[Info-vax] Next Generation Fork in Road for VMware and Virtualization

[Kerry Main]

Interesting article on upcoming fork in the road for
VMware .. 
http://www.nextplatform.com/2016/09/02/vmwares-embrace-ext
end-strategy/

Also talks about how:
- IBM was challenged by DEC, how it responded and the
current fall-out from its response (very similar
complexity of offerings fallout applied to HP)
- Photon Platform, which is intended for greenfield
installations where VMware shops want to move away from
server virtualization to have a clean-slate container
environment
- containers within VM's is a real challenge
- public cloud providers need to stark looking at private
cloud offerings as well

Imho, in the next few years, as local TB non-volatile
memory starts becoming available at much cheaper levels
than today, because it is kind of a mid-point between
dedicated containers on physical HW and separate VM's for
each OS instance, application stacking is going to be
getting closer looks as an alternative compute model
strategy.

... back to the future IT 

:-)

Regards,

Kerry Main
Kerry dot main at starkgaming dot com