VMware bungles cloud management portal upgrade, twice in two weeks

VMware has bungled a portal upgrade project that aims to give its customers a superior experience when managing their clouds. In late August, the virtualization giant advised customers it would soon “transition” them from the existing VMware Cloud Services Portal to a new Cloud Services Console. On September 13th, VMware …

[Taliesinawen]

Never change a running system :o

“This is the weakest point of the current practice: the deployment of complex systems on a heterogeneous, distributed platform is typically a nightmare, the required system-level testing is virtually unsupported, and maintenance and upgrading very often turn out to be extremely time consuming and expensive, de facto responsible for the slogan “never change a running system”.”

Going on such as the recent Jaguar Land Rover hack. I am becoming less and less impressed with the whole; virtual machines (VM) running on software define networks (SDN) running virtual applets in the “CLOUD”.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Never change a running system :o

JLR’s problem was more TCS than its Digital Transformation.

Strategically it’s always late to the ball. Take a look at competitors Tesla, BMW, Mercedes, Lincoln wtc … JLR have barely just got Hybrid out of the door. Day late, dollar short and kess than 10 years after finishing their nee Engine factory are ripping it apart to electrify it..ePace waste if time as launched and largely abandoned. FormulaE team and drivetrain maker and no real strategy.

If you need a recount ask M&S and Coop on the IT.

[Anonymous Coward]

Twelve weeks to Xmas

that 6 more attempts at their current rate. So I guess it will be over by Xmas – hopefully not in four years time. ;)

[CorwinX]

I worked for a number of investment firms...

... and banks in the City some years ago.

And the chances of them moving to The Cloud is zero.

The main datacentre of one has tank traps at the runup to the gate (not joking) and airlocks and metal detectors to get inside the building.

And they're going to trust billions in financial info to a US company run, now, by a predatory accountantcy firm?

[jlturriff]

"The migration plan is consistent with Broadcom’s past decisions to replace VMware’s support sites with services that mirror the look and feel, and presumably backend, of the portals it operates for users of its other products."

So they're trying to clone an existing, working system with another that looks and acts identically? What's the advantage, versus just modifying the original, which they already own?

[Pirate Peter]

square peg into round hole springs to mind

step 1:- if it won't fit easily, get a hammer

step 2:- if it still won't fit get a bigger hammer

step 3:- if it still won't fit, get bigger hammer and repeat step2 (until it fits or you smash it to bits)

[hx]

And next week they're announcing they're spinning off vmware

...because they couldn't figure out how to migrate all those portal users over to the new system.