What Makes VMware On Oracle Cloud Different Than Its Rivals?

Oracle is the latest large cloud provider to partner with VMware, but its joint hybrid service with the virtualization leader aims to not be more of the same. Amazon entered uncharted territory more than two years ago with its VMware Cloud on AWS offering, and Microsoft and Google followed suit more recently. Oracle wasn't looking for a copycat play. Instead, the tech giant built a unique offering that looks to appeal to large enterprises hoping to maintain greater control of their VMware environments as they move them into the public cloud, according to several Oracle executives. We have a very important relationship with VMware," Oracle Executive Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison said in a keynote at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco. What distinguishes that alliance, Ellison said, is that Oracle is the only provider allowing customers to manage their own VMware stack, and do so using native VMware tools.