Control
Everybody Tries To Leverage VMware To Their Advantage
Our choice of words in founding this publication nearly a decade ago were no accident. …
NSX
Connect
The Network Binds The Increasingly Distributed Datacenter
Before founding software-defined networking startup PlumGrid and then moving to VMware when it bought his company in 2016, Pere Monclus spent almost 12 years with Cisco Systems at a time when while much of enterprise networking was still in the corporate datacenter, the shift to network virtualization and the migration to the cloud were getting underway. …
Connect
Modern Networks For An Increasingly Distributed IT World
The shift by enterprise IT vendors from hardware box makers to software and services vendors has been ongoing for several years as OEMs have looked to adapt to the rapid changes in a tech world that is becoming application- and data-centric. …
Connect
The Style Of Cloud Networking In The Corporate Datacenter
It is easy to understand the lure of the public cloud’s siren call. …
Connect
Following The Network To The Cloud And Edge
VMware burst onto the datacenter scene a little more than a decade ago, during the last big recession, when server virtualization appeared at exactly the right time when server spending was going to be seriously curtailed by economic forces. …
Cloud
VMware Always Sees A Cloudy Future
Over the past two decades, VMware has built an enviable enterprise customer base of half a million unique customers for its technology to virtualize X86 servers. …
Connect
Stretching NSX From The Datacenter To The Edge And Cloud
VMware’s $1.26 billion acquisition of network virtualization startup Nicira in 2012 sent ripples through the tech world. …
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? …