Microsoft boasts that new tool will control Amazon’s cloud, too | Network World

Embrace and extend, cloud edition

"Microsoft this week launched a tool that initially is best for managing its public and private clouds but that the company says will soon enable enterprises to control hybrid clouds based on Amazon Web Services and VMware clouds, too.

“[The Operations Management Suite] helps simplify management of your datacenter assets wherever they live,” wrote Jeremy Winter, a product manager at Microsoft, in a blog post. “That means any instance in any cloud, including your data center, Azure, AWS, Windows Server, Linux, VMware, and OpenStack.”"

Microsoft boasts that new tool will control Amazon’s cloud, too | Network World