Friday, March 6, 2009

VMWare Cloud Computing Initiative

VMware has released its new Virtual Data Center Operating System (VDC-OS), software that creates an on-demand computing capability integrating computers, storage devices, and networking equipment.

"Virtualization," the ability to partition storage so more apps can  be run on fewer servers, used to be a topic computing staffs and storage suppliers were interested in. These days, it is beginning to be interesting on a wider scale, to more enterprises, developers, content, software and service providers because of the way whole computing infrastructures now are capable of "virtualization."

The software, due later in 2009, reflects VMware's push into cloud computing, essentially a virtualized data center. By making the leap, VMware joins Microsoft, Google and Amazon.com as providers of cloud computing infrastructure. 

The world's next generation of software may well hinge, in large part, on use of cloud-based computing, especially for high-volume Web-based applications. 

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