SDN, or software-defined networking, is taking over the world—or at least if you listened to the marketers for the main purveyors of SDN and its cousin SD-WAN, you would think so. In fact, if you just listened to the marketers, you would be feeling pretty inadequate with your local data center; your physical network with …
Tom Howarth is an IT Veteran of over 20 years experience and is the owner of PlanetVM.Net Ltd, Tom is a moderator of the VMware Communities forum. He is a contributing author on VMware vSphere(TM) and Virtual Infrastructure Security: Securing ESX and the Virtual Environment, and the forthcoming vSphere a Quick Guide. He regularly does huge virtualization projects for enterprises in the U.K. and elsewhere in EMEA. Tom was Elected vExpert for 2008 and each subsequent year thereafter.
Privacy: It Is Such a Personal Thing, Part 2
In my first post in this series, I posited that there is an implicit assumption that every individual has the right to data privacy and that privacy has on the whole been codified into law in may first-world countries, with the exception of the United States. In this second post in this series, I will begin …
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VMware to Acquire VeloCloud
VMware has just announced that it intends to acquire the SD-WAN company VeloCloud in an attempt to expand the capabilities of its networking business unit. No one can deny that VMware NSX is a very capable networking product, but it does have gaps and is incomplete. In reality, it can only create software-defined network islands surrounded …
Microsoft Releases New Version of Windows Server
On the 17th of October, Microsoft dropped the first of its planned biannual channel releases of Windows Server, chirpily called Windows Server, version 1709. Obviously, 1709 does not refer to the year of release anymore, as this would be been prior to the invention of Babbage’s difference engine. No, 1709 refers to the year and month, …
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VMware Is All In with Multicloud Cozying Up with Azure for Desktop Delivery
Everybody is well aware of VMware’s flagship new product, VMware on AWS. It’s the jewel in VMware’s new crown, and a cornerstone of its recent VMworld. VMware, having given up its intention to be a fully fledged public cloud provider, ran to the arms of those it had attempted to usurp. However, VMware has another partnership …
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I Have a dream, a journey into setting up a startup company today
“I have a dream” is what Martin Luther King Jr. said, and admittedly, his was at least an order of magnitude larger than the dreams of an average company founder. But all companies start with a dream. Dreams are great: in them, you can invariably be invincible, conquer every challenge. However, such dreams can quickly …
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