Microsoft just took a big swing at AWS and VMw are with new cloud offerings
Microsoft just took a big swing at AWS and VMware with new cloud offerings.
Microsoft is gunning for VMware and AWS with the announcement of two new services today that are designed to let enterprises bring more workloads to Azure.
The company announced a beta service for its customers today that runs VMware’s virtualization technology on top of Microsoft’s bare metal servers. It’s supposed to help customers move applications that rely on VMware’s stack to Microsoft’s cloud so that they can reap the benefits of services in those datacenters without having to rework systems that are already perfectly fine.
That special deployment of VMware tech on Azure will be colocated with other Azure services, so that customers can then connect those applications to higher level services in Microsoft’s cloud. Corey Sanders, the director of compute for Azure, said in a blog post that the service is slated for general availability next year.