{"id":12522,"date":"2012-05-08T18:40:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T17:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=12522"},"modified":"2012-05-08T18:40:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T17:40:00","slug":"vmware-cloud-management-stuck-in-the-1990s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=12522","title":{"rendered":"VMware Cloud Management Stuck In The 1990s"},"content":{"rendered":"

Credit to Dave Northey (DPE, MSFT IE) for blogging<\/a> this one.  VMware\u2019s CTO, Dr. Stephen Herrod says:<\/font><\/p>\n

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VMware Cloud Infrastructure Suite is really more of a marketing term. Those of you know our products deeply know that they don\u2019t fit this well together as they need to. Some of them have multiple databases, some don\u2019t look the same, some install differently, and what I can\u2019t stand that is Site Recovery Manager doesn\u2019t currently work with vCloud Director. So, what we are basically able to say is that we created and acquired companies that led to a lot of individual products that don\u2019t work well enough together yet.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Worse \u2026 he was caught on video, as you can see on the link in Dave\u2019s post<\/a>.  Someone call Tad<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Seriously, I\u2019ve been talking about this for a while.  VMware went and bought a slew of companies in the last few years.  Last year I was at a big VMware event in Dublin where they pushed their \u201cintegrated\u201d cloud solution for vSphere.  If by integrated they meant that they changed the icons, grouped them together, and stuck a \u201cv\u201d in front of the name, then they did no better than Amdahl or CA were doing in the 1990\u2019s.  I know; I worked with both product sets back then.  What you got were uncoupled, different, and non-integrated point solutions.  Hardly a cloud at all.<\/p>\n

That sort of thing should be buried with grunge rock and rap metal back in that dark, dark decade.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, a couple of months ago I was asked to whiteboard the integration of System Center 2012.  I had to tell the people in question that I might as well scribble lines all over the board because it was so deeply integrated.  That\u2019s a modern day, integrated solution for ya!<\/p>\n

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Credit to Dave Northey (DPE, MSFT IE) for blogging this one.  VMware\u2019s CTO, Dr. Stephen Herrod says: VMware Cloud Infrastructure Suite is really more of a marketing term. Those of you know our products deeply know that they don\u2019t fit this well together as they need to. Some of them have multiple databases, some don\u2019t … Continue reading “VMware Cloud Management Stuck In The 1990s”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[88,195,103],"class_list":["post-12522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtualisation","tag-private-cloud","tag-virtualisation","tag-vmware"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t