The Ghostbusters warned us. Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis) warned us not to cross the streams. You should not cross the streams because as Raymond Stantz (Dan Aykroyd) explained it would cause total protonic reversal. Despite the warning, VMware is crossing the streams.
Rumors have it that Dell/EMC/VMware and Microsoft (MSFT) are crossing their streams with a VMware Cloud NSX on Microsoft Azure partnership could be coming soon.
VMware’s (VMW) multi-cloud approach combines the core VMware technology stack with services delivered through partnerships with other service providers including Amazon (AMZN) Amazon Web Services (AWS) Google Cloud and IBM Cloud. As well as an emerging development environment centered on the open source Kubernetes container orchestrator. Chennele2e hypothesizes,
The two companies are jointly developing software that will let their customers more easily run computing jobs, which rely on VMware software, inside Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing service … could be announced … in the coming weeks … move computing chores from their own private data centers, where VMware’s software is a critical ingredient, to Microsoft’s “public” cloud service.
In the past, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger described a range of cross-platform work — including:
- Azure: NSX and VDI with more VMware management products for Azure are on the way.
- Google Cloud Platform: VMware has partnered with Google and Kubernetes. Also, Android- and Chromebook-related offerings.
As the slide below shows, the deal with Microsoft links VMware to most of the enterprise VM’s in the cloud. What impact will the VMware-Microsoft deal impact the VMware-AWS relationship? Will AWS continue to enjoy “most favored nation” status in VMware’s public cloud partner ecosystem?
The Redmond Channel Partner points out that former VMware executive Ray Blanchard, who was in charge of the VMware partnership with AWS joined Microsoft a year ago.
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