Why VMware vCloud Director Won’t Rule the Cloud

A highly opinionated "Thought Piece" from the Front Lines of Virtualization Disclaimer: I work for Dell Services and am the chief architect for the Dell vCloud, a public cloud offering for customers of PerotSystems (which was recently acquired by Dell). I co-architected it with two others while reporting to CTO David Crofford some time ago. After the acquisition, we retrofitted VMware vCloud on top of our ESX-based platform. In this blog, I present my personal opinion and my opinion is not affiliated with Dell's official position. Ah, 2011. This is the year of Spotify. Steve Jobs stepped down from Apple. Everyone and their CIO are talking about “cloud” like it was some new deity descending from the heavens to solve all infrastructure sins. In boardrooms, in cafés, in airless conference rooms at VMworld, one name kept coming up. VMware vCloud Director . The chosen one. The future of private clouds. The piece de resistance of VMware’s virtualized vision. And yet, here I...