VMworld 2009 ends and VMware’s vCloud platformization strategy unfolds with vCloud APIs
By Tarry Singh at 26 February, 2009, 5:34 pm
My personal and deep analysis will follow very soon.
Singing the vcloud API standard song is very astute. It reassures all people already on board and climbing on board the VMware bandwagon that VMware is open and not looking to lock them in. Even if Microsoft doesn’t join in this standardisation effort with a whole heart, it doesn’t matter so long as VMware gets enough critical mass.
By having external cloud suppliers and internal cloud users believe that cloud federation through VMware’s vCloud infrastructure is realistic then the two types of cloud user will bolster and reassure each other. They want it to happen and, if it does, then Hyper-V is locked out unless it plays by the VMware-driven and VMware partner-supported cloud standardisation rules, in which case MIcrosoft’s cloud customers are open to competitive attack. It’s unlikely to happen.
This is the plan – if it comes off, then like Oracle’s database facing SQL Server competition, VMware can withstand the expected Hyper-V assaults and emerge relatively unscathed. The VMware kids say the company is still a start-up at heart. You can understand that; there’s a lot of energy there, but the start-up sprint is over; they’re in for the long haul now.
Coach Maritz has to keep them enthusiastic and focussed, avoiding missteps – otherwise their success, like that of NetScape, Lotus, Corel and other suppliers blasted into cowering submission by the Redmond army, will turn out to be merely virtual too
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