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THE HYBRID CL OUD

VMware is trying to capitalize on the incompati-
bility. It is aiming to help competing cloud service
providers to make headway against Amazon based on
an ease of use feature.

There are existing suppliers that want to grow their cloud

businesses that are eager to take VMware up on its offer. Ex-
ecutives from Terremark, an online data center supplier of
managed hosts, said on September 2, 2009 that it had imple-
mented vCloud Express at its facilities and would offer cloud
services through it, as had RightScale. In addition, executives
from Verizon Business, the business computing unit of the
Verizon wireless company, and AT&T said that they plan to

offer vCloud Express–type services but would add to their en-
try-level nature with more sophisticated offerings. Verizon’s
Computing as a Service cloud offering has run VMware virtual
machines since June. Savvis, a supplier of co-location services
in which data center servers tied directly to the Internet may
be leased, says it plans to do the same with VMware virtual
machines and the VMDK file format.
Where there’s this much activity, a rapid expansion of
cloud services is clearly about to occur. So the idea of building

the private cloud and having it hand off spikes in its workload
to the public cloud may not be so far-fetched after all. If data
centers can be built accurately to a steady-state operation,
without having to worry about occasional spikes, this would
diminish or eliminate the compulsive overprovisioning that’s
been going on for three decades. This would give the com-
puter professionals a chance to pour more resources into new

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