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Motorola, Verizon Holding October 18 Event; New Droid To Debut?

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Samsung may have had to postpone it's Unpacked event with Google, and while we'll have to keep waiting if we want to see what we're all expecting to be the Galaxy Prime along with Ice Cream Sandwich, it looks like we'll have product reveals from other manufacturers to deal with in the meantime, with Motorola just sending out invitations for an event it's throwing with Verizon scheduled for next week, October 18.

Motorola invites attendees to check out "the next big innovation" it's been working on. That sounds a lot like a product announcement, so what could it be? We've heard of a Droid 4 that's being developed, but it's much too early to expect that guy to show up. Far more likely would be the chance to see the Droid HD or Droid RAZR. We heard a rumor that the Droid HD (aka Spyder) was in fact the Droid RAZR itself. Previously, we had been thinking they were indeed two distinct models, and now hopefully this event will put that uncertainty to rest. Another hint this is the path Motorola is walking down: a reference to "spyder" in the invitation's filename.

Notice the razor blade in the clip? Hint, hint. And the formula for Kevlar (which is supposed to be used in the construction of the RAZR)?

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Samsung Holding Unpacked Event At Next Month's CTIA

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Samsung has already unveiled the Galaxy Note at the beginning of this month in Berlin, with the occasion of IFA but the company is preparing for another Unpacked event, this time at October's CTIA Enterprise and Applications show in San Diego.

What could Samsung unveil at the event? Well, it could be an American launch for the Galaxy Note or Samsung might as well uncover the Nexus Prime (or Galaxy Nexus as it is being often referred to). It also could be an official unveiling of the Focus S and/or the Focus Flash Windows Phones but we'll make sure to let you know more as we find out.

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HTC Plans Oct 6th Event, HTC Ruby Leaks & Malware Attacks - AR

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Hands-On Motorola Droid Bionic, HTC Sep. 20th Event & More - AR

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Watch this week's Android revolution as we go through what's hot and what's not inside the world of Google's Android Project. In today's show we go through all the recent Android smartphone announces which include the LG Optimus Hub, the Galaxy Y line of smartphones for Vodaphone UK, the Xperia Play reaching AT&T and even some deals on the Sprint Epic 4G Touch. We talk about the recent invitation HTC sent for a September 20th event where we expect that lots of our recent leaks will see the light of day in new Android offerings for the fall line-up. We go through a long list of leaks, that begin with an HTC Runnymede, and we summarize all the recent Android coverage you'll want to follow in our website.

In the "What's not hot" section we talk about the recent disappointment we all felt when Sony Ericsson initially promised Android Ice Cream Sandwich for all of their old smartphones, and later pulled it back.

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The cloud is like MMA; VMware, Citrix in main event

I’m an MMA fan. The sport of mixed martial arts combines the multiple disciplines of wrestling, boxing, and jiu jitsu into one combat sport fought in an eight-sided cage called the octagon. These athletes are modern-day gladiators. Most come from a core background in one discipline (a collegiate wrestler, for example) and then have to develop secondary skills – boxing and jiu jitsu in this case – to really become professionally competitive in the sport.

I am also an entrepreneur, technologist and CEO. For me, announcements this past Tuesday in the cloud world are a metaphor for two highly trained MMA fighters stepping into the ring after a two-year training camp spent developing their secondary disciplines in preparation to battle for Cloud Service Provider (CSP) supremacy.

I am, of course, talking about Citrix’s acquisition of Cloud.com  and VMware’s announcement of vSphere 5  as the foundation of its move toward a comprehensive cloud OS. To me, both announcements foreshadow three major shifts that will occur in the coming years in the cloud computing and CSP space:

1. A cloud OS will reign. The versions of Windows, Linux, Solaris, AIX, UX, etc., as we know them today will be rendered useless by the science of cloud computing. This will take some time, and perhaps elements of this layer will be repurposed, but both the hypervisor and the application will incrementally subsume functionality historically performed by the OS. We will see more intelligently pre-configured virtual machines (VMs) running workloads for increasingly intelligent applications pre-configured for a particular hypervisor.

We are already starting to see this with JEOS (Just Enough Operating System) VMs that intelligently adjust for attributes such as memory allocation through their interaction with the hypervisor. Dynamic resource allocation to VMs and the ability of the applications to drive such requests will represent the infrastructure of the future. This will be a core shift in the cloud computing space and will drive the orientation of the foundational levels of the cloud stack, Infrastructure as a Service and Platform as a Service.

This is like having a core base skill of wrestling for an MMA fighter. All other skills sets leverage the base. A case could be made that VMware is the better wrestler today given its heritage of innovation at the proprietary hypervisor and hypervisor service-provisioning level. On the other hand, it could be argued that Citrix’s acquisition of Cloud.com — which has enabling IaaS software IP that will undoubtedly provide the base to Citrix’s efforts to build out its own open source-based cloud OS (perhaps augmenting or even usurping its own Project Olympus efforts) — gives it the better wrestling skills.

Too close to call at this point. They have two different styles of wrestling.

2. The hybrid cloud will become the most important cloud. Most of the dialogue today is about which cloud is best for a particular enterprise when considering the choice of commodity clouds (Internet-facing web-scaling clouds such as Amazon Web Services),  public clouds (multi-tenant clouds that can either be Internet- or private-access-based) or private clouds (essentially, dedicated single-tenant virtualized technology).

Key considerations are the obvious ones: security, performance, elasticity, etc. Greenfield applications generally have entirely different requirements than legacy back-office application migration (a space more commonly being referred to now as the enterprise cloud). It goes on and on.

The space is entirely over-marketed in a self-serving manner toward the strengths or away from the weaknesses of the CSPs doing the marketing. All of that will get sorted out in the next 18 to 24 months. Simply put, the best technologies for the required use case will win. If not, shame on the buyer.

As a CSP, the real juice in forward markets will be in defining and controlling the hybrid cloud. By hybrid cloud, I mean the heterogeneous solution of on-premise private clouds interacting with off-premise public clouds. The better the tools are to build on-premise private clouds, the more bursting will occur into off-premise public clouds. It will be a virtuous cycle.

Today, there are very few companies that functionally make money on both ends of that spectrum. I look at both the Citrix and VMware announcements as moves toward filling this future hybrid cloud opportunity. Citrix moves toward this in its acquisition of Cloud.com, whose software assets have been used to build such scaled private clouds as Zynga’s Z Cloud. VMware moves toward this simply by realizing it is no longer good enough to own the private cloud hypervisor market. It is now looking to develop true cloud-management products.

They both have pieces of the off-premise puzzle (and plenty of capital to develop it further) but neither is there yet. This is where this race will be. This area will require both skill and endurance and a tough chin, similar to what the art of boxing means to the MMA fighter. Given VMware’s massive share of the enterprise hypervisor market, it gets the nod as the better boxer at this point, but it’ll have to be wary of Citrix’s open source agility.

3. CSPs will need it all. It’s obvious that having a full cloud stack will matter, but it will need to be integrated in a manner that does not exist today and will broaden its definition. Having an enterprise-grade hypervisor in this fight is sort of like breathing: It will keep you alive, but won’t get your arm raised in victory.

Both VMware and Citrix have battle-tested hypervisors in ESXi/vSphere and XenServer, respectively. Both have data center assets and now IaaS and cloud OS capabilities. Both have management tools. Both are in their early stages with their PaaS offerings, with VMware’s recent launch of Cloud Foundry (interestingly, an open source PaaS) and Citrix’s OpenCloud, which leverages OpenStack.

Both also have a software portfolio, but this is where I think Citrix separates itself in a number of areas. One example is the network/WAN optimization for on-premise to off-premise connectivity noted above. The maturity of Citrix’s HDX technologies in conjunction with Xen Desktop have focused on solving the “last mile” of on-premise user experience with off-premise workload processing.

But all of these components must be interconnected. This is about a breadth of skill sets that work together in a “cloud spectrum” of sorts. This is similar to the breadth of specific technical skills that the MMA fighter must master in the art of jiu jitsu. At this stage, I give the nod to Citrix for having the better jiu jitsu.

However, there are many other contenders in the division. The list is long. Don’t count out AWS with its impressively consistent feature release cycles. Rackspace has approximately $1 billion of dedicated hosting and managed services clients to direct to the virtues of OpenStack. Microsoft, IBM and others have well-known component solutions but have demonstrated a lack of agility, among other things, to enable the true spectrum.  There are contenders in Red Hat, Joyent, Virtustream and many others.

There will be no shortage of opportunities for very smart component technologies. The major players will either have to develop these things or acquire them. Boxers must learn to grapple, kick, and employ submission techniques. Wrestlers must learn to strike effectively and attack from their guard. One-dimensional CSPs need to become effective three-dimensional CSPs in order to win a belt.

VMware and Citrix just look like the top contenders right now. Yesterday was the weigh-in for their title fight. But expect more days like last Tuesday.

Rodney Rogers is co-founder and CEO of Virtustream.

Image courtesy of Flickr user fightlaunch.

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