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I came across an interesting write up in The Data Center Journal regarding the future of virtualization. I agree with the author that hypervisors are pretty much a commodity today. Microsoft proved that point by including support for VMWare in their virtualization management applications.
I’m declaring this week VMWare Week because I’m out of the office in VMWare technical training for the next four days. And in the spirit of this week here is VMWare’s shot across the Microsoft Hyper-V bow. The good people at VMWare definitely have a fight on their hands. Yes it’s not all about price — it’s just mostly about price…
I was the presenter on a corporate customer webinar today where I talked about the benefits of server virtualization. I extolled VMWare as the gold-standard of virtualization. How did VMWare repay me? Well, they decided to fire CEO and co-founder Diane Greene.
Oops, bad timing I guess. I really should have spent some time surfing the tech blogs last night. I still think VMWare technology is gold but it may be a little more tarnished today.
Some analysts still feel that VMWare will retain their market share over the next few years despite growing competition — especially from Microsoft.
Others feel that the Microsoft wrecking ball is moving towards VMWare headquarters.
VMWare technology is good but it is overpriced today. Businesses will benefit greatly from the increased competition between VMWare, Microsoft, and Citrix/Sun/XenX in the next few years.
