Going to the Cloud - Cloud in Education

A very good Infographic that looks at how schools and colleges are adopting 'the cloud' and how Adobe, IBM, Microsoft, and Google are responding with their respective cloud suites for educators.

From: OnlineColleges.net

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What's new in VMware vSphere 5.1

Today VMware announced vSphere 5.1. This posting will give an overview of the most interesting new features.

vSphere 5.1 will be available September 11 2012 !!

Some highlights are as follows:

• Paul Maritz steps down as CEO after leading the company for 4 years. His successor is Pat Gelsinger
• VMware is focused on building the architecture for Cloud Computing which is called the Software Defined Datacenter
• vCloud Suite is announced, consisting of:
  • vSphere
  • vCloud Director
  • vCloud Networking and Security
  • Site Recovery Manager
  • vCenter Operations Manager
  • vFabric Application Director
  • vCloud API’s
  • vCloud Connector
  • vCenter Orchestrator

vSphere 5.1 is announced

vCloud Director 5.1 is announced

vCloud Networking and Security 5.1 is announced

vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.1 is announced

vRAM is no more! VMware will use a priced per CPU model

Cloud Ops, a new operating model for IT

Monster VMs will get bigger: 64 virtual CPUs and 1 million IOPS...per VM

Enhanced vMotion: Live migration without the need of shared storage!

New virtualized storage options

Create secure and logical networks using the new vCloud Networking & Security suite and VXLAN

vSphere 5.1 contains a full featured browser based vSphere Client, the Web Client

The vCloud Director interface is now vSphere Web Client style

The vSphere Web Client now offers great extensibility options for 3rd party vendors

Use vFabric Application Director for deploying complex applications

Existing vSphere Enterprise Plus customers will get a free upgrade to the vCloud Suite

VMware recently acquired Nicira, a company that virtualizes networking

More detailed information on all these announcements follow below:

VMware changed the features in the vSphere editions. The features below all are available now in Standard Edition as well.

SURPRISE !! VMware Will Join OpenStack

Never say never. VMware is about to join the OpenStack Foundation, a group initially backed by other industry giants as a counterweight to VMware’s server virtualization dominance. Intel and NEC are also on deck to join as Gold OSF members.

Just in time for VMworld, VMware is about to join the OpenStack Foundation as a Gold member, along with Intel and NEC, according to a post on the OpenStack Foundation Wiki. The applications for membership are on the agenda of the August 28 OpenStack Foundation meeting.

A year ago, a VMware-OpenStack hookup would have been seen as unlikely. When Rackspace and NASA launched the OpenStack Project more than two years ago, it was seen as a competitive response to VMware’s server virtualization dominance inside company data centers and to Amazon’s heft in public cloud computing. Many tech companies including but not limited to Rackspace, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Citrix, Red Hat and Microsoft saw VMware as a threat and were bound and determined to keep the company from extending its virtualization lock into the cloud.

But, things change. VMware’s surprise acquisition of Nicira and DynamicOps last month, showed there might be a thaw in the air. For one thing, Nicira is an OpenStack player. By bringing Nicira and DynamicOps into the fold, VMware appeared to be much more willing to work with non-VMware-centric infrastructure, as GigaOM’s Derrick Harris reported at the time.

This is a symbolic coup for OpenStack and its biggest boost since IBM and Red Hat officially joined as Platinum members in April. And it’s especially important since Citrix, a virtualization rival to VMware undercut it’s own OpenStack participation last April by pushing CloudStack as an alternative open source cloud stack.

OpenStack Gold members, which include Cloudscaling, Dell, MorphLabs, Cisco Systems, and NetApp, pay a fee pegged at 0.25 percent of their revenue — at least $50,000 but capped at $200,000 according to the foundation wiki. (VMware’s fee will be $66,666, according to the application, submitted by VMware CTO Steve Herrod, which is linked on the wiki post.) Platinum members — AT&T, Canonical, HP, Rackspace, IBM, Nebula, Red Hat, and SUSE – pay $500,000 per year with a 3-year minimum commitment.

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Original Source : Gigaom.com

Introduction to Virtualisation - VMware

This video webcast is designed to help those with little to no virtualization experience understand why virtualization and VMware are so important to driving down both capital and operational costs


Introduction to Virtualisation - VMware


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SOURCE : Infoworld Newsletter