New releases from F5, VMware collaboration

Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: EnterpriseIn a development collaboration with VMware, application delivery networking provider, F5 Networks, has flagged its intention to integrate its Big-IP products by leveraging the new VMwareReady for networking and security program.

Virtualization kingpin VMware (NYSE: VMW) has opened its Ready solutions validation program to networking and security suppliers, adding to eight other existing product categories for which the vendor stamps third-party offerings as certified and optimized for its vSphere and View platforms.

VMware (NYSE: VMW) added more heft to its vision of the software-defined data center with a $30 million investment in Puppet Labs, developer of software for system administrators to automate IT tasks across compute, storage and networking in multivendor, heterogeneous virtual and cloud environments. The companies also hammered out a strategic partnership under which the two will work together to d

VMware’s buyout of Nicira could position the virtualization giant against Cisco Systems and Insieme, The VAR Guy believes.

VMware (NYSE: VMW) has launched a Cloud Applications Marketplace, which provides partners and customers with downloadable application blueprints, reference architectures and other guidance for deploying public or private cloud solutions.

Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Cloud ServicesGlobal application delivery networking provider, F5 Networks, has released its network visualisation solution for Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V, giving users the flexibility to use the BIG-IP platform to deploy network services in cloud-driven data centres built on Hyper-V.

Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Cloud ServicesVirtualisation and cloud infrastructure vendor, VMware, has opened its new, national Australian headquarters in Sydney, more than seven years after the company first started operating in Australia.

VMware CEO Paul Maritz and his successor, Pat Gelsinger, will take center stage at VMworld on Aug. 27. Joined by CTO Steve Herrod, the trio is expected to describe how VMware (NYSE: VMW) will push beyond traditional virtualization to power next-generation data centers. The goal: Virtualize servers, storage and networking while empowering customers for cloud computing.

This week's open source cloud news shows more signs that open source adoption and the open source mindset are gaining momentum in the cloud. VMware, for example, this week announced new support for Amazon EC2.