vSphere is the most popular hypervisor in enterprise IT. VMware has road the coattails of vSphere to the modern cloud. vSphere leads VMware’s cloud multi-cloud story.
The CTO Advisor performed a comparison of the VMware cloud solutions. However, customers need more than vSphere as a strategy for multicloud.
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VMware announced their Cross-Cloud Services during VMworld 2021. It’s a reframing of their existing offerings, including vRealize, Tanzu, Cloud Health, Carbon Black, and their EUC/Edge offerings.
VMware has tried to embrace their massive hypervisor market share and show they aren’t a one-trick pony for a decade. The company has had varying degrees of success. Workspace one has proved a competent alternative to Citrix, and VMware is a proper participant in the network community with NSX.
I want your feedback. Does VMware have a cross-cloud story beyond infrastructure? Or are they regulated to being a hypervisor play?