Microsoft eschews traditional methods, opting for more current technologies like Azure.
The VMM Analytics integration with OMS will enable "compelling use cases" for organizations.
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
In a sign of how much things have changed for VMware, virtual machines were pushed aside for the cloud-friendly containers.
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.
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 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
It still laps the competition twice, according to a Synergy report.
Expect the changes to hit this fall.
The specters of security and vendor lock-in continue to make businesses wary.
Scalability improvements, better HTML Client top the list of upgrades.
It will enable consistent SD-WAN assurance, application performance and security policies.
New service extends reach of SD-WAN-based networking fabric to public cloud platforms.
It will be officially released in September.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/13/2017
Also: Most organizations aren't yet ready for network automation.