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Cutting through the hype of cloud vendors starts by evaluating how ready their cloud services, enabling technologies and professional services are to serve customers today. Nine different companies have been analysed: Amazon, Google, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce.com, SAP and VMware.

To capitalise on Parallels' success story Cisco, the global networking giant, of recent has made an equity investment of $11 million to the desktop virtualisation firm. According to Hilton Romanski, VP corporate business development Cisco: "Cisco is continuing its commitment to technology development and innovation through strategic investments".

VMware has been the force behind many of the server infrastructure virtualisation transformations that have taken place in the data centre over the last decade.

Last week Rackspace announced unlimited availability of its Cloud Servers, becoming the first large-scale public cloud deployment which runs on OpenStack and reportedly involves the biggest software investment Rackspace has ever made.

Although Nicira’s current annual revenues are only in the $10m range, its technology complements VMware’s cloud strategy and will allow the combined entity to attack data networks with a comprehensive software-based cloud solution that is completely hardware-agnostic

While the company faces increasing competition, its dominant position in the server virtualization market is not under immediate threat, and its revenue is still growing quickly.

Virtualisation experts VMware have acquired turnkey desktop cloud providers Wanova to further bolster their end-user portfolio.

Why do we still fundamentally architect our data centers as if it were 1984 – as if we still run client/server, with 18 servers. Our networks are all designed to be massively interconnected (and OUTRAGEOUSLY expensive) Core-based, with multiple layers beyond that all connect together. We are force-fitting old thinking into new requirements, badly. It can’t end well.