A company built on the world's most popular OS and productivity software has changed radically in just a few years. The cloud has changed everything for the Redmond giant, and not a moment too soon.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 09/19/2017
Unnecessarily complicated login processes demonstrate how far there still is to go.
The company's successfully pivoted; but its new direction must be navigated skillfully, and potholes are everywhere.
VMware is at an exciting and dangerous point in its existence. It can potentially dominate some emerging markets, but can also lose out in several key areas. Choosing wisely is paramount.
They can do a lot more than just test and dev.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 09/05/2017
The big news was partnerships with Amazon, a deeper dive into containers and an important security product.
ZeroStack makes a bold claim.
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 08/31/2017
The quest to unify enrollment, management and security of all devices in Workspace One comes together as VMware extends AirWatch MDM to the desktop.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/31/2017
Despite positioning itself as a provider of multi-cloud services, launch of VMware Cloud on AWS looms large at VMworld, where company also focused on NSX-based networking and hypervisor-based security with release of AppSense.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/28/2017
Well, it is official; VMware has jumped in with both feet into the partnering with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to complete VMware's cloud vision.
Revenue was up more than 12 percent from the previous year.
How it's changing datacenters and the role of the IT admin.
Also in the pipeline: support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux workloads on Azure Stack.
A new study shows that AWS is the cloud platform of choice, nearly 2-to-1, over Microsoft Azure.
CoreOS's Kubernetes package was added last week.
It's an old battle being fought in new ways.
The VMware CEO talks about what excites him most about his job.
It's one of several security and management tools released in preview mode this week.
The company's platform includes a workflow engine and load balancer which utilizes cloud resources to enable computation at Web scale.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/16/2017
VMworld often serves as a sneak-peek into future technologies and provides insight into VMware's direction as a company. Look out for these offerings at this year's show.