@GarimaRT Leading by customer adoption. There’s some room for emerging players, as long as they learn to differentiate.

@ulander it has to be a research note, as I cannot disclose who is performing better where.

2nd take away from #VMworld2012: there is a huge gap between who’s perceived to be leading the cloud mgmt market and who’s actually leading

@chrissanchez_ny Not over here.

RT @cswolf: RT @mathewlodge: RT @cloudpundit: @chris_gaun Gartner_Borat? < career limiting move < and we had too many already...

Also, the effort to define what is an “open cloud” is a waste of time if the discussion is only between orgs competing with each other

The effort to define what is an “open cloud” is a waste of time simply because we still disagree on what is a “cloud”.

@chrissanchez_ny I picked the future of VMware 🙂 Data Director certainly is a part of that future. Maybe not in its current form.

@chrissanchez_ny Oh yes. That was a comment specific for clients interested in VMW tech, or for vendors interested in competing against VMW

@chrissanchez_ny Cause you have to figure out the complexity of multi-tier app delivery to appreciate the value of policy-based automation.