2015 was VMware's Year of Living Dangerously

Server virtualization works, including most IT departments are doing. And in the decade since access to the reputation of VMware he ruled the roost.

But 2015 was the year of living dangerously VMware.

At first glance, things look good for Virtzilla: vSphere 6.0 appeared to cheers and rapid adoption. Dollars rolled through the door. A credible strategy arose to keep the containers in virtual machines. NSX became a success in ways she had not imagined VMware.
Best of all for VMware, Microsoft decided the next version of Hyper-V does not come out until well into 2016.

That does not mean that VMware had things his way. The EMC / Dell deal and speculation that preceded the uncertainty introduced into the world of VMware. The agreement itself does not help when - pardon the pun - clouded the future of vCloud Air.

Nutanix decided he had himself a VMware competitor and a partner, with the hypervisor Acropolis do. The company VMware hyperconverged attack in the price and scalability. A blog brawl between the two companies was not looking smarter or more credible.

It Nutanix with AWS and Citrix, VMware took another piece in Washington. Virtzilla spent much of 2014 saying it was just weeks away from securing massive US government agreed to vSphere, but failed to deliver in 2015. The above three companies have complained about the case for competitive reasons and federal surrendered, saying it was time to reconsider plans Virtual acquisitions.

VMware late Uncle Sam paid a hefty fine to settle charges of mischief list price. VMware can always sell the same amount of code in Washington and you can get more money for fragmented low bids, but the fact is that he did not and could not offer an agreement, he said the market expected, partly because Nutanix frenemy again.

HP became another frenemy after deciding Azure is a bet that the most worthy hyperconverged EVO: RAIL platform, no matter what they say everyone involved in the choice of clients and horses for courses.
EVO: RAIL also wounded: VMware had to change the hardware and licenses to be sold in the high end, a misstep to put together your initial hardware flubbing VSANs.

While we're on VSAN: is it a business? Citing hundreds of VMware customers, a decent number, but not the signs of a great success or massive violation of the sales table would signal virtual storage is underway.

Other Virtualisers the Xen project one year endured horror as insect bug appeared later. The project promised to do better in the future, but is struggling to meet its own standards.

Honorable mentions in the caper virty go to OpenBSD, which won a native hypervisor. The Parallels transition to becoming Odin, then find your Virtuozzo platform woven by the new owner of Ingram Micro, means uncertainty for a niche product. Huawei entered the game hyperconverged, advancing virtualization goals along the way.

Oracle decided that the virtual machine is not negotiable private clouds, so he changed the name of the virtual device to meet the computing time. Citrix has endured a difficult time with the unpleasant projections and financial executives, but at least their virtualization plans - Support Xen products, do not bother to struggle to integrate a market share of server virtualization - seems to have worked.

OpenStack kept adding to an impressive list of user, but could not escape the worries about the complexity and ambitious expansion project. We also heard that although OpenStack could win wars branded his rival, but rarely discussed CloudStack can be implemented more widely.