While the world gets all excited about new applications and the public cloud, enterprises have more pressing concerns.
Interesting news from IBM InterConnect today (Disclusure: IBM contributed to my travel and expenses to attend the event). Big blue is teaming up with VMware in order to give enterprises that use VMware (which, it has to be said, is just about everyone) an easy way to move their workloads to the cloud.
The strategic partnership has created an architecture that allows enterprises to extend an on-premises data center into the cloud. A few years ago this would have been called cloudbursting and touted as a magical way to move spike loads from on-premises infrastructure into the cloud when demand peaks. Since then, however, the world has gotten a little more realistic and cloudbursting is seen as very much an edge case (and a problematic one at that). Now this sort of portability play is more about sensitive information, geographic granularity and having a logical progression from the on-premises world to the cloudy one.
According to the companies, with a single click customers will be able to automatically provision pre-configured or custom VMware environments in any model they choose — on premises, in the IBM Cloud or both. In terms of go-to market, the two companies will jointly market and sell offerings around hybrid cloud deployment, workload migration and data recovery.
This is an area that a plethora of different vendors have been working on in recent years, in particular, Cliqr, AppZero, Ravello, CloudSwitch and CloudVelocity. However, the critical issue here isn’t technology per se, but rather it is licensing, go-to market and coherent sales approaches. Something that this IBM and VMware tie up looks likely to resolve.
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SOURCE: Computer World
Ben Kepes
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