Q&A: Intel reiterates its stance on multicloud, tips hat to VMware NSX

Source: siliconangle.com There is no cloud; it’s just someone else’s computer, as the saying goes. Cloud computing’s ethereal nature makes it easy to forget there’s real hardware down on the ground as software service models virtualize hardware management. But at soirees such as VMworld, the invisible comes to light as an ecosystem of storage and networking providers reiterate their role in modern, multicloud computing architectures. “We’ve been able to round out our platform capabilities from a solution perspective to bring

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Top desktop as a service (DaaS) providers: Amazon, Citrix, Microsoft, VMware, and more

Source: techrepublic.com Desktop as a service adoption lags behind on-premise VDI, but the popularity of cloud-hosted desktops is growing. Here’s a look at the top DaaS providers and their services. Desktop as a Service (DaaS) is a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) hosted in the cloud and paid for as a subscription service, usually charged for by the seat. DaaS solutions use a multi-tenancy architecture where a single application instance is delivered to multiple users, or “tenants”. The third-party service provider assumes the

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Waity K8-y no more Pivotal: We’ll unhook Application Service from VMware

Source: theregister.co.uk Multicloud, Spring framework, and how K8s will become a universal API for infrastructure Interview Pivotal’s current alpha release of the Pivotal Application Service (PAS) for Kubernetes has a dependency on VMware, but that will be removed in the final release, senior veep of products Ian Andrews told The Reg. “The only reason the alpha was tied to a number of components was to bring it to market quickly,” he said, speaking at the Cloud Foundry Summit currently underway in The

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DXC sets Origin Energy up for VMware Cloud on AWS

Source: arnnet.com.au Origin Energy has been leveraging its long standing relationship with DXC Technology to help achieve its 2022 ambition of shifting workloads into the cloud.  In a proof of concept (PoC), DXC’s vice president and general manager of VMware’s integrated practice Jeff Moyer said it had already begun moving roughly 100 workloads into the VMware Cloud (VMC) on AWS environment for the energy provider with “little to no impact or outage as they made that move”. Specifically the DXC

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Dell credits VMware for beating analyst expectations

Source: crn.com.au Dell Technologies beat financials analysts’ expectations for its second fiscal quarter of 2020 and attributed its success in the quarter to its wide technology portfolio and related innovation. VMware is bringing increasing benefits to Dell Technologies as a whole, said Jeff Clarke, vice chairman of products and operations for the company. Clarke, speaking to financial analysts during the company’s Tuesday financial conference call to discuss its second fiscal quarter 2020 results, said that Dell Technologies has an incredible

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VMware signals the end of ‘endpoint’ detection and response

Source: zdnet.com The acquisition of Carbon Black by VMware was a bit of a surprise to me, but once put into perspective, it makes sense. First, a few observations from a value perspective: Carbon Black brings a strong brand and technology that warranted a Leader position in my last Forrester Wave on the endpoint detection and response (EDR) space. Meanwhile, the company has been suffering as a public entity, with a stock price that has spent most of this year in the

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How VMware Leveraged Kubernetes For Its Cloud-Native And Multi-Cloud Strategy

Source: forbes.com If there is one key takeaway from VMware’s annual user conference, VMWorld, it is Kubernetes that’s becoming the front and center of the company’s product strategy. Every VMware executive I met emphasized on how the engineering teams are fully embracing the open source container management platform to build the next generation of vSphere.  Project Pacific bridges the gap between traditional vSphere-based VMs and modern Kubernetes-based clusters. VMware has done a brilliant job by embedding Kubernetes right into the core of

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Years in the making: Carbon Black is the capstone for VMware’s security business strategy

Source: siliconangle.com This article has been updated with an extended review of Carbon Black to reflect Tom Barsi’s selection as theCUBE’s Guest of the Week.) Don’t look now, but VMware Inc. has built a significant cybersecurity practice. The August acquisition of Carbon Black Inc. for $2.1 billion represented a major step forward for the network virtualization vendor’s security business, yet the seeds were sown long before that. The firm’s acquisition of AirWatch in 2014 gave it tools for mobile device

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At VMworld, VMware bets big on convergence of virtual machines and containers

Source: siliconangle.com VMware Inc. made a wide range of announcements this week that advance its competitive positioning in multicloud computing. One of those announcements stands out as a classic “bet the business” gambit: the “Project Pacific” core of the company’s forthcoming Tanzu Portfolio. Launched in the Day One keynote at VMworld 2019 in San Francisco, “Project Pacific” will embed Kubernetes into the control plane of a future release of vSphere, which is VMware’s flagship server virtualization platform. Specifically, Project Pacific will

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Q&A: VMware’s delicately balanced partnership with AWS brings modernization to migration

Source: siliconangle.com In the world of hybrid cloud computing, VMware Cloud on AWS has proven to be a beneficial partnership. While managing its services on the AWS Cloud infrastructure, VMware Inc. is able to respond to customer problems in a more meaningful way, with access to additional AWS services. And while the virtualization giant is making waves by taking the heavy lifting off of its customers’ plates with upgrades to hardware and better lifecycle management for VMware software, it is also launching

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VMware announces Tanzu portfolio for Kubernetes

Source: pcquest.com VMware, at its flagship event VMworld 2019, launched Tanzu, a portfolio of products and services to transform the way enterprises build, run and manage software on Kubernetes. Project Pacific will enable IT operators and developers to accelerate innovation by running modern applications on VMware vSphere with native Kubernetes. Said VMware Chief Operating Officer (Products and Cloud Services) Raghu Raghuram, “We’re positioned to help customers succeed along each step of their journey—building their applications with the addition of Pivotal’s

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Pick And Shovel Company VMware Capitalizing On Blockchain Gold Rush

Source: forbes.com With a technology as vast and complex as blockchain, it comes as no surprise that many approaches exist when it comes to companies adopting the technology for various use cases and solutions. VMware is one pick and shovel company that helps various enterprise outfits incorporate the technology made famous for underpinning the world’s largest crypto asset, bitcoin, in a decentralized and scalable manner. VMware started its journey down the blockchain rabbit hole first by doing its homework on

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Dell Technologies backs VMware’s Kubernetes by announcing PKS support

Source: zdnet.com The tech giant has announced a new way to build cloud infrastructure, a partnership with Google Cloud, VMware PKS support for its cloud platforms, and the rollout of its Data Center-as-a-service offering to US customers. Dell Technologies has used day one of VMworld in San Francisco to lift the lid off a handful of updates to its own cloud platform, with the company touting they will keep pace with its customers who are approaching their cloud investment through

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VMware Cloud: Virtualization giant will spend $5 billion on cloud security companies

Source: sbdirtysouthsoccer.com For VMware, which has been focusing more and more on hybrid and multicloud architectures, the two acquisitions create a way for the company to not only deliver the infrastructure its customers need for their digital transformation initiatives, but also new ways to build and update applications and then to secure those apps once they are deployed, CEO Pat Gelsinger says. Ademi & O’Reilly, LLP Investigates whether Pivotal Software, Inc. has obtained a Fair Price in its sale to

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VMware is all-in on Kubernetes, says CEO Gelsinger

Source: fiercetelecom.com Expect a full dose of Kubernetes at next week’s VMworld conference in San Francisco, according to VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger. Speaking on Thursday’s fiscal second quarter earnings call, Gelsinger provided additional details on the purchase of end point security vendor Carbon Black, and its deal to buy a controlling stake in Pivotal Software. Both of those deals were valued at a combined $4.8 billion. VMware already had a stake in Pivotal, and was a reseller of some of

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VMware Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Pivotal Software

Source: globenewswire.com Accelerates Any Cloud, Any App, Any Device Strategy Positions VMware to deliver the most comprehensive enterprise-grade Kubernetes-based portfolio for Modern Applications $11.71 Blended Price Per Share; $15 Cash Per Share for Public Stockholders Enterprise Value of $2.7 billion PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 22, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), a leading innovator in enterprise software, and Pivotal Software, Inc. (NYSE: PVTL), a leading cloud-native platform provider, today announced that the companies have entered into a definitive

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Cloudian Announces General Availability of Object Storage Solution for VMware Cloud Provider Platform

Source: globenewswire.com Limitlessly scalable, native S3-compatible storage provides foundation for new value-add services Partnership with Veeam enables S3-compatible data protection services within vCloud Director environments CMO Jon Toor to participate in VMworld 2019 industry panel highlighting new solutions for VMware Cloud Providers SAN MATEO, Calif., Aug. 22, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) —  Cloudian® today announced general availability of its fully native S3-compatible object storage solution for VMware Cloud Providers. This highly scalable, cost-effective solution is managed directly from VMware vCloud Director,

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Dizzion Launches Desktop as a Service offering for VMware Cloud on AWS

Source: prnewswire.com Extending its End User Cloud Platform, Dizzion delivers next generation virtual desktops designed to meet the needs of an evolving global workforce DENVER, Aug. 21, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Dizzion, a full-service End User Cloud (EUC) provider, today announced the introduction of a next generation Desktop as a Service (DaaS) solution for customers of VMware Cloud™ on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Delivering the next generation of virtual desktops to meet the needs of an evolving global workforce, Dizzion’s end user

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VMware Announces VMworld 2019 US Keynote Speakers

Source: globenewswire.com PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 20, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), a leading innovator in enterprise software, today announced the General Session keynote speakers and sponsorship list for VMworld® 2019 US. Beginning Aug. 25, 2019 in San Francisco, VMworld 2019 US will welcome attendees to experience first-hand how to “make their mark” on the world of IT and business and accelerate technology-driven transformation without disruption. VMware’s General Sessions, presented Monday and Tuesday, will feature senior executives

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IT favors open source networking over Cisco ACI, VMware NSX

Source: techtarget.com Companies are turning to open source network automation tools as less expensive, good-enough alternatives to Cisco ACI and VMware NSX. Companies trying to avoid or lessen the use of expensive network automation software from Cisco and VMware are turning to open source tools that are often good enough for many tasks associated with managing complex modern networks. Cisco’s application-centric infrastructure (ACI) and VMware’s NSX are powerful technologies for operating networks built on the vendors’ respective products. But many

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