Why VMware isn’t flinching as Amazon’s cloud keeps growing
June 20, 2013
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Jordan Novet.
VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger is comfortable with the fact that Amazon got a major head start in running Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). But in that game, he doesn’t believe one size fits all. “It’s hard for Amazon to reach into the enterprise,” he told GigaOM Founder and Senior Writer Om Malik during a talk at our Structure conference on Wednesday. By comparison, Gelsinger said his company “has an extraordinary leadership position already.”
He expects VMware’s recently revealed public cloud, known as vCloud Hybrid Service, to get plenty of business from large companies that are deep into the VMware world but see value in being able to call on scaled-out shared infrastructure whenever that’s necessary…
That could open up the potential for new sorts of applications, part running on premise, part running in the public cloud, he said. When Om wondered aloud if it wouldn’t be easier for Amazon to get into the enterprise than for VMware to get to a very strong public-cloud position, Gelsinger came back quickly with sentiment to the contrary he’s heard from a chief information officer of one of the top 10 banks in the world…
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