VMware and Google Team Up for a Better Cloud Experience
The Google I/O Conference in San Francisco rendered a surprise announcement today that I think will benefit companies who want a more productive and flexible cloud experience. That’ll draw more companies to the cloud and in turn benefit the entire industry.
Google and VMware, the industry’s big name in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, will collaborate to make solutions for enterprise software developers to build, deploy and manage applications in the cloud – in whatever form, public, private or hybrid. The plan is to work together on technology and expertise that will accelerate adoption of cloud computing.
“Companies are actively looking to move toward cloud computing. They are certainly attracted by the economic advantages associated with cloud, but increasingly are focused on the business agility and innovation promised by cloud computing,” said Paul Maritz, president and CEO of VMware, in a story that I read on MarketWatch. “VMware and Google are aligning to reassure our mutual customers and the Java community that choice and portability are of utmost importance to both companies. We will work to ensure that modern applications can run smoothly within the firewalls of a company’s datacenter or out in the public cloud environment.”
What this alliance means is that cloud applications, at least through the projects worked on by VMware and Google, will become more productive, portable, and flexible. And Java developers will have more power to build rich web applications, use Google and VMware performance tools on cloud apps, and deployments of Spring Java applications on Google App Engine.
“Developers are looking for faster ways to build and run great web applications, and businesses want platforms that are open and flexible,” said Vic Gundotra, Google vice president of developer platforms. “By working with VMware to bring cloud portability to the enterprise, we are making it easy for developers to deploy rich Java applications in the environments of their choice.”
To top it all off, Spring, Google App Engine, and SpringSource Tool Suite Google is announcing support for Spring Java apps on Google App Engine to make it easy to build, run, and manage applications for the cloud, and to make them portable across clouds, too.
This is great news for companies that use cloud apps with Java, and even better news is now they can independently monitor those Java-based apps via Monitis’s cloud-based Java monitoring tool. Monitis’s Cloud-based Application Monitoring Tool provides monitoring, troubleshooting, root cause diagnosis, plus pro-active planning tools such as load generators, scalability analysis, resource usage analysis and more. Specifically, the Java Applicaton Monitoring tool:
- Monitors every metric, log, and configuration for all JMX resources in your inventory
- Identifies problem resources
- Controls all JMX resources on-demand
- Sends alerts on any measurement, log, or security event in your JMX environment
- Integrates fully into Monitis’ award-winning internal and external monitoring suite.