Launched in August 2014, vCloud Air was an attempt to move VMware's customers to the public cloud without ever leaving its proprietary infrastructure. At one time, both AWS and Azure were primary competition for VMware in its attempt to build its own public cloud platform, originally called vCloud Hybrid Services. The Azure deal further solidifies VMware's about-face on public cloud in general. Other studies have found Azure to be ahead of AWS - to the point of widening its lead - in the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) segment of the market. According to one survey, Azure has taken the lead in the enterprise space. AWS continues to lead, but is seeing that lead shrinking as Azure catches up, especially in the enterprise. 2 public cloud provider in Microsoft.Īs a strategy, it appears to make sense, as Azure is a rapidly-growing platform adding customers at a rapid rate. Whether that was intentional or not, it appears that VMware has decided to significantly broaden its cloud partnerships to include the No. Jassy didn't discuss DaaS, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) or endpoint management.
At that time, AWS (Amazon Web Services) CEO Andy Jassy VMware said that AWS would be VMware's primary public cloud infrastructure partner, and VMware would be AWS's primary private cloud partner. One reason the partnership comes as a surprise is last October's announcement of "VMware Cloud on AWS," which uses VMware's plumbing technologies such as software-defined networking via NSX and software-defined storage via VSAN to undergird a hybrid cloud environment.
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