At VMworld 2011, John Furrier, Founder of SiliconANGLE and Dave Vellante, Co-Founder of Wikibon, were joined by Tod Nielsen, Co-President of Application Development at VMware to discuss the hot topic of application development.
Nielsen's new role is focusing on the application development platform. He said that every era in this industry is driven by an application development model, and VMware thinks that platform as a service is really going to drive this era. He will be heading up cloud foundry and vFabric efforts to reach out to developers and establish the presence needed to be successful there.
Nielsen discussed his overall view on the cloud marketplace. He stated that prior to cloud foundry, people used to think about proprietary ways to run the cloud, with a single language or a single framework. VMware supports multiple frameworks, multiple cloud instances, with either their own service provider service or behind the firewall. Last week, they announced the micro-cloud, which allows the user to run their cloud development environment on a laptop and when they're ready to deploy, they can simply push it to a cloud, all on OpenSource.
Furrier asked if the market demand is for delivery solutions so strong that Open Source cannot keep up. Nielsen responded, "As long as we can expand our capabilities, we can stay ahead of any competition."
When asked what the strategy was to attract developers, Nielsen claimed they are focusing on the enterprise developers, as well as appealing to the "cool, new kids" who are developing in new types of frameworks. They are hoping to enable and allow them both to be successful on their platform.
Vellante asked for an overview of the evolution of application development over the last decade. Nielsen said it used to be that you were either a Java developer or a .NET developer, but developers have continued to build frameworks that make things easier, more productive and more portable. That means there's a massive amount of fragmentation going on in the environments that will eventually consolidate over the next decade. For now, they have to be open to everyone's dialect and really support a collaborative, open environment.
Vellante asked Nielsen to comment on database as a service. Nielsen pointed out that there's a tremendous amount of disruption going on in the data world. Customers are realizing the relational database is ok for a component, but they also want a no SQL or a "big data" option. In Silicon Valley, there are probably fifty start-ups focusing on this data disruption opportunity. Nielsen said, "We're excited about how developers are going to build applications that will have multiple database storages, which is what vFabric Data Director does with Postgres." He elaborated on how vFabric Data Director allows users to automate, scale and work in the vSphere infrastructure.
Nielsen listed three goals for the year, starting with helping developers and enterprises modernize their existing applications with their vFabric offering. He used the analogy of customers being "trapped in jail" with classic middleware like Websphere or Weblogic. His second goal is to expand their data offering with products like their vFabric Data Director, which will be exciting for the database world. Finally, his third goal in this platform as a service leadership role is to drive mindshare, adoption and trial.
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At VMworld 2011, John Furrier, Founder of SiliconANGLE and Dave Vellante, Co-Founder of Wikibon, were joined by Tod Nielsen, Co-President of Application Development at VMware to discuss the hot topic of application development.
Nielsen's new role is focusing on the application development platform. He said that every era in this industry is driven by an application development model, and VMware thinks that platform as a service is really going to drive this era. He will be heading up cloud foundry and vFabric efforts to reach out to developers and establish the presence needed to be successful there.
Nielsen discussed his overall view on the cloud marketplace. He stated that prior to cloud foundry, people used to think about proprietary ways to run the cloud, with a single language or a single framework. VMware supports multiple frameworks, multiple cloud instances, with either their own service provider service or behind the firewall. Last week, they announced the micro-cloud, which allows the user to run their cloud development environment on a laptop and when they're ready to deploy, they can simply push it to a cloud, all on OpenSource.
Furrier asked if the market demand is for delivery solutions so strong that Open Source cannot keep up. Nielsen responded, "As long as we can expand our capabilities, we can stay ahead of any competition."
When asked what the strategy was to attract developers, Nielsen claimed they are focusing on the enterprise developers, as well as appealing to the "cool, new kids" who are developing in new types of frameworks. They are hoping to enable and allow them both to be successful on their platform.
Vellante asked for an overview of the evolution of application development over the last decade. Nielsen said it used to be that you were either a Java developer or a .NET developer, but developers have continued to build frameworks that make things easier, more productive and more portable. That means there's a massive amount of fragmentation going on in the environments that will eventually consolidate over the next decade. For now, they have to be open to everyone's dialect and really support a collaborative, open environment.
Vellante asked Nielsen to comment on database as a service. Nielsen pointed out that there's a tremendous amount of disruption going on in the data world. Customers are realizing the relational database is ok for a component, but they also want a no SQL or a "big data" option. In Silicon Valley, there are probably fifty start-ups focusing on this data disruption opportunity. Nielsen said, "We're excited about how developers are going to build applications that will have multiple database storages, which is what vFabric Data Director does with Postgres." He elaborated on how vFabric Data Director allows users to automate, scale and work in the vSphere infrastructure.
Nielsen listed three goals for the year, starting with helping developers and enterprises modernize their existing applications with their vFabric offering. He used the analogy of customers being "trapped in jail" with classic middleware like Websphere or Weblogic. His second goal is to expand their data offering with products like their vFabric Data Director, which will be exciting for the database world. Finally, his third goal in this platform as a service leadership role is to drive mindshare, adoption and trial.
