Comments on: VMWare: Coming Out of the Cloud? http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/12/07/vmware-coming-out-of-the-cloud/ because technology is just another ecosystem Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:57:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: tecosystems » Vegas, Baby, Vegas http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/12/07/vmware-coming-out-of-the-cloud/#comment-469285 tecosystems » Vegas, Baby, Vegas Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:52:00 +0000 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/12/07/vmware-coming-out-of-the-cloud/#comment-469285 [...] with respect to cloud computing (which, overly attentive readers might remember, I’ve been critical of in the [...] [...] with respect to cloud computing (which, overly attentive readers might remember, I’ve been critical of in the [...]

]]> By: JP http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/12/07/vmware-coming-out-of-the-cloud/#comment-242151 JP Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:20:29 +0000 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/12/07/vmware-coming-out-of-the-cloud/#comment-242151 Of course, Novell announced live migration support in SUSE Linux Enterprise some time back, but that's neither here nor there. One thing that you are missing is that VMWare's hypervisor isn't nearly as capable as XEN's. Where XEN or rather the Linux distributions are lacking is in management. Management of the VM's has been VMWare's niche for a long time. However, Novell is encroaching on that with the release of ZENworks Orchestrator. This nifty package incorporates nearly everything VMWare has and does some things that VMWare does not. Amazon's EC2 isn't anything special. It's still XEN under the covers. What makes EC2 standout is that it is running in a data center that handles a HUGE number of transactions. A data center that is fairly well run and well recognized. What's more interesting is that the market that Amazon has opened is what Sun has been attempting for years with NO success. Of course, Novell announced live migration support in SUSE Linux Enterprise some time back, but that’s neither here nor there.

One thing that you are missing is that VMWare’s hypervisor isn’t nearly as capable as XEN’s. Where XEN or rather the Linux distributions are lacking is in management. Management of the VM’s has been VMWare’s niche for a long time. However, Novell is encroaching on that with the release of ZENworks Orchestrator. This nifty package incorporates nearly everything VMWare has and does some things that VMWare does not.

Amazon’s EC2 isn’t anything special. It’s still XEN under the covers. What makes EC2 standout is that it is running in a data center that handles a HUGE number of transactions. A data center that is fairly well run and well recognized.

What’s more interesting is that the market that Amazon has opened is what Sun has been attempting for years with NO success.

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