The announcements out of VMworld 2015 were less significant than its overarching theme of hybrid cloud. In VMware’s vision, hybridization means tightly coupled public and private clouds in which applications seamlessly migrate between the two. Yet this could be a strategic mistake, since I think VMware overestimates the utility of a tightly coupled hybrid design, while underestimating the implementation complexity for the majority of companies that don’t buy into its vCloud-everywhere approach. Organizations clearly like the idea of cloud heterogeneity. Indeed, VMware’s prior success popularizing enterprise server virtualization and resulting legacy customer base may be hampering its ability to contend with agile and innovative public cloud services.

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