Containers and other technologies are moving administrators, developers, and even operational folks up the stack. In other words, we have abstracted out the hardware and abstracted out the operating system; next, we will abstract out middleware and eventually everything but the code to run. However, when we do that, we no longer train people to …
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In Part I of this series on Do Containers Change Enterprise IT, we discussed the impact of containers on security. In Part II, we discussed the impact on data protection. Now, let us discuss the impact on performance and other IT management tools. The introduction of containers to enterprise IT tends to raise more questions …
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At VMworld last week walking the solution exchange, apart from getting very sore feet, I reintroduced myself to the near-line storage acceleration and flash-cache vendors: companies like Infinio and PernixData, and even HCI vendors like SimpliVity, Pivot3, etc.
Welcome to The Virtualization Practice’s week-long coverage of VMworld US 2015. This is the final installment; see Day 1, Day 2, and Day 3, and Day 4 for additional coverage. VMworld US 2015 wrapped up yesterday with an abbreviated day of hands-on labs and breakout sessions, many of which were repeats of popular sessions from …
Welcome to The Virtualization Practice’s week-long coverage of VMworld US 2015. Tune in all week for our daily recap of the major announcements and highlights from the world’s premier virtualization and cloud conference. With all the forward-looking business out of the way (see the Day 1, Day 2, and Day 3 recaps), VMworld took a …
Welcome to The Virtualization Practice’s week-long coverage of VMworld US 2015. Tune in all week for our daily recap of the major announcements and highlights from the world’s premier virtualization and cloud conference. VMworld US 2015 continued yesterday, kicked off by the general session. End-User Computing’s Sanjay Poonen led the keynote, in which VMware fleshed …
