Amazon is teaming up with its one-time enemy VMware to go beyond the cloud, says report

Amazon Web Services think of building software for enterprise data centers as part of its newly formed association with VMware, according to a report released Monday.

The work could make it easier for enterprises to migrate applications between their data centers and Amazon server farms and facilitate disaster recovery of Amazon data, according to the information, without citing sources surname.

VMware shares rose about 2% after the report.

Meanwhile, Microsoft has been busy refining the data center software in place that reflects that of its public cloud Azure. And Google has taken the first step to do more with the data center on the site through its partnership with Nutanix.

However, the potential expansion of the VMware partnership would not be the first to work with the AWS data centers on the site.

•     AWS has added local support for its CodeDeploy delivery service in 2015.
•     AWS introduced the snowball storage server companies could use to copy data and send them to the cloud by 2015.
•     AWS has added local support to its EC2 tool Run command to execute shell scripts on multiple machines at the same time, in the year 2016.
•     AWS unveiled the snowmobile truck to copy important data even more supplies and send it to Amazon in 2016.
•     Last November, AWS has released Image Packaging Server operating system from an Amazon Linux for use on corporate servers.

Amazon and VMware announced their partnership in October, targeting a 2017 release environment for VMware virtualization software running on top of the Amazon cloud, but new technologies may not be available before the end of the year or Principles 2018.

VMware shares rose more than 2 percent and Amazon shares rose slightly after the press release.

AWS did not immediately respond to a request for comments. VMware had no comments.