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User Experience of IT Delivery & Cloud benefits

What are the top benefits of cloud as viewed by Enterprise IT managers? Interestingly most of the enterprise IT organizations seem to feel that cloud is going to shape the user experience of IT delivery, with the primary benefits being:

• Enable work from anywhere
• Enable collaboration more effectively and with coworkers
• Simpler access to business applications regardless of client device
• Improved IT applications

VMware & public cloud IaaS offering

If you haven’t heard the rumors, there are rumblings that VMware is launching a public cloud IaaS service. The formal announcement may come at next week’s VMWorld conference where theCube will be broadcasting.

http://siliconangle.com/blog/2012/08/20/project-zephyr-vmwares-upcoming-public-cloud-project-built-to-take-on-aws-rackspace-ms/

... a recently purchased data center in Nevada... Pricing for this service will likely be aggressive in order to gain the most market possible from major players such as Amazon, Rackspace and Microsoft.

It would be interesting to see how the partner eco-system will play out for VMware.