After spending time at VMware and Cloud Expo last week, I believe that VMware's lack of full backing for Cloud Foundry software is holding back the entire PaaS market in the enterprise. Don't get me wrong, there's a lot of momentum in PaaS despite how very immature the market is. But this momentum is in... Continue Reading →
VMware’s OpenStack Hook-up
VMware has applied to join the OpenStack Foundation, potentially giving the burgeoning open source cloud stack movement a huge dose of credibility in the enterprise. There are risks to the community in VMware’s involvement, of course, but on the balance this could be a pivotal event. There is an alternative explanation, which I will hit... Continue Reading →
The Red Ocean of Cloud Infrastructure Stacks (updated)
Update: am revising this still... Reposting now - but send me your comments via @CloudBzz on Twitter if you have them. It seems like every day there's a new company touting their infrastructure stack. I'm sure I'm missing some, but I show more than 30 solutions for building clouds below, and I am sure that more... Continue Reading →
Forward PaaS: VMware’s Cloud Foundry First Down
I know it's baseball season, but there's no passing in baseball and this post will just work better as a football analogy. VMware's announcement this week of Cloud Foundry (twitter @cloudfoundry) has gotten a lot of attention from the cloud community, and for good reason. Just as hardware is a low-margin commodity business, hardware as... Continue Reading →
VMware Should Run a Cloud or Stop Charging for the Hypervisor (or both)
I had a number of conversations this past week at CloudConnect in Santa Clara regarding the relative offerings of Microsoft and VMware in the cloud market. Microsoft is going the vertically integrated route by offering their own Windows Azure cloud with a variety of interesting and innovated features. VMware, in contrast, is focused on building... Continue Reading →
John Treadway 