VMware says: Cloud computing is not going to get out of virtualization

Preeti Somal, vice president of VMware Research and Development, says cloud computing allows users to access configuration services through Third-party infrastructure without using their own systems, thereby saving users a lot of cost. Preeti Somal, vice president of VMware Research and Development, says cloud computing allows users to access configuration services through Third-party infrastructure without using their own systems. This technology concept because of the shared infrastructure and flexibility, so that users save a lot of costs.

She stressed, however, that cloud computing lacked a bit of standard because of the complexity of the users and the cost of exchange involved in migrating to another vendor environment. Each cloud manufacturer has its own different mode of application. The unique, vertical integration stack limits the user's choice. To address the problem of standardization, VMware introduced the Open Virtualization model (open Virutalization format,ovf), a distributed pattern packaged with various virtual modes. It can provide users with more portability and platform independence.

VMware is a "Virtual PC" software that allows you to run two or more windows, DOS, and Linux systems on a single machine. VMware uses a completely different concept than the multiple boot system. Multi-boot system can only run one system at a time, it needs to reboot the machine in the system switching. VMware is really "at the same time" running, and multiple operating systems are on the primary system platform, switching like standard Windows applications. And each operating system you can perform virtual partitions, configuration without affecting the real hard disk data, you can even through the network card to a few virtual machines with a network card connected to a LAN, extremely convenient. Installed on VMware operating system performance is much lower than the system directly installed on the hard drive, so it is more suitable for learning and testing.

Service providers play an important role in VMware's plans. "For us, the goal is to give service providers a layer of software that can migrate to cloud computing," says Somal. "In addition, VMware wants enterprise IT technicians to be able to migrate applications to a cloud environment without making any changes."

VMware launched their Vcloud technology for cloud computing. Vcloud is an API layer that provides APIs to develop tools. Also, the pricing patterns that users involve when migrating to or migrating Izumo environments and data centers are also very simplified. She also showcased the roadmap for the development of VMware Cloud services. The roadmap shows that more than 100 service providers are currently using VMware's virtual infrastructure, and that future VMware will also develop enterprise-class cloud services, hosting services, and management services.

The roadmap has a Vcloud child service--vcloud API that will be launched in 2009. VMware is currently developing a number of virtual applications and can be mobile, continuous management of vapp applications. Solutions include disaster recovery, infrastructure as services (infrastructure as A service), and resilient capacity. The third part of the roadmap is the optimized Vcloud service, which will be part of the VMware vcenter with integrated management capabilities between pre-installed cloud architectures and open clouds. These applications will be integrated into the Vcloud distributed architecture.

Rackspace Senior architect Erik Carlin says security issues are a focus of cloud computing. A recent survey of CIOs about cloud computing shows that the CIO's biggest concern about cloud computing technology is security. "Security is an interesting factor, and there are many other issues when you use shared architectures," said Peter Nickolov, president and chief technology officer of 3tera. But the security problem cannot be solved yet. ”

Cloud computing may mean that two competitors ' data is stored on the same computer, Carlin said. Hypervisor can commit to a range of acceptable security in the cloud environment. Cloud environments provide high speed and agility for configuration because they do not require advance planning. Nickolov that in the next five months, more vendors will launch cloud services and high-performance applications, but also possible to achieve global share.

But experts also emphasize the role of virtualization here. Steve Herrod, VMware's chief technology officer, mentions that the scalability and related requirements of cloud computing are actually dependent on separating the application from the underlying architecture you're using, and that's the role virtualization plays. "I don't think cloud computing can be nickolov out of virtualization," he says. "Carlin that virtualization is important for architecture clouds like Amzon Web service, but it's less important to extend applications across multiple servers."