VMware Unveils its Cloud OS
VMware is attempting to bridge virtualized data centers-now known as "private clouds"-and growing cloud computing services from the likes of Amazon.com and others.
VMware announced its cloud operating system-dubbed vSphere 4-with plans for general availability in the second quarter. VMware is attempting to bridge virtualized data centers-now known as "private clouds"-and growing cloud computing services from the likes of Amazon.com and others.
However, this bridging process is a work in progress due to the lack of standards. VMware's big pitch is that vSphere can run your data center and allow you to bridge out when external resources are needed.
There's a big gap between what most people talk about as cloud and what people are doing today in the enterprise. VMware's plan is to get cloud providers to use its operating system and then seamlessly hook up to enterprises using vSphere 4.
It's unclear what happens if a vSphere shop isn't hooking up to another VMware powered cloud. ?he company is working behind the scenes on application swapping among clouds but didn't have details or timelines for such standards. It is clear that VMware sees vSphere 4 as a way to thwartboth Microsoft's cloud OS, Azure, and its virtualization effort, Hyper-V.
Gilmartin(director of product marketing) argued that Microsoft's approach with Azure requires too many architecture changes for enterprises. He also noted that vSphere will support more operating systems.
Features in vSphere 4
- A 30 percent increase in application consolidation ratios.
- Up to 50 percent in storage savings by allowing virtual machines to only use storage as needed.
- Up to 20 percent additional power and cooling savings.
- vSphere 4 scales better with the ability to pool 32 physical servers with up to 2,048 processor cores, 1,280 virtual machines, 32 terabytes of RAM, 16 petabytes of storage, and 8,000 network ports.
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