Public cloud solutions, as rolled out by Amazon AWS, Google AppEngine and Microsoft Azure have proven that capacity-on-demand is good ROI. There is real dollar value in migrating certain types of applications to cloud clusters. Though not every application is ready for migration to these public clouds due to legal and privacy reasons.
To address privacy and compliance requirements, virtualization vendors – led by pioneer VMware, started offering in-house cloud solutions. vCloud product leverages VMware’s lead in virtualization and extends that advantage in variable capacity management. vCloud APIs will be available …