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VMware has added more security features to its forthcoming on-demand multi-cloud networking and security service called Northstar that it previewed during its August VMware Explore 2022 conference. To read this article in full, please click here
We recently passed the 100-day mark since VMware joined Broadcom. In the 18-month process of evaluating and acquiring VMware, we looked at everything to identify what’s needed to create more value for our customers. Many major brands and Fortune 500 companies run their mission-critical workloads on VMware software.
This fall, Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware brought together two engineering and innovation powerhouses with a long track record of creating innovations that radically advanced physical and software-defined data centers. VMware Cloud Foundation – The Cloud Stack VCF provides enterprises with everything they need to excel in the cloud.
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Amazon Elastic LoadBalancing: A for-fee ($0.025/hour/balancer + $0.008/GB transferred) which automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple Amazon EC2 instances. Similarly, Egeneras PAN Manager approach dynamically load-balances networking traffic between newly-created instances of an App.
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Speaker: Martin Casado (VMware Networking CTO). The Second are is the higher level layers such as loadbalancing. F5 for example has announced a loadbalancing solution that support VXLAN for loadbalancing hosts connected to a physical port with a virtual host connected to the virtual network.
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Kit Colbert (VMware Principal Architect) & Carl Ecshenbach (VMware COO) Joe Baguley (VMware CTO, EMEA). VMware is talking about the business of IT and how they enable their own business to deliver applications. VMware is of course pushing their virtual SAN solution (vSAN) to provision and control storage.
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After showing a few features around identity management, Wasmer announces Project A-Squared, which combines Airwatch and VMware AppVolumes to enable application delivery to Windows 10 systems, even physical systems. which offers a host of new features and new functionality—and talks about customer momentum with VMware NSX.
Rudi Martinsen has an article on changing the Avi loadbalancer license tier (this is in the context of using it with vSphere with Tanzu). Eric Sloof has information on how to disable VMware plugins in vCenter Server (the context of the article is security vulnerabilities disclosed in plugins). Career/Soft Skills.
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The first is a post on Cilium and F5 loadbalancer integration , while the second discusses implementing Kubernetes network policies with Cilium and Linkerd. Patrick Kremer walks through using Postman to implement BGP route filtering with VMware Cloud on AWS. One, the content is useful in and of itself. Here you go.
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