VMworld 2014: Essential Networking Sessions

It’s that time again. VMworld 2014 opens in San Francisco on Monday, August 25. With fifty sessions covering network virtualization and security this year, it is clear that VMware is once again pushing software defined networking (SDN) and NSX, and that is as serious about the software defined network as it is about the rest of the …

Virtualization Security at VMworld

It is that time of year again, when we see all the new toys, tools, ideas, and processes that make up the show called VMworld. This year, quite a few changes in virtualization security will be discussed by VMware and other organizations that work with virtual and cloud environments. One of the key messages will …

VMworld 2014 — The Essential Desktop Sessions

It’s that time again. VMworld 2014 opens in San Francisco on Monday, August 25. With seventy-four sessions covering end user computing this year, it’s clear that VMware is as serious about the desktop as it is about the data center. I’ve been looking through the session catalog to find what promise to be the most …

Data Protection: The Next Generation

Over the last few weeks, I have been taking a hard look at various data protection tools to determine if they meet the goals for the next generation of tools. Those goals are quite interesting, actually, the main goal being application-centric backup with increased visibility into our methodologies. We need to know not only how …