Despite New Public Cloud Offerings, VMware Still Playing Catch-Up

The newest feature added to VMware’s vCloud Air public cloud is the ability to spin virtual machines up and down with just a few clicks and pay for them by the hour.
This better positions VMware to go head-to-head with public IaaS cloud vendors Amazon Web Services and Microsoft, but analysts say VMware still has lots of catching up to do.
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VMware’s stronghold in the virtualization market has made it an im