The hyperconverged upstarts may have created the market for server-storage hybrids to support clusters of virtual machines, but it may be VMware that benefits most from this movement as customers look to simplify their infrastructure for supporting virtualized applications in their datacenters. …
After a decade of expanding the various capacities of its server virtualization hypervisor, ESXi, and the virtual machines that run on it, you might think that VMware was pretty much done with boosting these two key components of its virtualization wares. …
It was only a few years ago that the foregone conclusion was that future of mission-critical applications would hinge largely on Hadoop. …
The best ideas are usually the oldest ones, thought up by early geniuses and perfected incrementally by others, and this is no less true in computing. …
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