Steve Herrod’s Virtualization Predictions for 2010
Steve Herrod is the CTO and Senior VP R&D at VMWare.
1) Growing modularization of the data center
The EMC/Cisco vBlock bundles, as well as “converged infrastructure” offerings from HP, demonstrate that vendors understand that customers want simplicity, ease of use, and a single support channel for utilizing them. Look for more to come
2) Private clouds
Industry participants in 2010 will better define the private cloud and help customers implement it. We’ve finally emerged from the hype of cloud computing to tackle the realities of what’s needed and confront the challenges that currently exist, particularly around security. Furthermore, customers are realizing that their IT landscape will include a mix of both private and public cloud offerings (hybrid clouds). Customers want this hybrid world to be more easily managed and give them the right balances between efficiency, scalability, security, and control I fully expect that vendors, systems integrators, and certification agencies will rally to meet that demand in 2010
3) High-level application frameworks
I expect 2010 to be the year when developers and customers recognize the need to have even more choice as to where their applications are run in the cloud. This will lead to both open cloud standards and the arrival of new PaaS offerings designed with cloud portability in mind
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