VMware: Salesforce in vain "buries" corporate DPCs

The president on platforms of applications of VMware company Tod Nielsen said publicly that the 10-year forecast of Salesforce.com about development of public "clouds" at the enterprises is not true.

Speaking at the Citi Technology conference, Nielsen said what any Chief information officer knows - private "clouds", as well as data processing centers, will be under authority of the companies which brought them into operation. He noted the main difference between approach of VMware and Salesforce: VMware considers that private clouds" at the end of this decade will still process a huge number of workloads and will not yield a position to public services.

Salesforce.com said earlier that in the near future the companies will have no own DPCs and all their data will be processed in "cloud". "I did not happen to meet Chief information officers of the enterprises which would say that in three years they will have no data center because everything is in "cloud". And therefore our offer corresponds much more to their vision as they can have internal applications, and we with our partners give them opportunities of public "cloud", also as well as our own services, and we give them options of the choice suitable for them", - Nielsen noted.

The statement of VMware was heard in a week after the conference of users of Dreamforce of Salesforce.com company. During the action VMware spoke about private "clouds", Microsoft criticized and paid tribute to the cloud VSphere operating system.

And the CEO of Salesforce.com Marc Benioff argued on that day when any company does not have servers. Benioff also crushed Oracle for "the wrong cloud".

According to the editor of the ZDnet edition Larry Dignan probably both companies are right: data processing centers will still be under construction, and SaaS, PaaS and IaaS will enough have spaces for further development and growth.