At EMA, we constantly receive inquiries regarding what OpenStack means to the VMware portfolio. Is it a competing technology? Are OpenStack and vCloud complementary? Why did VMware join OpenStack? What are the typical use cases for OpenStack as opposed to vCloud? To address these questions, let’s take a step back and take a look at what OpenStack is and, as importantly, what it is not. This post is building on my previous article on the business value of OpenStack.
OpenStack Thoughts – Part 2: Impact on VMware
Topics:
IBM
cloud computing
IT Management
VMware
Systems Management
CloudStack
Hyper-V
OpenStack
Piston Cloud Computing
Torsten Volk
VCloud
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The Software Defined Datacenter: Part 4 of 4 – Where We Are Today
Almost one year into the discussion about the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC), it is time to take inventory of the state of the discipline. As a reminder, the ultimate goal of the SDDC is to abstract and centralize the
management of compute, network, storage, operating systems, middleware and applications in order to dynamically place workloads where they can run in the most cost efficient, secure and compliant manner.
Topics:
IBM
IT Management
VMware
Systems Management
CloudStack
Nicira
EMC
Hyper-V
network virtualization
OpenFlow
Torsten Volk
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