Compute
VMware Partners Its Way Deeper into Cloud, Edge, And AI
Software maker VMware has always been about tight partnerships with other tech vendors. …
VMware
Compute
VMware Holds Steady Course In Choppy Datacenter Seas
VMware is a company that has always embraced change. As we have noted before, the company that started off roiling the datacenter with virtualization technology that initially changed the dynamics — from efficiency to flexibility to costs — of servers and eventually expanded to include storage appliance and enterprise networks, creating what it referred to as the software-defined datacenter (SDDC). …
Store
Hyperconverged Server-Storage Hybrids Land New, Modern Workloads
Hyperconverged infrastructure came out of fairly humble beginnings almost a decade ago. …
Store
Separating Compute And Storage In Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Back in its earliest days, hyperconverged infrastructure was seen primarily as a consolidation play, a way to bring together compute, storage, networking and management together into a single package and offset some of the rising costs and complexities in enterprise datacenters. …
Compute
Crazy Move #1486: What If Intel Buys VMware
Does Michael Dell want to be Intel’s largest shareholder? Maybe, just maybe. …
Control
Minding The Gaps Between Software Development And Production
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. …
Cloud
VMware Unifies Its Cloud Front
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. …
Compute
Tuning Up Nvidia’s AI Stack To Run On Virtual Infrastructure
Having to install a new kind of systems software stack and create applications is hard enough. …
Cloud
The Expedient Way To Build An Enterprise Cloud
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. …
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. …