EMC
Two views exist in the business today. 1. Technology View: IT Operations looking out the rear view mirror trying to determine which workloads to virtualize and how to do it quickly, efficiently, securely in a highly optimized environment. 2. Business View: Line of business owners and application owners looking ahead to develop and run applications on highly virtualized platforms. EMC’s acquisition of FastScale helps customers deal with both views. 1. Through the use of software solutions, dynamically assemble application runtimes on physical and virtual resources – I call this “get rid of the baggage.” 2. Standardize deployment that leverages a common library. This is where multiple ingredients are stored and ready to be baked. 3. An integrated platform that automates the process of building, optimizing, managing, and deploying of server software environments. FastScale is a nice addition to EMC Ionix, but I find how and if EMC will leverage the FastScale acquisition with VMware/ SpringSource more interesting. If they do, it will make for a very interesting dynamic. If VMware acquired FastScale, it would have diminished some of the value of its partners and right now, VMware partners are helping make VMware a success. EMC acquiring FastScale steps around this issue for the time being and puts it in the hands of EMC to figure out how to make it work. The FastScale acquisition will be worth watching to see how it emerges inside EMC and potentially VMware.
