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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.
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.
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.
NetEx, a company providing a software-only WAN Optimization solution, and VMware have announced the availability of a free annual subscription for the HyperIP virtual appliance software through the VMware Virtual Appliance Marketplace (VAM, which features more than 1,500 appliances spanning the areas of security, content and collaboration, infrastructure, databases and networking.
Qualified VAM users of replication and backup applications are eligible for a maximum of two free annual subscriptions of the 2Mb/s HyperIP (VM edition), a virtual appliance that improves the performance of moving large amounts of data across a WAN.
Downloads of the HyperIP virtual appliance are available from the VMware VAM website and require a VAM login. The free download program is offered until the end of the year.
NetEx’s HyperIP is a software-only, virtualization-ready WAN optimization solution, ideal for moving large data sets across WANs securely, swiftly and seamlessly.
The full version of HyperIP supports long-distance data transfers at up to 800 Mb/s, the highest performance of any WAN optimization solution on the market, and 25 to more than 100 percent faster than competitive products. Transfer speed is optimized for the full range of data management applications, including backup & remote replication and business continuance/disaster recovery (BC/DR).
VMware‘s board has authorized a $550 million Class A common stock repurchase plan that will extend through the end of 2012, the company said Monday.
The company said the stock will be purchased in the open market or through private transactions, subject to market conditions.VMware expects the equity purchase program to help offset dilution from its equity programs.
VMware also said its current $400 million stock repurchase program, originally announced in March 2010, will be completed in March 2011.
Virtacore Systems this morning announced that founder and CTO Tom Kiblin has been appointed to the VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP) Advisory Group.
The VMware VSPP Advisory Group will work with VMware to help further the VSPP program, product, licensing and marketing plans.
Virtacore is a Premier-level VMware service provider.
The group will be holding its inaugural meeting at the 2011 VMware Partner Exchange, being held February 8-11, 2011 in Orlando, Florida.