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VMWare has acquired WaveMaker, the result of discussions that have been going on between the latter and the SpringSource division of VMware for more than a year.
WaveMaker is based on the Spring framework but targets a different audience: non-expert developers looking for the easiest way to build web apps.
All of WaveMaker’s staff will be joining VMware.
Open Kernel Labs (OK Labs), provider of embedded virtualization software for smartphones, tablets, and other connected devices, and Galois, a technology transition company specializing in software security, safety, privacy and performance, today announced a technology partnership to create and commercialize ultra-secure and trustworthy systems for communications, data processing, and control.
The outcome of OK Labs and Galois collaboration will have broad horizontal impact, augmenting the security of systems in applications from software-defined radio to financial services, and medical and mobile/wireless devices.
Building on original research by Galois and by OK Labs incubation partner NICTA (National ICT Australia) on the OKL4 Verified platform for mission-critical applications, Galois and OK Labs support high levels of assurance, correctness and risk management for government agencies and contractors, device OEMs, network operators, software developers and integrators.
VMware last week announced the availability of a VMware View Client for iPad on the Apple App Store. Free of charge, the app enables iPad users to access their virtual Windows desktops, applications and data from anywhere.
VMware View is a virtual desktop solution that enables enterprises to improve security and lower operating costs, while simplifying desktop administration and management by establishing a modern, end-user computing architecture.
Support for the iPad Keyboard Dock and Bluetooth keyboards makes text input even easier while the iPad VGA connector allows you to connect to an external monitor. VMware View Client for iPad supports iOS 4.2 and iOS 4.3.
IBM recently announced a $38M investment in a new IBM Asia Pacific Cloud Computing Data Center in Singapore, which will provide businesses with solutions and services to harness the potential of cloud computing.
The new facility will extend IBM’s globally-integrated cloud delivery network with centres in Germany, Canada and the United States; and 13 global cloud labs, of which seven are based in Asia Pacific – China, India, Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Vietnam and Singapore.
Scheduled to launch in April, the Centre will make available IBM’s cloud services and technology portfolio via the company’s cloud delivery infrastructure. T
hese services are designed to enable clients to reap the benefits of business and IT transformation; increase flexibility and agility; accelerate time to market; reduce costs; and increase security and compliance of public cloud environments.
The first offering to be available at the IBM Asia Pacific Cloud Computing Data Centre will be from IBM’s infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud portfolio.
It helps enterprises reduce operational costs; eliminate capital outlays; improve cycle times for faster time-to-market; and improve quality with virtually instant, secure access to a standardized infrastructure as a service environment.
Red Hat has announced the availability of JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 5.1, which includes new extensions for data services integration.
JBoss Enterprise Data Services Platform 5.1, a superset of JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 5.1, is an open source data virtualization and integration platform that includes tools to create data services out of multiple data stores with different formats, presenting information to applications and business processes in an easy-to-use service.
These data services become reusable assets across the enterprise and value chain, increasing return on data assets, enabling faster time-to-solution and driving better business execution.
JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 5.1 includes:
– Apache CXF web services stack
– JBoss Developer Studio 4.0, which features updated SOA tooling for ESB and data virtualization
– A technology preview of WS-BPEL, which delivers service orchestration
– A technology preview of Apache Camel Gateway, which is a popular enterprise integration pattern framework that brings an expanded set of adapters to JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform
– Updated certifications (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Windows 2008, IBM, JDK and more)
Along with JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 5.1, Red Hat is offering a new two-day training course, JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform – ESB Implementation, which is focused on developing and deploying ESB providers and services using JBoss Developer Studio and JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform.
VMware, has announced a strategy and a new solution to simplify and automate how IT organizations manage services in dynamic virtual and cloud environments. VMware vCenter Operations will help customers transform IT operations to achieve the agility and economics of cloud computing.
VMware vSphere has helped thousands of companies transform their datacenters, simplifying many core systems management functions, such as resource allocation and load balancing, by building them into the virtualization platform.
VMware’s management strategy is to further simplify IT by integrating performance, capacity and configuration management and applying analytics to help customers achieve the degree of automation required to operate a cloud environment.
vCenter Operations will be tightly integrated with VMware vSphere. It will analyze the millions of data points systems produce in real-time to get to the information that matters and visually present it in a simple, actionable way through dashboards. This means infrastructure and operations teams will have the intelligence they need to make fast, informed operational decisions.
vCenter Operations is designed as a set of products and solutions that will bring together the performance, capacity and configuration management capabilities VMware has developed and acquired, including VMware vCenter CapacityIQ, VMware vCenter Configuration Manager and Integrien Alive.
vCenter Operations will be available in three editions to meet the needs of customers managing both VMware vSphere-virtualized and physical environments.
The first versions of these editions will be available in late Q1 with prices starting at $50 per VM.
vCenter Operations will be available through VMware sales and via VMware’s more than 25,000 channel partners.