VMware Trying to Realize Value with Cloud Ecosystem
Virtualization giant VMware has been expanding into new fields recently, notably into the platform-as-a-service market with its open-source Cloud Foundry offering. Cloud Foundry is based in part of technology the company bought as a part of a 2009 deal to acquire SpringSource for $420 million, but the consensus is that the company still has a long to go before it could realize the value of the acquisition. Chief Paul Martiz confirmed that during VMware’s Q2 earnings call:
“.. as well as we continue to invest in the Spring Framework and the combination of the Spring Framework with Cloud Foundry. But I think it would be fair to say we’re still plowing the ground there. And we expect those investments to pay off well over the longer term, but we’re still in the development phases of the market.”
InfoWorld’s Savio Rodrihus claims that while the Spring Framework does have potential to position Cloud Foundry a step ahead of a few of its current competitors, that’s mostly untapped potential at the time. VMware is working on that though, with a recent series of steps that are aimed at significantly increase the product’s developer base and marketability.
Earlier this week, the company announced an agreement with Canonical. The latter will now ship the upcoming version of Ubuntu with built-in Cloud Foundry tools, reaching to millions of new developers. On top of that the company also teamed up with Dell, EnStratus and Opscode to be able to offer customers an installer, automation scripts, and trigger wider-scale adoption of its platform.
EMC’s virtualization subsidiary is very focused on making partnerships, and we’ve been covering those closely. Yesterday data security software developer IdentityLogix debuted SpyLogix for VMware, becoming one of the latest vendors to add support for vCenter.
The company is expanding not only it’s partner base. It plans on tripling the size of its Palo Alto headquarters to a massive the 1.5 million-square-foot campus by 2015, which will also double the number employees working on-site to 6,000.
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