Pivotal’s Surprising Goals with ViPR, Open Source at #EMCworld – Breaking Analysis
EMC World 2013 is in full swing at The Venetian in Las Vegas and today, and the company shed more light to Pivotal, EMC and VMware’s brainchild.
Pivotal is the combination of EMC assets such as the Greenplum division and Pivotal labs, as well as other VMware products. Pivotal was created as a separate entity and became its own independent company last April 1, throwing its coming out party when GE announced its $105 million investment. The investment aims to make sense of all the Big Data accumulated by GE in the company’s long-term efforts to industrialize the internet.
But will Pivotal play a vital role in the just-announced ViPR and what does it mean for EMC’s other products and services?
Joining Kristin Feledy in this morning’s NewsDesk is Wikibon Principal Research Contributor Jeff Kelly with his Breaking Analysis on the implications of ViPR to Pivotal and vice versa.
“One of the things they’re going to be focused on is building a platform to allow enterprises and service providers to build applications that take advantage of what he’s calling ‘big, fast data’.
“He also mentioned that they are going to make the Pivotal platform compatible with any number of cloud providers, of course VMware being one. But he also mentioned Amazon Web Services, Google and OpenStack.”
Kelly notes this as an interesting detail, considering early speculation expected Pivotal to focus on VMware, keeping things close to the growing EMC “federation.”
EMC isn’t known for being particularly open, so why bend the rules with Pivotal?
“What [EMC recognizes] is, right from the top of Pivotal, CEO Paul Maritz, was that in order to gain mass adoption that really builds market share, they’ve got to embrace all the places where enterprises want to build Big Data applications.”
As for another member of the EMC “federation,” Greenplum will still be supported as a stand alone product, but not a platform sold in isolation since it’s a huge part of Pivotal, Kelly notes.
For more of Kelly’s Breaking Analysis regarding EMC’s Pivotal, check out the NewsDesk video below:
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