VMworld 2014 Wrap-Up: End User Computing Announcements goo.gl/2m9dgm #VMware #VMworld #EndUserComputing

Red Hat’s CTO resigns goo.gl/RPRSgJ #RedHat #Leadership

Paper: Intel DPDK with VMware vSphere goo.gl/hRit0f #Intel #VMware #Paper

Release: AWS Management Portal for vCenter goo.gl/vc26iL #Amazon #VMware #AWS #vCenter #Release

Microsoft has a new CEO: Satya Nadella goo.gl/YUj5Hq #Microsoft #Leadership #CEO

Paper: Getting Started with OpenStack and VMware vSphere goo.gl/S6cXmS #OpenStack #VMware #Paper

Release: ConVirt Enterprise and ConVirt Enterprise Cloud with Hyper-V support goo.gl/w1m0fB #Convirture #Release #HyperV

Citrix announces acquisition of Framehawk goo.gl/DMbkYS #Citrix #Acquisition

Release: VMware vCloud Hybrid Service vSphere Client Plug-in goo.gl/WAQbtK #VMware #vCloud #HybridCloud

Release: VMware vCenter Orchestrator Plug-In for vCloud Director 5.5 goo.gl/xgKM54

Release: Citrix VDI-in-a-Box 5.4 goo.gl/T4WYcl

Video: vSphere & OpenStack Framework Integration with the vSphere OpenStack Virtual Appliance goo.gl/4J5gjE

HyTrust acquires HighCloud Security goo.gl/H87sUR

HP's cloud: 12500 (networking), 3PAR (storage), C7000/BL460c/SL-6500/SL-390 (servers), BladeSystem Matrix (orchestration) #hpci

HP leverages Insight Orchestration templates as part of their "Cloud Maps". Look at this approach to see where VMware is probably going.

Administrators can scale the behind-the-scene infrastructure manually or it can be fully automated.

It packs servers, VMs and networks as a business service, presenting it on a service catalog for IaaS cloud computing.

HP has a very interesting (physical and virtual) data center automation framework: Insight Orchestration.