VMware vows holy grail for cloud
September 1, 2015
Grazed from Fortune. Author: Barb Darrow.
On Monday, VMware showed off technology that it says will move working computing jobs between private and public clouds provided all the clouds involved run VMware VMW 0.11% software. An analogy would be if a car company could move an automotive assembly line between one plant and another without shutting it down. You can see the difficulty.
The crowd at VMworld 2015 applauded the demo of cross-cloud live migration but details on availability were scant. A blog post about the “Project Skyscraper” preview said the goal is to let customers “extend their data center to the public cloud and vice-a-versa by seamlessly operating across boundaries while providing enterprise-level security and business continuity.” No timeframe was given…
VMware’s vSphere leads the market in server virtualization, technology which crams many applications onto fewer servers. Virtualization is key both inside a company’s own data center and in cloud computing…
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