People in cities around the world who use subways to move around will often see or hear the warning to “mind the gap” – or something similar – a caution to riders to be aware of the space between the doors of the train and the station platform. …
Over the past several years, VMware has developed a sprawling portfolio of cloud capabilities that stretch from on-premises datacenters and private clouds out to the public cloud and increasingly into the edge environment. …
Having to install a new kind of systems software stack and create applications is hard enough. …
The promises of the cloud – from agility and scalability to reduced costs and easier access to emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced analytics – have been out there for more than a decade and enterprises are continuing to push more of their operations to such hyperscale providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. …
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. …
HPC architects have continued to push the bounds of what is possible with computing, but the underlying architecture they have used has been fairly consistent – bare metal servers, which get bigger and faster over time. …
For more than a decade, as they have watched the amount of data they are generating stack up and technologies like artificial intelligence and analytics come to the forefront, enterprises have turned an eye toward high performance computing equipment and tools to help them get a handle on all of it. …
For a long time, datacenter compute has been the very picture of stability – Intel-based servers running enterprise workloads in central facilities. …
AI is too hard for most enterprises to adopt, just like HPC was and continues to be. …
For more than two decades, VMware has made its money sensing the direction that enterprise IT is going and getting there before they do with products to addressing their needs. …
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