vCloud Air poised to become a market competitor for enterprise IT? #VMworld by Andrew Ruggiero | Sep 3, 2015
The theme of one cloud – any application, any device – has been the line from VMware, Inc. consistently throughout this year’s VMworld 2015. Ajay Patel, SVP of product development for VMware’s Cloud Services, sat down with Dave Vellante and Brian Gracely of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, to discuss the cloud offering from VMware, where it currently stands and the challenges it faces going forward.
Becoming relevant
When asked about the past two years, Patel said that “we started with just three data centers in North America and have expanded to five,” noting that the geographic reach of vCloud Air today is now at “99% global coverage.” vCloud Air is in competition with Amazon Web Services, which is a clear market leader offering new and innovative services year after year.
Patel acknowledged Amazon’s innovation but said vCloud Air and the vCloud Air Network are poised to quickly become a market competitor for enterprise IT with an edge in managing heterogeneous cloud environments in the competitor pool offering mostly homogeneous solutions.
The challenges
The future of this industry space is like that of many other industries: dominated by customer demand. This is a policy that drives vCloud Air services according to Patel, who said the company’s eye is toward enterprise IT and focusing on their needs. When asked what keeps him up at night, he replied, “How do we ramp up?” referencing the increasing demand that VMware’s Cloud Services is seeing from those enterprise IT consumers.
He suggested that one of the drivers of this demand is the increase in applications being provided by VMware, highlighting its “sexy announcement” of vMotion as something customers had been asking for years ago and a sample of the future to come.
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vCloud Air poised to become a market competitor for enterprise IT? #VMworld by Andrew Ruggiero | Sep 3, 2015
The theme of one cloud – any application, any device – has been the line from VMware, Inc. consistently throughout this year’s VMworld 2015. Ajay Patel, SVP of product development for VMware’s Cloud Services, sat down with Dave Vellante and Brian Gracely of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, to discuss the cloud offering from VMware, where it currently stands and the challenges it faces going forward.
Becoming relevant
When asked about the past two years, Patel said that “we started with just three data centers in North America and have expanded to five,” noting that the geographic reach of vCloud Air today is now at “99% global coverage.” vCloud Air is in competition with Amazon Web Services, which is a clear market leader offering new and innovative services year after year.
Patel acknowledged Amazon’s innovation but said vCloud Air and the vCloud Air Network are poised to quickly become a market competitor for enterprise IT with an edge in managing heterogeneous cloud environments in the competitor pool offering mostly homogeneous solutions.
The challenges
The future of this industry space is like that of many other industries: dominated by customer demand. This is a policy that drives vCloud Air services according to Patel, who said the company’s eye is toward enterprise IT and focusing on their needs. When asked what keeps him up at night, he replied, “How do we ramp up?” referencing the increasing demand that VMware’s Cloud Services is seeing from those enterprise IT consumers.
He suggested that one of the drivers of this demand is the increase in applications being provided by VMware, highlighting its “sexy announcement” of vMotion as something customers had been asking for years ago and a sample of the future to come.
@theCUBE
#VMworld
