VMware announced on Tuesday its cloud operating system–dubbed vSphere 4–with plans for general availability in the second quarter.With the effort, VMware is attempting to bridge virtualized data centers–now known as “private clouds”–and growing cloud computing services from the likes of Amazon.com and others. However, this bridging process is a work in progress due to the lack of standards. VMware’s big pitch is that vSphere can run your data center and allow you to bridge out when external resources are needed.
John Gilmartin, director of product marketing at VMware, said the company is hoping to ease enterprises into cloud computing without redoing architecture.
“There’s a big gap between what most people talk about as cloud and what people are doing today in the enterprise,” Gilmartin said. VMware’s plan is to get cloud providers to use its operating system and then seamlessly hook up to enterprises using vSphere 4.
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