Post their partnership announcement in October 2016, Amazon Web Services is now examining the possibilities of building software for corporate data centres with VMware, according to a report by The Information.
Quoting an unnamed source, the report said if both the firms proceed, then this would be the “first large-scale effort by AWS to develop software for corporate data centres.”
This means it could be easier for organisations to migrate applications between their data centres and Amazon’s server farms. It will also be much simpler to recover data from the firm if disasters take place, said the report.
Both the firms had targeted a mid-2017 launch for VMware virtualisation software running atop the Amazon cloud, but the new technology might not be available until the end of the year or the beginning of 2018, according to The Information.
As per a report by CNBC, the possible expansion of the VMware partnership, is not the first attempt by AWS in working with on-premises data centres. In 2015, the firm had added on-premises support to its CodeDeploy “continuous-delivery service”. Also in the same year, it had introduced the Snowball storage server companies could use to copy data and then move it to the cloud. In 2016, it enhanced its on-premises support to its EC2 Run Command tool for running shell scripts on many machines simultaneously and introduced the Snowmobile truck for copying even larger supplies of data and then moving it to Amazon.
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