Despite new public cloud offerings, VMware still playing catch-up
January 20, 2015
Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Brandon Butler.
The newest feature added to VMware’s vCloud Air public cloud is the ability to spin virtual machines up and down with just a few clicks and pay for them by the hour. This better positions VMware to go head-to-head with public IaaS cloud vendors Amazon Web Services and Microsoft, but analysts say VMware still has lots of catching up to do.
VMware’s stronghold in the virtualization market has made it an important cloud computing vendor to watch. The company, touting a software-defined data center strategy since its VMworld event last year, has helped many customers migrate their virtual environments into private clouds via automation and self-service provisioning features…
But competing in the public cloud market will be a tough challenge even for a company with such name recognition, analysts say…
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