Just as it is pressing to maximize its advantage in the enterprise cloud market, Virtustream is facing increased pressure thanks to an SAP power play by Google.
“Google is looking to differentiate themselves as a public cloud player, and they’ve been working hard on the (enterprise) performance side of things,” said Michael Tanenhaus, CEO of Mavenspire, an Annapolis, Maryland-based solution provider that works with Virtustream parent company Dell EMC. “It doesn’t surprise me that SAP would be one of Google’s strategies. Virtustream was trying to stake out that market.”
Virtustream, which expects to do $1 billion in bookings this year, differentiates itself from general purpose cloud providers like Google, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, by focusing solely on high-performance, mission-critical enterprise workloads, like SAP and Oracle.
