Why VMware may fall victim to virtualization cost cutting

Why VMware may fall victim to virtualization cost cutting:

Keith Townsend explores VMware vSphere happened if a product that reduces costs in the cost base as companies seek to reduce.
VMware seems to be a victim of its own success.
There was a time when VMware had to make the argument for why virtualize workloads vs. leverage physical hardware. I remember reading a number of VMware marketing materials to convince IT managers that virtualization of C level was worth the investment. Now, virtualization is a key element in the corporate data center has shifted to the question: How can we save money in the virtualization stack amazing options join together to dominate the conversation VMware vSphere.
virtualization trends in the present and the future
At the heart of vSphere ESXi is the hypervisor. competitive products are open source hypervisor KVM and Xen and Microsoft Hyper-V. Hypervisors administered were effective enough to force VMware ESXi offer free; and yet the stack of ongoing management to be the true value of virtualization products.
I was talking with several customers, and there is no doubt that the features of vSphere remain on top of the stack. However, as companies realize the threshold of servers virtualized 80% stocks and 90%, VMware licenses becomes a target for cost savings.
The debate is no longer about vs. virtual physics, but virtualization platform to select. I tried to introduce Hyper-V environments, but I find it difficult to manage heterogeneous hypervisors. Additional hypervisor is additional operational complexity. Some considerations include the backup, integration with management tools IT services provisioning and lifecycle management.ADVERTISING
Also the level of internal service customers have come from the following vSphere. Developers rely on features such as high availability and consistent performance provided by the Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS).
Enter the SDDC
VMware wants to keep the keys to the place where the workload running in the company. VMware continues to move up the stack data center with the acquisition of Software-Defined Network provider (SDN) Nicira and the introduction of VSANs, a virtual SAN platform. The strategy of private and public cloud of VMware - including OpenStack, vCloud and vRealize air - must be considered. VMware is able to go beyond virtualization and organizations who coined the Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC).
VMware is not the only company infrastructure preach the benefits of SDDC, and there is some question whether VMware customers buy in their specific vision of SDDC. Chris Waldo VMware, Senior Director of Marketing Partner of the global cloud, written in February 2015, only 20% of VMware products to customers leverage beyond vSphere. Some competitors believe that this difference with SDDC and cost of vSphere provides an opportunity for customer choice hypervisor.
A relatively small competitor called Nutanix are looking for the SDDC starting with support for multiple hypervisors. Nutanix is ​​hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) provider with nearly 1,200 customers. During his inaugural users conference .Next 2015, the company announced its first hypervisor platform, XCP Acropolis. Acropolis XCP is based on a customized version of KVM. According to CEO Dheeraj Pandey Nutanix through a video interview TheCube SiliconANGLE, the value is not in the hypervisor, but the orchestration of where the application is running.
Nutanix showed the ease with which you can move workloads from VMware vSphere for KVM. Ultimately, the goal is to provide a platform that allows users to move workloads like transparent infrastructure at the site in the public cloud infrastructure. In theory, applications are rewritten to take advantage of cloud architectures, advanced vSphere features become less critical for operators of enterprise data centers. For the remaining legacy applications, platforms like XCP should suffice. Nutanix is ​​very early in its execution, and there is still uncertainty about its ability to execute.