Carl Brooks is an Analyst for 451 Research's Cloud Transformation Channel, covering service providers, cloud platforms and supply chain/channel for cloud. Previously, he spent several years researching and reporting on the emerging cloud market for TechTarget. Carl has also spent more than 10 years supporting small and medium-sized businesses with outsourced IT services as an IT consultant and network and systems administrator.
He specialized in server and desktop operations, Linux and Microsoft products, and security, and has thorough knowledge of hardware platforms and networking technologies, as well as significant experience working with the channel market.
Carl holds BA degrees in English and history from the University of Massachusetts-Boston, and currently holds both IBM and AWS certifications in cloud infrastructure.
Now permanently embedded in the enterprise, the Cloud Foundry open source project wants to let others do the selling while it performs the core maintenance. In light of that, the Cloud Foundry Foundation has announced a series of leadership changes and a shift in focus from evangelism and outreach to maintenance of the project.
Kubernetes and careful curation of vendor support buoy the open source project's PaaS platform. Cloud Foundry has now introduced a slate of new features following its official strategic reorientation earlier this year, with a heavy focus on supporting and integrating the latest developments in container management.
Building on the momentum of its OCI platform, the vendor has announced two new on-premises extensions of OCI that use the same second-generation architecture and hardware as its public cloud. First launched in 2017, Cloud@Customer consists of fully managed hardware appliances that can be added to incrementally.
The company is highlighting its newest offerings as a way to help customers and partners in the post-COVID economy. The GreenLake extension leverages HPE's years of experience in streamlined provisioning for on-premises pay-as-you-go deployments, while the Ezmeral portfolio incorporates HPE assets and open source software to challenge competitors as a foundation for business transformation.
Three years in the wild now, VMware Cloud on AWS is still going strong, according to VMware. VMC is now on four provider platforms (AWS, Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud and Dell EMC), which is a clear indication that VMware is committed to spreading its software well beyond the walled garden of enterprise IT.
As its balance sheet shows, VMware has done a good job of listening to its base, including the partners and providers that drive thousands of managed private cloud environments outside the hyperscale platforms. The company has given vCloud Director a brush up for partners, as it lands in new public clouds.
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