Microsoft vs. VMware: Who’ll be private cloud king?
September 6, 2012
Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Editorial Staff.
For Microsoft and VMware, the high-stakes effort to supply management software for the virtualized data center continues, with both companies now using some of the same terminology. But the similarities stop with talk. The two competitors have very distinct points of view on how to build out the enterprise private cloud.
At a virtual event Tuesday, Satya Nadella, President of Microsoft’s server and tools business, released Windows Server 2012 as an operating system "built from the cloud up." Nadella said Windows Server 2012 can be used to power both Microsoft’s public Azure Cloud and Microsoft customers’ private clouds…
That’s a new role for Windows in the cloud era. "Only Microsoft is able to offer the consistent platform that the cloud demands," said Nadella during the virtual event, staged in Redmond, Wash.
The Windows Server 2012 that hosts Microsoft Bing, Xbox Live, Windows Live, Office 365, and Dynamics CRM is the same Windows Server that you should use to build out a private cloud, "a dynamic, multitenant infrastructure that goes beyond virtualization." The private cloud manages compute, storage, and networking as pooled, logical resources in the same way that the public cloud does, he said…
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