VMware and IBM today announced a broad new partnership that will allow VMware customers to extend their virtualized workloads into IBM’s public SoftLayer cloud.
For the public cloud market, the move is seen as somewhat of a reckoning on VMware’s public cloud strategy. VMware has had fits and starts building up its own IaaS public cloud.
In the past year VMware has opted to not invest billions of dollars to construct data centers and build a public cloud IaaS platform to compete with the likes of Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. Instead VMware is partnering with public cloud providers, with IBM being the latest example. Last year VMware announced a partnership with Google’s Cloud Platform to provide scale-out IaaS capacity for VMware customers.
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VMware turns to IBM in the public cloud
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