VMware cloud initiative raises vendor lock-in issue

摘要

Vmware talks a good game about interoperability, but its cloud initiative threatens to introduce a type of vendor lock-in that rivals say is a bad idea.rnWhile competitors Citrix and Microsoft have embraced the notion of supporting other virtualization platforms with their software, VMware has long maintained that its management tools will support only its own hypervi-sor. The company's growing cloud initiative, highlighted at last week's VMworld conference, depends upon customers and vendors using its vSphere virtualization platform, which could prevent true cloud interoperability.