Is VMware’s new vRAM licensing private cloud poison?

It's now clear that VMware did the math on their customers and the new vRAM+socket licensing scheme. But did they unintentionally screw themselves on a booming trend among their own customers? Survey data from TechTarget's Data Center Decisions questionnaire, which may be the industry's largest...
VMware pricing changes add cost to cloud

VMware's controversial licensing and pricing changes in vSphere 5, leaked today are positively uncloud-like when it comes to cost, casting a shadow over the new features and functions in the product. Offering...
Citrix acquires Cloud.com- will it be enough?

Citrix will acquire platform startup Cloud.com to bolster its private cloud product line. Cloud.com is a three year old software startup that makes a cloud computing platform: management and messaging software to turn a commodity hardware stack of servers and...
vFabric Hyperic plugin surfaces for Cloud Foundry

A new plugin has been developed that connects part of VMware's vFabric middleware to its Cloud Foundry Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering, according to a post last week on the SpringSource Hyperic blog. vFabric Hyperic,...