Regular readers of Virtualization Review will notice something different about the site today. Namely (see what I did there?) that we have a new name: henceforth, we are Virtualization & Cloud Review. Rolls trippingly off the tongue, doesn't it?
I'm excited about the new name, despite the length. It's a long time coming, but is a necessary tweak. We needed an updated moniker to reflect our evolving coverage. We still cover virtualization, of course; all aspects of it, as always. But the role of virtualization has changed dramatically over the years, and we needed to address those changes.
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Posted by Keith Ward on 03/07/20170 comments
LAS VEGAS – VMworld 2016 still has several days to go as I write this, but most of the big news announcements have been made, so it's safe to discuss the main things I learned about VMware's strategy in the near term as outlined in both keynotes, as well as discussions I've had with multiple company executives.
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Posted by Keith Ward on 08/30/20160 comments
Click here for notes from day one.
Day two of virtualization's biggest annual event has arrived. Here are some notes from the field.
- Unofficial attendance, according to several VMware PR staffers, is 23,000. That equals last year's attendance. The 2015 number was a record, so although no new record was set this year, attendance didn't drop, either. It still does show that the interest in virtualization hasn't diminished – a very good thing for VMware.
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Posted by Keith Ward on 08/30/20160 comments
LAS VEGAS -- VMworld returns to Las Vegas for the first time since 2011 (as I wrote about in my "Brief History of VMworld" article). Has it really been five years since VMworld was in the desert?
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Posted by Keith Ward on 08/29/20160 comments
What was your first VMworld like? What was the strangest thing that happened to you at a VMworld event? What do you like most/dislike most about VMworld?
I'm putting together an article for an upcoming edition of Virtualization Review magazine, and I'd like your feedback on these things. It's a remembrance-type of piece on VMworld, which started pretty small and has grown to be the single biggest event in the virtualization industry.
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Posted by Keith Ward on 04/15/20160 comments
When you think "virtualization," the name VMware is almost sure to follow close behind. They go together like The Colonel and Kentucky Fried Chicken.
But when you think "Microsoft," the word "virtualization" doesn't spring as quickly to mind, if at all. You think "Windows." You might think "PC." In this day and age, you might even think "Azure." "Virtualization," though, is unlikely to make that list.
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Posted by Keith Ward on 03/22/20160 comments
Is the "Stop the presses!" Dell buyout of VMware parent EMC in trouble? That's what some media outlets seem to think.
As pretty much everyone in the IT world knows by now, last October Dell
pledged to buy
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Posted by Keith Ward on 02/12/20160 comments
As time rolls on following the announcement that Dell is buying EMC, things seem to be getting murkier for VMware, rather than more clear. The latest fallout from this confusion is that VMware stock is plunging, losing 20 percent of its value.
"Stock in VMware, which trades under its own symbol, dropped nearly 20% Wednesday after EMC said it would reorganize the two companies' cloud-computing offerings into a subsidiary named Virtustream, which is expected to go live early next year," reported Robert McMillan of Dow Jones Business News.
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Posted by Keith Ward on 10/22/20150 comments
So, Dell now owns EMC, and by extension, VMware. There is so much to say about this, even though so little is actually known.
What we do know is that the deal is done; announcements on both Dell's and EMC's sites have confirmed it. I can't even begin to understand the financials of how it will work, of how a private company buys a public company. And for me, that doesn't matter, at least in terms of the most interesting part of the deal for those of us whose main interest here is VMware.
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Posted by Keith Ward on 10/12/20150 comments
Typically, the only way Apple is connected in any way to virtualization is when people use Parallels or VMware Fusion to run Windows in a virtual machine on a Mac. But Apple's in virtualization news today, and in a way that may make VMware nervous.
Filing for Divorce
Kevin McLaughlin of CRN reported that Apple, the world's second most valuable company after Exxon Mobile Corp. (as of today), has cancelled its Enterprise License Agreement (ELA) with VMware and decided to start using open source KVM as its hypervisor.
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Posted by Keith Ward on 10/05/20150 comments
I was at VMworld 2015, and watched the keynotes and read the press releases and came away with a pretty good idea of what VMware wants the public to know about going forward. And if I were to sum up what I learned at the show, it would be this: VMware wants you in the cloud, and now.
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Posted by Keith Ward on 09/10/20150 comments