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Hyperconvergence Finally Gets Scale At VMware

August 31, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

The last thing that server virtualization juggernaut VMware wants to do is become a hardware vendor. …

Compute

Embracing And Extending With Docker Containers

August 20, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

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

August 18, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

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

June 23, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

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

June 9, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

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.” …

Enterprise

VMware Attacks Hyperconvergence From Three Sides

June 8, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

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

May 26, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

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

May 8, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

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

April 20, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

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. …

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