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NSX, and its new chief, take center stage at VMWorld
July 23, 2012 was a big day for VMware. It was the day the company, which up until then had been known mostly for bringing server virtualization to the enterprise, entered the networking market. By spending $1.26 billion to buy startup Nicira, VMware got something else too: Martin Casado, considered one of the forefathers of the software defined networking movement. Fast forward to Feb. 24, 2016 and it was another big day for VMware. It was the day Casado left the company for a position at Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. Thrust into the spotlight to replace Casado on the day of his amicable departure was Rajiv Ramaswami, a former executive at Broadcom and Cisco who now leads VMware's networking and security business unit. This week at VMWorld in Las Vegas Ramaswami and VMware's network virtualization product, NSX, took center stage.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
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Video: A tour of VMWorld’s Hands on Labs
At VMWorld 2016 in Las Vegas up to one-quarter of the 23,000 attendees are expected to take a Hands on Lab, which allows customers and partners to test out VMware's software in a sandbox environment. Check out our tour of the Hands on Labs in the video below. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
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How VMware’s cross-cloud NSX will work
VMware this week announced plans to extend NSX, its software defined networking product, to public IaaS cloud computing platforms, allowing customers to manage multiple cloud environments with a single network management portal.About 1,700 customers have already deployed NSX as an on-premises network virtualization platform. At some point in the future (VMware executives will not say when) the company will allow customers to deploy NSX across multiple different cloud providers. The idea is customers can centrally manage their on premises and public cloud resources within NSX. How exactly will this work?To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
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Pat Gelsinger explains what Dell-EMC deal means for VMware
When Dell announced the $67 billion debt-financed takeover of VMware parent company EMC in October, the news sent shockwaves across the EMC portfolio of companies, including internally at VMware, and with customers and partners."When the deal was announced, everybody was surprised, shocked," VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger said in a pre-VMWorld interview with Network World. "It was a big, big deal and those questions were internal as well as with customers and partners... As I described it, everybody had the deer in the headlights response." (L-R) Joe Tucci, David Goulden, Pat Gelsinger and Michael Dell in October, 2015. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
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VMware ‘Cloud Foundation’ integrates virtual compute, network and storage systems
At VMWorld this week the virtualization giant is announcing a new integrated system for building private clouds made up of the company’s virtualized compute, network and storage products packaged together with a new management software.VMware calls its new VMware Cloud Foundation product a hyperconverged infrastructure offering. It’s also meant to be the basis for VMware’s software defined data center (SDDC). Cloud Foundation will be available to run on customers’ premises or in the public cloud, making it the basis for a hybrid cloud too.Cloud Foundation is a packaging of the company’s traditional compute virtualization software vSphere with its NSX network virtualization product and its VSAN software-defined storage area network product. Cloud Foundation also includes a new software management product named SDDC Manager which controls the virtualized compute, network and storage resources. Combined, VMware envisions this system as the basis for building private clouds, running virtual desktops and hosting newly-built applications.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
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Hot products from VMWorld 2016
Moving to VegasImage by ThinkstockFor the first time VMware has moved its domestic VMWorld conference to Las Vegas – and what better place than under the bright lights of the strip to talk about the latest in virtualization, SDN, containers, hyperconverged infrastructure and mobile management. Check out our compilation of the hottest new products and services being announced and displayed at VMWorld 2016. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
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12 most powerful hyperconverged infrastructure vendors
For organizations that want the agility of public cloud infrastructure but want the security and peace of mind of hosting the hardware on their own premises, hyperconverged infrastructure has emerged as a dominant hardware platform for hosting private clouds, virtual desktops and new application development environments. Over the past five years the hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) market has evolved out of its preceding converged infrastructure (CI). Like CI, HCI’s foundational elements include an integrated compute, network and storage infrastructure offering. Unlike CI, HCI goes a step further with a software that sits atop the virtualized components that control the entire system. This creates software-defined storage, networking and compute, allowing resources to be spun up and down rapidly and through API calls. Research firm Forrester predicts that HCI systems will “become ubiquitous” as a common platform for deploying on-premises infrastructure.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
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How CloudHealth Technologies keeps your clouds healthy
The world of cloud management is a fractured and busy one. There are cloud managers that help you control costs, ones that help you track usage, ones that monitor performance and others that provide infrastructure provisioning.Cloud Health Technologies Founder and CTO Joe Kinsella saw an opportunity in the market four years ago for another type of cloud management product: One that integrates all of those disparate cloud management tools together and provides centralized visibility into them. CloudHealth Technologies was born.+MORE AT NETWORK WORLD: 4 Tips for buying cloud management software +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
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How Lyft gets a lift from Amazon’s cloud
Back in 2012, two engineers built the first prototype of ride-hailing app Lyft over the course of three weeks. They hosted it on three virtual machines in Amazon Web Services’ cloud and on May 31 of that year the first-ever Lyft ride was processed.Today, Lyft provides nearly 14 million rides per month and the company continues to run its infrastructure operations from AWS’s cloud, according to CTO Chris Lambert. “The only difference now… We’re taking advantage of many more Amazon technologies,” said Lambert, at a recent AWS Summit in New York, describing the company’s timeline of using the cloud. (See video of Lambert's AWS Summit talk below.)To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
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AWS Sales & Marketing exec leaving
Multiple media reports today indicate that Amazon Web Service’s vice president of marketing, sales and support Adam Selipsky is leaving the company, marking a high-profile executive change at the leading public IaaS cloud vendor.+MORE AT NETWORK WORLD: IBM's big cloud win | Amazon remains top dog in Gartner's IaaS Magic Quadrant +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
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IBM’s big cloud win
IBM today announced that Workday, the popular SaaS-based enterprise application company, will use the SoftLayer cloud as its primary development platform for new applications as part of a multi-year deal worth an undisclosed amount.The move is significant because it comes on the heels of another major SaaS vendor – Salesforce.com – announcing it chose Amazon Web Services as its development partner earlier this year. SaaS vendors are buddying up with IaaS providers to help build out their future applications.+MORE AT NETWORK WORLD: Why Salesforce linking up with Amazon is a big deal in the cloud +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
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Amazon remains top dog in Gartner’s cloud Magic Quadrant
Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but Gartner’s IaaS Magic Quadrant is out and Amazon Web Services is the clear the market leader, with Microsoft Azure is giving it a run for its money.It’s been a similar narrative for the past few years, but today Gartner basically said the market is status quo in 2016. The research firm’s MQ report is seen as an annual benchmark for the industry, a sort of checkpoint to see where the various vendors sit. Once again, it’s Amazon on top, Microsoft in second and a whole boatload of other vendors lumped into a category of “everyone else.”AWS: The ‘safe choice’ Amazon Web Service’s IaaS cloud is so mature and feature-rich that it’s defaulted to become the “safe choice” in the IaaS cloud market, Gartner says. AWS’s offerings available to the market are not only “many times the aggregate size of all other providers in the market,” Gartner says, but the company has a “multi-year” competitive advantage over every other competitor too.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
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How tech’s all-stars are playing the Olympics
From Aug. 5 to Aug. 21 the world will be watching Brazil as it hosts the Games of the XXXI Olympiad; and some of the biggest names in technology are helping put on the show.More than 10,500 athletes from 206 countries (including 555 U.S. Olympians) are expected to compete in 28 sports and 306 events at 37 venues over the course of the 16-day event.Technology companies aren’t just supplying technology; they’re also helping to sponsor the games. Atos, a European IT services company is a Worldwide Olympic Partner; Cisco is an official Olympics supporter and Microsoft and Symantec are official Olympic suppliers.+ MORE OLYMPICS: Rio Olympics pose security risks to travelers +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
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How tech’s all-stars are playing the Olympics
From Aug. 5 to Aug. 21 the world will be watching Brazil as it hosts the Games of the XXXI Olympiad; and some of the biggest names in technology are helping put on the show.More than 10,500 athletes from 206 countries (including 555 U.S. Olympians) are expected to compete in 28 sports and 306 events at 37 venues over the course of the 16-day event.Technology companies aren’t just supplying technology; they’re also helping to sponsor the games. Atos, a European IT services company is a Worldwide Olympic Partner; Cisco is an official Olympics supporter and Microsoft and Symantec are official Olympic suppliers.+ MORE OLYMPICS: Rio Olympics pose security risks to travelers +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
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A look at Oracle’s 10 biggest acquisitions
Oracle is back at it again today, announcing one of the largest acquisitions in company history with the purchase of enterprise resource planning (ERP) company NetSuite for $9.3 billion.+MORE AT NETWORK WORLD: Details of Oracle’s NetSuite takeover | Can Oracle buy its way into the cloud? +Larry Ellison and crew are no strangers to acquisitions. The company has made many over the past few decades. For Ellison though, cloud acquisitions are particularly noteworthy, given that not too long ago he derided the market as a fad.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
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Gartner: Amazon’s cloud storage is 1.6x bigger than all other competitors combined
Gartner this week released its Magic Quadrant for public cloud storage and Amazon Web Services is the clear market leader, while Microsoft Azure comes in a close second place.+MORE AT NETWORK WORLD: Mega cloud M&A: Oracle buys NetSuite for $9.3B | Dropbox aims for the enterprise with new team, IT admin features | 25 Surprising facts about Google that you didn't know +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
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Dropbox aims for enterprise with new team and IT admin features
Continuing its effort to better appeal to enterprise users, Dropbox Wednesday announced new features aimed at making its cloud-based storage and collaboration platform easier for teams of workers to use and IT administrators to centrally control. +MORE AT NETWORK WORLD: The CIA, NSA and Pokémon Go | 10 ways to celebrate Sysadmin Day + Dropbox was one of the pioneers of the cloud computing market, beginning in 2007 as a consumer-oriented storage service with a simple user interface and automatic synchronization across devices. In 2013 the company launched Dropbox Business, it’s foray into the business market. Two years later Dropbox introduced its Enterprise edition. In the past few years Dropbox has hired an entire enterprise sales team and has devoted a portion of its engineering team to build products specifically for the enterprise market. The fruits of that work were announced today.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
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The worlds of OpenStack and containers are colliding
One of the largest backers of OpenStack – Mirantis – is reconstructing its distribution of the open source cloud computing platform to make it run in containers, marking a potentially massive shift for the project.+MORE AT NETWORK WORLD: VMware, IBM and Microsoft are top cloud software management vendors +Mirantis today announced a partnership with Google in which the two companies will develop integrations between OpenStack and Google’s container management platform named Kubernetes, which is also an open source project. The end goal will be that OpenStack will be able to run atop Kubernetes, encapsulated in a series of application containers. Doing so will make it easier for end users to update OpenStack to newer versions, and it gives users the freedom to run OpenStack anywhere Kubernetes is supported, says Mirantis Chief Marketing Officer Boris Renski.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
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A10 Networks makes pivot to cloud with Appcito acquisition
A10 Networks, with its acquisition this week of startup Appcito, has become the latest Application Delivery Control (ADC) company to make a big push into supporting cloud applications.Many traditional ADC vendors have focused their platforms on helping customers manage applications in their own data centers. As more and more applications are hosted in the cloud, however, ADC companies have begun evolving their platforms to support cloud-based application management. In doing so, they find themselves competing with new, cloud-native open source ADC tools and offerings directly from cloud vendors.“A10 is pivoting to the cloud, and that’s something they have to do to address the changing application profiles and application-delivery requirements of enterprise customers,” says IDC analyst Brad Casemore.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
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VMware, IBM, Microsoft are top cloud system managers, IDC says
Research firm IDC is out with its latest estimates on who the leaders of the cloud systems management market are and some familiar names top the list: VMware, IBM and Microsoft. IDC IDC Worldwide Cloud systems management software market share IDC defines cloud systems management as software tooling with the following functionality: Workload scheduling and automation; change, performance and event management; and troubleshooting. IDC expects that by the end of 2017 80% of enterprises will commit to using hybrid cloud computing that uses multiple public cloud providers along with private cloud or non-cloud resources, IDC’s report states.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here