AWS has begun encouraging VMware customers to migrate on-premises VMware workloads directly to Amazon’s own EC2 instances. So, expect more changes...
https://www.fierce-network.com/cloud/heres-why-broadcom-ditching-its-aws-channel-partnership
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It's not dead, but they're not selling it, and we're not really doing any more engineering, have pulled sales back and our strategy is "VCF" (not Cloud Train) everywhere.
Read between the lines.
Oh, and it's incredibly people heavy to deliver and has low profit margins.
Depends on what your definition of the word "is" is. Or, in this case, "dead".
PG epitomized the word "overrated", but in retrospect if it hadn't been him it would have been someone just like him.
"As much as I dislike Raghu, this vmc/aws bungled strategy was hatched under his predecessor"
Agreed, Gelsinger is proving equally inept in his leadership of Intel. For too long, VMware had been led by a series of executives happy to maintain a 'no growth' business model. The decline in software innovation was responsible for that crisis, led by Gelsinger.
vCloud Air? lol
They have always been doing it.. only Raghu was blind to their intentions. Vmware could have been great but plagued by mis-management, greed and just d-mb a-s management.
As much as I dislike Raghu, this vmc/aws bungled strategy was hatched under his predecessor
No new customers and both parties trying to get customers to move back on premise or AWS native... will be dead shortly.
There was a guy from Freddie Mac or similar who went on stage at VMworld and told everyone how great VMC on AWS was. Including how easy it was to then transition to EC2. Literally told everyone this was his exit plan. VMware executives only heard what they wanted.
They have always been doing it.. only Raghu was blind to their intentions. Vmware could have been great but plagued by mis-management, greed and just d-mb a-s management.