GOOGLE VERSUS VMWARE

By M.S.Welles

There seems to be a war starting between Google and VMware. VMware executives believe virtualization is the only viable enterprise-ready technology for cloud computing. They've openly stated that when speaking at conferences and with clients.

Google disagrees. Google is a long-time proponent of cloud computing and points to its success by using low-cost computers with great software and without virtualization, to achieve great economies of scale, reliability and performance.

The question now is which approach is better. Is it best to utilize cloud computing in a private data center via hardware virtualization or in a public cloud via Google's software approach?

There's going to be a lot of discussion and experimentation regarding the best approach to cloud computing. We look forward to the ensuing battle.