VMware’s vCloud Iniatives. The vision for the next 10 years
September 16th, 2008 | 
Author: Paul Maritz spoke during the opening General Session of Partner Day Monday morning and provided a better understanding about Vmware’s vCloud initiative and the concept of evolving it’s current VI 3.5 products into the VDC-OS of the future announced Sunday night. Paul is scheduled to expand on this vision in greater detail during Tuesday’s VMworld 2008 kick off Key Note Session, but here is a high level outline of my understanding of Paul’s talk.
VMware’s vision for the Next 10 years is focused on 3 key initiatives:
- The Internal Cloud – efficient use of applications and hardware
- The VDC-OS will create the Internal Cloud by providing a framework for infrastructure vServices and application vServices to form a new software platform.
- Applications must evolve into vApps, or a collection of virtual appliances.
- VMware needs the help of it’s technology partners to transform current virtual infrastructure into the vCloud
- Scale outside the Firewall – federation with the cloud
- Once applications are readily available as vApps, the applications loads can be hosted or provided by external service provider partners running the VDC-OS.
- There are already over 100 service provider partners already today. Two of the big names mentioned were Verizon and Sunguard
- People and Info-centric – the desktop delimma
- The vCloud will enable desktops to follow users
- Paul mentioned the concept of installing an application to a person and not a computer
- future VDI technologies will enable an offline desktop that can be downloaded to a user’s physical computer and then replicate changes back to the cloud.
- A Universal vClient would enable a virtual desktop to be loaded on to any operating system or even a bare metal system.
- This requires the combination of both client side and server side virtualization technologies (VMware ESX and VirtualCenter working to manage Workstation and Fusion VMs for example)
I plan to be live blogging from the opening Keynote Session session so look for more information then.
Official Vmware press release
VMware Announces the Next Generation of Virtualization – the Virtual Datacenter Operating System (VDC-OS)
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