Re: [Publicity] Interesting article about Software Defined Data Center & Virtualization

[George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 04/02/2014 04:29 PM, Russ Pavlicek wrote:
> Right.  Virtualization is now a component, rather than the goal, of IT
> plans. SDDC will continue to heat up.  The user communities for
> hypervisors will continue to become more abstract and indirect (kind
> of like the user community for glibc).
>
> The VMware/Cisco quote highlights the future while seemingly missing
> the point: the vendor lock-in of the future in the datacenter will be
> software, not hardware.  VMware knows this and has hurried down that
> road in order to get its piece of that pie.
Yeah, it's pretty disingenuous for VMWare, who have spent their entire 
corporate lifetime locking people into a hypervisor and then charging 
high rents, to say "Oh, the advantage of using our SDDC is that we won't 
lock you in."
In fact the opposite is true: the reason they're getting into SDDC is 
because they *can't* charge high rents for hypervisors anymore, and 
they're *hoping* to lock you in with SDDC so they can charge high rents 
again.
 -George

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