VMware, in all its permutations, is still a force in the cloud

Grazed from GigaOM.  Author: Derrick Harris.

RightScale has been managing public cloud resources for companies since 2006, and thousands of users later, it appears to have a pretty good sense of what’s happening in the cloud space. Recently, the company released its State of the Cloud report, including a survey of more than 1,000 companies about the clouds they’re using and plan to use. Kim Weins, RightScale’s vice president of marketing, came on the Structure Show this week to talk about the results.

Here are the highlights of that interview, but you’ll want to hear the whole thing for all of Weins’s thoughts on which cloud platforms are most popular (as well as for my and Barb Darrow’s takes on the week in cloud and big data news)…


And if you’re really into learning about the future of cloud computing — the business models and the architectures — make plans to attend our Structure conference June 18 and 19 in San Francisco,. It features a who’s who list of cloud executives, architects and users from companies such as Google, Amazon Web Services, Airbnb and more…

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