EMC to lean on VMware for public cloud
January 23, 2014
Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Brandon Butler.
In lieu of launching its own public cloud lineup, storage giant EMC has decided to resell the cloud products of its VMware subsidiary, Network World has learned. Despite being one of the biggest enterprise IT companies, EMC has not been seen as a major player in the public cloud market.
However, the company now plans to resell VMware’s private, public and hybrid cloud products in an effort to take on industry giants like Amazon Web Services (AWS). VMware’s cloud products will be EMC’s preferred sales option, although EMC will continue to sell other service provider options as well…
VMware is a publicly traded company and a subsidiary of EMC since being acquired in 2003. VMware has made aggressive moves in the cloud computing market in the past year – most notably the fall launch of vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS), which is its public cloud computing platform that is meant to compete with AWS. On the private cloud side, VMware’s vCloud Suite uses vSphere virtualization software (based on the ESX hypervisor) and the vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) as the basis for on-premises private clouds…
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