Comments on: VMware Soups Up vCloud, Still Has PaaS Plans

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Tue, 26 Apr 2011 21:38:41 +0000

[...] terms of availability and probably will continue to be just that. But projects like OpenStack and VMware’s vCloud initiative offer the promise of many cloud providers all standardized on the same core infrastructure [...]

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Microsoft Finally Enables Hybrid Azure Clouds: Cloud Computing News « — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:55:07 +0000

[...] is further along with its vCloud tools and hybrid cloud strategy than is Microsoft, but Microsoft can’t catch up if it doesn’t start competing first. [...]

By: @mathewlodge

@mathewlodge — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 21:58:37 +0000

Why “unfortunately”? There’s no economic benefit in re-writing every app they have. I had a customer tell me the other day that they have 1600 apps — that they know of. Sure, new stuff or actively maintained apps will head towards PaaS. But there sure isn’t anything wrong with making existing apps perform more flexibly and at lower cost in IaaS. Yes, it’s a first step. What’s so unfortunate about this?

By: Derrick Harris

Derrick Harris — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 23:14:51 +0000

Couldn’t agree more. It’ll be a slow progression, for sure, among enterprises, but that was expected all along.

By: @mccrory

@mccrory — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 21:13:47 +0000

The future is PaaS, but the present is IaaS. The problem I see is that most Enterprises think of Cloud as an automation and efficiency play for VMs under IaaS. Unfortunately, this is only the first step down the real efficiency and scalability that Clouds can offer by operating as a PaaS.