Control
Everybody Tries To Leverage VMware To Their Advantage
Our choice of words in founding this publication nearly a decade ago were no accident. …
VSAN
Edge
Getting Edgy About Hyperconverged Storage
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. …
Compute
VMware’s Platform Can Only Reflect The Enterprise Datacenter
When a company has 500,000 enterprise customers that are paying for perpetual licenses and support on systems software – this is an absolutely enormous base by corporate standards, and a retro licensing model straight from the 1980s and 1990s – what does it do for an encore? …
Compute
Getting Hyper And Converged About Storage
Hyperconverged infrastructure is a relatively small but fast-growing part of the datacenter market, driving in large part by enterprises looking to simplify and streamline their environments as they tackle increasingly complex workloads. …
Compute
Riding The Virtual SAN Gravy Train
Being the first mover in establishing a new technology in the enterprise is important, but it is not more important than having a vast installed base and sales force peddling an existing and adjacent product set in which to sell a competing and usually lagging technology. …
Cloud
AWS And VMware Acquaint As Strange Cloudfellows
What happens when the world’s largest public cloud and the biggest peddler of server virtualization in the enterprise team up to create a hybrid cloud? …
Compute
Inside VMware Before It Dons The Dell Invisibility Cloak
Where do you go when you are an infrastructure software provider that already has 500,000 enterprise customers? …
Compute
Nutanix Squeezes Lots More Performance From Server-SAN Hybrid
One of the big issues with any complex piece of distributed software is getting the most performance out of the scale inherent in the system. …
Compute
EMC, VMware Push VSAN Hyperconvergence To The Limits
There are a lot of ways to build or buy hyperconverged server-storage hybrids, and EMC is working with sister company VMware to bring yet another way to market that could, in the end, be the preferred way for many enterprise customers. …
Enterprise
VMware Takes On All-Flash Arrays With VSAN
Server virtualization juggernaut VMware was reluctant to take on the storage area establishment most aptly represented by its parent company, EMC, with virtual storage area network storage software aimed at commodity hardware. …