On the latest Virtualization and Cloud Security Podcast (11/09/2017), senior technical marketing architect for vSphere Security Mike Foley and I discussed security and compliance, and segregated or independent clusters for each. This has been one of my personal hot topics for a while. The issue is that many folks think, rightly or wrongly, that a …
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VMware’s near term demand continues to be strong and is actually currently characterized as trending at the high end of the company’s financial quarter to date.
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 …
Product progression is always interesting to see. In particular, I like to see products that grew up around one platform developing into adjacent platforms. Early hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) products usually only supported one hypervisor—most commonly, vSphere, as VMware dominated data center virtualization. But vSphere isn’t the only hypervisor in town, and recently, we have seen …
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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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When it comes to the cloud, anything and pretty much everything is being presented As-a-Service (aaS).
