The new agreement between Amazon Web Services and VMware Inc. to allow transaction processing applications running on VMware to migrate between on-premise and AWS VMware clusters will catalyze legacy application innovation, writes Wikibon Lead Big Data and Analytics Analyst George Gilbert. It will make the promise of hybrid cloud a reality, at least for applications running on VMware.

This will be increasingly important, Gilbert argues, because the cloud, led by AWS, has become the accumulation point for big data from multiple sources and therefore for machine learning, which runs on that big data. A unified VMware hybrid cloud environment, managed by vCenter, will facilitate the combination of enterprise operational data to support a new generation of machine learning applications that take advantage of the multiple advantages of public cloud.

Gilbert argues that operational IT teams should start planning for this near-term scenario now. He provides a step-by-step plan for preparing internal online transaction processing applications for this new reality.

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