Cloud
The Growing Dependence Of VMware On AWS
Four years ago, VMware and Amazon Web Services announced a partnership in which VMware customers would be able to run their virtualized data center environments on AWS instances. …
VMware
AI
Avoiding The Missing Middle With AI
It is common knowledge in the manufacturing sector of the economy that many of the companies that should have deployed HPC simulation and modeling applications one or two decades ago to help with product design, among other tasks, did not do so. …
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. …
Control
VMware And Kubernetes: More Than Just A Defensive Play
At first, VMware’s embrace of Kubernetes – several times in several different ways over several years – has a whiff of desperation about it. …
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
The Fundamental Disconnect Between Software Pricing And Moore’s Law
There are two major opposing forces in the datacenter that create tension in IT budgets. …
Compute
Accelerating AI With GPU Virtualization In The Cloud
In July, VMware acquired Bitfusion, a company whose technology virtualizes compute accelerators with the goal of enabling modern workloads like artificial intelligence and data analytics to take full advantage of systems with GPUs or with FPGAs. …
Cloud
VMware’s Head – And Future – Is In The Clouds
More than a decade ago, VMware and its new server virtualization technology represented significant threat to traditional OEMs like Dell, IBM, and Hewlett-Packard (now Hewlett Packard Enterprise) who were selling their boxes to enterprises that had to over-provision the systems they were bringing into make sure there was enough compute capacity to handle the biggest spikes in demand over the course of the year. …
Cloud
Dell, VMware Team Up To Tackle The Hybrid Cloud
As enterprises shift more of their workloads into public clouds and grow out their multicloud strategies – many are using three or more public clouds for their applications and data to as much protect them against problems with the cloud provider as to take advantage of particular strengths that each cloud provider offer – there can be the tendency to think that many will end up putting everything in the cloud. …
Compute
The New Bellwether For Enterprise IT
The amount of rejiggering among the IT vendors serving enterprise customers (as distinct from hyperscalers, cloud builders, and HPC centers) in the past decade and a half has been astounding. …