VMWare and its enemies
Gemstone is the latest in a series of moves to woo developers to VMWare platform.
VMware has maintained its lead in both
virtualisation technology and market. Nevertheless, being a
‘one-product company’ – a contentious label – how will it battle
the threat from open source and bundled-in virtualisation
software?
Sam Dean at OStatic says free
hypervisor is just the beginning of the
virtualization walk. Given the complexity of the task
– managing thousands of virtual servers and their workloads –
CIOs need more help to complete their virtualisation
journey. And that is precisely what VMware is focused
on offering.
VMware already offers an impressive suite of
management software. Its recent acquisition of Gemstone is the
latest in the series of moves to woo developers to build
value-added software to make VMWare platform more
appealing.
Sam says ‘VMware remains a software story to watch. We
would add, the virtualisation story is still unfolding as other
vendors move in to target third party developers as well.