VMware do we go from here?

Storage Architect VMWorld Europe was held last week in Barcelona. We saw the release of vSphere 6.5, plus a suite of other products and enhancements to the core platform. There was also the announcement of a partnership with AWS, which had many (including myself) scratching their heads as to exactly what it meant. So where is …

[thondwe]

Long term

VMware seems not to have a long term strategy? SaaS seems to be the way that the Software Companies are going - Safe regular income, only need to support one platform rather than loads of local ones. Would Suggest that Hybrid SaaS is creeping in too - so an appliance in your data center which is an extension of a Cloud service. Already happening for IaaS/PaaS - Cisco Meraki, Azure Stack, etc.

So IaaS/PaaS suppliers are going to be a few big companies - AWS, Azure, Google, OpenStack and Container based options?

VMware is about local IaaS for legacy applications. So they end up like IBM + Mainframes - serving a steady but limited market? And hardware suppliers will either be supporting the big players or these legacy environments.

[vivewein]

Amazon and vmware getting more intimate

Maybe amazon buys vmware. Would make much more sense that any other ideas in the past freeing vmware. (And getting docker the same time)

[Cloud Sleuth]

Re: Amazon and vmware getting more intimate

Interesting thought and something I would agree would be compelling - leading both the private and public space. Maybe the recent announcements are the start of that journey.