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Azure Arc vs VMware vCloud
October 20, 2024 | Author: Michael Stromann
5★
Cloud platform for customers who want to simplify complex and distributed environments across on-premises, edge and multicloud, Azure Arc enables deployment of Azure services anywhere and extends Azure management to any infrastructure.
11★
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Azure Arc and VMware vCloud are, in the grand cosmic ballet of multi-cloud management, like two slightly bewildered space travelers who wandered into a dance hall they weren’t quite expecting. Azure Arc, from the illustrious house of Microsoft, looks out across the endless void of clouds—public, private and imaginary—and thinks, "Well, someone ought to tidy this up." With a grand wave of its hand, it extends Azure’s capabilities to everything from on-premises data centers to clouds far beyond the Microsoft horizon, creating what one might describe as a unified, or at least well-intentioned, management experience.
Meanwhile, VMware vCloud is more like that meticulous fellow in the corner, quietly perfecting the art of managing VMware-based virtualized infrastructures. It doesn't particularly care for the endless variety of clouds, hybrid or otherwise; it’s far more interested in ensuring that your VMware private and hybrid clouds are deployed and managed with the precision of a clockwork cucumber. Azure Arc, with its ambition to rule all clouds and vCloud, with its focus on getting VMware environments just right, may be tackling different corners of the same galaxy, but one gets the sense that they’re each perfectly content not to bump into the other too often.
In the end, if Azure Arc is the overenthusiastic interstellar explorer with maps to everywhere, VMware vCloud is the fastidious local guide, ensuring you don’t trip over your own virtualization while chasing the stars. Both essential, neither quite the same, but they get along well enough at parties.
See also: Top 10 Private Cloud platforms
Meanwhile, VMware vCloud is more like that meticulous fellow in the corner, quietly perfecting the art of managing VMware-based virtualized infrastructures. It doesn't particularly care for the endless variety of clouds, hybrid or otherwise; it’s far more interested in ensuring that your VMware private and hybrid clouds are deployed and managed with the precision of a clockwork cucumber. Azure Arc, with its ambition to rule all clouds and vCloud, with its focus on getting VMware environments just right, may be tackling different corners of the same galaxy, but one gets the sense that they’re each perfectly content not to bump into the other too often.
In the end, if Azure Arc is the overenthusiastic interstellar explorer with maps to everywhere, VMware vCloud is the fastidious local guide, ensuring you don’t trip over your own virtualization while chasing the stars. Both essential, neither quite the same, but they get along well enough at parties.
See also: Top 10 Private Cloud platforms
