Why India is adopting VMware

BANGALORE, INDIA: Paul Harapin, vice president, business development & cloud, Asia Pacific Japan, VMware in an interaction, with Deepa Damodaran of CIOL, touches upon how cloud will be a different, nevertheless not difficult, for VMware and how does it look at its competitors. Excerpts:

Paul: It is a different journey, nevertheless, not difficult. VMware is probably one of the biggest cloud providers. Some large vendors as then as small cloud providers are now building clouds based on a VMware innovation.

Destination or a product

Cloud is not a destination or a product, it is a way of doing computing and because it is flexible there will be many different types of clouds.

Paul: Then, I think a lot of companies say they are doing the same. Just because you put the name on it does not mean it is the same thing. The proof in the pudding is that we have over 3,00,000 clients and are growing. We are seeing countries like India adopting our innovation fast, though there are choices out there.

How cloud will impact their business

Even enterprise clients have as well started to analyze how cloud will impact their business. Some clients, especially SMBs, are aligned to move to cloud very fast because it allows them to get moving quickly, and since costs are more optimized. Larger enterprises and government clients will always take a slightly more cautious approach.

The business imperatives and benefits are so overwhelming that innovation innovates around areas just as security. A whole new industry has popped up around our research that helps clients on virtualized firewalls, virtualized PABX systems, or virtualized IDS.

Paul: The way clients have started to look at cloud computing is very similarly to the way that they looked at virtualization.

There were a couple of problems when they started with virtualization. The ones that jumped on first were using old Windows NT applications, which were not supported. Hardware was not supporting it when all is said and done they virtualized applications because it allowed them to use all the modern hardware. They saw that with this other application were not being impacted.

The growing market in the area of Cloud Computing

As we witness the growing market in the area of Cloud Computing, no doubt in then five to eight years most of the applications will be on the cloud. Together, Cloud has made it possible for an enterprise to reduce their investments on hardware and as well has made the work of a developer easier. Check out this special to know more about the growth of Cloud Computing arena and how cloud is contributing to software development.

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