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VMware’s Project Pacific Integrates Kubernetes with vSphere
VMware announced Project Pacific, a re-architected version of vSphere, which embeds the Kubernetes control plane inside it. It aims to provide uniform management of containers and virtual machines in vSphere installations.
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Octant: Local and Real-Time Dashboard for Kubernetes Workloads
VMware has open-sourced Octant, a tool to help developers understand how their applications are running in a Kubernetes cluster. Developers can graphically visualize Kubernetes objects dependencies, forward local ports to a running pod, inspect pod logs, and navigate through different clusters. Moreover, users can extend Octant’s capabilities by installing or authoring a plugin.
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Google and VMware Establish Partnership, Enabling VMware Migrations to Google Cloud Platform
In a recent blog post, Google announced support for running VMware vSphere-based workloads in Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This capability is enabled through a partner solution by CloudSimple and leverages VMware’s software-defined data center (SDCC) technologies. Using this approach organizations can bridge their GCP cloud computing investments with their existing VMware investments.
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Bringing VMware Environments to Azure, Microsoft and VMWare Establish Partnership
At the recent Dell Technologies World conference, Microsoft and VMware announced an expanded partnership that enables certified VMware cloud infrastructure to run in Microsoft Azure. The Microsoft first party capability is made possible through a solution provided by CloudSimple, a VMware certified partner, and officially is called Azure VMware Solution by CloudSimple.
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Microsoft Releases More Azure Stack Details, Available September
At the recent Microsoft Inspire partner conference, Microsoft announced Azure Stack is now available for order and will ship as soon as September. Azure Stack is a private cloud implementation of Microsoft’s public Azure cloud. Unlike other private cloud providers, Microsoft is offering Azure Stack as a consumption-based service, similar to its public cloud counterpart.
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Hazelcast Version 3.6 Features Performance Improvements and Cloud Management
Hazelcast has released version 3.6 of their flagship in-memory grid and caching software, featuring numerous performance improvements and new cloud management and container deployment options.
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VMware Open Source 'Photon Controller' Infrastructure Control Plane at DockerCon EU
At DockerCon EU 2015, VMware made available their Photon Controller as an open source product via the organisation’s GitHub account. The Photon Controller is a component within VMware’s Photon platform that is designed as an infrastructure stack optimised for ‘container and cloud’ workloads. The platform offers an API-first user experience, a scalable control plane, and native container support.
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Pivotal Open Sources Their Big Data Suite
Pivotal has decided to open source core components of their Big Data Suite and has announced the Open Data Platform, an initiative promoting open source and standardization for Big Data.
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VMware Launches Integrated OpenStack Distribution
VMware’s own distribution of OpenStack, VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO) is launched at a press event in San Francisco.
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VMware Will Offer Google Cloud Services and Rackspace Offers vCloud
Cloud vendors are combining their strengths to provide extra services for their customers. The latest developments include VMware offering Google BigQuery and Rackspace building private dedicate vCloud’s.
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vCloud Air Gets Disaster Recovery, Pay-Per-Use and Advanced Networking Services
VMware has announced the availability of enhanced disaster recovery, advanced networking services and on-demand pricing of its hybrid cloud platform.
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VMware Expands vCloud Air to Australia and Japan
VMware’s hybrid cloud service, vCloud Air will be available in Australia from early 2015. The Japan region that was launched in July this year is generally available in the coming weeks.
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VMware Revealed a Push Toward Cloud and Open Source at Its Recent VMworld 2014 Conference
At the VMworld 2014 conference, VMware announced that they will deliver an OpenStack product, VMware Integrated OpenStack, using VMware software components for storage, networking and management.
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Docker 1.0 Released at DockerCon
Docker.io have used their inaugural DockerCon event to launch version 1.0 of their container management tools. It comes just days after the release of 0.12.0, which was focussed on stability, performance and usability rather than introducing significant new features. Production readiness means that Docker.io is now providing support services for Docker.
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AWS Management Portal for VMware vCenter
Amazon Web Services (AWS) have announced a Management Portal plugin for VMware’s vCenter. The plugin allows public cloud EC2 instances to be managed alongside of private VMware instances using the same administration console. The aim of the plugin is to make it simple for VMware customers to build hybrid clouds that span from their private environments to Amazon’s public services.