Re:VMware’s new cloud service will run on AWS
by mbesto on Thursday October 13, 2016 @08:59PM
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This is huge for a long list of middle market companies who shudder at the prospect of moving a data center from their on premise closet to a hosted solution while leveraging the same exact vSphere infrastructure they already have sunk time and money into.
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Re:VMware’s new cloud service will run on AWS
by oxyclean on Friday October 14, 2016 @09:07AM
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I have always been impressed with the amount of lock-in some companies have gotten themselves into with VMWare. Every place I've worked at which used VMWare, their tooling had a stranglehold on the entire business, with the exception of some totally greenfield stuff done on GCE or AWS.