VMware must demonstrate it is a ‘serious IaaS provider’ at VMworld: Gartner
August 22, 2013
Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Archana Venkatraman.
As VMware readies to kick off its annual virtualisation and cloud conference, VMworld 2013 later this week, Gartner analyst explains what users can expect at the event and the company’s future in the mobile and cloud era. At the event featuring more than 21,000 customers, partners and system integrators, VMware chief executive Pat Gelsinger will discuss the next generation of IT and how the software-defined datacentre (SDDC) can extend virtualisation and automated management across storage, networking and security.
The term SDDC rose to prominence last year during VMworld 2012 with VMware touting it as the next best thing in IT. A software-defined datacentre is an IT facility where the elements of the infrastructure – networking, storage, CPU and security – are virtualised and delivered as a service and the operation of the entire infrastructure is automated by software…
At VMworld 2013, VMware will have to make a case for its SDDC and its hybrid cloud initiatives said, Gartner’s research vice president Chris Wolf. Earlier this year, the company launched its hybrid cloud IaaS platform vCloud Hybrid Service. The platform couples VMware’s virtualisation and software-defined datacentre capabilities to extend them to the public cloud “seamlessly”…
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