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Cloud Computing Firm VMware Reports Second Quarter 2010 Results Revenue Growth of 48%
Jul 21st
PALO ALTO, CA, Jul 20, 2010 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — VMware, Inc. (VMW 72.42, -0.93, -1.27%) , the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter to the cloud, today announced financial results for the second quarter 2010:
Revenues for the second quarter were $674 million, an increase of 48%
from the second quarter of 2009.– GAAP operating income for the second quarter was $101 million, an
increase of 166% from the second quarter of 2009. Non-GAAP operating
income for the second quarter was $187 million, an increase of 94%
from the second quarter of 2009.– GAAP net income for the second quarter was $75 million, or $0.18 per
diluted share, compared to $33 million, or $0.08 per diluted share,
for the second quarter of 2009. Non-GAAP net income for the second
quarter was $142 million, or $0.34 per diluted share, compared to $80
million, or $0.20 per diluted share, for the second quarter of 2009.– Cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments as of June 30, 2010
were $2.8 billion, an increase of 21% compared to a year ago. Total
deferred revenues were $1.5 billion, an increase of 58% from the same
period a year ago.– For the trailing twelve months ended June 30, 2010, operating cash
flows were $1.1 billion, an increase of 3% from the same period a year
ago. Trailing twelve month free cash flows were $1.0 billion, an
increase of 33% from the same period a year ago.
US revenues for the second quarter increased 43% to $334 million from the second quarter of 2009. International revenues for the second quarter grew 53% to $340 million from the second quarter of 2009.
License revenues were $324 million, an increase of 42% from the second quarter of 2009. Services revenues, which include software maintenance and professional services, were $350 million, an increase of 54% from the second quarter of 2009.
“Our strong second quarter results were driven by demand across all products and regions,” said Mark Peek, chief financial officer. “For the third quarter, we expect license revenues to be flat sequentially and total revenues to increase to a range of $680 and $705 million. For our 2010 annual revenues, we are raising our guidance to be in the range of $2.725 and $2.8 billion, an increase of 35% to 38% from 2009.”
“We are gratified that customers continue to recognize the value that VMware provides in modernizing infrastructures and providing a pragmatic path to cloud computing,” said Paul Maritz, president and chief executive officer. “As customers continue on this path, they are looking for a strategic partner to help move them forward, and VMware will continue to invest to deliver solutions that enable IT-as-a-service.”
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EMC to Acquire Greenplum – Data warehousing technology provider
Jul 7th
Disruptive Data Warehousing Technology Enables New Era of “Big Data” Clouds and Self-Service Analytics
HOPKINTON, Mass., July 6 /PRNewswire/ — EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), the world’s leading provider of information infrastructure solutions, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire California-based Greenplum, Inc. Greenplum is a privately-held, fast-growing provider of disruptive data warehousing technology, a key enabler of “big data” clouds and self-service analytics. Upon completion of the acquisition, Greenplum will form the foundation of a new data computing product division within EMC’s Information Infrastructure business.
Today, new forms of data — massive amounts of it — are emerging more quickly than ever before thanks to always-on networks, the Web, a flood of consumer content, surveillance systems, sensors and the like. In a recent report, IDC predicted that over the next 10 years the amount of digital data created annually will grow 44 fold. Companies are increasingly turning to new architectures and new tools to help make sense of this “big data” phenomenon.
Regarded by industry experts as a visionary leader, Greenplum utilizes a “shared-nothing” massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture that has been designed from the ground up for analytical processing using virtualized x86 infrastructure. Greenplum is capable of delivering 10 to 100 times the performance of traditional database software at a dramatically lower cost. Data-driven businesses around the world, including NASDAQ OMX, NYSE Euronext, Skype, Equifax, T-Mobile and Fox Interactive Media have adopted Greenplum for sophisticated, high-performance data analytics.
Pat Gelsinger, President and Chief Operating Officer, EMC Information Infrastructure Products, said, “The data warehousing world is about to change. Greenplum’s massively-parallel, scale-out architecture, along with its self-service consumption model, has enabled it to separate itself from the incumbent players and emerge as the leader in this industry shift toward ‘big data’ analytics. Greenplum’s market-leading technology combined with EMC’s virtualized Private Cloud infrastructure provides customers, today, with a best-of-breed solution for tomorrow’s ‘big-data’ challenges.”
Bill Cook, Greenplum CEO, said, “EMC and Greenplum bring extraordinary potential to customers at the intersection of ‘big data’ and sophisticated analytics. As technology and business partners, EMC and Greenplum witness daily the enthusiasm with which customers embrace how together we impact their businesses in very tangible, positive and meaningful ways. The technology speaks for itself. What energizes us most now is EMC’s ability to open new doors of opportunity and accelerate delivery of our joint vision for the future.”
Scott McNealy, executive advisor to Greenplum, said, “EMC’s strength in the enterprise, and Greenplum’s push to fully transform data warehousing and business analytics, makes for a perfect fit. Together they are brilliantly bringing together the power of cloud computing, virtualization, and social collaboration to help customers as they venture into the next phase of computing and business analytics.” More >
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CloudSwitch Adds VMware API Support for Enterprise Customers
Jun 23rd
Enables Simple, Secure Migration to Terremark Clouds for New and Existing Applications
SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(Marketwire – June 23, 2010) – Structure 2010 — CloudSwitch, Inc. today announced that it has added support for the VMware vCloud™ API and is introducing an offering for Terremark clouds for IT professionals and developers in the enterprise who need on-demand computing and low-cost scalability. CloudSwitch’s innovative software bridges the enterprise data center with cloud computing services, extending enterprise security and control into the cloud. With CloudSwitch, existing applications can be moved to the cloud with point-and-click simplicity and no modifications, remaining tightly integrated with enterprise data center tools and policies.
“We are pleased to extend our CloudSwitch Enterprise software to target Terremark’s vCloud Express and Enterprise Cloud services,” said John McEleney, CEO at CloudSwitch. “Our vision is to enable IT professionals and developers in the enterprise to move their applications easily into the right cloud environment to meet their business requirements. Terremark’s clouds, powered by VMware vSphere™, provide compelling offerings for our joint customers who want to benefit from the fast provisioning and agility of the cloud in an enterprise-class environment.”
“VMware is pleased to be working with innovative companies like CloudSwitch and Terremark to build the ecosystem of VMware vSphere™-based cloud offerings needed to meet enterprise customer needs,” said Dan Chu, vice president, Cloud Infrastructure and Services, VMware. “Terremark’s vCloud Express and Enterprise Cloud offerings address both the developer and enterprise cloud user and CloudSwitch enables simple, secure on-boarding into these environments, helping ensure ongoing integration and compatibility with internal data centers.”
“Terremark has leveraged the VMware platform to build our suite of cloud computing services and drive technological innovation in the cloud,” said Randy Rowland, Senior Vice President, Product Development, Terremark. “Together with CloudSwitch, we are accelerating and simplifying our customers’ access to a range of highly reliable enterprise-level IT infrastructure solutions.”
As of today, the CloudSwitch Enterprise commercial version is generally available for download at www.cloudswitch.com. In addition, the free CloudSwitch Explorer version is available for developers and IT professionals who want to explore the cloud with no risk. Both the Explorer and Enterprise versions are built on CloudSwitch’s patent-pending Cloud Isolation Technology™ that secures all data and communications end-to-end and automatically maps applications into the target cloud. Once the CloudSwitch software appliance has been deployed in a virtualized environment, the customer can select Windows and Linux applications and run them in the cloud easily and securely, with no engineering efforts. CloudSwitch eliminates the changes to applications, networking and management tools that were previously required to use the cloud, and protects customers from cloud lock-in. To learn more about CloudSwitch products, please visit www.cloudswitch.com or call (866) 578-6127.
About CloudSwitch
CloudSwitch delivers the enterprise gateway to the cloud. CloudSwitch’s innovative software appliance enables enterprises to run their existing applications in the right cloud computing environment — securely, simply and without changes. With CloudSwitch, applications remain tightly integrated with enterprise data center tools and policies, and can be moved easily between different cloud environments and back into the data center based on the requirements of the business. Backed by Matrix Partners, Atlas Ventures and Commonwealth Capital Ventures, CloudSwitch is based in Burlington, MA and is led by seasoned entrepreneurs from BMC, EMC, Netezza, RSA, SolidWorks and Sun Microsystems. For more information about CloudSwitch, please visit us at www.cloudswitch.com and follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/cloudswitchcom.
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SOA Software Announces Enterprise and Cloud Service Federation
Jun 8th
Service Manager 6.0 Delivers Enterprise and Cloud Services Virtualization, Management and Mediation
LOS ANGELES, CA–(Marketwire – June 8, 2010) – SOA Software, a leading SOA and Cloud Services Governance provider, today announced its award winning Service Manager product version 6.0. Service Manager 6.0 provides advanced virtualization, management, security, monitoring and mediation capabilities for SOA and Cloud Service, implemented using a state-of-the-art OSGi-based architecture. SOA provides the foundation for a successful transition to an Enterprise Cloud Operating Model. SOA Software products allow customers to confidently share services between commercial SOA platforms like IBM WebSphere, Microsoft, SAP, and Oracle, as well as Red Hat and other open source providers. Service Manager is the industry’s leading SOA Management and security product. It delivers comprehensive standards-based security, routing, mediation, monitoring, and management. Service Manager implements and enforces policies, generates usage, performance and policy compliance metrics used to enable a closed-loop process for auditing and making sure policies are being correctly enforced.
Service Manager 6.0 delivers:
- Policy-based Mediation for integration with multiple platforms: Policy sharing and enforcement between commercial platforms becomes easier with Service Manager. Service Manager enforces and implements policies through advanced service virtualization, allowing declarative enterprise service federation to create relevant and consumable service interfaces across any platform, policy, message type and transport.
- Extensible binding framework: Service Manager provides out of the box support for SOAP, REST and POX services with an extensible framework allowing customers to add other binding with ease.
- Security Federation: Service Manager supports advanced security federation standards, providing enterprise-class token, authorization, and PKI capabilities for SOA and Cloud Services.
- Open Architecture: Service Manager leverages an OSGi-based architecture providing a flexible, reliable, and high-performance solution for the most demanding enterprise environments.
“Enterprise Services initiatives are about more than just SOAP Web services, they need to include REST, RSS, Atom and other web 2.0 and emerging technologies, such as Cloud Computing,” said Alistair Farquharson, CTO of SOA Software. ”Service Manager 6.0 provides an extensible operational governance solution that allows customers to implement and enforce uniform policies across a wide array of service types, message exchange patterns, and transports, helping ensure the security and availability of critical assets across a wide range of business initiatives.”
Policy-based Mediation between SOA Platforms
Service Manager 6.0 enforces and implements policies through advanced service virtualization, allowing declarative enterprise service federation with SOA platforms like IBM WebSphere, Microsoft, Red Hat, SAP, and Oracle to create relevant and consumable service interfaces across any platform, policy, message type and transport. It provides support for a range of policies compliant with WS-Policy including:
- WS-Security Policy
- WS-Addressing Policy
- WS-Auditing Policy
- WS-TransactionTracking Policy
- WS-HTTPSecurity Policy
In addition to the advanced support for policy enforcement and implementation, Service Manager 6.0 provides dynamic policy mediation, accepting messages for virtual services enforcing one policy, and send messages to physical services implementing different policies. This provides some sophisticated security token mediation capabilities, encryption and decryption, and signature verification and signing. Additionally, Service Manager 6.0 provides declarative binding and message exchange pattern mediation through its built-in JSR-208 JBI bus.
Extensible binding framework
Enterprise services are increasingly developing beyond SOAP Web services, REST is increasingly important, along with many other binding types. Service Manager provides out of the box support for SOAP, REST and POX services with an extensible framework allowing customers to add other binding with ease. Service Manager 6.0 allows customers to create virtual services with multiple different interfaces, providing REST interfaces to SOAP services and vice versa. Service Manager 6.0 allows customers to create virtual services with multiple different interfaces, providing REST interfaces to SOAP services and vice versa.
Security Federation
Service Manager 6.0 provides a powerful security federation solution with a security token server for authentication and token exchange, an authorization server for distributed SOA and Cloud services authorization policy enforcement, and a built-in Certificate Authority and Public Key Infrastructure solution allowing for public/private key-pair generation, management and automated distribution. Amongst other things, Service Manager 6.0 includes:
- A SAML authority for the generation and signing of SAML assertions, and comprehensive SAML processing and validation capabilities.
- A WS-Trust service for authentication and token exchange enabling sophisticated security token mediation use-cases such as exchanging username/password tokens for SAML assertions or X.509 certificates.
- An XACML service for processing authorization requests against a local authorization policy store or via distribution to most common identity and access management systems.
- WS-SecureConversation support for high-performance, session-based secure SOA and Cloud service consumption.
OSGi-based
Service Manager 6.0 is based on the OSGi specification delivering exceptional operational readiness with automated online update capabilities, easy extensibility and proven performance and scalability for the world’s most demanding enterprise and cloud services environments.
Pricing and Availability
Available in Q2 2010, Service Manager 6.0 starts at $50k USD.
About SOA Software
SOA Software is a leading provider of unified SOA and Cloud Service Governance products that enable organizations to plan, build, and run cloud and enterprise services. Our SOA Software Atmosphere Products are built using our Portfolio Manager™, Repository Manager™, Policy Manager™, and Service Manager™. They form a unified SOA Governance Automation solution, with SOLA™ providing a governable Mainframe SOA platform. The world’s largest companies including Bank of America, Pfizer, and Verizon use SOA Software solutions to transform their business. For more information, please visit http://www.soa.com.
SOA Software, Atmosphere, Policy Manager, Portfolio Manager, Repository Manager, Service Manager, and SOLA are trademarks of SOA Software, Inc. All other product and service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners.
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GoGrid Announces Version 2.0 – Cloud Computing Service
Aug 11th
GoGrid Announces Version 2.0
Today GoGrid, the Cloud Computing service from ServePath, released version 2.0 of its award-winning Cloud Computing Infrastructure solution. With this release, GoGrid users now have the ability to create personal server images, known as MyGSIs. MyGSI stands for “personal GoGrid Server Image,” a “Golden Master” server image that can be customized, saved and stored for future deployments. Users are now able to create new servers from stored MyGSIs via the GoGrid web portal or API quickly and easily.
We are extremely excited about this innovative new GoGrid release
This is an important development in the Cloud Computing marketplace, and further demonstrates our visionary approach to providing Cloud Computing functionality and features that our customers desire.
“We are extremely excited about this innovative new GoGrid release,” said John Keagy, CEO and Co-Founder of GoGrid and ServePath. “This is an important development in the Cloud Computing marketplace, and further demonstrates our visionary approach to providing Cloud Computing functionality and features that our customers desire.”
The creation of a MyGSI is an extremely simple 3-step process. First add an Image Sandbox, second, configure and prepare the Image Sandbox and third, save the Image Sandbox as a MyGSI. When a user needs to create a new Windows or Linux server based on the pre-configured MyGSI, they simply choose the saved image, fill in a few details, and instantiate the server in minutes within the GoGrid cloud.
There are several benefits and advantages of using a MyGSI to deploy servers within the GoGrid cloud:
