Waiting to see the price list. AWS + VmWare is gonna break the sky.
But why AWS + VmWare? That makes no sense.
If you want to have special snowflakes, you go for SoftLayer + VmWare. You can be as exotic as you want with that.
Otherwise, just use AWS. And you get the benefit of all the services that VMWare don't and can't provide. (servers, storage, load balancer, databases...).
Better, go for GCE. It's the same as AWS for 20-50% cheaper. :D
AWS + VmWare is the worst of any world. It's not even a real solution. It's an experimental idea waiting to be released and go though years of bugfix/improvements.
If you're my customers? AWS + VMware makes plenty of sense because you have gazillions of dollars sunk into vSphere management and automation that's narrowly tailored to the enterprise's needs. Making the case that all of that prior work should be abandoned or phased out in favor of going all-in on AWS is a difficult up-hill battle in these situations.
>AWS + VmWare is the worst of any world. It's not even a real solution. It's an experimental idea waiting to be released and go though years of bugfix/improvements.
This isn't even a real argument. The same could be said of any new product anywhere.
If a company has a HUGE VmWare legacy, we'd both make the case to stay on VmWare.
> This isn't even a real argument. The same could be said of any new product anywhere.
VmWare and AWS are both hugely complex (possibly among the most complex software on the planet).
They have a different philosophy and they were never intended to fit together. The route to doing so will be filled with endless complications.
We'll see how they execute. IMO they can't overcome their legacy easily, the result will be a mess.
VmWare is owned in part by EMC (or the other way around).
By just shifting workload to AWS without doing anything to the VM, I can save a ton of money. In my case, for every dollar I spend on AWS/VMWare, I could probably avoid spending $2.50 in data center buildout costs and $3 in application rationalization.
With Softlayer, you're inviting IBM into your house, which is rarely a good idea. Give them an inch, they take a mile.
Not a very accurate statement. SoftLayer is IaaS, everything is monthly or hourly on the compute, storage, and networking side. You pay SoftLayer monthly for VSphere 6 licenses with zero contracts.
This is 100% false. Unless you are running your infrastructure at less than 50% utilization 24/7, it will ALWAYS be more expensive to go to "the cloud".
GCE has so little of the enterprise compliance and security solutions engineering bureaucracy that enterprises love to spend tens of millions of dollars and years doing POCs with it's just not viable at this time.
That would be the killer use case, to use AWS low cost storage while being able to stand up your entire infrastructure.
Not totally kidding. There's a subset of the market for whom being more expensive both in complexity and cost is seen as an obvious sign of a more "serious" "enterprise" product.
>...it will be easy for customers to operate a consistent and seamless hybrid IT environment using their existing VMware tools on AWS...