VMware on Azure gains early adherents

VMware on Azure was released in late April, a new service that delivers the ubiquitous virtualization software natively on Redmond's cloud. It's not clear whether the service will experience the growth VMware found with a similar joint effort with AWS, but at least one early customer said the move should be fruitful. Dot Foods has signed a three-year deal for the Azure VMware Solutions service to replace its disaster recovery setup, said Eric Ellerman, infrastructure architect at the $6.2 billion food service redistributor in Mount Sterling, Ill. "We don't want to maintain a second data center. We're trying to get out of all that," he said.