VMware: OpenStack, Docker, Open Compute Project Support Announced
Some of the tech industry’s biggest and brightest companies, including Google and IBM, have taken to running software in containers, a kind of hyper-compressed way to package up an app and get it running at scale without relying on virtual machines or the software licenses to run and manage them. At the same time, buzz has been building around the OpenStack open source cloud project for years, with customers beginning to talk about replacing at least part of their VMware cloud infrastructure with free-as-in-beer code.
So it’s both surprising and sensible that VMware used its first-day keynote session at this year’s VMworld event in San Francisco to announce partnerships with the much-hyped open source container startup Docker, as well as the more established container players at Google and VMware spin-off Pivotal, to open the wide world of containerization to its many enterprise users. On the infrastructure side, VMware has issued its own distro of OpenStack with deeper hooks into the VMware architecture.
Details are still slim on the OpenStack front — basically, we know it exists, but there’s not much discussion on what would make it a compelling investment (of time, if not money) for an enterprise IT team looking to deploy a cloud platform, apart from the promise of strong interoperability with the rest of the VMware stack.
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