Fountainhead

MARCH 18, 2013

Two recent announcements lead me to making an interesting business strategy observation about two opposing approaches to dominating these markets: VMwares recent announcement that it intends to venture into the public cloud ( assessment courtesy of James Staten ). VMware: A Strategy Expanding from Enterprise to Public.

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Network World

JUNE 18, 2024

There was an announcement last year by IBM and VMware regarding support for Watson AI on prem, but with the current trajectory of VMware , it’s hard to say how consequential that solution is today,” Weinberg said. Gartner Research VP Tony Iams said that SUSE not talking about an alternative for VMWare was “maybe a miss in our view.”

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Open Source Vmware Enterprise Enterprise 158

Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Wants to help build always-on "Internet Operating System" at the edge of the network Read More.

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Virtualized Greek

MARCH 26, 2013

Mirantis, a large OpenStack consulting organization, announced that PayPal will be rolling 10,000 nodes running some variant of OpenStack “Cloud Operating System” They look to have a total of 80,000 nodes managed by OpenStack at the end of the Cloud deployment. Cloud Computing Virtualization OpenStack VMWare'

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

Microsoft only licenses Windows 10 on ARM to PC makers to preinstall on new hardware, and the company hasn’t made copies of the operating system available for anyone to license or freely install. VMWare Fushion. Microsoft only licenses Windows 10 on ARM to OEMs,” says a Microsoft spokesperson in a statement to The Verge.

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Network World

MARCH 30, 2017

VMware has released critical security patches for vulnerabilities demonstrated during the recent Pwn2Own hacking contest that could be exploited to escape from the isolation of virtual machines. The patches fix four vulnerabilities that affect VMware ESXi, VMware Workstation Pro and Player and VMware Fusion.

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Vmware Virtualization Operating Systems Windows 60

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2024

Clients are seeing increased costs with on-premises virtualization with Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware. After the acquisition of VMWare , Broadcom merged many VMware products into two main offerings: VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware vSphere Foundation. What’s driving this trend ?

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Virtualized Greek

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

I’m a huge fan of VMware products. VMware has long been the thought leader in x86 virtualization products both on the desktop and in the data center. But no matter how much I and my peer like the solution, VMware impresses the wrong crowd and may be headed down the path of other great infrastructure technologies like Novell Netware.

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Network World

JUNE 13, 2016

VMware wants to help companies get a better handle on the security of the computers their employees use. That helps businesses understand if they have machines operating outside the reach of their security systems, which could be a problem for protecting company data. .

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Vmware Security Operating Systems Software 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 15, 2024

VMware is patching a set of severe “sandbox escape” bugs. out of 10, and even VMware’s flagship ESXi hypervisor is affected. A new Bifrost remote access trojan (RAT) for Linux employs a number of techniques to remain hidden, including using a “VMware-esque” domain name for command and control servers.

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Linux Vmware Load Balancer Malware 113

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 8, 2022

SGB-SMIT’s multi-cloud ambitions have been made possible using VMware Cloud on AWS and Google Cloud VMware Engine. Together, these enable SGB-SMIT to lift, shift, and scale its VMware applications to the cloud of its choice, anywhere in the world. . Within six months, Schibsted was able to shut down over 350 servers.

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Cloud Vmware Disaster Recovery Groups 98

GeekWire

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The move could boost Amazon’s cloud business by reducing a major hurdle for customers to move away from data centers and servers running on Microsoft’s operating system.

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Linux Windows Microsoft Data Center 133

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

I adopted OS X as my operating system of choice in 2003 because I wanted a stable, powerful, UNIX-based operating system. Apple and VMware…or Xen? Both the hardware as well as the software have served me well. For the most part, OS X has delivered that over the years. Why I Might Leave OS X. Apple on Intel.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2013

Some good advice here on scaling/sizing VXLAN in VMware deployments (as well as some useful background information to help explain the advice). VMware addressed this potential issue with a feature called BPDU Filter. Operating Systems/Applications. Need Visio stencils for VMware? Good post, Nick. In vSphere 5.1,

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Storage IO Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

This means that the drives should be transparent to the operating systems or hypervisors on servers or storage controllers without need for special adapters, controller cards or drivers.

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Storage Vmware Architecture Operating Systems 83

Virtualized Greek

DECEMBER 4, 2013

For example, a question I get all the time is “Have I missed the boat on VMware?” But, just as Novell was the best network operating system in the late 90’s/00’s, timing is everything. They didn’t compete for customers but they did compete for system engineering talent. General Cisco OpenStack SDN VMWare'

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Vmware Engineering Comparison Virtualization 91

Network World

OCTOBER 10, 2024

So, there’s a race on right now for what company will be the default platform for generative AI, the operating system for the next evolution of the enterprise, the middleware that will tie it all together. Not only does the data used to train or provide context for the AI reside in various locations, but so does the computing power.

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Open Source Enterprise Enterprise Cloud 187

Network World

JULY 17, 2024

Interest in the open-source network operating system SONiC is rising as major networking vendors and start-ups look to offer resources to help enterprises give SONiC a try. SONiC is seen as a significant alternative to more traditional, less flexible network operating systems. What is SONiC?

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Open Source Enterprise Enterprise Linux 173

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Bruce Davie and Martin Casado (with Nicira, now part of VMware) have written a post comparing the VXLAN and STT tunneling protocols. Operating Systems/Applications. I found this article on imperative vs. declarative system configuration is quite helpful in understanding Puppet’s declarative model.

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Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 115

Network World

JUNE 6, 2024

Broadcom’s VMware unit: VMware SASE was developed in-house and includes SD-WAN, ZTNA, CASB, FWaaS, and SWG. In addition to the standard SASE features, VMware offers DLP, URL filtering, and remote browser isolation. VMware is a leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for WAN Edge Infrastructure. FWaaS is not offered.

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Security WAN Vmware Network 167

Virtualized Greek

JANUARY 14, 2013

This is not because of some fancy new feature in VMware View or Citrix XenDesktop but due to a new feature of Windows 8. This means that basically, just like Hyper-V the hypervisor is native to the operating system. You can think VMware vSphere but with a GUI. I was close in my prediction.

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Vmware Virtualization Windows Operating Systems 68

Scott Lowe

MAY 17, 2024

In this Technology Short Take, I have links on things ranging from physical network designs to running retro operating systems as virtual machines. Operating Systems/Applications Julia Evans digs into what “current branch” means in Git. Surely there will be something useful in here for you!

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Linux Operating Systems Windows Virtualization 110

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Operating Systems/Applications. Greg Schulz (aka StorageIO) has a couple of VMware storage tips posts you might find useful reading. Winston Bumpus of VMware’s Office of the CTO has more information in this post. The tool has recently been updated to help fix issues as well. Read here for more information.

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Vmware Storage Virtualization Network 134

Network World

MARCH 20, 2017

Two teams of researchers managed to win the biggest bounties at this year's Pwn2Own hacking contest by escaping from the VMware Workstation virtual machine and executing code on the host operating system. That's why VM escape exploits are highly prized, more so than browser or OS exploits.

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Virtualization Vmware Operating Systems Malware 60

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 11, 2022

Incompatibility and unreliability caused by configuration differences such as versions of compilers, loaders, runtime libraries, middleware, and operating systems in new environments contributed to increased project effort, cost, and timelines. Containers provide an elegant solution to this problem. in an isolated and executable unit.

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Operating Systems Applications Enterprise Enterprise 98

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Nice use of VMware Fusion in part 2, by the way.). VMware, Vagrant, and Docker together is the subject of this blog post by Fabio Rapposelli. Operating Systems/Applications. It makes me wonder when VMware will announce support for CoreOS on vCloud Air. See part 1 and part 2 for the full details.

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Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 87

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Operating Systems/Applications Minderbinder is a tool that injects failures into running processes via eBPF. Virtualization Gina Minks mourns the loss of the vCommunity after attending VMware Explore (formerly VMworld) in Las Vegas. Eric Sloof recently shared a link to a set of performance best practices for vSphere 8.0

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Vmware Network Security Linux 74

Network World

MAY 16, 2024

The system can be centrally managed via Cisco’s cloud-based Intersight management platform, and it supports Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) and VMware vSphere hypervisors. Customers can now integrate ACI and Nutanix AHV, the vendor’s hypervisor that lets customers to run multiple virtual machines on a single physical server.

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Data Center Network Enterprise Enterprise 193

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Operating Systems/Applications Decisions, decisions— which immutable Linux to use ? Virtualization Allen from Humbled Geeks shows how to create a VMware vSwitch using Ansible. Þórarinn Sigurðsson talks about Garden’s plugin for Pulumi. That’s all for this time!

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Linux Vmware Resources Network 110

Galido

APRIL 11, 2017

The result allows administrators or users to run multiple operating systems and allocate shared resources on one computer, laptop or server simultaneously. There is hosted virtualization , where the virtualization software is installed on top of and sits on an operating system. Source: Intel. Virtualization Tips.

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Virtualization Backup Vmware Operating Systems 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2013

Operating Systems/Applications. This post brings up an interesting change that occurred in recent versions of VMware Tools—the GUI is greatly diminished, instead requiring that you use a command-line tool to change things like time synchronization settings. This series is a bit older, but an interesting one nevertheless.

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Storage Vmware WAN Virtualization 125

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Humair Ahmed of VMware shares some details on a new control plane resiliency feature recently added to VMware NSX: Controller Disconnected Operation (CDO) mode. Operating Systems/Applications. JJ Asghar takes a look at using VMware Photon OS as the backend Docker host OS for use with test-kitchen.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Operating Systems/Applications. Eric Sloof has a link to a white paper from VMware on host power management in vSphere 7.0. Kurt Roekle takes a second look at combining Open Policy Agent with Kong Mesh , looking at the potential benefits offered by including Styra Declarative Authorization Service (DAS). Virtualization.

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IPv6 Storage Vmware Hardware 97

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Some folks from Nicira (now part of VMware) recently published a blog post discussing the OVSDB IETF draft (see here ). Operating Systems/Applications. If storage is your thing—especially in VMware environments—I’d recommend having a look at Cormac Hogan’s blog for his series on vSphere 5.1

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Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Of course, I am a fan of network virtualization, since I work with/on VMware NSX.). Martijn Smit has launched a series of articles on VMware NSX. Want some additional information on layer 2 and layer 3 services in VMware NSX? Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s a good source. Any thoughts?

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Vmware Storage Linux Network 60

Virtualized Greek

JANUARY 28, 2014

I’ve also seen how difficult it is to manage both the product and operations model. The two different operating systems and the types of applications are so different that you end up with patch management administrators for each type of OS. Virtualization Citrix Hyper-V KVM VMWare'

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Vmware Linux Comparison Windows 68

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 28, 2022

This fragmented approach inhibits innovation, because so much time and energy are diverted into configuring, initializing, and managing separate operating systems, and establishing best practices for each. In fact, the HPE solution delivers superior storage efficiency as compared to alternate VMware backup solutions.

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