VMware has acquired DynamicOps, a software company that automates the provisioning and management of IT services across multi-cloud, multi-platform and multi-vender environments.
VMware added depth to its cloud
offerings July 2 by acquiring DynamicOps, a Burlington, Mass.-based company
that provides software for cloud automation with multi-cloud, multi-platform
and multi-vendor management capabilities.
Terms of the acquisition were not
announced.
DynamicOps complements VMwares
existing cloud management packages with what it calls a service governor
solution" to enable provisioning and management of IT services across
various-vendor environments.
VMware's vSphere 5 deployments, for
example, would include private and public clouds, physical infrastructures,
systems with multiple hypervisors (including Microsoft Hyper-V- and Citrix
Xen-based hypervisors) and public cloud services, such as Amazon Web
Services.
VMware tells its vSphere 5 users
that they benefit most by deploying standardized architectures. But the Palo
Alto, Calif.-based company also builds cloud management deployments for
customers so they can choose the model that best works for their needseven if
it includes heterogeneous environments and management components.
Ostensibly, DynamicOps will assist
in this. DynamicOps builds on the capabilities of vCloud Director by enabling
customers to connect to and control multi-cloud resourcese.g., physical
environments, Hyper-V- and Xen-based hypervisors, and Amazon Elastic Cloud
Compute (EC2).
DynamicOps was launched in 2008 as a
spin-off of Credit Suisses IT unit, based on five years of successful
large-scale production deployments using what is now known as DynamicOps
Virtual Resource Manager (VRM) software. Before clouds were called clouds, the
bank developed VRM to address the operational and governance challenges of
rolling out virtualization technology across a global organization comprising
several distinct businesses.
The acquisition is scheduled to
close by the end of September, subject to customary closing conditions, VMware
said.
Chris Preimesberger was named Editor-in-Chief of Features & Analysis at eWEEK in November 2011. Previously he served eWEEK as Senior Writer, covering a range of IT sectors that include data center systems, cloud computing, storage, virtualization, green IT, e-discovery and IT governance. His blog, Storage Station, is considered a go-to information source. Chris won a national Folio Award for magazine writing in November 2011 for a cover story on Salesforce.com and CEO-founder Marc Benioff, and he has served as a judge for the SIIA Codie Awards since 2005. In previous IT journalism, Chris was a founding editor of both IT Manager's Journal and DevX.com and was managing editor of Software Development magazine. His diverse resume also includes: sportswriter for the Los Angeles Daily News, covering NCAA and NBA basketball, television critic for the Palo Alto Times Tribune, and Sports Information Director at Stanford University. He has served as a correspondent for The Associated Press, covering Stanford and NCAA tournament basketball, since 1983. He has covered a number of major events, including the 1984 Democratic National Convention, a Presidential press conference at the White House in 1993, the Emmy Awards (three times), two Rose Bowls, the Fiesta Bowl, several NCAA men's and women's basketball tournaments, a Formula One Grand Prix auto race, a heavyweight boxing championship bout (Ali vs. Spinks, 1978), and the 1985 Super Bowl. A 1975 graduate of Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif., Chris has won more than a dozen regional and national awards for his work. He and his wife, Rebecca, have four children and reside in Redwood City, Calif.Follow on Twitter: editingwhiz
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Chris Preimesberger was named Editor-in-Chief of Features & Analysis at eWEEK in November 2011. Previously he served eWEEK as Senior Writer, covering a range of IT sectors that include data center systems, cloud computing, storage, virtualization, green IT, e-discovery and IT governance. His blog, Storage Station, is considered a go-to information source. Chris won a national Folio Award for magazine writing in November 2011 for a cover story on Salesforce.com and CEO-founder Marc Benioff, and he has served as a judge for the SIIA Codie Awards since 2005. In previous IT journalism, Chris was a founding editor of both IT Manager's Journal and DevX.com and was managing editor of Software Development magazine. His diverse resume also includes: sportswriter for the Los Angeles Daily News, covering NCAA and NBA basketball, television critic for the Palo Alto Times Tribune, and Sports Information Director at Stanford University. He has served as a correspondent for The Associated Press, covering Stanford and NCAA tournament basketball, since 1983. He has covered a number of major events, including the 1984 Democratic National Convention, a Presidential press conference at the White House in 1993, the Emmy Awards (three times), two Rose Bowls, the Fiesta Bowl, several NCAA men's and women's basketball tournaments, a Formula One Grand Prix auto race, a heavyweight boxing championship bout (Ali vs. Spinks, 1978), and the 1985 Super Bowl. A 1975 graduate of Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif., Chris has won more than a dozen regional and national awards for his work. He and his wife, Rebecca, have four children and reside in Redwood City, Calif.Follow on Twitter: editingwhiz
