<story><title>Announcing Google Cloud VMware Engine</title><url>https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/hybrid-cloud/announcing-google-cloud-vmware-engine</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tootie</author><text>Can you help me understand why this would be useful? What can be achieved with VMWare that can&amp;#x27;t be done more efficiently with GCP (or AWS or Azure) native tools? The list of arcane product names makes me think this is for enterprises that already invested in VMWare products and just don&amp;#x27;t want to own servers anymore.</text></item><item><author>throwaway265731</author><text>&amp;gt; This partnership makes a ton of sense for both of them&lt;p&gt;GCP purchased CloudSimple who provides managed VMWare running on bare metal. This isn&amp;#x27;t a solution co-developed between VMWare and GCP, nor is this a 1st party VMWare solution. I&amp;#x27;m not even sure if this is running on GCE, or if its just a re-branding of CloudSimple as GCP VMWare Engine&lt;p&gt;VMWare Cloud on AWS was built by VMWare to run on AWS ec2 bare-metal instances, and is managed by VMWare themselves.&lt;p&gt;While similar, they are different.</text></item><item><author>simonebrunozzi</author><text>Funny how things evolve over time. When I was (2014-2016) VP&amp;#x2F;CTO at vCloud Air, the cloud division of VMware, I spearheaded the partnership between VMware and GCP&amp;#x2F;Google (which of course took a much larger team to be brought to life), certain that it was the only viable and meaningful partnership for VMware at the time.&lt;p&gt;When I left in early 2016, soon thereafter VMware ditched that partnership in favor of... IBM. No comment.&lt;p&gt;And now it&amp;#x27;s 2020, IBM is far behind everyone else in the cloud, and VMware and Google are cranking along just fine. This partnership makes a ton of sense for both of them. AWS is eventually going to lose its &amp;quot;monopoly&amp;quot; over cloud (disclaimer: I was at AWS 2008-2014).&lt;p&gt;It gives me a good feeling. Especially for the very talented engineers that I met on both sides. Sometimes they have to put up with a ton of red tape and politics. At least this will make some of them smile.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dmw_ng</author><text>To an engineer, nothing. These acquisitions are part of a coming war over hybrid&amp;#x2F;on-prem dominance. Corporate VMware installations usually don&amp;#x27;t mean just a few instances, but entire buildings. If you think of the mobile phone landscape prior to the iOS&amp;#x2F;Android duopoly, that&amp;#x27;s on-prem today&lt;p&gt;It might tickle you to learn of Project Pacific, an upcoming rewrite of VMware to run seamlessly on Kubernetes by default, with an upgrade path for existing installations</text></comment>
<story><title>Announcing Google Cloud VMware Engine</title><url>https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/hybrid-cloud/announcing-google-cloud-vmware-engine</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tootie</author><text>Can you help me understand why this would be useful? What can be achieved with VMWare that can&amp;#x27;t be done more efficiently with GCP (or AWS or Azure) native tools? The list of arcane product names makes me think this is for enterprises that already invested in VMWare products and just don&amp;#x27;t want to own servers anymore.</text></item><item><author>throwaway265731</author><text>&amp;gt; This partnership makes a ton of sense for both of them&lt;p&gt;GCP purchased CloudSimple who provides managed VMWare running on bare metal. This isn&amp;#x27;t a solution co-developed between VMWare and GCP, nor is this a 1st party VMWare solution. I&amp;#x27;m not even sure if this is running on GCE, or if its just a re-branding of CloudSimple as GCP VMWare Engine&lt;p&gt;VMWare Cloud on AWS was built by VMWare to run on AWS ec2 bare-metal instances, and is managed by VMWare themselves.&lt;p&gt;While similar, they are different.</text></item><item><author>simonebrunozzi</author><text>Funny how things evolve over time. When I was (2014-2016) VP&amp;#x2F;CTO at vCloud Air, the cloud division of VMware, I spearheaded the partnership between VMware and GCP&amp;#x2F;Google (which of course took a much larger team to be brought to life), certain that it was the only viable and meaningful partnership for VMware at the time.&lt;p&gt;When I left in early 2016, soon thereafter VMware ditched that partnership in favor of... IBM. No comment.&lt;p&gt;And now it&amp;#x27;s 2020, IBM is far behind everyone else in the cloud, and VMware and Google are cranking along just fine. This partnership makes a ton of sense for both of them. AWS is eventually going to lose its &amp;quot;monopoly&amp;quot; over cloud (disclaimer: I was at AWS 2008-2014).&lt;p&gt;It gives me a good feeling. Especially for the very talented engineers that I met on both sides. Sometimes they have to put up with a ton of red tape and politics. At least this will make some of them smile.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bg24</author><text>Most enterprise customers have huge VMware investment. It is much easier for these CIOs to move to cloud with same look and feel as VMware and single pane of glass. Save ton of time in onboarding and operational overhead.</text></comment>