But when the fizz wore off, it became clear that nothing more was accomplished than making something run ‘there’ instead of ‘here’ (kinda like ‘ I lift things up and put them down‘?) with no real strategy developed to actually support, manage, monitor, or migrate that workload going forward.
Pop the cork, let’s celebrate – we’ve checked off the ‘To the Cloud’ checkbox. What I saw was that often these investigations turned to evaluations, which turned to running a production workload in a cloud (like AWS). And then they point out (and I indeed did witness) that with pressure to consume public clouds, customers had begun investigating alternatives on on-premise infrastructure. They suggest that with competing hypervisors, beefier servers that can do more with less ESXi, the year of VDI – again, maybe, someday, a perceived brain drain, and ‘cloud’ cutting in on VMware’s sales, that maybe the past decade’s monumental shift from physical to virtual courtesy of VMware’s innovation is it for the company. These folks understand the power of the Software Defined Data Center as the key to enabling IT as a Service.Īt the same time, I’ve been quietly asked by customers, peers and pundits if VMware’s act is up. I also began to see customers become increasingly interested in solutions beyond vSphere – desktop virtualization to enable end-user mobility with VMware View, cloud management and automation with vCloud Automation Center (vCAC), unified and intelligent operations management and monitoring with vCenter Operations Manager (vCOps), and leveraging the hybrid cloud to place the right workloads in the right cloud, for the right price at the right time. As I have engaged with customers large and small, I’ve seen the realization of the real, tangible benefits of VMware’s virtualization solutions to IT organizations and the businesses they serve. I’ve been incredibly fortunate over the past several years to have worked with many VMware customers as the Virtualization Practice Manager at Clearpath Solutions Group, as a leader in the Washington DC VMware User Group, and at industry events like VMworld, EMC World, VMUGs, VTUGs and VMware Knowledge Series.
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