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The Network Binds The Increasingly Distributed Datacenter

September 2, 2022 Jeffrey Burt 0

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. …

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Modern Networks For An Increasingly Distributed IT World

November 19, 2020 Jeffrey Burt 0

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. …

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The Style Of Cloud Networking In The Corporate Datacenter

July 27, 2020 Jeffrey Burt 0

It is easy to understand the lure of the public cloud’s siren call. …

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Following The Network To The Cloud And Edge

April 8, 2020 Jeffrey Burt 0

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. …

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VMware Always Sees A Cloudy Future

August 31, 2018 Daniel Robinson 0

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. …

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Stretching NSX From The Datacenter To The Edge And Cloud

May 2, 2018 Jeffrey Burt 0

VMware’s $1.26 billion acquisition of network virtualization startup Nicira in 2012 sent ripples through the tech world. …

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VMware’s Platform Can Only Reflect The Enterprise Datacenter

April 18, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

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

August 29, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

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

October 17, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

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? …

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Inside VMware Before It Dons The Dell Invisibility Cloak

August 30, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

Where do you go when you are an infrastructure software provider that already has 500,000 enterprise customers? …

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