Azure becomes double DaaS-aster zone as VMware loads up VMware's got the green light to deliver virtual Windows desktops and packaged apps from Microsoft's Azure cloud. Citrix is already there, having revealed its efforts back in March 2017. But VMware thinks its Horizon software can do a little better by offering a single control plane capable of managing virtual desktops across …
...in a few year's time. Successful for Microsoft though, not Citrix or VMWare. Ultimately when you have a lot of generic VMs the money is in the hardware, with the software basically being given out for free.
Well, how much would you pay for software that basically clones VMs and launches RDP connections?
That is going to be VMware's problem in general in the cloud. If the cloud provider owns infrastructure management, always through the VM at least (or moving to containers in many situations), why do you care what make of VM you are using? If they own the SLAs on up time, mobility, scalability, performance with financial penalties for missing them, then why wouldn't everyone just want KVM or, frankly, whatever is least costly.
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