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VMware offers a suite of cloud computing services. They are also actively acquiring a suite of cloud-based enterprise productivity and collaboration capabilities. vSphere is an overall operating system enabling companies to achieve datacenter virtualization.

Recent Launches:

Cloud Foundry is VMWare's strategic PaaS (Platform as a Service). It is open and supports multiple application development frameworks. It can be downloaded and run privately.

Horizon App Manager allows companies to manage security and access entitlements for employees to access cloud services, while keeping their passwords and entitlement directories behind the firewall. (Scobe video interview)

IT Management Acquisitions

Wavemaker : Allows non-expert developers to build web apps quickly and deploy them to the cloud (RC2, Rackspace, Eucalyptus or Opsource)

Digital Fuel : Financial Management for companies to measure ROI from their Cloud investments

Shavlik : cloud-based IT Managment for small end medium companies.

Collaboration and Productivity Acquisitions

Socialcast : Enterprise microblogging. Enables rapid discussions, town halls, questions.

Slide Rocket : Collaborative presentations. Powerpoint rebuilt for the web, with a shared slide library, live data from Google spreadsheets, Twitter feeds, and ether embedded widgets.

Mozy : Backup and storage in the cloud

Zimbra : Email server (like Microsoft Exchange) delivered as a cloud appliance