The IBM - VMware strategic hookup was driven by the mutual self - interest by two companies who see AWS, which appears to be en route to a $ 10 - billion -
a-year cloud business, as an existential threat.
In the latest Gartner public
cloud survey from March, Amazon (AMZN), Web Services, which claims to be $ 5 billion -
a-year business, continues to dominate the public
cloud space, with Microsoft, and Google (GOOG), coming up just behind.