Cloud
CPU Virtualization: The Tech Driving Cloud Economics
We can rent as much or as little compute capacity or storage or connectivity as we want, and we can get it when we want it. …
VMware
Compute
Hyperconvergence Finally Gets Scale At VMware
The last thing that server virtualization juggernaut VMware wants to do is become a hardware vendor. …
Compute
Embracing And Extending With Docker Containers
It is still early days in the software container revolution, and Microsoft is working as fast as it can to be able to leverage Docker containers and minimalist operating systems to make its Windows Server stack competitive with other platforms. …
Cloud
Platform9 Melds OpenStack Cloud, VMware Virtualization
The problem with both the open source OpenStack cloud controller and its analog in the VMware world, formerly known as vCloud and now known as vRealize, is that neither of these tools have the look and feel of the Amazon Web Services cloud. …
Code
VMware Blunts Container Attack With Bonneville VM
Having made its fortunes virtualizing the X86 servers at some 500,000 customers worldwide, there is no bigger threat to the continued financial success of server virtualization and cloud player VMware than the wild enthusiasm that software development teams have for Docker containers. …
Compute
First Ban The SAN, Then VMware
The conventional wisdom these days is that the server virtualization hypervisor is a commodity, and as the executives at hyperconverged infrastructure upstart Nutanix are putting it as they rev their software stack, “it is the new sheet metal for the cloud era.” While that makes a good metaphor, it is somewhat ironic, then, that Nutanix has cooked up its own hypervisor, called Acropolis, that can be placed at the heart of its server-storage hybrid clusters. …
Enterprise
VMware Attacks Hyperconvergence From Three Sides
Any new system architecture gets its best chance of being adopted in the enterprise when it is paired with a greenfield workload that is more or less isolated from other software running in the datacenter. …
Cloud
EMC Grabs A Bigger Piece Of The Cloud
Every new generation of systems architecture spawns its own set of management tools to automate the use of that technology and to deal with specific pain points in the architecture. …
Cloud
One Software Container To Enclose Them All
Two years ago, the CoreOS distribution of Linux was created by two guys literally working out of a garage who wanted to make software containers the key feature, rather than an add-on, to a Linux distribution for servers. …
Code
Virtualization Giant VMware Takes On Cloud-Native Microservices
Everywhere we turn in the datacenter, monolithic software is being smashed into smaller chunks that can be isolated from each other and tweaked as needed without having to recompile and test a giant pile of code. …