#Amazon Web Services ( #AWS ) and #VMware are reportedly in talks about possibly teaming up to develop data center software products, according to The Information, which cited anonymous sources.
Unfortunately, the article doesn’t have much if any detail on what that product would be. The speculation is it might be a stack-like product, since VMware already provides what would be the base software for such a product and stacks are becoming the in thing.
Already there is #OpenStack, the open-source product that runs cloud services in a data center, and #Microsoft just shipped #Azure Stack, its answer to OpenStack that will allow the same features of its Azure public cloud to run within a company’s private data center.
#Google, which has been an also-ran in the cloud market for some time, made a similar move by partnering with #Nutanix, a #hyperconverged infrastructure vendor that is coming up fast in the market and likely an acquisition target. Their deal promised an easy way to merge Nutanix infrastructure with Google Cloud Platform.
AWS stack on VMware?
VMware has an enormous enterprise installed base, so for AWS to create its own stack running on VMware and give people AWS features in their own private cloud would make the most sense and act as a barrier to Azure Stack and OpenStack.
Also, AWS and VMware already have a partnershipdating back to last year designed to help enterprises easily integrate their existing VMware environments with AWS. With that deal, VMware sells tools that enable its customers to manage AWS the same way they manage VMware on premises. So, the two companies are already halfway there.
The new product could make it easier for companies to migrate applications between their data centers and Amazon’s server farms, which would make it easier to recover data from Amazon for whatever reason, The Information’s unnamed source said.
That service, announced in October 2016, was originally scheduled for launch in mid-2017, but The Information stated it now might be delayed until 2018.
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