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. …
There are two major opposing forces in the datacenter that create tension in IT budgets. …
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. …
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. …
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. …
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. …
VMware is not the first company that comes to mind when you think of GPU computing, but the company has quietly been developing technologies that enables performance-minded users to get the most out of these born-again vector processors. …
Hyperconverged infrastructure has grown up quite a bit from its early days, when it was seen primarily as a way of supplying an affordable and easy-to-deploy solution for supporting virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) deployments. …
We predict new enterprise application development will pass a tipping point in 2019 and shift away from legacy virtual machines (VMs) and strongly toward containers and Kubernetes container orchestration. …
Hyperconverged infrastructure has been with us for a while now, and it looks like the technology is still a growing market, if analyst figures can be believed. …
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