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To an engineer, nothing. These acquisitions are part of a coming war over hybrid/on-prem dominance. Corporate VMware installations usually don't mean just a few
by dmw_ng 6y ago
To an engineer, nothing. These acquisitions are part of a coming war over hybrid/on-prem dominance. Corporate VMware installations usually don't mean just a few instances, but entire buildings. If you think of the mobile phone landscape prior to the iOS/Android duopoly, that's on-prem today
It might tickle you to learn of Project Pacific, an upcoming rewrite of VMware to run seamlessly on Kubernetes by default, with an upgrade path for existing installations
- nurhdmsx 6y agoI get the idea of GCP to play in the 'VMware <-> cloud arena', but I do not get Project Pacific. Is VMware developing it because their installed base shrinks as people are moving to bare metal K8s and they simply need to counter that? Or is is there some other benefit such as retiring some parts of their codebase e.g. replacing VSAN by CSI? Any idea what VMwares motivation is?
- simonebrunozzi 6y agoThe simplified version is that VMware is doing Pacific/etc to stay relevant in a world where virtualization is being commoditized, and where containers will eventually rule most workloads.
- acdha 6y agoLots of large places are looking at Kubernetes as a way to reduce provider lock-in. Being able to sit down with the CIO and say you have a great migration path for their on-premise setup and it can seamlessly manage cloud workloads is a really nice pitch. Google theoretically has a similar pitch with Anthos but they’re really not good at sales and GCP has a lot of basic catch-up to do in most areas other than GKE. Say what you will about VMware, they know how to sell effectively and don’t ignore features which aren’t cool CS problems.