VMware And AWS

VMware and Amazon Web Services put to rest the whole public vs. private cloud debate earlier this year when the companies announced a new strategic partnership under which VMware's complete software-defined data center offering will run on the AWS public cloud. The new platform, called VMware Cloud on AWS, allows enterprise customers to run applications across VMware vSphere-based private, public and hybrid cloud environments using their existing VMware software and tools for a full range of storage, database, analytics and other services. The partnership will start to show results in 2017, but solution providers are already looking forward to helping customers preserve the investments they've made in on-premises virtualization while taking advantage of the AWS cloud.