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The VMware-AWS deal could drive more companies into the cloud

October 14, 2016

Via: CIO
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The cloud partnership AWS and VMware announced Thursday makes Amazon’s public cloud even more attractive for enterprises by letting them take the popular virtualization platform with them.

The appropriately named VMware Cloud on AWS , announced at a press conference in San Francisco, will bring cloud-optimized versions of vSphere, VSAN and NSX software to the cloud platform. When users spin up a VMware environment on AWS, they’ll get a cluster running the entire Software-Defined Data Center stack in the public cloud.

The service, which is currently in technical preview, will be operated and supported by VMware, running on purpose-built hardware in AWS’s data centers.

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