OpenStack vs. VMware battle set to heat up over IoT, NFV
July 12, 2016
Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Tom Nolle.
Any journey is a combination of where you start and where you want to go, and this is a critical component of the OpenStack vs. VMware debate. Enterprises have been using VMware for years but other IT vendors that work with those enterprises have committed to OpenStack. The outcome of the tug-of-war between VMware and OpenStack may depend on two emerging applications of the cloud — network functions virtualization and the Internet of Things.
Virtual resources create a new level of complexity for data center operations teams. Traditionally, many companies installed and integrated their applications manually, or relied on simple operating system scripting languages. But if you have to deploy applications to a resource pool, simple scripts leave too much room for configuration errors. Enterprises now rely on DevOps tools for agile deployment support…
These tools have typically been neutral in the OpenStack vs. VMware cloud war, because they can support either environment…
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