Comments on: VMware entering final phase of virtualization evolution: Cloud computing http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/server-virtualization/vmware-entering-final-phase-of-virtualization-evolution-cloud-computing/ A SearchServerVirtualization.com blog Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:02:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: KennyO http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/server-virtualization/vmware-entering-final-phase-of-virtualization-evolution-cloud-computing/#comment-1421 KennyO Thu, 22 May 2008 17:48:04 +0000 http://servervirtualization.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/22/vmware-entering-final-phase-of-virtualization-evolution-cloud-computing/#comment-1421 Cloud computing is all the rage - except there are core applications that will *never* be deployed in a cloud, and data that will never leave the 4 walls of the company. VMware is just jumping on the bandwagon. What the market sometimes fails to see is that you don't always need VMs to create a self-managing cloud, nor to achieve the economics of the cloud. But automation is available (like from Cassatt.com or IBM's autonomic computing initiative) that takes existing infrastructure and turns it into -- essentially -- a cloud with cloudlike economics. Cloud computing is all the rage - except there are core applications that will *never* be deployed in a cloud, and data that will never leave the 4 walls of the company. VMware is just jumping on the bandwagon.

What the market sometimes fails to see is that you don’t always need VMs to create a self-managing cloud, nor to achieve the economics of the cloud. But automation is available (like from <a href="http://Cassatt.com" title="http://Cassatt. " target="_blank">Cassatt.com</a> or IBM’s autonomic computing initiative) that takes existing infrastructure and turns it into — essentially — a cloud with cloudlike economics.

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