Control
Everybody Tries To Leverage VMware To Their Advantage
Our choice of words in founding this publication nearly a decade ago were no accident. …
ESXi
Control
VMware Rejuvenates Once Again With Kubernetes Injection
The American landscape is littered with dead malls – once-thriving shopping centers now abandoned, filled with rubble, with empty department stores and food courts echoing with the ghostly shouts of 1980s teenagers in acid-washed jeans and big hair. …
Compute
VMware’s Platform Can Only Reflect The Enterprise Datacenter
When a company has 500,000 enterprise customers that are paying for perpetual licenses and support on systems software – this is an absolutely enormous base by corporate standards, and a retro licensing model straight from the 1980s and 1990s – what does it do for an encore? …
Compute
VMware’s Platform Revolves Around ESXi, Except Where It Can’t
Building a platform is hard enough, and there are very few companies that can build something that scales, supports a diversity of applications, and, in the case of either cloud providers or software or whole system sellers, can be suitable for tens of thousands, much less hundreds of thousands or millions, of customers. …
Cloud
AWS And VMware Acquaint As Strange Cloudfellows
What happens when the world’s largest public cloud and the biggest peddler of server virtualization in the enterprise team up to create a hybrid cloud? …
Compute
Inside VMware Before It Dons The Dell Invisibility Cloak
Where do you go when you are an infrastructure software provider that already has 500,000 enterprise customers? …
Compute
The Inevitable Slide As Server Virtualization Peaks
It has been just about a decade and a half since server virtualization juggernaut VMware debuted the first release of its ESX bare metal hypervisor, and nearly a decade since this hypervisor and its virtual machine guests had enough oomph to take on the job of encapsulating and consolidating multiple operating systems and workloads on since physical servers. …
Cloud
CPU Virtualization In The Cloud: Getting Your Slice, And More
In the first part in this series, we talked about the nature of processor virtualization on different systems and how this affects the underlying capacity and performance of compute in cloud infrastructure. …
Cloud
CPU Virtualization: The Tech Driving Cloud Economics
We can rent as much or as little compute capacity or storage or connectivity as we want, and we can get it when we want it. …
Compute