Network World

AUGUST 14, 2024

So far, the $60 billion Broadcom-VMware deal has led to some layoffs , VMware licensing changes, production rationalizations, and shifts to the partner program. We’ve tracked the saga since Broadcom first announced plans to acquire VMware in May 2022. x users will get six additional months of support for the product.

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Network World

AUGUST 19, 2024

VMware Explore 2024 is set to kick off next week, marking the first time for the flagship customer event since Broadcom finalized its acquisition of VMware last November. The $60 million deal raised questions among enterprise customers from the minute it was proposed in May 2022: What will the new VMware look like?

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Network World

APRIL 19, 2020

Distributed firewalls via VMware NSX. Todd Pugh, CIO at food products manufacturer SugarCreek , manages a fully virtualized private data center. We asked three enterprises to share why they deployed microsegmentation technology in their networks and how it's working. Here are their stories.

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Architecture combines flash arrays, Cisco UCS blades, Nexus switches, and VMware cloud and virtualization software Read More. Convergence flash pure storage'

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CIO Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

We do virtual desktops. Solutions Architect (2) - Help create solutions and the architecture that make the applications possible, mentor other programmers, solve complicated problems, save the day occasionally. Lead Desktop Analyst - Work with enterprise class systems, mobility platforms, VMWare, Windows 7 and lots of other cool stuff.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 30, 2013

Is there a difference between network virtualization and Software-Defined Networking (SDN)? So, in a similar fashion to my post on network overlays vs. network virtualization , I thought I’d weigh in with some thoughts. Last week I had the opportunity to join John Troyer on the VMware Communities podcast. emphasis mine).

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Network World

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

VMware by Broadcom has unveiled a new networking architecture that it says will improve the performance and security of distributed artificial intelligence (AI) — using AI and machine learning (ML) to do so. The latest stage — the intelligent edge — is on the brink of rapid adoption.

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Network World

JULY 25, 2024

Broadcom has announced that VMware vSphere 7.x VMware vSphere 7, which was launched in 2020, was scheduled to go out of support in April 2025 but will now be maintained until October 2025. Before Broadcom acquired VMware , vSphere 6.5 x users will get six additional months of support for the product. and vCenter 6.5 Annand said.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 21, 2013

This blog post kicks off a new series of posts describing my journey to become more knowledgeable about the Nicira Network Virtualization Platform (NVP). In this first post, I’ll start with a high-level description of the NVP architecture. That’s something I’m going to try to address in this series of posts.

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Network World

JULY 1, 2024

The new Nutanix is virtually unrecognizable from the company that created the hyperconverged infrastructure ( HCI ) market in 2011. It’s less clear that enterprise customers are really going to abandon VMware in significant numbers. The road ahead for Nutanix holds both opportunities and some peril. It reported a loss of $207.2

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

This is session COMS002, titled “Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure with Data Plane Virtualization.” Verplanke believes that DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit) and virtualization are key to virtualizing workloads that move around lots and lots of packets, such as firewalls, routers, and other similar functions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 20, 2024

Badlaney believes that IBM stands out among other hyperscalers for being the destination for VMware workloads in the cloud. IBM and VMware understand that each client has a unique business, IT process and applications,” says Badlaney. This, Badlaney says, is where a hybrid-by-design strategy is crucial.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Today marks my “two week anniversary” in my new role at VMware. My entire first week was taken up by new hire onboarding and some training on Nicira’s Network Virtualization Platform (NVP). That’s it for me, two weeks into my new role at VMware. Life at VMware, Two Weeks In.

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 24, 2014

For those of you in VMware environments, now is the time to add VVOL to your vocabulary which might mean simply taking the time to read a piece like this, or digging deeper into the theories of operations, configuration, usage, hints and tips, tutorials along with vendor specific implementations.

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 24, 2014

Instead of a VM host accessing its virtual disk (aka VMDK) which is stored in a VMFS formatted data store (part of ESXi hypervisor) built on top of a SCSI LUN (e.g.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Microsegmentation like that provided by vendors CISCO and VMware state that traditional perimeter defenses akin to medieval castles walls no longer work. The argument is that today with the expansion of n-tier distributed systems and massively parallel architectures, east-west traffic has increased exponentially. Nathaniel Crocker.

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2014

In case you have not heard, the joint initiative (JV) founded in the fall of 2009 between Intel VMware Cisco and EMC called VCE had a change of ownership today.

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Virtualized Greek

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

There has been a good deal of FUD spread since VMware has announced their NSX network hypervisor based on software from their $1 billion Nicira acquisition. VMware is a large corporation but, $1 billion is a lot of money to any company and a big bet on network virtualization. This places VMware and Cisco on a collision course.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 13, 2014

In just a few weeks, I’ll be participating in a book sprint to create a book that provides architecture and design guidance for building OpenStack-based clouds. The architecture/design guide that results from this book sprint will join the results of previous book sprints: the operations guide and the security guide.

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Virtualized Greek

APRIL 30, 2013

For some reason, I had a difficult time with the basic concept of Network Virtualization. VMware equates network virtualization to Server Virtualization. You can easily manage OS images, clone virtual machines, create entire test environments with almost a push of a button. Source VMware.

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Virtualized Greek

JUNE 9, 2013

The more I think about it the strategy of VMware joining OpenStack is starting to make more and more sense. Similar I don’t believe VMware and OpenStack compete at even the datacenter layer or Cloud layer for that matter. They brought a virtual network company and got rid of their PaaS solutions.

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Virtualized Greek

JULY 18, 2013

After writing a post on SearchNetworking asking the question if Network Virtualization was Vaporware, I got a lot of feedback. I know full well network virtualization in itself isn’t vaporware. I know full well network virtualization in itself isn’t vaporware. In addition, it’s impractical to virtualize some workloads.

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Fountainhead

OCTOBER 15, 2013

New Entrant VMware Will Raise Awareness If you look at Gartner Research''s 2013 Hype Cycle for IT Infrastructure and Outsourcing Services , you''ll find Hosted Virtual Desktops (HVDs) at the very peak of hype this year, outdistancing all other technologies. Think: Cloud-hosted desktops. Don''t believe me?

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Storage IO Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Server virtualization nested and tiered hypervisors A few years ago I did a piece (click here) about the then emerging trend of tiered hypervisors, particular using different products or technologies in the same environment.

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SPF13

JUNE 29, 2011

VMware bringing their decades of virtualization experience to their offering. VMware disrupts with open source PaaS play. Architecture. t compete with the lead amazon has, they turned the tables by open sourcing their technology and defining standards along with a group of other cloud providers to form OpenServer.

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 24, 2014

VVOL’s are accessed via the VMware software and associated API’s that are supported by various storage providers. VVOL’s are not LUN’s like regular block (e.g. DAS or SAN) storage that use SAS, iSCSI, FC, FCoE, IBA/SRP, nor are they NAS volumes like NFS mount points.

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Storage IO Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

announcement big data Cloud Comment convergence Education IT Industry Activity IT Infrastructure Topics object storage perspective pod cast post programming server Storage and Storage Management Tools Storage Architecture and Access tools virtualization containers coreos docker hypervisors vmware vmworld 2014'

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

At a Backup to the Future event this week EMC announced a broad array of new hardware and software products that enable customers to deploy new Protection Storage Architectures. ” The three key tenets of the EMC Protection Storage Architecture are protection storage, data source integration and data management services. .

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

CIOs are taking deliberate action by proactively matching workloads and applications with the ideal cloud, and companies are also seeing a proliferation of multi-cloud architectures created by mergers and acquisitions, data sovereignty needs, support for remote work, and shadow IT. The era of the multi-cloud landscape is here.

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Storage IO Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2014

scale-out), or perhaps a converged storage for VMware VSAN, Microsoft SOFS or something else? Are you a virtualization or software defined person looking to create a small VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) needing three or more servers to build a proof of concept or personal lab system? Then the TS140 could be a fit for you.

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Network World

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Uptime Institute Certified Data Center Technician Professional ( CDCTP ) Focus: Optimizing the operational capability and productivity of the data center Key topics: Compliance, safety, maintenance, power, and cooling Format: Five-day instructor-led training program delivered in person or remotely in a virtual environment.

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Storage IO Blog

MARCH 31, 2014

Overall I give the Lenovo TS140 a provisional "A" which would be a solid "A" once the BIOS/firmware issue mentioned above is resolved for VMware, otoh, if you are not concerned about using the TS140 for VMware, then consider it as an "A". As mentioned above, I liked it so much I actually bought one to add to my collection.

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Network World

JANUARY 4, 2018

First, to be clear, these exploits affect all the major computer chip architectures. And all the major software vendors of Linux, Microsoft for Windows, Apple for macOS, and virtualization software suppliers such as VMware and Citrix have all collaborated to mitigate this threat. To read this article in full, please click here

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Intel Vmware Linux Architecture 113

Scott Lowe

MAY 6, 2013

Although I used to work at EMC before I joined VMware earlier this year , I never really had deep access to what was going on with this project, so my thoughts here are strictly based on what’s been publicly disclosed. Hey, where’s the network virtualization support? Similar Posts: On Network Virtualization and SDN.

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Storage Virtualization Vmware Network 127

Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

VMware has announced version 6 (V6) of its software defined data center (SDDC) server virtualization hypervisor called vSphere aka ESXi. In addition to a new version of its software defined server hypervisor along with companion software defined management and convergence tools.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

IBM said today that it will make CloudFoundry a component of its open cloud architecture and work with Pivotal on further development of the CloudFoundry open source project and establishing an open governance model for the community. Virtualization. Northern Virgina. Silicon Valley. North Carolina. News Channels White Papers.

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Storage IO Blog

JULY 10, 2013

Setting the context As part of setting the stage for this announcement, HDS has presented the following strategy vision as part their vision for IT transformation [.].

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