SDxCentral are reporting that VMware have announced that OVH are buying the vCloud Air business.
This in part makes sense, as although VMware VMW 125,03 +0,62 +0,50% want to be able to provide hybrid hosting services (part on premise, part in the public cloud), their parent Dell, would rather sell the hardware to a partner that runs the hosting at some margin, rather than consume their own products at cost.
OVH certainly have pedigree in managing data centers, providing many across Europe, and 20 globally, including two which are among the largest in the world, with capacities of 400K and 360K servers respectively.
The VMware press release on the sale of vCloud Air to OVH is available.