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VMware CEO: OpenStack Is Not For the Enterprise

Posted by samzenpus on from the home-game dept.

coondoggie writes "VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger says he doesn't expect open source cloud project OpenStack to catch on significantly in the enterprise market, instead he says it's more of a platform for service providers to build public clouds. It's a notion that others in the market have expressed in the past, but also one that OpenStack backers have tried hard to shake."

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  1. Not exactly suprprising by TheReaperD · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Big corporate CEO says open source projects are only for geeks, children and people who can't afford it. News at 11.

    I'm pretty sure that CEOs have been feed this so much by their marketing executives whose paychecks are on the line that they truly believe it. It just makes it so much more fun when they file bankruptcy or get bought out and the new company cans them without their golden parachutes.

    --
    "Be particularly skeptical when presented with evidence confirming what you already believe." -
    1. Re:Not exactly suprprising by CodeBuster · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Part of the job of any CEO is to publicly promote the company and make bold statements not just in support of the company and its products but also against the competition and their products. He's just doing his job.

  2. Re:Citrix Clones by jaseuk · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I agree for the small environment. A 50 man company will not need 1-2 IT people.

    For the Enterprise, I doubt it. If you have more than 1,000 users you still have enough on-site hardware and networking to worry about, that you'll still need IT. Even if it's just for making purchasing decisions, pushing buttons for off site support, information governance, project management and resolving issues when multi-cloud services are in play, it's the latter that becomes the problem.

    If you have multiple tenants for the same cloud services in one company behind one IP address, things start getting really interesting really fast. As when you and a partner company use different cloud services and you start having difficulties. Trust me.. Microsoft / Google etc. can't just stick Wireshark on their data centre to work out exactly what's happening. All current troubleshoot tends to rely on a non-cloud partner having these skills to give them the detail that they can't afford to investigate.

    I'm not a nimby, I've helped and encouraged the use of a number of cloud services in my enterprise, particularly for easily solved problems or where it's so specialised or small that it's really not worth anyones time learning how to do it in house. I'm sure there will be a move to outsource a load of services to cloud providers.. It'll be when people try to switch for the first time that the difficulties arise. So I expect "Cloud Reconsidered" in 3-5 years. Probably also if there is another major 2E2 debacle or security breach or outage.

    I cloud be wrong.

    Jason.

  3. Re:Diggin their grave... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    I agree.

    VMware is also digging it's own grave internally -- they have many ex-Microsoft management who have infected the product line with a Microsoft centric view and did not even understand the core products and how they work. esxi is a real time unix like os with a unix like kernel. Most managers do not even know that. They are repeating the mistakes of Microsoft in VMware are appear to be oblivious to it.

    There is a great push to move jobs offshore to minimize costs. That really worked well for Microsoft -- Vista, Windows 8, RT Tablets, .....

    Barriers had been errected to stifle / slow down reporting of bugs. Thus time to resolution of bugs has dramatically increased.

    The attack on openstack is a deep-seated fear that they will have serious competition in the next 3-5 years and that the "monopoly" is coming to an end and that they will actually have to compete for market share.