VMware Reaches Critical Cloud Mass
July 24, 2014
Grazed from MSPMentor. Author: Michael Vizard.
Given the proliferation of VMware across the enterprise extending the reach of that virtual machine platform into the cloud should be a no brainer. In reality, that process has been more arduous than most providers of managed services would have liked. The good news is that VMware is finally gaining enough cloud critical mass to make it worthwhile for MSPs to extend the reach of their VMware services.
While MSPs currently make a lot of money managing instances of VMware on premise, the number of options for deploying VMware in the cloud has been comparatively limited. Initially, VMware has sought to partner with cloud service providers to accomplish that goal. But many cloud service providers prefer open source virtual machines because they would rather not have to incur licensing fees for virtual machine software…
As a result, it took VMware a little while to roll out its own cloud service based on VMware, which beyond being deployed in the U.S. and U.K. will soon be available in Japan…
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