VMware CEO Raghu Raghuram kicked off the company’s flagship user conference in San Francisco, noting the event’s new name and its return to an in-person venue after two years of being held virtually due to the pandemic. What used to be called VMworld is now VMware Explore in a switch that acknowledges how the audience has changed over the years.“When we started VMworld, it was a community for data center professionals. But over the years we have broadened,” Raghuram said. Now it’s a community for application developers, platform engineering teams, cloud operations teams, and security teams, he said. “It's about all of these roles… not only in the data center, but across clouds. It is truly a multi-cloud community.”To read this article in full, please click here
VMware CEO Raghu Raghuram kicked off the company’s flagship user conference in San Francisco, noting the event’s new name and its return to an in-person venue after two years of being held virtually due to the pandemic. What used to be called VMworld is now VMware Explore in a switch that acknowledges how the audience has changed over the years.“When we started VMworld, it was a community for data center professionals. But over the years we have broadened,” Raghuram said. Now it’s a community for application developers, platform engineering teams, cloud operations teams, and security teams, he said. “It's about all of these roles… not only in the data center, but across clouds. It is truly a multi-cloud community.”To read this article in full, please click here
Nvidia is starting to strike deals normally reserved for CPU vendors. At the VMware Explore conference today, it announced a new data-center solution with Dell Technologies designed to bring AI training in a zero-trust security environment.The solution combines Dell PowerEdge servers with Nvidia’s BlueField DPUs, GPUs, and AI Enterprise software, and is optimized for VMware’s newly released vSphere 8 enterprise workload platform.
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Nvidia is starting to strike deals normally reserved for CPU vendors. At the VMware Explore conference today, it announced a new data-center solution with Dell Technologies designed to bring AI training in a zero-trust security environment.The solution combines Dell PowerEdge servers with Nvidia’s BlueField DPUs, GPUs, and AI Enterprise software, and is optimized for VMware’s newly released vSphere 8 enterprise workload platform.
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VMware is looking to ease the networking, security and management hassles of running enterprise multicloud environments with a raft of new products introduced at its VMware Explore 2022 conclave in Las Vegas this week.The new products include a SaaS-based upgrade for the company’s core networking software, NSX, as well a new cloud-native management service, VMware Aria, and integrated security features.
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The driving idea behind all of the new products is to simplify the growing complexity of the network architecture connecting multicloud applications and their services, said Tom Ellis, senior vice president and general manager at VMware. That’s because VMware research shows 580 million workloads are expected to run on diverse, distributed environments spanning public cloud, on-premises, edge, telco clouds, and hosted clouds by 2024.To read this article in full, please click here
VMware is looking to ease the networking, security and management hassles of running enterprise multicloud environments with a raft of new products introduced at its VMware Explore 2022 conclave in San Francisco this week.The new products include a SaaS-based upgrade for the company’s core networking software, NSX, as well a new cloud-native management service, VMware Aria, and integrated security features.
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The driving idea behind all of the new products is to simplify the growing complexity of the network architecture connecting multicloud applications and their services, said Tom Gillis, senior vice president and general manager at VMware. That’s because VMware research shows 580 million workloads are expected to run on diverse, distributed environments spanning public cloud, on-premises, edge, telco clouds, and hosted clouds by 2024.To read this article in full, please click here
Intel and Canada's Brookfield Asset Management have announced a deal to jointly fund up to $30 billion in investments of Intel fabrication facilities in Arizona, saving Intel a lot of money in the process.The investment follows up on a memorandum of understanding the two firms signed in February to explore finance options to help fund new Intel manufacturing sites. Brookfield will invest up to $15 billion for a 49% stake in the expansion project, while Intel will retain majority ownership and operating control of the two chip factories in Chandler, Arizona.The deal falls under what is known as the Semiconductor Co-Investment Program (SCIP), a new funding model to the capital-intensive semiconductor industry. As part of the program, Brookfield will provide Intel with a new, expanded pool of capital for manufacturing build-outs. In return, Brookfield gets a cut of the revenue stream.To read this article in full, please click here
Intel and Canada's Brookfield Asset Management have announced a deal to jointly fund up to $30 billion in investments of Intel fabrication facilities in Arizona, saving Intel a lot of money in the process.The investment follows up on a memorandum of understanding the two firms signed in February to explore finance options to help fund new Intel manufacturing sites. Brookfield will invest up to $15 billion for a 49% stake in the expansion project, while Intel will retain majority ownership and operating control of the two chip factories in Chandler, Arizona.The deal falls under what is known as the Semiconductor Co-Investment Program (SCIP), a new funding model to the capital-intensive semiconductor industry. As part of the program, Brookfield will provide Intel with a new, expanded pool of capital for manufacturing build-outs. In return, Brookfield gets a cut of the revenue stream.To read this article in full, please click here
VMware and IBM are widening the scope of their 20-year partnership to offer joint customers in regulated industries a secure path to hybrid cloud. Their plans include co-engineered cloud solutions that are aimed at helping companies in industries such as financial services, healthcare, and the public-sector to reduce the cost and risk placing mission-critical workloads in a hybrid environment.“Roughly 25% of workloads within enterprises have moved to cloud," said Hillery Hunter, an IBM Fellow and vice president and CTO of IBM Cloud. "That may be smaller than some people expect, but it’s an even lower number in regulated industries. Analysts have estimates as low as 5% to 13% for highly regulated organizations like banks. This means that modernization remains very much a timely topic."To read this article in full, please click here
VMware and IBM are widening the scope of their 20-year partnership to offer joint customers in regulated industries a secure path to hybrid cloud. Their plans include co-engineered cloud solutions that are aimed at helping companies in industries such as financial services, healthcare, and the public-sector to reduce the cost and risk placing mission-critical workloads in a hybrid environment.“Roughly 25% of workloads within enterprises have moved to cloud," said Hillery Hunter, an IBM Fellow and vice president and CTO of IBM Cloud. "That may be smaller than some people expect, but it’s an even lower number in regulated industries. Analysts have estimates as low as 5% to 13% for highly regulated organizations like banks. This means that modernization remains very much a timely topic."To read this article in full, please click here
My early enterprise surveys from 30 years ago showed that the largest reported source of network outages was human error. Today, that’s still the case, and in fact human error leads any equipment or transmission cause by a larger margin today than it did 30 years ago. This, despite the fact that enterprises say they’ve invested significantly in improving, simplifying, and automating network operations. The old saying, “We have met the enemy and they are us,” sure seems to apply.If you ask network operations professionals, most will tell you that the problem is that network complexity is growing faster than operations management can cope with. Most, but not all. Operations management believes that acquisition and retention of qualified network experts is a big part of the problem. Some technical pundits think network technology itself is to blame. Almost everyone things that more automation is the solution, but some wonder if our automation tools are just adding another layer of complexity when complexity is the big problem to start with. Hot news: They’re all correct.To read this article in full, please click here
Qualcomm may be preparing for another run that the data-center market with a new line of Arm-based processors for servers, according Bloomberg.The company is reportedly seeking customers to test a product from Nuvia, a semiconductor startup it purchased last year that was founded by the former head of Apple CPU development.
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Qualcomm may be preparing for another run that the data-center market with a new line of Arm-based processors for servers, according Bloomberg.The company is reportedly seeking customers to test a product from Nuvia, a semiconductor startup it purchased last year that was founded by the former head of Apple CPU development.
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My early enterprise surveys from 30 years ago showed that the largest reported source of network outages was human error. Today, that’s still the case, and in fact human error leads any equipment or transmission cause by a larger margin today than it did 30 years ago. This, despite the fact that enterprises say they’ve invested significantly in improving, simplifying, and automating network operations. The old saying, “We have met the enemy and they are us,” sure seems to apply.If you ask network operations professionals, most will tell you that the problem is that network complexity is growing faster than operations management can cope with. Most, but not all. Operations management believes that acquisition and retention of qualified network experts is a big part of the problem. Some technical pundits think network technology itself is to blame. Almost everyone things that more automation is the solution, but some wonder if our automation tools are just adding another layer of complexity when complexity is the big problem to start with. Hot news: They’re all correct.To read this article in full, please click here
Qualcomm may be preparing for another run that the data-center market with a new line of Arm-based processors for servers, according Bloomberg.The company is reportedly seeking customers to test a product from Nuvia, a semiconductor startup it purchased last year that was founded by the former head of Apple CPU development.
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Verge.io, formerly known as Yottabyte, has added GPU virtualization to its virtual data-center software, making it possible to partition out GPU-based processing tasks the same way a hypervisor divides up a CPU.Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) builds a tightly integrated and configured IT data center setup from standard server, storage, and networking servers with everything virtualized. Verge.io’s software, called Verge-OS, goes on step further by partitioning the pooled resources into what it calls virtual data centers (VDCs). From one big pool can come many VDCs made up of different hardware and software configurations.To read this article in full, please click here
Verge.io, formerly known as Yottabyte, has added GPU virtualization to its virtual data-center software, making it possible to partition out GPU-based processing tasks the same way a hypervisor divides up a CPU.Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) builds a tightly integrated and configured IT data center setup from standard server, storage, and networking servers with everything virtualized. Verge.io’s software, called Verge-OS, goes on step further by partitioning the pooled resources into what it calls virtual data centers (VDCs). From one big pool can come many VDCs made up of different hardware and software configurations.To read this article in full, please click here
A data center is the physical facility providing the compute power to run applications, the storage capabilities to process data, and the networking to connect employees with the resources needed to do their jobs.Experts have been predicting that the on-premises data center will be replaced by cloud-based alternatives, but many organizations have concluded that they will always have applications that need to live on-premises. Rather than dying, the data center is evolving.It is becoming more distributed, with edge data centers springing up to process IoT data. It is being modernized to operate more efficiently through technologies like virtualization and containers. It is adding cloud-like features such as self-service. And the on-prem data center is integrating with cloud resources in a hybrid model.To read this article in full, please click here
Cloud service providers have been on a hardware spending spree for years, deploying hundreds of thousands of servers as they build out data centers the size of football stadiums as fast as they can.But the party may be ending. On its recent earnings call with financial analysts, Microsoft announced plans to extend the lifespan of its cloud servers from four years to six years.
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CFO Amy Hood said the reason for the longer deployments is due to "increased efficiencies in how we operate our server and network equipment as well as advances in technology have resulted in lives extending beyond historical accounting useful lives."To read this article in full, please click here
Cloud service providers have been on a hardware spending spree for years, deploying hundreds of thousands of servers as they build out data centers the size of football stadiums as fast as they can.But the party may be ending. On its recent earnings call with financial analysts, Microsoft announced plans to extend the lifespan of its cloud servers from four years to six years.
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CFO Amy Hood said the reason for the longer deployments is due to "increased efficiencies in how we operate our server and network equipment as well as advances in technology have resulted in lives extending beyond historical accounting useful lives."To read this article in full, please click here