Rob Steele, systems engineer with RoundTower Technologies, of Cincinnati, on VMware's decision to sell its vCloud Air business:

"It's better for the VMware core business" to sell vCloud Air. "They're competing with themselves by having it. They've partnered with Amazon, … and by having their own [cloud service], it was a direct competitor from an AWS standpoint. This lets AWS know they're getting out of the cloud business. It helps them have true hybrid cloud with any provider and no vendor lock-in from a software perspective."