Microsoft goes rogue with vSphere on Azure

Microsoft announced a migration service that enables bare metal vSphere hosts within its Azure public cloud service. How is it different than VMware Cloud on AWS. <Transcript> Hey, How’s it going? It’s Keith Townsend from The CTO Advisor. You know what I hope you’ve rested up if you’re in the U.S. and you enjoyed your Thanksgiving holiday. Happy Thanksgiving however it’s time to get back on it and next week it’s AWS reinvent. The other hyper scalers are not sitting and waiting on AWS to take up all of the energy. Of course I’ll will be hosting the cube and having incredible sets of interviews with companies ranging from Stratoscale to VMware to the whole ecosystem at reinvent. However, before we get into reinvent there’s a couple of big announcements within the industry that I wanted to get at. First Microsoft, the hyper scalar that we mentioned earlier. When i hinted to hyper scalars are not sitting back waiting on AWS to take up all of the announcements. Microsoft has announced that they will now support VMware vSphere bare metal in Azure. Is this another VMware on AWS but VMware on Azure? Not exactly, Microsoft is taking a book out of a smaller competitors playbook Nutanix. Nutanix if you remember announced that they would be supporting HPE servers, cisco servers without the blessing of HPE and cisco directly. So what does that mean? It means that you have to support or you have to trust that Microsoft and in Nutanix. In Nutanix case Nutanix fully and supporting a what’s a