5 Things to Watch for at Amazon’s re:Invent Cloud Conference
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The lack of a broader hybrid cloud strategy is the biggest knock that AWS’s competitors make against the company. Microsoft has its Azure public cloud and Microsoft Systems Center private cloud management platform - which combines to seamlessly create a hybrid cloud. VMware has vCloud Air public cloud and the vRealize management suite for private clouds. HP has an OpenStack based Helion public and private cloud. The list goes on.
How will AWS address this issue at re:Invent? Will it acknowledge that enterprises are not willing to go all in on the public cloud and need ways to bridge their on premise workloads with the public cloud? Would AWS ever launch an on premise private cloud management platform? Or will AWS rely on its broad network of partners to provide these integration points for a hybrid cloud?
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