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SAN FRANCISCO — VMware is acquiring Integrien, an infrastructure management vendor.

CTO Steve Herrod just made the announcement during his VMworld 2010 keynote. He didn’t say much about the acquisition, but Integrien’s real-time infrastructure monitoring, analysis and alerting capabilities clearly fit in with VMware’s virtual data center/cloud computing vision.

The company’s flagship product is Integrien Alive for Enterprise, which integrates with dozens of monitoring tools and analyzes the data they collect. And just today the company introduced AliveVM, a VMware-specific management product.

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SAN FRANCISCO — The market’s worst-kept secret is a secret no longer. VMware officially announced vCloud Director at this morning’s VMworld 2010 keynote.

VCloud Director lets you manage multiple instances of vCenter — internally, across multiple data centers and even in external service providers’ data centers. The goal is to create entirely virtual data centers, with the end game being private or hybrid clouds.

CEO Paul Maritz said a management tool that’s compatible across internal and external data centers is a necessity if cloud computing is to catch on, because multiple tools “end up costing you money” instead of bringing savings.

We’ve known about this product for more than a year, when it was first under development as Project Redwood. Word came in May that VMware would release it at VMworld with the name vCloud Service Director, and now we know its official name is just vCloud Director.

For enterprise IT, vCloud Director holds a lot of promise, but also many challenges. Many shops are dealing with more pressing server virtualization needs, and the prospect of buying yet another management tool to create a dynamic data center may be too much too soon.

Plus, there’s the not-insignificant point that vCloud Director won’t be able to create private or hybrid clouds all on its own. Much like vSphere, vCloud Director will rely on third-party tools to unlock its full potential, adding more layers of cost and complexity.

For an in-depth look at vCloud Director, check out Mike Laverick’s three-part series. And we’ll have more reaction from the show floor throughout the week.

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SAN FRANCISCO — Rick Jackson, VMware’s chief marketing officer, kicked off today’s VMworld 2010 keynote and shared some interesting numbers about the show and its history:

• 17,021: Registered attendees at VMworld 2010, up from 12,500 last year
• 85: Countries represented by attendees at VMworld 2010
• 1,400: Attendance at the first VMworld in 2004
• 55: People who have attended every VMworld
• 100,000: VMs deployed to support 20,000 labs at VMworld 2010
• 4,000: VMs running per hour, on average, in those labs

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New forms of data, the retention of additional detail for analysis, increasing pressure for high availability of more of the data, regulatory and security requirements – all are contributing to substantial rises in data volume. Organizations that learn to leverage the explosion of important new information sources can gain dramatic competitive advantage as others lag. Unfortunately, the budget for the acquisition of additional storage is not easy to come by, especially in the current financial environment. Worse yet, over its life, managing storage effectively may cost 3-10 times what it cost to procure. Other costs derive from data growth's impact on systems performance and organizational governance. Request Free!

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