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VMware Wants To Erase The Lines Between Datacenter, Cloud, And Edge

August 30, 2022 Jeffrey Burt 0

The modern enterprise IT environment is a sprawling, widely distributed, multi-tentacled beast that encompasses not only the traditional datacenter but multiple public clouds, private clouds, colocation facilities, telecommunications sites, and the edge. …

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VMware Bets On Enterprises Wanting Kubernetes And Virtualization Mashup

September 15, 2020 Jeffrey Burt 1

For more than two decades, VMware has made its money sensing the direction that enterprise IT is going and getting there before they do with products to addressing their needs. …

AI

Avoiding The Missing Middle With AI

June 2, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

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. …

Control

VMware And Kubernetes: More Than Just A Defensive Play

March 13, 2020 Mitch Wagner 0

At first, VMware’s embrace of Kubernetes – several times in several different ways over several years – has a whiff of desperation about it. …

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VMware Rejuvenates Once Again With Kubernetes Injection

March 10, 2020 Mitch Wagner 2

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. …

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VMware’s Platform Can Only Reflect The Enterprise Datacenter

April 18, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

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? …

Cloud

AWS And VMware Acquaint As Strange Cloudfellows

October 17, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

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? …

Cloud

The Vast Potential For VMware’s OpenStack Cloud

September 7, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

While hyperscalers and HPC centers like the bleeding edge – their very existence commands that they be on it – enterprises are a more conservative lot. …

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