Adieu pour toujours! VMware flogs vCloud Air hosting biz to OVH

VMware is selling its core infrastructure-as-a-service hosting business vCloud Air to OVH, the French cloud computing company.VMware announced its vCloud initiative in 2008 and rebranded the service in 2014 as a hybrid, public infrastructure as a service (IaaS) to extend data centres already running vSphere. It provides a common management and network infrastructure.During its most recent fourth quarter, however, the Dell-owned VMware said the vCloud Air business had grown “robustly.” Overall, company revenue for the quarter to December 31 grew nine per cent year-on-year to $2.03bn.