Red Hat jabs at VMware’s “one cloud” strategy calling it “flawed”
February 5, 2015
Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Brandon Butler.
Red Hat cloud strategy general manager Bryan Che is out with a blog post today that takes some harsh shots at rival VMware. For background, VMware this week announced a new “one cloud, any app, any device” strategy. Read more about that here and check out our conversation with VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger here. Here’s Red Hat’s take on that news. Surprise, surprise they think they can do better:
“VMware’s vision for One Cloud and OpenStack sounds appealing–one unified cloud for running both cloud-native and traditional applications–but it is fundamentally flawed in implementation because these two classes of workloads have quite different requirements for infrastructure. And, by attempting to mash these two worlds together, all One Cloud provides is one limited cloud that is not optimized to run any workload.” Read the whole critique here…
Che continues with more targeted criticism. His basic point is that vSphere – VMware’s virtualization management platform – is not an ideal platform for running OpenStack. As an IaaS cloud software, OpenStack is meant to have access to a large capacity of VMs that can scale up and down quickly, with applications running in the cloud being able to survive VMs that go down…
Read more from the source @ http://www.networkworld.com/article/2880752/cloud-computing/red-hat-jabs-at-vmware-s-one-cloud-strategy-calling-it-flawed.html