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.
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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 …
Multi-Hypervisor Hyperconverged with Maxta
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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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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Process, People, Ptechnology, and Politics
The four Ps of security, DevOps, Agile Cloud Development, and cloud migration are Process, People, Ptechnology, and Politics. In that order. The Ptechnology piece is by far the easiest piece, though it is often considered to be critical. Without Process and People, at this time, technology is just a bunch of 1s and 0s. Unfortunately, …
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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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