Today at
VMworld 2010 Europe, VMware, Inc., the global leader in
virtualization and cloud infrastructure, continued to expand its strategy for
modern cloud application platforms, announcing a new product and partnership
details to help enterprises address the specific demands of modern
applications.
This expanding strategy supports the VMware vision for IT as a Service.
Introduced at VMworld 2010 in San Francisco, IT as a Service is the
transformation of IT to a more business-centric approach, focusing on outcomes
such as operational efficiency, competitiveness and rapid response. This means
IT shifts from producing IT services to optimizing production and consumption of
those services in ways consistent with business requirements. This will change
the role of IT from a cost center to a center of strategic value.
“Principles that have defined today’s most demanding consumer applications –
built-in scalability, new data models, distributed infrastructures – are heavily
influencing the production of new applications serving the enterprise,” said Rod
Johnson, senior vice president and general manager, Cloud Application Platforms,
VMware. “These modern applications need to support dynamic user interactions,
low-latency data access and virtual infrastructure all while meeting the
security and compliance demands of the enterprise. VMware vFabric™ is
specifically focused on enabling developers to build and run modern cloud
applications to maximize application performance, quality of service and
resource utilization.”
The VMware vFabric cloud application platform, announced in August at VMworld
2010 in San Francisco, is uniquely optimized for cloud computing’s increasingly
dynamic architectures. VMware vFabric combines the industry-leading Spring Java
development framework with platform services including lightweight application
server, global data management, cloud-ready messaging, dynamic load balancing
and application performance management. Applications built on VMware vFabric
will provide performance and portability across heterogeneous cloud
environments. Today, VMware continues to advance this strategy, announcing:
- New CSC Partnership to Deliver Hosted VMware vFabric Infrastructure
for Business Critical Applications - CSC today announced it will
deliver a hosted, global VMware vFabric service, enabling enterprises to deploy
modern Java applications in a secure, enterprise-class cloud environment. This
agreement affirms Spring as a standard framework for Java applications and
provides CSC with a standard approach for their global customers who are
transforming legacy business applications for the cloud. CSC will enable the
deployment of Spring applications to a dedicated VMware vFabric platform and
will be assessing the potential use of VMware vFabric Hyperic in the monitoring
and performance management of these Spring applications.
“The development community has broadly chosen the Spring Framework for the
development of Java applications due to the core tenets of productivity and
application portability,” said Siki Giunta, vice president of Cloud Computing
and Hosting Services at CSC. “As organizations move business processes to the
cloud, they identify applications that will be transformed to support these
processes. It was clear to us early on that they need a simple, secure and
managed infrastructure upon which to run those applications. We’re aiming to
fill that gap by providing organizations with a cloud destination for their
Spring applications.”
- New VMware vFabric GemFire 6.5 advances new data model for cloud
applications
VMware today announced the availability of VMware
vFabric GemFire 6.5, enabling developers to more rapidly build applications that
take advantage of the GemFire data model while also extending this powerful data
architecture to a broader set of enterprise applications and use cases. VMware
vFabric GemFire was originally architected for the most demanding,
data-intensive environments, including complex financial services and federal
systems. With VMware vFabricGemFire 6.5, VMware is for the first time extending
this sophisticated distributed data management model to mainstream enterprise
applications, enabling enterprises to more effectively build and deploy
cloud-based applications with dynamic scalability and high-performance data
access. Integration with the Spring Framework, the popular Java framework,
enables developers to quickly build applications that take advantage of the
GemFire distributed data management. This integration greatly simplifies the
task of writing applications that take advantage of modern architectures
increasingly common in cloud environments.
Additional performance enhancements in VMware vFabric GemFire 6.5 enable
faster data throughput via simultaneous transactions executed across the data
fabric as well as database-like persistence, increasing the performance and
reliability of in-memory data. New packaging options will enable enterprises to
better match a range of capabilities to the specific needs of enterprise
applications while scaling to increased performance as applications grow.
VMware vFabric GemFire 6.5 is available now. Additional details are available
here.
Pricing and Availability
VMware vFabric GemFire 6.5 is
available now. Additional information will be available during a Webinar on Oct.
14 that will examine how GemFire delivers dramatic gains in speed and
performance and faster and easier development of data-intensive apps. For more
information on the Webinar, please go here.