03/2010 

Forrester about fluidOps

Forrester Senior Analyst, Stefan Ried, mentions fluidOps LaaS solution in the Forrester Blog for Vendor Strategy Professionals: "In cooperation with FluidOperations and Zimory, T-System was able to show a dynamic provisioning of SAP Systems in a elasticity that is hardly found elsewhere." Read full article.

12/2009 

fluidOps in 451Group Analysts CloudScape Report

Making the case for cloud automation, the latest 451Group CloudScape Report features fluidOps as an "original vendor" whose automation technologies are seeking to underpin SAP applications by provisioning and managing complete SAP landscapes: "The idea is to allow SAP deployments to be created and managed as an integrated environment (i.e., an enterprise cloud) rather than as system-by-system activity." Here is the link to the report.

12/2009 

fluidOps mentioned in Forbes article

In an article on security risks to look out for as mass and rapid system provisioning takes off, fluidOps is mentioned as an example of an eCloud application management and automation suite that makes the most of new virtualization capabilities: "Companies like FluidOps make replicating all levels of a virtual landscape--the data, database, application, and operating system--a one-click operation." Read article

10/2009 

New analyst report on fluidOps by the 451group

Principal Analyst William Fellows of the 451group features fluidOps and eCloudManager in his latest research: fluidOps tackles SAP cloud creation with eCloudManager PaaS offering. Read full report...

08/2009 

Open-Source VMFS Driver Used in New Fluid Operations eCloudManager 2.0

fluid Operations today announced a breakthrough in the use of storage-assisted virtualization to drive IT efficiencies. After the initial publishing of the VMFS technology in March 2009 and making it available with an open-source license, the market started to anticipate new private cloud management features that would become possible. With the release 2.0 of its flagship eCloudManager Product Suite, fluid Operations has now implemented the VMFS driver into its ready-made automation tool-set for immediate productive customer use. This announcement was made ahead of the upcoming VMworld virtualization show in San Francisco, August 31st to September 3rd, where the new features will be demonstrated publicly for the first time. more...

04/2009 

Fluid Operations VMFS Driver Makes Virtual Backups Easier

With the evolution of this VMFS driver, we will now be able to use that ASM quiesced snapshot to streamline Virtual Machine backups. First, we mount the snapshot to our backup server. Using the open source VMFS driver, we will now be able to browse that snapshot volume and see all of the files within. more...

03/2009 

A ghost of the past develops an open source VMFS driver

A couple of weeks ago a new company called fluid Operations raised some attention in the virtualization community because of their new open source VMFS driver. more...

03/2009 

Open Source Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) Driver

This driver enables read-only access to files and folders on partitions formatted with the Virtual Machine File System (VMFS). VMFS is a clustered file system that is used by the VMware ESX hosts to store virtual machines and virtual disk files. The VMFS driver comes with a command line interface (CLI) to mount and analyze VMFS volumes. The VMFS driver was tested on Linux and Windows based hosts, but should work on any platform that supports Java. The driver supports VMFS version 3 (VMFS3). more...

03/2009 

Free implementation of the VMware cluster file system

fluid Operations, a provider of management software for complex fully virtualised environments, has developed an open source implementation of the VMFS cluster filing system that uses VMware ESX to store virtual machines and disks. german english

03/2009 

Open Source VMFS Driver

"It looks like my post discussing a universal cluster file system may have been prescient. Shared with me first via Twitter, it appears that a company has already started building an open source VMFS driver." more...

03/2009 

VMWare's filesystem clustering cracked open

"Late last week, an important plate in VMWare's proprietary battle armor was cracked open when Fluid Operations, the company behind the eCloudmanager storage virtualization product open-sourced on the community Google Code site their clean room implementation of VMFS, the clustered locking file system used by VMWare's ESX Server hypervisor product." more...

02/2009 

Fluid Operations eCloudManager Provides Open Source VMFS Driver

Fluid Operations, owner of the eCloudManager Project, has open sourced it's VMFS Driver Project. The driver is actually an application that can run on Linux, Windows or any operating system that supports Java. It apparently provides read only access to VMware VMFS volumes. more...