VMWare to Acquire Cloud Automation Provider DynamicOps

- Alert) – through its acquisition of Terremark – Savvis and others, none of those have amounted to much, at least not in comparison to certain market leaders, according to a Network Computing article.

But the acquisition of DymanicOps gives the Silicon Valley-based company entry into the cloud automation, orchestration and policy management space.

“As IT organizations evolve from builders to brokers of services many seek to provide access to diverse cloud resources in a controlled, managed fashion,” Ramin Sayar, vice president and general manager, Virtualization and Cloud Management at VMware, said in a company statement. “DynamicOps’ multi-cloud and multi-platform capabilities help to strengthen VMware’s position as the infrastructure and management vendor of choice for cloud computing.”

VMware’s customers will benefit from a standardized architecture and build solutions that make it easy for them to choose the model that best works for their needs, including heterogeneous environments/management. VMWare officials said customers that have standardized their private and public clouds on VMware vSphere can continue to use VMware vCloud Director to enable the aggregation and management of virtual and cloud resources.

For customers that require managing and provisioning resources extending beyond VMware-only environments, DynamicOps makes available the capabilities of vCloud Director by allowing customers to consume multi-cloud resources (e.g., physical environments, Hyper-V- and Xen-based hypervisors, and Amazon EC2).

DynamicOps’ policy-based service governor capabilities automate and control how applications and users are provisioned across physical and heterogeneous cloud infrastructure resources.

“VMware and DynamicOps share a common vision for dramatically simplifying the management and provisioning of IT resources in the Cloud era,” said Rich Krueger, CEO at DynamicOps. “I’m excited about DynamicOps joining VMware, and expect our customers to benefit from increased investment and support in the solutions they rely on to optimize their delivery of IT-as-a-service.”

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Dell to Acquire Cloud Software Maker Wyse Technology

- Alert) has agreed to acquire cloud software company Wyse Technology in an effort to expand its desktop virtualization offerings. A virtual desktop allows enterprises to more efficiently and securely manage their users and end point devices.

The acquisition was approved by the board of directors of each company and remains subject to customary conditions and is expected to close in the second quarter of Dell’s FY13. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

San Jose, Calif.-based-Wyse offers “thin client” solutions with management, desktop virtualization and cloud software. With this acquisition, Dell said it expands its enterprise solutions portfolio. 

“Desktop virtualization can help organizations streamline IT management, improve productivity and security, and increase cost efficiency for discrete workloads or usage scenarios,” said Jeff Clarke, president of End User Computing Solutions at Dell. “The Wyse Technology desktop virtualization capability complements Dell’s strongest-ever device and computing solutions portfolio, and strengthens our position in offering customers among the broadest set of computing choices from the edge to the core to the cloud.”

Industry analysts predict significant growth in the desktop virtualization market. Research firm IDC (News - Alert) forecasts the end-to-end datacenter infrastructure stack, which is comprised of servers, networking, storage and services, will exceed $15 billion by 2015.

Thin client and desktop virtualization solutions typically drive high attach rates to data center solutions, according to Matt Eastwood, group vice president of Enterprise Platform Research at IDC. 

“The total market for desktop virtualization solutions should continue to see strong growth globally, with the larger revenue and margin opportunities coming from the datacenter infrastructure, cloud and services offerings that are tied to thin client and desktop virtualization technology sales,” Eastwood said.

According to IDC, Wyse ranked No. 1 in thin client unit shipment volume on 4Q 2011, and has shipped more than 20 million units worldwide. The company has more than 180 patents, both issued and pending, covering its solutions, software and differentiated intellectual property.

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