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  • Sunday, September 5, 2010

VMware used the past couple VMworld events to push visionary cloud strategies, but this year merely lived up to expectations — and possibly narrowed the competition gap..

Having just published a report on VMware and endured the barrage of announcements coming out of VMworld, I’m probably due to share my post-conference thoughts. From a cloud computing perspective, I’m underwhelmed. VMware met expectations – even advanced its cloud vision – but it didn’t deliver grand new visions as it has in years past. For the most part, we saw what we expected from VMware. It delivered vCloud Director, announced a forthcoming PaaS-like solution called vFabric and [...]

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