Microsoft riles VMware with new VMware virtualization on Azure announcement.
In 2016, VMware chose Amazon Web Services as its primary public cloud provider. In August this year, VMware also announced its Horizon Cloud platform would support desktop and application workloads on Azure.
In spite of that August deal, VMware and Microsoft apparently aren't best buddies. Microsoft's announcement last week that it's making a preview available of VMware virtualization on Azure isn't sitting well with the VMware folk.
Microsoft officials said last week that the new VMware virtualization preview on Azure will allow users to integrate VMware workloads with Azure services. Via the preview, users can run the full VMware stack on Azure hardware. Microsoft officials said they will deliver this offering "in partnership with premier VMware-certified partners" and general availability will happen some time in 2018.
Maybe it was Microsoft's positioning of VMware on Azure as a step toward migration to Azure that got the VMware folks riled. Or maybe AWS weighed in. Whatever the reason, VMware execs seemingly were none too happy with Microsoft's announcements last week, as I saw via a blog post on Petri.com.
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