{"id":1789,"date":"2009-03-04T18:00:14","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T23:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/interesting-links-for-march-4th\/"},"modified":"2009-03-04T18:00:14","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T23:00:14","slug":"interesting-links-for-march-4th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/interesting-links-for-march-4th\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Links for March 4th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links that I have found interesting for March 4th:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.virtualization.info\/2009\/03\/vmware-is-becoming-infrastructure.html\">VMware is becoming an infrastructure management company<\/a> &#8211; All these elements point to a single direction.\n<p>Of course VMware denies such ambitious project. Admitting today that within 5-7 years it will become the biggest competitors of its partners BMC, CA, HP and IBM is not a good idea.<br \/>\nBut the reality is that the company wants virtualization to be ubiquitous and wants to satisfy every necessity its customers have inside the virtual sphere.<\/p>\n<p>This is why VMware feels the need, for instance, to acquire B-hive and provide a performance analysis tool for the applications running inside its virtual machines.<br \/>\nOr why it feels the need to acquire Determina and Blue Lane Technology to stack up a number of security products.<br \/>\nOr why it has to deliver a patch management solution that does much more than just updating the ESX hosts.<br \/>\nThe list may go on and on (and will do in the near future).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are my links for March 4th from 17:03 to 17:03<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[989,926,600,604,936,601,603,602],"class_list":{"0":"post-1789","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general","7":"tag-bsm","8":"tag-business-service-management","9":"tag-delicious","10":"tag-itmanagement","11":"tag-itsm","12":"tag-links","13":"tag-read","14":"tag-review"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}