Comments on: Clouds, Vapor and Other Things That Don’t Quite Exist Yet? http://toutvirtual.com/blogs/2009/09/15/clouds-vapor-and-other-things-that-dont-quite-exist-yet/ Best Practices Guide to Virtualization - From Getting Started with Virtualization to Advanced Strategic Virtualization Concepts Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:37:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Schorschi http://toutvirtual.com/blogs/2009/09/15/clouds-vapor-and-other-things-that-dont-quite-exist-yet/comment-page-1/#comment-32302 Schorschi Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:41:49 +0000 http://toutvirtual.com/blogs/?p=61#comment-32302 Hi Karl, great perspective, I heard some of the same comments or similar from a few friends outside of our respective scopes, so the theme... of isolation if you will is not lost on others I believe. Thanks for reading the blog as well! Hi Karl, great perspective, I heard some of the same comments or similar from a few friends outside of our respective scopes, so the theme… of isolation if you will is not lost on others I believe. Thanks for reading the blog as well!

]]> By: Karl Kay http://toutvirtual.com/blogs/2009/09/15/clouds-vapor-and-other-things-that-dont-quite-exist-yet/comment-page-1/#comment-32300 Karl Kay Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:36:40 +0000 http://toutvirtual.com/blogs/?p=61#comment-32300 Another other major concern I had from VMWorld was that VMWare seems very myopic in only supporting their technologies. I understand there positioning themselves as the best but they seem to be less and less interested in playing well with other virtualization and paying lip service to very limited "standards". Hyper-V, KVM , and XEN may still lack the full capabilities of VMWARE but if somebody's able to put together a full management infrastructure that can incorporate all of these hypervisors into a common management framework they'll be able to cut into VMWare's value proposition and market share. VMware is starting t remind me of way our friends in Redmond acted during the early 90s. Perhaps Paul Maritz brought that with him ;) Another other major concern I had from VMWorld was that VMWare seems very myopic in only supporting their technologies. I understand there positioning themselves as the best but they seem to be less and less interested in playing well with other virtualization and paying lip service to very limited “standards”.

Hyper-V, KVM , and XEN may still lack the full capabilities of VMWARE but if somebody’s able to put together a full management infrastructure that can incorporate all of these hypervisors into a common management framework they’ll be able to cut into VMWare’s value proposition and market share.

VMware is starting t remind me of way our friends in Redmond acted during the early 90s. Perhaps Paul Maritz brought that with him ;)

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