'SURPRISE!' Amazon teleports cloud tech into VMware data centers, slurps cash Amazon has teleported its cloud business into the management software of a rival that is used in thousands of data centers across the world. One of the great things about superficially boring tech plug-in announcements is that they usually conceal a nefarious and well thought-out strategic attack on another company's business …
This is unfair. I have had many a cheap curry and have only once or twice experienced severe squits because of the quality of food. I am just as likely to experience "fluid moves" from an expensive curry; it very much matters how used your guts are to processing the amount of India/Pakistan/Bangladesh authenticity in the food itself.
One of the cheapest curries I ever had was from a Pakistani restaurant and it made me feel like a (curry) virgin, such was its quality. No fuid movement to speak of.
I think the author has the wrong end of the stick a tad. First off amazon would need to work with VMware to use this plugin, as using unsupported plugins causes issues when getting.. surprisingly enough... support.
Also VCAC (vCloud automationn center) has come build in with an Amazon endpoint for the last few versions anyway, and multiple other endpoints.
To put it another way, if you have the option of two on-site virty controllers, one which can integrate easily with many different compute resources (rackspace, amazon etc), and antoher which only works with one... azure... which are you going to go with!
Lock-in is horrible, more of this please for everyones benifit.
(disclaimer- I work for VMware, but this is personal opinion only)
Well, VCAC costs a fortune and the Amazon plugin is free.
On going cloud costs would be a lot lower with Amazon.
VCAC integrates with Amazon and other cloud providers as endpoints, it won't, off the bat let you move existing work loads between providers on the fly.
Deployment time for VCAC implementation is typically a month minimum.
(disclaimer - I don't work for a software supplier but I do implement their products day in and day out)
Fair enough about VCAC. I think the Amazon oprtion is still a good thing for VMware tho. In reality people who are using Vmware in the first place are doing so for a reason.
Also bear in mind vcac is a management layer on top of VC. By directly integrating into VC you may be able to offload your compute, but there is a whole load of management tools, such as networking, deployment workflows etc, where you will have difficulty manageing.
At the end of the day, vCHS should be able to stand on its own merits as a cloud provider, it is offering a different type of service to Amazon (so they say). In my opinion IF the biggest selling point is vendor lock-in then it has already failled, whereas giving additional options to customers will increase goodwill and perhaps even vcenter adoption!
(same guy as before ;)
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