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"VMware admitted it couldn't match rivals' spending power, but still aimed high. And failed."
No, they WERE high and couldn't execute, so they failed. Running a "cloud" that has updates nearly every day and some days with multiple updates that lock people out of the management console, for the unknown duration of the update, is simply poor execution from architectural planning to operations. VirtuStream has been running enterprise applications for years and probably took one look at the VMWare cloud catastrophe and said " no thanks." Verizon banked on the VMWare architecture as well and look how far it got them. VMWare is in a very bad spot. They are losing precious cloud time as everyone else pulls further out front and they can't keep the thing running so they just keep falling farther behind, yet they can't throw in the towel like HP because they have talked too much shite , plus the entire cloud operation is probably bleeding large sums of money because it isn't really enterprise grade. Who really trusts it? It must be a pickle, mire, jam,mess of grand proportions. Hey, what they should do is raise prices on existing on-premises customers to help pay for fixing the cloud mess.. yeah, that will work.