It is official: cloud computing is coming to the enterprise. Is coming fast and with lots of players. Today, EMC announced its first first cloud infrastructure offering, an information management solution designed to help customers automatically manage and optimize the distribution of information across global, cloud storage environments. See the press release here. The software can either be purchased by itself and run on virtualized servers with VMware’s hypervisor, or it can be purchased with EMC’s own hardware, which combines x86 servers with high-capacity SATA drives.
Who else is releasing cloud computing on premises? Maybe Microsoft?
Talking about VMware, probably you already heard about vCloud, the next Generation of Virtualization: Virtual Datacenter Operating System. Here’s the press release. CDW, Checkpoint, Cisco, Dell, EMC, Intel, NEC, Rackspace and many others are partnering with VMware to provide various, on premises cloud computing solutions.
HP, Intel and Yahoo teamed up this summer for the creation of a global, multi-data center, open source test bed for the advancement of cloud computing research and education, and there should be no surprise HP will release their own “on premises cloud solution” or “internal cloud” next year.
We also hear that second half next year, Microsoft will announce their own Windows Azure on Premises solution, they’re already working with hardware manufactures (we know DELL for sure, but there are more). After the release of Windows Azure, the new Cloud Operating System at PDC this year (press release here), Microsoft is following their business plan to offer what they do best - software - to enterprises.
The “cloud” is the new buzzword around town. Remember what Ray Ozzie said about cloud computing at the release of Windows Azure: “Whether Windows, UNIX, Linux or the Mac, most of today’s systems and most of today’s apps are deeply, deeply rooted in a scale-up past, but the systems that we’re building right now for cloud-based computing are setting the stage for the next 50 years of systems, both outside and inside the enterprise.“
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