Early VMware public cloud users give the service a thumbs up
September 9, 2013
Grazed from VentureBeat. Author: Jordan Novet.
VMware brought out its new Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering, the vCloud Hybrid Service, to US customers several days ago. Now it has to persuade as many of them as possible — and foreign customers, too — that running certain applications in external data centers, or using those centers for testing, or backing up data, makes a world of sense.
Fortunately, vCloud Hybrid Service customers Bechtel and Digital River had good things to say about the product at VentureBeat’s CloudBeat conference in San Francisco today. While some developers appear to be interested in porting workloads among different public clouds, Christian Reilly, manager of EPC Systems at Bechtel, said he sees the new VMware public cloud as a vehicle to move certain applications from existing on-premise infrastructure to external clouds…
And he thinks that capability could be of use to other big companies. “I’ve not seen too many cases of enterprises being able to move workloads in different environments,” Reilly said. As for cloudbursting a given application from the on-premise facility to a cloud when traffic peaks — VMware or not — that’s more unicorns and rainbows than anything else, Reilly said…
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