Tuesday, September 1, 2009

VMware partners to offer Amazon-like compute services

VMware is announcing a new program on Tuesday that will allow its service-provider partners to offer pay-as-you go computing services similar to those from AWS (Amazon Web Services).

Using VMware's vCloud virtualization software, managed service providers such as Terremark and Verizon Business will allow customers to configure virtual servers over the Web and pay for the computing capacity they use on an hourly basis with a credit card, much as AWS does today.

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