How VMware sees OpenStack as a standard
May 21, 2014
Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Brandon Butler.
VMware is not necessarily known as a company that thoroughly embraces open source, but one of its top CTOs says OpenStack could play an important role as a standard in the cloud computing market. The pronouncement reflects VMware’s efforts to support non VMware-workloads in its management products, something that may have seemed far out just a few years ago.
Chris Wolf, CTO of Americas for VMware – and a former Gartner research vice president – predicts that OpenStack will not be a pervasive standard cloud management software. But, he says in a world of cloud offerings from multiple vendors, OpenStack has an opportunity to be a standard that various cloud management platforms can integrate with…
To that end, Wolf says VMware is committed to supporting OpenStack workloads, with the goal of having customers run and manage OpenStack clouds using VMware’s automation software…
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