How Many Cloud Types Do We Have?

During his opening keynote at the Parallels Summit 2009, Serguey Belousov, CEO of the virtualization producer defined a few types of clouds*. Cloud Type 1: The Google cloud. Truly massive, huge data centers, heavily hardware dependent, unmatched in many senses. Cloud Type 2: The Microsoft cloud. Also massive, less hardware dependent, more user-fueled at its heart. Cloud Type 3: Other super-size large clouds, among the largest being IBM and Apple, but also including EMC, HP, Amazon, Facebook, Adobe etc. Cloud Type 4: Channel clouds of service providers, telcos, ISPs, SaaS ISV, web hosters etc Cloud...

WMware Focused On Virtual Datacenter OS, Desktop Products And Vcloud Initiative

The VMware’s CTO Steve Herrod said in Q&A with SYS-CON’s Jeremy Geelan that “it is absolutely clear that virtualization is here to stay”. “In the future, we’ll look back at the non-virtualized compute models as we look back on the phonograph or on bulky CRTs. I believe we’re far from realizing the full benefits that virtualization can bring to datacenters, desktops, laptops, and mobile phones”, told Herrod SYS-Con’s journalist. “We have 3 major initiatives at VMware”, says Steve Herrod and particularizes: Virtual Datacenter OS...