VMware hosting must embrace cloud stack heterogeneity

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Bernard Golden.

As VMware gears up to compete in an increasingly cloud-led IT world, the company wants its customers standardizing on VMware hosting technologies. In the data center virtualization battle, the company was very successful in homogenizing a customer’s software setup. Cloud computing, however, is a very different beast. VMware users are very unlikely to standardize on a VMware-only software stack to host clouds, due to other viable cloud orchestrator providers and the lure of public cloud computing.

Tools from several established cloud orchestration software providers can ride atop VMware’s hypervisor. For VMware cloud computing to attract users away from these companies, it must offer functionally superior and economically competitive products…

A change in philosophy
More troubling for a VMware-centric worldview, though, is the fact that the public cloud sector doesn’t align with the company’s vision of VMware technology hosting both internal and external clouds. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a coveted hosting component in any user’s cloud environment, as evidenced by its runaway success…

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