By Neil MacDonald (Gartner)

In a previous post, I discussed VMware’s differentiated message of choice in Cloud-computing infrastructure. That post talked primarily about enabling infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers (using the same technology VMware delivers for enterprises) to build and deliver flexible infrastructure services with scalable networking, storage and compute underneath.

But what about the ability to support newly developed scale-out applications? This is at the heart of what VMware will do with SpringSource – providing organizations a way to develop their own scale-out applications that can run in their own datacenter or run in a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider built on VMware’s infrastructure. [..]