VMware Bets Big On Hybrid Cloud Computing
February 3, 2015
Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Mike Vizard.
When it comes to hybrid cloud computing partners of VMware (VMW) have been stuck between a proverbial rock and a hard place. In terms of applications running in a local dater center, VMware has been rock solid. But in terms of the cloud VMware is overshadowed by Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and a small army of cloud service providers that rely heavily towards open source software.
VMware this week took a major step towards making things less hard for its partners in the cloud with the release of VMware vSphere 6, an upgrade that among other things adds support for the open source OpenStack cloud management framework and an implementation of VMware NSX networking software that later this year will be able to span on premise environments and the VMware vCloud Air public cloud service…
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