VMware takes another whack at the cloud

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Eric Knorr.

Being first mover has its advantages. Among public cloud services, Amazon still boasts the vast majority of IaaS customers and the richest array of features (see InfoWorld’s public cloud megaguide for details).  But is Amazon the place for production enterprise workloads? The idea of putting the family jewels in the public cloud tends to make enterprise IT managers squirm. Generally speaking, those workloads stay in the data center.

VMware thinks it can change that with a hybrid cloud strategy, where on-premises VMware infrastructure melds with public IaaS to yield one seamless cloud. Bill Fathers, senior vice president and general manager for hybrid cloud, sketched out this approach to InfoWorld last week…

But we had to start the discussion with one key question: Has VMware finally decided whether it will offer its own public cloud under its own name? In a series of cloud announcements earlier this year, VMware seemed to be leaving its options open. Fathers was unequivocal, however, when he told InfoWorld that VMware was not getting in that game…

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