Comments on: VMware: Stick with us because Amazon will kill us all

By: gary_read

gary_read — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 16:45:39 +0000

VMWare are right to be worried but quotes such as calling Amazon a bookstore don’t help. Sort of like Bill Gates saying all those years ago that “Apple was leading the way in colors”.

Amazon are leading the way in a new generation of computing and VMWare are one of the companies that stands to lose the most. Disruptors eventually get disrupted and most times they are unable to prevent it because all the original “disruptive talent” has long ago left the building.

This is a major dilemma for so many tech companies; how to stay relevant in the face of disruptive competition while still maintaining your revenue and EPS performance that Wall Street demands.

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 15:38:56 +0000

What a joke. Are we pretending vmware didn’t acquire Dynamic Ops, once of the best Hybrid Cloud Management tools on the market last year and already release an update that integrates it even further into vSphere? Hello?

They get it.

By: Rahul Tyagi

Rahul Tyagi — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 15:03:31 +0000

I support idea of VMWare to become as some of the alternative in enterprise computing as compared to companies like Amazon.

I think Amazon still need some improvements in their cloud operations to avoid major down times we are seeing in the recent past. We do not see major outages in google cloud, Rackspace and Microsoft!!!

Recently i did symantic analysis of Amazon’s cloud outages http://goo.gl/fYstp. As per my analysis Amazon may need rigor in SDLC and cloud operations.

By: Keith Townsend

Keith Townsend — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 13:59:06 +0000

Two completely different use cases and solutions. Plus it’s extremely difficult to find OpenStack expertise and support. It took a long time for people to trust their entire infrastructure to VMware why would they all of a sudden trust it to OpenStack?

By: David Williams

David Williams — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 00:23:07 +0000

why will anyone want to use VMWare when they can slide in KVM under OpenStack? One less check to cut to a vendor.

By: Keith Townsend

Keith Townsend — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 16:23:29 +0000

Yeah, I really like VMware solutions. I really liked Novell Netware too but when Windows better met my organization’s needs from a technical and support infrastructure perspective I switched. VMware is no different. When they stop meeting my technical and support needs I’ll switch to some other solution I’ll love. It maybe AWS or OpenStack or ….

VMware is now in the position they put other infrastructure companies when they became a disruptive solution. AWS and OpenStack are disruptive and VMware needs to innovate its way forward. Otherwise, I have a post that talks about VMware going the way of Novell over the long term.