Red Hat Counters VMware vCloud Hybrid Service
May 30, 2013
Grazed from The Var Guy. Author: Editorial Staff.
Red Hat (RHT) is making bold statements about its IaaS Open Hybrid Cloud strategy — only a few days after VMware (VMW) launched its vCloud Hybrid Service. So what’s the reality check? It goes something like this…
VMware has a massive installed base of on-premises virtualization software. That’s a natural springboard toward building private clouds or for migrating customers to VMware’s forthcoming vCloud Hybrid Service (expected for Q3 2013). If you missed details about the VMware strategy, you can find a launch replay featuring CEO Pat Gelsinger here…
So how does Red Hat hope to counter VMware and other software companies that are marching toward the cloud? Clearly, the conversation starts with Red Hat Enterprise Linux coupled with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (built on the KVM open source hypervisor). March forward and you’ll also discover Red Hat talking about CloudForms and OpenStack…
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