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 …
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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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The VMware Optimism
Upon the completion of the VMworld 2017 conferences in Las Vegas and Barcelona, I find myself feeling very optimistic about VMware. The near-term demand appears to be favorable, and the partner communities are anticipating an acceleration well into 2018. As such, the partners are making go-to-market investments in VMware NSX, VMware vSAN, and the vRealize product suite.
DISA STIG Auditing for the VMware vRealize Log Insight SOC
I previously created a VMware vRealize Log Insight security operations center (SOC), which has been updated to support vSphere 6.5 U1. This release, with the SecureESX teaser, has been released on GitHub already. SecureESX has a bit of history behind it and has always been about auditing ESX and vSphere for security issues.
Just Two Weeks before VMworld: Citrix vs. VMware
With VMworld just two weeks away, some of the key differences between Citrix and VMware are coming to the fore. XenApp/XenDesktop and Horizon are clearly the market leaders in the end user computing space, and Citrix and VMware compete fiercely for superiority. While VMware may have the upper hand with regard to the hypervisor and analytics, …
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Demand for VMware Services 2017
I believe we have reached a point at which any negative thoughts and concerns about the effects Dell’s acquisition of EMC might have on VMware are getting put to rest. We are fast approaching the start of the fourth quarter of 2017, and all indicators show strong demand for VMware services in compute, network, and storage.