VMware chief calls for multi-cloud system
VMware chief calls for multi-cloud system
Cloud computing vendors need to focus on avoiding vendor lock-in in the future and instead look for a clear balance involving integrated stacks and open standards on architecture.
This is according to Paul Maritz, the chief executive of successful virtualisation market leader VMware. Speaking at the Vmworld Europe conference, Mr Maritz remarked: “We are moving to a world where infrastructure is becoming the new hardware. We need to take that seriously. But does the cloud take us back to highly proprietary stacks?”
Businesses might want to add lock-in to the list of things to consider when they move across to the cloud or virtualisation, along with the quality of their network and whether or not they need to look into an MPLS network in order to get the most from the service.
Mr Maritz added that cloud computing providers have a responsibility to strike the right balance between integration and choice. He observed that vendors who are pushing a vision of two or three “uber-clouds” should be treated “with a certain amount of scepticism”, Datacenter Dynamics reported.
“The reality is we are going to go into a multi-cloud world, where people will have different clouds for regulatory reasons," he said.
To deliver this multi-cloud vision, the industry is having to assess its architecture and things are already starting to change in this area. VMware, for example, is largely basing its cloud services on standardised x86 architecture.
These chips are “extremely powerful”, according to the company's chief executive and have come about following a drive towards new approaches in memory architecture brought about by the cloud.
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