EMC, VMWare: Opportunism prevails as markets remain volatile

EMC, with a market cap of $49.33 billion, continues to be a bargain approach to ownership of VMWare, especially this week with a price drop under $20/share. The valuation gap between the two companies still obviously exists ($92 versus $20), and although VMWare has dropped a bit that disconnect will likely continue for the forseeable future. VMWare will still have the higher price due to expectations of its growth and a lack of real competition in the virtualization market.

So you continue to have a choice on how to get on the virtualization gravy train: buy the Lexus in VMWare if you can afford it on a bargain day, or get the same value in the Toyota pickup truck of EMC. Both are offered by the same company in essence. And the current market volatility is actually a great time to be opportunistic in buying either or both at a relatively attractive price.

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Get Vyatta Virtual Appliance, now VMware certified!

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Vyatta, the leader in Linux-based networking, today announced that its open-source networking software has received VMware Virtual Appliance Certification, thereby providing customers with a solution that has been optimized for a production-ready VMware environment. The company also announced it has joined the VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) Program. As a member of TAP, Vyatta will offer its solutions via the TAP program website. With the Vyatta virtual appliance for VMware environments, organizations can now include Vyatta’s router, firewall and VPN functions as part of their virtualized infrastructure.

Vyatta combines enterprise-class routing and security capabilities into an integrated, reliable and commercially supported software solution, delivering twice the performance of proprietary network solutions at half the price. Running Vyatta software as virtual appliances gives customers many more options for scaling their data centers and cons…

3PAR adds native LDAP support to simplify administration

3PAR®, the leading global provider of utility storage, announced today native support for lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP). Support for LDAP enables centralized user authentication and authorization using a standard protocol for managing access to IT resources. With 3PAR’s support for LDAP, customers are able to now integrate 3PAR Utility Storage--a simple, cost-efficient, and massively scalable storage platform—with standard, open enterprise directory services. The result is simplified security administration with centralized access control and identity management.

“3PAR Utility Storage already provides us with a reliable, shared, and easy-to-use consolidated storage platform,” said Burzin Engineer, Vice President of Infrastructure Services at Shopzilla. "Now, with 3PAR support for LDAP, managing security commonly--across all our resources, including storage--is also simple and efficient.”

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EMC, with a market cap of $49.33 billion, continues to be a bargain approach to ownership of VMWare, especially this week with a price drop under $20/share. The valuation gap between the two companies still obviously exists ($92 versus $20), and although VMWare has dropped a bit that disconnect will likely continue for the forseeable future. VMWare will still have the higher price due to expectations of its growth and a lack of real competition in the virtualization market.

So you continue to have a choice on how to get on the virtualization gravy train: buy the Lexus in VMWare if you can afford it on a bargain day, or get the same value in the Toyota pickup truck of EMC. Both are offered by the same company in essence. And the current market volatility is actually a great time to be opportunistic in buying either or both at a relatively attractive price.

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