VMware Cats sleeping with Microsoft Dogs

Who would have thunk. Microsoft is now working my former company, VMWare to have their workloads migrate to Azure. In the recent blog post -- Transforming your VMware environment with Microsoft Azure https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/transforming-your-vmware-environment-with-microsoft-azure/ . In this article Corey Sanders covers several areas that Microsoft are working to have customers migrate their workloads to Azure. One area that VMware is now working with Microsoft, is to support VMware natively running on Azure Hardware.

In a very small, but important part of this blog post, Corey mentiones the following (which I had to read several times to believe).

Host VMware infrastructure with VMware virtualization on Azure. Most workloads can be migrated to Azure easily using the above services; however, there may be specific VMware workloads that are initially more challenging to migrate to the cloud. For these workloads, you may need the option to run the VMware stack on Azure as an intermediate step. Today, we’re excited to announce the preview of VMware virtualization on Azure, a bare-metal solution that runs the full VMware stack on Azure hardware, co-located with other Azure services. We are delivering this offering in partnership with premier VMware-certified partners. General availability is expected in the coming year. Please contact your Microsoft sales representative if you’d like to participate in this preview. Hosting the VMware stack in public cloud doesn’t offer the same cost savings and agility of using cloud-native services, but this option provides you additional flexibility on your path to Azure.

I can't believe the change within Microsoft. We are really focused on helping our customers and this is a fine example of the new, exciting and somewhat strange times we now live in regarding the IT Cloud industry. In short, I love it.

Looking forward to this going live. Enjoy, Reid