the achievement of full application mobility across clouds. Nicira is at the forefront of software-defined networking, which enables the dynamic creation of virtual network infrastructure and services that are completely decoupled and independent from the physical network hardware. Many industry leaders, including AT&T, DreamHost, eBay, Fidelity Investments, NTT and Rackspace are using the Nicira Network Virtualization Platform (NVP) to accelerate service delivery from weeks to minutes and dramatically reduce complexity and cost. To read more, head on over to vmware.com/company/news
The VMware View team announced today that their View Client 1.5 now works with Mac OS X Mountain Lion; it is already signed and is compatible with Gatekeeper. If you don’t know, the Gatekeeper is a security feature that verifies the identity of a software developer and ensures that the package you are about to install isn’t malware or hasn’t been tampered with. For all the details, visit the End User Computing blog at blogs.vmware.com/euc
Team Fusion has also announced that VMware Fusion 4.1.3 now works with Mountain Lion release also, just in time for the operating system’s general availability. They have published some FAQs on their blog at blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion – go check that out!
The VMworld schedule builder is now live for the conference in San Francisco. As last year, all attendees must pre-register for the sessions to guarantee that you’ll have a seat in the session of your choice. So giddy-up and select your sessions at vmworld.com
Speaking of which, the VMworld team has been busy putting teaser videos for different sessions up in their YouTube channel. So far, I am counting about a dozen, but there will be more, so go to youtube.com/vmworldtv and subscribe to the channel if you don’t want to miss any previews.
