I agree with a lot of this. I definitely feel as though they&#x27;re getting a lot of pressure from the cloud providers by the likes of Amazon and Microsoft. VMware of course is starting their own offering, but it&#x27;s a fork-lift of vCloud.<p>VMware, in my opinion, is still the best as providing a shop with the tools to create their own IaaS. They&#x27;ve the best hypervisor and the best tools. But the number of organizations that &#x2F;need&#x2F; their own private cloud is diminishing, and I feel like the hyper-converged players like Nutanix are rapidly catching up with them. (When I saw the Acropolis announcement, I thought, &quot;Well, that&#x27;s it.&quot;)<p>Running your own datacenter is hard, and expensive, and people are gonna want to get away from it. It was great a decade ago when we were first discovering virtualization, but we&#x27;re moving beyond IaaS now. AWS and Azure offer more than just virtualization, they&#x27;re offering a platform. There&#x27;s a growth path beyond IaaS for their offerings, whereas VMware will be entrenched in the IaaS space for a long while.<p>I&#x27;m a virtual infrastructure engineer by trade, and I work exclusively with VMware (right now). It&#x27;s great tech, but it&#x27;s yesterday&#x27;s tech.