VMware + AWS
What do you guys think of the partnership? Think it can kick azure in the nuts? Who stands to benefit more?
Wont matter
Lol. Someone in the Dell Technology family is bitter.
Containers going to trim vmware in half in about 4-5 years time.
Vmware + Google cloud
Gives VMware additional legitimacy in a legacy world moving to cloud services, and with them leaking market share to other hypervisor providers. Gives AWS another way to get hooks into the massive hybrid-cloud market for enterprises not ready to go "all-in" on AWS. Overall, seems like a messy solution for customers. Also, Azure still has a better story to tell around hybrid cloud and Hyper-V.
Messy how darling ?
Insofar that administrators and developers will need to navigate the added complexity of leveraging their existing VMware services with an entirely different and proprietary set of API services in the AWS cloud. VMware/AWS announced some fixes to this problem at VMworld, so the vision is now more practical than it was after the announcement at re:invent 2016. But two hypervisors, two CDNs, two DB services, two sets of InfoSec services, etc. to me seems challenging. Then again, that's the challenge with Hybrid cloud no matter how you slice it.
VMware was always an AWS partner. What's new here?
Not always. Pat Gelsinger and VMware were trashing AWS and public cloud to CXOs not long ago. What's new is the technology integration they announced at Re:Invent 2016.
The new thing is you can now get a true blue vsphere instance in AWS. Same operational benefits of stuff like DRS, vmotion,etc that you don't get in native aws. Also you can Run it with vcenter like your on prem stuff. A lot of customers say things like "my cio read an article now I have a mandate to move 50% of my stuff into Amazon this year"... but they have no idea how to operationalize that because EC2 just isn't meant for their legacy workloads. VMC gives those customers an easy win because they don't have to change how they do anything.
Until they get drivorced. Customer s will get laid to waste.
If that does happen (which it won't - both sides have serious skin in the game here) just add another cloud endpoint and migrate the workloads. Common infrastructure, common tools. It shouldn't even be called "hybrid" at this point because it's really an abstraction of various clouds that can live on-prem or on various public provider's infrastructure. Regardless of how many individual public or private cloud end points are under the covers, it still looks and acts like a single cloud in all the ways that really matter.
VMWare is dead. At best they sell software that enables legacy virtualization. I have customers asking about vmw on AWS but none of them are companies I consider tech leaders.
It kicks oracle