Not all the virtualization upgrades are improvements.
Understanding the distinctions is crucial.
While it's not as extensive an upgrade as vSphere 6.5, it still adds some important capabilities.
Improved UI, more security and better container support headline the upgrades to VMware's flagship hypervisor.
Storage is easier to use, but still not affordable for SMBs.
Vendors need to go beyond pre-packaged offerings, though.
Serving the extremes at the expense of the masses.
Better orchestration, security and networking highlight some of the upgrades.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 09/26/2016
Companies on the cutting edge of virtualization.
The company wants to compete with Amazon in the cloud.
Microsoft has made a host of improvements to its core virtualization stack in the latest version of its flagship server.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 09/20/2016
How did Azure get to be the No. 2 public cloud platform, and other questions for an Azure executive.
As happens so often, the rhetoric does not match the reality.
The company changed focus more to collaboration than one-stop-shopping.
Strike the best balance between Hyper-V power and performance.
How it started, where it is, where it's going.
The growing cloud divide that's separating SMB from enterprise.
VMworld 2016 showed how much the company has done to develop the technologies.
The VMware CTO shares his thoughts on the Dell buyout, vendor lock-in, VMworld 2016 and more.
VMware faces intense competition in the market, from competing products and huge vendors like Microsoft, Citrix and Google.
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 08/26/2016