Friday, October 14, 2016

Amazon Web Services, VMware Seek To Bridge Enterprise, Cloud With Service

A new relationship between Amazon Web Services and enterprise virtualization software developer VMware, may brings about more extensive use of the cloud by enterprise customers. VMware and AWS said late Thursday that the two will offer up a new offering--VMware Cloud on AWS--which will offer up a consistent environment for VMware users, but using Amazon's cloud services offering. According to the two, they will offer up a full "software-defined data center" (SDDC), which will make it easier for companies to run applications on both their VMware private environments, and the public and hybrid cloud. The new service will be offered directly by VWare in mid-2017, with Vmware directly delivering, selling, and supporting the new service.