VMware extends vCloud with self-provisioning, APIs
Posted by amcanty on September 2, 2009
By Carl Brooks, Technology Writer
01 Sep 2009 | SearchCloudComputing.com
“VMware Inc.’s new vCloud Express cloud brokerage service, announced today, was designed to compete head-on in the public cloud market.
The service offers self-service provisioning of virtual machines (VMs) through the company’s vCloud portal to hosting partners. Also at VMworld 2009, the company discussed the general release of its vCloud application programming interface (API), paralleling other public cloud providers like GoGrid, Rackspace and Amazon.
VMware is pitching the vCloud Express service as an inexpensive and efficient way for enterprises that already use VMware virtualization to start extending their deployments into the cloud, with a minimum of pain and suffering and the ability to choose among competing vendors offering VMware cloud services.
“When you hear vCloud Express, think fast and cheap, or fast and cost-effective, I should say,” said VMware CEO Paul Maritz at his VMworld keynote speech, delivered from San Francisco. Maritz said that VMware is releasing its API for vCloud and would strive for broad functionality and acceptance by cloud users, saying the company would hew to as-yet-undetermined standards for cloud computing.
“The vCloud API has been submitted to standards organizations to get a common standard we can all rally behind,” Maritz said. He did not specify which standards bodies those were, but it is likely that the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) will be involved. VMware is a long-time DTMF member.”
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