What's going on in the Industry?

• CRN's Kevin McLaughlin discusses how VMware got its SDN product to market first, in comparison to Cisco, and shared some examples of how VMware is trying to capitalize on that head start. McLaughlin reports, "VMware and Cisco were close partners for a long time, but in a relatively short time, they've devolved into the Hatfields and McCoys of the data center. And according to partners on both sides, this skirmish is quickly morphing into a full-blown philosophical dispute."
• Gabe Knuth of BrianMadden.com discusses VMware's announcement that the company will build Linux support into Horizon View along with the associated conversations around this news. Knuth muses, "There's a market even though it's a niche of a niche."
• Datacenter Dynamics' Peter Judge discusses several announcements coming out of VMworld Europe 2014 in his article, "VMworld – cracking open the data center." Judge reports, "VMware has its annual get-together in August in San Francisco, but a few weeks later the stories get extended and embellished at the European edition of VMworld in Barcelona. This year was no exception with a quiverful of slogans, and a barrage of announcements, all of which added up to an assertion that VMware would like to take charge of pretty much everything from the hardware in your data centers upwards." 2014DECNWS