VMware acquisitions Dynamicops to multiple cloud management

After years of persistence, VMware ultimately offered customers the means to manage Third-party hypervisor, but not because they wanted the customer to run Hyper-V, but as part of their strategy to help their cloud compete.

VMware announced its acquisition of Dynamicops in Monday, a cloud management software vendor that directs a wide range of hypervisor, physical infrastructure, and public cloud services.

For some customers, this message does not make sense, but the big say people think this is gradually white-hot cloud management market competition inevitable result, cloudstack, OpenStack, Red Hat, eucalyptus and other vendors all support a variety of hypervisor.

"Open source, multiple hypervisor, cloud management platforms start to Sprout, VMware has no choice," said John Bythrow, an open Sky company's system and solution engineer, "VMware touts cloud computing on a high-profile stage without providing Vcloud Director's door. "Some people also think that this is the inevitable choice for VMware.

"I think it fits ' if you can't allocate your own market, someone's going to do it for you," said Bob Plankers, a virtual architect at the University of Western America, "and" It's better for VMware to be an infrastructure for some businesses. " ”

The news night marks a change in VMware's posture. Although a bit casual about supporting other hypervisor, such as Microsoft's Hyper-v,vmware CEO Paul Maritz, said last year that vsphere 5 o'clock was released, there were no plans to support multiple hypervisor management. The company has also shown unease about the management of physical infrastructure. Until now, the company has been firmly in the market with complete software products, but these products do not take into account any competitor's products.

Now, VMware admits that at least some of its customers are using hypervisor and cloud infrastructures that are someone else's.

"Many customers tell me that they use other hypervisor for a variety of reasons and they are looking for a variety of hypervisor management solutions," Ramin Sayar in a recent blog about acquisitions, He is the VP and general manager of VMware's cloud infrastructure and management.

Dynamicops is located in Massachusetts, United States and founded in 2008, and VMware has been a two-year partnership, but also Amazon network services, Jie, Microsoft, Red Hat and sun partners. To date, there are 100 clients, including Dow Jones,news Corp., the Internal Revenue service and the investment company man Group.

In another interview, Sayar stressed that VMware "fundamentally believes that the best choice is the standardized vsphere infrastructure," but VMware also provides users with the different management options they choose.

Dynamicops Integrated VMware Tools

VMware will first integrate Dynamicops software, which is based on Microsoft. NET Framework, using Linux based Vcloud Director to provide automation and integration layer policies and a single cloud store across a variety of infrastructure pools, Sayar wrote in the blog.

VMware's Vcloud director has been integrated into Dynamicops through the Vcloud API, but the company will produce the work in the next two quarters, Sayar said. Vcloud orchestrator Integration will be packaged for a large number of sales.

It will then be integrated with Vfabric creator Director, vcenter Operations Manager, and eventually with IP integration.

"Integrating Dynamicops and VMware's core offerings will be an interesting process," says Carl Brooks, 451 research analyst, "and VMware needs to make sure that it does not allow development delays, annoying users, and puts everything together." "The acquisition is expected to end this quarter. Integration will continue into the middle of next year, Sayar said. The financial details of the acquisition have not been disclosed.

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