Cloud and Hosting Industry Reacts to VMware’s Unified Cloud Strategy
February 10, 2015
Graze from Whir. Author: David Hamilton.
VMware made a series of announcements last week in support of unified “One Cloud” platform for the hybrid cloud that, according to the company, is the “first unified platform for the hybrid cloud.” On Monday, Feb. 2, VMware announced several updates that support this One Cloud effort including the new vSphere 6 platform, VMware Integrated OpenStack, Virtual SAN 6, vSphere Virtual Volumes, and vCloud Air Hybrid Networking Services.
With VMware being a direct provider hybrid and public cloud services through vCloud as well as through its ecosystem of cloud service provider partners, many voices from the hosting and cloud community have weighed in on VMware’s new capabilities and what it means for the industry…
Red Hat Cloud Product Strategy GM Bryan Che took to the Red Hat blog to explain that, while appealing, the idea that One Cloud could offer a single unified cloud for running both cloud-native and traditional applications will inevitably run into problems. “[B]y attempting to mash these two worlds together, all One Cloud provides is one limited cloud that is not optimized to run any workload,” Che writes…
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