Private and hybrid clouds are becoming the new normal.
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
The company's successfully pivoted; but its new direction must be navigated skillfully, and potholes are everywhere.
The big news was partnerships with Amazon, a deeper dive into containers and an important security product.
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.
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.
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.
ITaaS for Microsoft's public cloud platform.
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 08/11/2017
Internet of Things, serverless computing and more take center stage at this year's show.
Gelsinger's take on Dell, cloud computing, his vision for the future and more.
But is it a good tool for hybrid clouds?
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 08/08/2017
Lots of cloudy options this year.
It still laps the competition twice, according to a Synergy report.
A strong platform for enterprise computing.
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 08/04/2017
The specters of security and vendor lock-in continue to make businesses wary.
Here's your scorecard for sorting out the players.
It will be officially released in September.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/13/2017