Verizon reboots cloud by dropping traditional IT vendors

'Sayonara, Cisco! Au revoir, VMware! Happy trails, HP!'

Big clouds need a tightly integrated stack, and a small number of hardware components that can be upgraded and swapped out en masse. This is precisely what Verizon lacked in its first cloud, and what it is gaining with a new service.…

via The Register - Data Centre: Cloud

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