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Virtacore Debuts VMware vCloud Express, An On-Demand Self-Service Cloud Offering

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Virtacore Systems, provider of hybrid cloud services, has announced the availability of the company’s vCloud Express offering. The public cloud solution, based on VMware vCloud technology, provides virtual servers from a shared resource pool for a low monthly cost.

One of only two global providers to offer vCloud Express, Virtacore vCloud Express provides organizations with an on-demand, pay-as-you-go infrastructure that meets the needs of organizations seeking a flexible and affordable infrastructure.

Verizon Completes Acquisition Of Terremark

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Verizon recently closed its previously announced acquisition of Terremark, clearing the way for the former company to lead the global managed IT infrastructure and cloud services market.

The acquisition was completed via a short-form merger under Delaware law; therefore, no Terremark shareholder vote was required.

Terremark will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of Verizon.

Terremark, which will continue to be based in Miami, will help fuel overall Verizon growth by accelerating the company’s strategy to provide “everything-as-a-service” to business and government customers globally.

Socialtext Unleashes New Virtual Appliance Built For VMware

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Socialtext, an enterprise social software provider, recently announced the addition of a new deployment option that enables customers to run Socialtext on VMware.

In a targeted effort to help IT leaders leverage virtualization investments inside their private cloud environments, Socialtext released the Socialtext Virtual Appliance. This new offering provides organizations with the ability to install social software securely behind the firewall and easily scale server resources as their use of Socialtext expands.

The virtual appliance adds to a rich set of deployment options offered by Socialtext. The company’s enterprise social software platform can be hosted in the cloud (single or multi-tenant), or on premises as a private cloud (a hardware appliance and, as of today, a virtual appliance).

VMware Debuts Cloud Foundry, An Open PaaS

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VMware recently delivered Cloud Foundry, according to the company the industry’s first open Platform as a Service (PaaS) and a new generation of application platform, architected specifically for cloud computing environments and delivered as a service from enterprise datacenters and public cloud service providers.

Cloud Foundry streamlines the development, delivery and operations of modern applications, significantly enhancing the ability of developers to deploy, run and scale their applications in cloud environments while embracing the widest choice of public and private clouds, industry-standard high productivity developer frameworks and application infrastructure services.

VMware introduced a new VMware-operated developer cloud service, a new open source PaaS project and a “Micro Cloud” PaaS solution.

Cloud Foundry supports popular, high productivity programming frameworks, including Spring for Java, Ruby on Rails, Sinatra for Ruby and Node.js, as well as support for other JVM-based frameworks including Grails. The open architecture will enable additional programming frameworks to be rapidly supported in the future.

For application services, Cloud Foundry will initially support the MongoDB, MySQL and Redis databases with planned support for VMware vFabric services.

Cloud Foundry is not tied to any single cloud environment, nor does it require a VMware infrastructure to operate.

IDC: The Path To The Cloud Is Laid By The Foundation Of Virtualization

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According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Server Virtualization Tracker, 19.4% of all new servers shipped in the fourth quarter of 2010 (4Q10) were virtualized, an increase from 18.4% in the fourth quarter of 2009.

New server shipments virtualized in 4Q10 increased to 398,617 units, with the majority of the growth coming from emerging regions.

And after declining 4% year over year in 2009, new server shipments virtualized experienced 28% year-over-year growth for the full year 2010. Virtualized server end user spending increased 23.3% year over year in 4Q10 and 13.5% for all of 2010, reaching $16.8 billion for the year.

Worldwide virtualization software revenue for all CPU types increased 36% year over year in 4Q10 to $877 million, due to the maturation of virtualization usage which mandates higher value virtualization software management tools. Virtualization licenses increased 13% year over year and 32% for all of 2010.

Joyent, Nexenta Announce Strategic Cloud Computing Partnership

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Joyent, global provider of cloud computing solutions, and Nexenta, OpenStorage solutions company, recently announced a strategic partnership that provides service providers with an end-to-end cloud services and storage solution.

With the partnership agreement, Joyent’s SmartDataCenter 6, an integrated suite of software and services, and Nexenta’s NexentaStor, the world’s leading open storage solution that provides enterprise grade features like de-duplication, thin-provisioning, compression, unlimited scalability, inherent virtualization and data protection, come together to deliver a turnkey offering to service providers.

SmartDataCenter 6 includes cloud analytics that give real-time visibility throughout the software stack and stored data into latency or other problems that can be addressed before downtime or outages occur.