Nebula’s Kemp Challenges VMware’s Cloud Vision
August 30, 2013
Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Charles Babcock.
As the CEO of a cloud startup, it’s a little frustrating for Chris Kemp to sit back and watch VMware bid for cloud customers. Kemp, with no official role at VMworld, has been among the 22,000 VMware customers, partners and onlookers at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. As events unfolded, Kemp saw VMware saying it was offering a different kind of cloud than the one he is trying to deliver.
Kemp’s company, Nebula, makes cloud software based on open source OpenStack, and the former NASA CTO and CIO thinks there’s an era dawning in which many mission-critical applications will be run on cloud architecture. He doesn’t care whether the cloud is inside the enterprise or outside. Nebula will be happy to supply both…
That sounds something like VMware when it describes vCloud Hybrid Service. VMware wants customers to have the option of linking their on-premises, virtualized environment to a similarly configured service outside it. It will be happy to supply both. The service provided might be through a third party, such as Peak Colo or Bluelock, or it might be from one of VMware’s public cloud data centers…
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