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The VMWare market cap in 2016 was ~$32B, of course there's no objective way to answer your question definitely as yes or no but I'd say that VMWare was already
by hnarn 4y ago
The VMWare market cap in 2016 was ~$32B, of course there's no objective way to answer your question definitely as yes or no but I'd say that VMWare was already at that point more than comfortably a more or less de-facto standard for virtualization.
- rosege 4y agoYeah but there was a big shift away from virtualization to cloud and micro services. As a former VMware admin I'm surprised VMware is doing as well as they are now. But maybe my view is just shaded by the bank I was working for that was moving away from it to AWS.
- scarface74 4y agoThere isn’t really a big shift to cloud yet. Only 5% of all IT spend is on any cloud provider according to the CEO of Amazon and former CEO of AWS [1] https://accelerationeconomy.com/cloud/amazon-shocker-ceo-jassy-says-cloud-less-than-5-of-all-it-spending/ https://accelerationeconomy.com/cloud/amazon-shocker-ceo-jas... [1] Andy Jassy is my skip^9 manager.
- donalhunt 4y agoYep. This has been the sentiment shared by Google Cloud execs a lot too. All the players are looking at the 10-20 year picture with regard market share / spend (in an industry where no-one knows what compute infrastructure will look like by the middle of that period).