VMware attempts to solve the ‘Hotel California’ problem of cross-cloud
I’ve heard some people say public clouds are a lot like the Eagles' Hotel California—“you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.” Indeed, many customers I’ve talked to about their use of public cloud services say once they start using a cloud service, they’re locked into that specific provider with no ability to move data or workloads from cloud to cloud.
At the VMworld 2016 keynote, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger told the 23,000 attendees one of the challenges with public cloud is that customers today have tremendous control over the use of cloud, but they lack the freedom to move stuff between clouds. In a sense, what customers have today is a number of discrete cloud deployments rather than a real cloud strategy.
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