VMware describes the model effectively via a few blogs, and for our Enterprise Cloud Computing series we will also look at these kinds of important vendors, who are pretty much the champion of the internal virtualization market / Private Cloud.
With Paul Maritz leading their Pivotal Initiative to pursue what we described as the Private PaaS segment, it’s clear this is where the principle mind share for Enterprise Cloud is to be fought for and we can expect to see VMware continue a dominant role.
In a nutshell the primary itch these new technologies are scratching is legacy modernization, referring to how old technology systems like mainframes are upgraded for today’s IT. In some cases these go back many tens of years.