Breaking down virtualization's most powerful company, category by category, and assessing its competition.
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 08/28/2015
VMware's direction has changed in unpredictable ways.
The upgrades are aimed at tightening security.
How to restrict USB drives while still allowing audio and video to VDI clients.
Few IT companies can say they have forever changed the datacenter more quickly, or completely, than VMware.
Just because a site has just one server doesn't mean it can't -- or shouldn't -- be virtualized.
- By Rick Vanover
- 08/26/2015
It may be out of sight, but it shouldn't be out of mind.
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 08/25/2015
What it is, why you should care and the two primary offerings.
Putting your databases in the public cloud might be scary, but the rewards are substantial. Here's how this fictional company does it.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 08/24/2015
It's a two-horse race at the top, but the smaller players are also helping shape the industry's direction.
Curvature and DataCore wonder why it's necessary to rip-and-replace perfectly good systems.
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 08/21/2015
The Apache Mesos project is for large-scale production environments.
Big Switch Networks revealed enhancements for its software-defined networking fabric in VMware and OpenStack environments, along with what it claims to be the first SDN elastic pricing model.
It's designed to facilitate pushing desktops and apps to any user on any device through a cloud-agnostic platform.
The head honcho dishes on his company's relationship with Microsoft, whether containers will overtake virtual machines, what attendees at VMworld 2015 can expect and more.
Windows Server Containers integrate Docker.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/19/2015
Many approaches, many solutions. Which is best for you?
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 08/19/2015
The new hypervisor isn't for apps, breaking from the traditional model.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/17/2015
It claims to be VMware-friendly from the start.
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 08/11/2015
Tom has a particular interest in software-defined storage topics at this year's show.