VMware Virtualization Package Has Lots to Offer, But Will It Sell?

VMware Virtualization Package Has Lots to Offer, But Will It Sell?: "VMware has captured the marketing zeitgeist by labeling its suite “the industry’s first operating system for building the internal cloud.” Private clouds are, in fact, being adopted ahead of public clouds, and VMWare is right that it will only be successful if it enables mainstream commercial workloads to be run in these clouds without requiring modifications. The company claims that “for hosting service providers, VMware vSphere 4 will enable a more economic and efficient path to delivering cloud services that are compatible with customers’ internal cloud infrastructures.” While VMware is by far the best-positioned vendor to enable these, and is building that stack from the bottom up, I would have liked to see more detail on what that top-to-bottom private cloud stack would look like."