I had the opportunity to speak at Gartner's Catalyst Conference in San Diego this week on Chargeback. I will post on that later. As a speaker, I got to attend many sessions specifically in the cloud track. One theme that was pretty clear is just how immature all the integration standards are between the various building blocks of the cloud.

At TechField Day in Boston, the delegates were calling for greater integration into both vCenter, but also enterprise other enterprise applications in general. Here at the Gartner conference, the integration mantra is between orchestrators and the various components required to do clouds, between private clouds and public clouds, between hybrid clouds and various authentication systems. Just a whole lot of integration.

We are listening.

We just announced the new VKernel vOPS™ API and the Capacity.LINK program. This is a REST based API designed to enable various systems like orchestrators to get highly analyzed and valuable data out of vOPS.  In our coming release in August we will be announcing further enterprise integrations and improvements with our existing points of integration.

This will be a continuing effort. Given how far the industry needs to go if we are going to really make cloud computing a reality, this will be an ongoing effort not satisfied by a simple release. But our vOPS API is a step in the right direction.

Thanks to all the Gestalt delegates for the feedback and thanks to Gartner for inviting me to speak at the Catalyst conference.

Bryan Semple
CMO
VKernel