VMware’s Big Bets on Hybrid Cloud Good News if You’re Big Enough
There is an old joke that if you are in the woods with somebody and are chased by a bear, you do not have to be able to outrun the bear. You just have to be able to outrun the person with you.
At the recent VMworld 2017 conference and show in Las Vegas, VMware announced its partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) – called VMware Cloud on AWS – has gone live in one AWS regional data center (Oregon) and will spread to the others around the globe by the end of 2018.
But the cost will give pause to many, especially in the small enterprise space. If a minimum four beefy host servers and well over a hundred VMs is not in your cloud requirements, forget about it.
This is not the pennies-per-day cloud that has ignited the fevered imaginations of many a CFO. VMware isn’t interested in being the cheapest. It is only interested in beating the other guy being chased by the bear. In this case, the other guy is an on-premises or collocated data center hosting VMware software defined infrastructure.
VMware Cloud on AWS is not for small-time penny-ante cloud projects. It is for the enterprise looking to get serious about moving core infrastructure to the cloud. The larger the enterprise infrastructure, the more sense it will make.
