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09-17-2008, 09:50 PM
VMware this week announced a string of new products with a single goal in mind: to expand its flagship virtual-infrastructure suite into a Virtual Datacenter Operating System (VDC-OS).
VDC-OS aims to help businesses pool hardware resources -- servers, storage and network -- into an aggregated on-premises cloud, and to move workloads to external clouds for additional computing capacity when needed.
"The first 10 years of VMware were about enabling customers to build out dynamic and efficient virtual infrastructure that delivered high levels of flexibility and resiliency," said Paul Maritz, president and CEO of VMware. "The next generation of innovative technologies in the Virtual Datacenter OS will enable companies to realize the promise of enterprise cloud computing -- where applications are automatically guaranteed the right quality of service at the lowest TCO by harnessing internal and external computing capacity."
A Three-Pronged Virtualization Approach
VDC-OS aims to expand virtual infrastructure in three ways. VMware said the first track delivers a set of infrastructure services to aggregate servers, storage and networks as a pool of on-premise cloud resources and allocates them to applications that need them most. The second track delivers a set of application services to deliver availability, security and scalability to all applications -- independent of the operating system, development frameworks, or architecture on which they were built to run.
Finally, VMware said, the VDC-OS delivers a set of cloud services to facilitate computing capacity between the on-premises and off-premises clouds. VMware is stressing the difference between its VDC-OS and traditional operating systems. While the traditional OS is optimized for a single server and supports only applications written to its interfaces, VDC-OS, by contrast, serves as the OS for the entire data center. VDC-OS also supports any application written to any OS, from legacy Windows applications to modern distributed applications that run...
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VDC-OS aims to help businesses pool hardware resources -- servers, storage and network -- into an aggregated on-premises cloud, and to move workloads to external clouds for additional computing capacity when needed.
"The first 10 years of VMware were about enabling customers to build out dynamic and efficient virtual infrastructure that delivered high levels of flexibility and resiliency," said Paul Maritz, president and CEO of VMware. "The next generation of innovative technologies in the Virtual Datacenter OS will enable companies to realize the promise of enterprise cloud computing -- where applications are automatically guaranteed the right quality of service at the lowest TCO by harnessing internal and external computing capacity."
A Three-Pronged Virtualization Approach
VDC-OS aims to expand virtual infrastructure in three ways. VMware said the first track delivers a set of infrastructure services to aggregate servers, storage and networks as a pool of on-premise cloud resources and allocates them to applications that need them most. The second track delivers a set of application services to deliver availability, security and scalability to all applications -- independent of the operating system, development frameworks, or architecture on which they were built to run.
Finally, VMware said, the VDC-OS delivers a set of cloud services to facilitate computing capacity between the on-premises and off-premises clouds. VMware is stressing the difference between its VDC-OS and traditional operating systems. While the traditional OS is optimized for a single server and supports only applications written to its interfaces, VDC-OS, by contrast, serves as the OS for the entire data center. VDC-OS also supports any application written to any OS, from legacy Windows applications to modern distributed applications that run...
More... (http://www.toptechnews.com/story.xhtml?story_id=61935)