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Docker Helped Invent Containers, And Is Now Reinventing Itself

March 24, 2023 Jeffrey Burt 2

Containers are still the hot new technology in the datacenter to some, but many of the pieces and parts that eventually would find their way into today’s container platforms have long-since been used by enterprises and developers thanks to Docker. …

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Building Software Bridges To Ensure Workload Portability

September 22, 2022 Jeffrey Burt 0

In these modern IT days – where the rapidly-evolving environment stretches from the datacenter to the cloud and edge, with a range of hyperscale cloud providers and myriad clusters to choose from – what is increasingly important when creating and running workloads is portability. …

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Why Aren’t There Software-Defined NUMA Servers Everywhere?

September 12, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 14

For decades, we have been using software to chop up servers with virtualization hypervisors to run many small workloads on a relatively big piece of iron. …

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Bringing AWS-Style DPU Offload To The VMware Base

August 30, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Databases and datastores are by far the stickiest things in the datacenter. …

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VMware Wants To Erase The Lines Between Datacenter, Cloud, And Edge

August 30, 2022 Jeffrey Burt 0

The modern enterprise IT environment is a sprawling, widely distributed, multi-tentacled beast that encompasses not only the traditional datacenter but multiple public clouds, private clouds, colocation facilities, telecommunications sites, and the edge. …

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Managing Infrastructure At Cloud Scale Without The Hyperscaler Propellerheads

August 16, 2022 Jeffrey Burt 0

As more enterprises embrace hybrid and multicloud strategies and begin to extend their IT reach out to the edge, scale becomes an issue. …

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Making Progress With Infrastructure As Code

July 25, 2022 Jeffrey Burt 0

It has been almost two years since infrastructure software maker Progress Software spent $220 million to buy Chef, the open source automation tech vendor Chef that was helping to fuel the “infrastructure as code” trend. …

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Project Arctic Means VMware Doesn’t Get Left Out In the Hybrid Cold

June 28, 2022 Jeffrey Burt 1

Enterprises have been shifting many of their workloads into the cloud to take advantage of the scalability, efficiencies, and economics those environments offer. …

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With VMware, Broadcom Has A Real Enterprise Software Stack

May 26, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

Once Dell spun out VMware on Wall Street, it was only a matter of time before someone would put together enough money to acquire it. …

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Expanding DevOps With Infrastructure As Code

April 11, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

The hyperscalers have taught us many lessons in the past two decades, and one of them is that everything that can be defined in software should be so that it can be controlled automatically and programmatically – and that goes double for hardware, which has required so much human babysitting over the decades. …

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