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VMware evolves integrated ecosystem approach and partner network

Patrick Nelson — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 16:10:59 +0000

As VMware Inc.’s business strategy shifts to a subscription-based, software-as-a-service model with annual recurring revenue as its income stream, the organization has to adapt in its relationship with channel partners and global systems integrators, according to the executive tasked with revamping the sales channels. “We do a pretty good job on the channel side. We […]

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How supercloud is helping orgs fast-track and modernize applications

Alice Gillin — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 15:21:19 +0000

The cloud has been a priority on business agendas for years — not just tech leaders anymore, as the world modernizes applications and data by moving it to an increasingly user-friendly cloud. With VMware Inc.’s modern application and management strategies, the company helps organizations fast track their application modernization journeys, allowing development directly on the […]

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Taming complexity: A holistic approach to multicloud management

Brian Njuguna — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 20:00:47 +0000

Even though the multicloud concept is spreading its wings, the chaos or complexity that comes with it is causing some challenges. Since multicloud is at an inflection point, VMware Inc. has taken up the mantle of taming the complexity that crops up, according to Purnima Padmanabhan (pictured), senior vice president and general manager of cloud management […]

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Why hyperscalers aren’t always the best choice for infrastructure

Patrick Nelson — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 19:28:27 +0000

The “mentality of optimization” should be at the forefront of enterprises’ minds when transitioning from in-house data centers. It’s why one chooses an IT company specializing in pay-per-use bare metal cloud and other niches rather than simply dumping everything into public cloud. “People need to learn how to make that choice,” said William Bell (pictured), executive […]

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Could Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware transform the chip vendor into a contender in the cloud race?

Henrietta Vogt — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 21:00:58 +0000

Broadcom Inc.’s planned acquisition of VMware has raised concerns about the brand disappearing or their research scope being scaled back. But some investors see it as a good way for the industry to consolidate and move forward. “VMware is here to stay; the brand will stay … VMware customers will stay for years to come,” […]

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Cloud storage solution targets scalable, efficient data management

Patrick Nelson — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 20:00:19 +0000

Adding supplemental storage, including at multicloud, is one of the main advantages of the Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP product. The new product, long in development and now commercially available for partners to sell, is the only third-party cloud storage service to be certified and supported as a supplemental datastore for VMware Cloud for AWS, […]

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How vVols are breaking traditional storage barriers

Brian Njuguna — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 17:57:23 +0000

In the realm of software-defined storage, leveraging the intelligence and horsepower of a storage array has become a notable trend. Just like a raw device map, or RDM, virtual volumes, or vVols, present all the storage array features up to vSphere and manage them through policy-based management, according to Jason Massae (pictured, right), staff technical marketing […]

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Trusted AI: How Pandata and Dell are making AI work for enterprises

Alice Gillin — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 18:40:10 +0000

Artificial intelligence is here to stay, doing the work of thousands of humans at a fraction of the speed. Paired with machine learning and data science, AI is a valuable tool for enterprises looking to utilize its infrastructure’s power to the fullest expense. Pandata LLC has set out to do just that, helping businesses leverage […]

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Reimagining the hybrid cloud: VMware and HPE expand joint solutions

Alice Gillin — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 16:30:43 +0000

Great companies do great things, and when teamed up, they can achieve innovation and reach strides never thought possible before. VMware Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. have teamed up for more than 20 years, creating a swathe of joint solutions focused on improving a cloud and hybrid cloud infrastructure experience for its clients, such […]

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HPE and VMware enhance operational efficiencies through joint engineering

Brian Njuguna — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 15:05:03 +0000

Enterprises do not just want an enhanced experience; they want one that meets their needs, tastes and preferences. With a joint customer base of more than 200,000, VMware Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. have partnered to address the changing business consumption model through different engineering, according to Mark Nickerson (pictured, left), director of go-to-market and […]

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Making industrial edge data processing easier and more cost-effective

Henrietta Vogt — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 20:30:07 +0000

Zededa Inc. says it’s revolutionizing the edge with its new open-source operating system designed to process data in industrial applications without the need to send data to the cloud. The EVE-OS, part of Project EVE, was created by Zededa in partnership with the Linux Foundation as an open on-premises solution for enterprise edge computing. “What we […]

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Is the focus on developer experience over infrastructure damaging the industry?

Victor Dabrinze — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 19:52:52 +0000

Developers are the modern enterprise’s beating heart. And with things like the pervasiveness of open-source code and application programming interfaces, they’re basically served the tools and resources they need to produce at a high level. “I think the big thing happening is that we are seeing the true separation of capacity delivery from capacity consumption in computing,” said James […]

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Unstructured workloads are taking over storage space, says Pure Storage exec

Patrick Nelson — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 19:23:05 +0000

Machine learning opportunities are seeing massive upticks, according to a Pure Storage executive. Health sciences, genome sequencing and medical imaging are joined by federal government and the automotive sectors in a thrust toward unstructured workloads taking over the storage space. “We’re seeing tremendous growth in that unstructured space,” said Vaughn Stewart (pictured), vice president of […]

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Multicloud as the next frontier: The possibilities and challenges ahead

Brian Njuguna — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 15:47:57 +0000

By acting as a brokering service, multicloud aims to enhance operational and security aspects. As a result, the market is transitioning to anything that sits above and between multiple clouds, according to Dave Linthicum (pictured), chief cloud strategy officer of Deloitte Consulting LLP. This calls for another layer of abstraction and automation. “Things that don’t exist in […]

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MinIO is to storage as Kubernetes is to compute, says company co-founder

Henrietta Vogt — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 23:00:15 +0000

It’s easy to forget the down-to-earth reality that there’s no cloud computing without hardware. Containerization and deployment with Kubernetes frees applications from the underlying infrastructure. But, in most cases, the storage remains tethered in place, causing problems for companies dealing with data in a multicloud environment. “That’s where storage systems like MinIO come into play, […]

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Lumen enables companies to ‘pick and choose’ cloud services across vendors

Henrietta Vogt — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 22:30:51 +0000

Lumen Technologies Inc.’s recently released Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Solutions allows information technology and security leaders to adapt to the changing workplace and move toward a more distributed labor force. The Lumen marketplace enables businesses to pick and choose cloud solutions from multiple vendors for their specific requirements, according to Darren Wolner (pictured), senior director of product […]

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Software over network layers key to collaboration, says Lumen

Patrick Nelson — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 21:56:51 +0000

Layering the software technologies created by VMware Inc. over an extensive backbone network developed by Lumen Technologies Inc is how the fiber company sees its relationship with VMware, according to Steve Grabow (pictured), senior vice president of technology solutions and services, strategic alliances and portfolio strategy at Lumen. “We can bring that all together,” he […]

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The networked CPU is shifting with the addition of data processing units: AMD explains

Patrick Nelson — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 15:45:44 +0000

Server consolidation is becoming an increasingly important part of major semiconductor device manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s reach, according to Kumaran Siva (pictured), corporate vice president of strategic business development at AMD. He believes that companies upgrading aging servers not only massively reduce their costs because of new-found efficiencies, but it also allows for new enterprise […]

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AMD migration tool takes aim at virtual machines

Patrick Nelson — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 15:25:59 +0000

A recently released VMware Architecture Migration Tool, from Advanced Micro Systems Inc., significantly speeds up CPU-to-CPU migrations on x86 systems, according to a technical expert at AMD. Channel partners, who are involved in small- and mid-sized organizations, looking to add value, could benefit, along with large deployments in enterprise, says Jason Collier (pictured), principal member of […]

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Joint NetApp, VMware and AWS solution streamlines cross-platform workload operations

Mark Albertson — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 23:30:28 +0000

Three powerhouse enterprise tech companies have joined forces to provide customers with flexible, high-performance virtualized storage infrastructure that can be scaled independently from compute. The VMware Cloud on AWS integration with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP solution was unveiled during VMware Explore in late August. The integration of technologies between the three companies is designed […]

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DPU solution could change the game for VMware’s network and application security model

Mark Albertson — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 23:00:31 +0000

VMware Inc. announced an intriguing development on the security front during its recent annual conference. The virtualization pioneer unveiled an enhancement for its NSX network platform that leverages data processing unit acceleration using smart network interface controllers. Behind the technical jargon of VMware’s announcement can be found a simple reality: The DPU has the potential […]

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Is VMware’s pivot from VMworld’s cloud-native focus to VMware Explore and multicloud a smart move? Industry analysts weigh in

Betsy Amy-Vogt — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 22:30:21 +0000

The recent VMware Explore event brought the term “cloud chaos” into the information technology lexicon. It was a welcome addition that summed up the problems of managing multiple cloud vendors within a single organization. VMware Inc. claims to be addressing this issue with its focus on multicloud management, pivoting the pure cloud-native message of the […]

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Three insights you might have missed from VMware Explore

Mark Albertson — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 23:20:21 +0000

VMware Inc. spent the better part of the last week in August outlining a vision of the future for its customers. That vision will be multicloud or services for cross-cloud applications based on announcements made by the virtualization pioneer during the event. VMware focused on multicloud solutions that extended collaboration with Microsoft Azure and Amazon […]

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VMware expands focus from virtualization to multicloud services

Betsy Amy-Vogt — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 21:30:26 +0000

Call it multicloud 2.0, call it cross-cloud services or call it supercloud. It’s a way to fix the information technology chaos that companies inadvertently created when they made a headlong, pandemic-rushed move to the cloud. “What we see is that there’s these different sort of vertical silos; the different public clouds, they’re on-prem, data center, […]

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VMware positions for prominence in the supercloud market: VMware Explore Day 2 analysis

Betsy Amy-Vogt — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 21:05:00 +0000

Over 12 years of watching VMware Inc., theCUBE has seen some major changes. Through acquisitions and internal restructuring, product pivots and spin-offs, the company has kept its engineering focus and proved its resilience. Even as the company faces possible cutbacks after the proposed acquisition by Broadcom Inc., it made a strong case for its future […]

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NetApp’s expanded VMware partnership highlights common focus on multicloud support

Mark Albertson — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 20:45:06 +0000

During the recently concluded VMware Explore gathering in San Francisco, NetApp Inc. and VMware Inc. announced a partnership expansion that will include new customer-driven initiatives for migrating enterprise workloads to multicloud architectures. The partnership expansion followed many years of collaboration, a point that was noted during keynote presentations at the event by VMware executives. “It […]

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New name for VMware event reflects new realities for the company in post-pandemic world

Mark Albertson — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 15:29:32 +0000

One of the major changes at VMware Explore in August was the name itself. The event, previously known as VMworld, was rebranded in 2022 to reflect the company’s own transition from being a virtualization pioneer and developing the private cloud to what has become a multicloud universe. “It wasn’t just to come back to what […]

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At Explore, VMware cedes cloud-native ground for multicloud – but it’s still firing on all cylinders

Jason Bloomberg — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 04:08:55 +0000

Historically, VMware Inc.‘s VMworld conference was one of the big three enterprise tech conferences, along with the RSA Conference and AWS re:Invent, that was large enough to transcend its primary sponsor, thus becoming one of the must-attend conferences of the year. In contrast, this week VMware hosted the newly renamed VMware Explore conference – about one-third […]

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Could Cohesity mature into the new VMware or AWS? New CEO Sanjay Poonen weighs in

Betsy Amy-Vogt — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 19:31:06 +0000

Just over a year ago, Sanjay Poonen (pictured) was in the running to replace Pat Gelsinger as the chief executive officer of VMware Inc. Instead, he hung up his chief operating officer credentials and took a sabbatical from the fast-paced world of enterprise technology. Now, he’s attending VMware Explore as a member of the partner ecosystem, […]

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Google Cloud and VMware leverage infrastructure to meet past and future needs for enterprise customers

Mark Albertson — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 19:11:50 +0000

In the 1999 sci-fi action thriller “The Matrix,” one of the lead characters confronts a choice between taking a red pill to learn a life-changing truth about the future or a blue pill that will keep him in blissful ignorance. Google Cloud is extending the red pill/blue pill analogy to encompass a third option surrounding […]

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