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]]> By: The Monash Report»Blog Archive » Appliances — my conclusions! (For now, at least) http://www.monashreport.com/2007/01/12/proofpoint-and-vmware-%e2%80%93-an-apparently-non-trivial-virtual-appliance-success-story/#comment-5133 The Monash Report»Blog Archive » Appliances — my conclusions! (For now, at least) Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:23:41 +0000 http://www.monashreport.com/2007/01/12/proofpoint-and-vmware-%e2%80%93-an-apparently-non-trivial-virtual-appliance-success-story/#comment-5133 [...] Type 2 is where most appliance vendors ideally would want to be. Examples can already be found in data warehousing, antispam, and firewall. Also, a variety of platform vendors are interested in supporting virtual appliances, including VMware, Microsoft, maybe IBM, and Crossbeam. Crossbeam’s strategy may be the most interesting of all. • • • [...] [...] Type 2 is where most appliance vendors ideally would want to be. Examples can already be found in data warehousing, antispam, and firewall. Also, a variety of platform vendors are interested in supporting virtual appliances, including VMware, Microsoft, maybe IBM, and Crossbeam. Crossbeam’s strategy may be the most interesting of all. • • • [...]

]]> By: DBMS2 — DataBase Management System Services»Blog Archive » And then there were two: DATAllegro seems to be going with standard hardware http://www.monashreport.com/2007/01/12/proofpoint-and-vmware-%e2%80%93-an-apparently-non-trivial-virtual-appliance-success-story/#comment-5086 DBMS2 — DataBase Management System Services»Blog Archive » And then there were two: DATAllegro seems to be going with standard hardware Sat, 27 Jan 2007 07:33:58 +0000 http://www.monashreport.com/2007/01/12/proofpoint-and-vmware-%e2%80%93-an-apparently-non-trivial-virtual-appliance-success-story/#comment-5086 [...] Actually, I don’t know whether DATAllegro is acquiring Dell boards, mucking around with them a bit, sticking its own nameplate on, and still telling customers it’s a Dell system. That technical strategy would be reminiscent of Proofpoint’s, for example, albeit with a different marketing/branding choice. But I’m guessing that DATAllegro has gone to a pure software offering – i.e., a “virtual appliance” in Check Point Software’s sense of the term rather than VMware’s. [...] [...] Actually, I don’t know whether DATAllegro is acquiring Dell boards, mucking around with them a bit, sticking its own nameplate on, and still telling customers it’s a Dell system. That technical strategy would be reminiscent of Proofpoint’s, for example, albeit with a different marketing/branding choice. But I’m guessing that DATAllegro has gone to a pure software offering – i.e., a “virtual appliance” in Check Point Software’s sense of the term rather than VMware’s. [...]

]]> By: Proofpoint and VMWare success in virtual appliances at Virtualization Daily http://www.monashreport.com/2007/01/12/proofpoint-and-vmware-%e2%80%93-an-apparently-non-trivial-virtual-appliance-success-story/#comment-5032 Proofpoint and VMWare success in virtual appliances at Virtualization Daily Wed, 24 Jan 2007 03:46:24 +0000 http://www.monashreport.com/2007/01/12/proofpoint-and-vmware-%e2%80%93-an-apparently-non-trivial-virtual-appliance-success-story/#comment-5032 [...] The Monash Report is reporting on the success of the VMWare virtual appliance program and the Proofpoint antispam appliance. I talked with Proofpoint today, and got a more positive view about VMware’s virtual appliance strategy than I’ve gotten from other appliance vendors. They cite over 500 downloads in the past couple of months, of which a significant fraction have turned into actual sales. [...] [...] The Monash Report is reporting on the success of the VMWare virtual appliance program and the Proofpoint antispam appliance. I talked with Proofpoint today, and got a more positive view about VMware’s virtual appliance strategy than I’ve gotten from other appliance vendors. They cite over 500 downloads in the past couple of months, of which a significant fraction have turned into actual sales. [...]

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