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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Data Center Knowledge

AUGUST 23, 2013

Splunk updates its application for VMware 3.0, NaviSite launches a Director IaaS platform support VMware vCloud Director, FalconStor enhances its storage solutions for VMware environments, and HotLink launches a VMware disaster recovery offering to Amazon Web Services.

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Data Center Knowledge

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Flash-optimized strorage provider Nimble Storage announced SmartStack - a new converged infrastructure solution that allows enterprises to address the storage performance challenges for desktop and server virtualization workloads in a single converged infrastructure stack. Cisco Storage VMware nimble storage'

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

By Bob Gourley New Release of ViSX Performance Storage Appliance OS Boosts Tier 1 Applications and VDI Performance by up to 10X While Supporting Existing NAS and SAN Infrastructure Investments. We consider ViSX OS v5 a quantum leap from a niche playing flash array to a major contender in the storage business. SAN DIEGO, Calif.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Pure Storage is adding features to its storage-as-a-service (STaaS) platform, including Real-time Enterprise File, Universal Credits, and a virtual machine assessment to help admins optimize their VMs. File is kind of a legacy product,” he said. That embedded team will just take its needs to the cloud.

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Network World

AUGUST 30, 2024

A year ago, VMware’s big annual VMware Explore conference was all about generative AI – specifically, about companies running AI applications within a hybrid cloud infrastructure. This year, attendees heard more about VMware’s partnership with Nvidia to deliver generative AI models and tools – but in the context of a private cloud.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Overlooked in the hoopla around the VMworld conference was an announcement of the availability of AppDefense, a new product that lets companies restrict the types of operations applications are allowed to run on virtualized servers. AppDefense secures the core virtual machines in vSphere itself.

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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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Scott Lowe

MARCH 19, 2013

I’ve been phenomenally lucky to be involved in a number of book projects around VMware vSphere. Today I’m excited to announce that Forbes Guthrie and I–along with some support from Kendrick Coleman–have undertaken a revision of that book, to be released as VMware vSphere Design, 2nd Edition.

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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. VVOL’s shift more intelligence and work from the hypervisor down into the storage system.

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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. VeloRAIN is really interesting, and I can see the real-world application right away.

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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. Nutanix is a Visionary in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for file and object storage.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Historically, data center virtualization pioneer VMware was seen as a technology leader, but recent business changes have stirred consternation since its acquisition by Broadcom in late 2023. Industry changes and fallout from disgruntled Broadcom VMware customers have been widely reported. For us, it’s a multi-year opportunity.”

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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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Network World

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

What was once VMware is now Broadcom. With the acquisition closed, the American multinational brought its VMware Explore 2024 event to Barcelona from Nov. 4-7 with a new portfolio of solutions and an emphasis on its flagship private cloud platform, VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF).

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2013

Well, the title kind of says it all—yes, there will be an update to the popular Mastering VMware vSphere 5 book, with new content for the vSphere 5.5 However, this book represents more than just another title in the Mastering VMware vSphere series. Chad and I chatted, geeked out on some VMware stuff, and became buddies.

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Fountainhead

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. IO Virtualization: The “Hypervisor” for Your Infrastructure. More than ever in 2010, IO Virtualization (IOV) has been showing-up in products, written about, spoken about. IO Virtualization. Fountainhead. Monday, December 13, 2010.

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Data Center Knowledge

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Enhances hybrid cloud, virtual networking and storage, launched own OpenStack distro Read More. Cloud Computing Virtualization VMware'

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Data Center Knowledge

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Featured Storage Virtualization' After more than two years in stealth mode, company formerly known as Storvisor makes official debut Read More.

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Computer Weekly

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Scandinavian retailer Coop simplifies virtual server storage with VMware Virtual SAN software-defined storage and sidesteps bandwidth bottlenecks on NetApp Metro Cluster replication

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Vmware Software Software Storage 100

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.

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Computer Weekly

OCTOBER 18, 2016

VMware Virtual SAN now supports containers with persistent storage and allows physical server storage access to its shared pool of capacity via the iSCSI SAN protocol

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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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Vmware Storage Virtualization Network 100

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 25, 2013

So, effective 2/8/2013, I am leaving EMC Corporation to join the former Nicira group at VMware, working directly for Martin Casado. I was able to maintain reasonably good relationships with different storage vendors as well as different networking vendors. When I joined EMC, the other storage vendors no longer wanted to work with me.

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Vmware Virtualization Travel Storage 148

Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Server virtualization can do the trick for you if you also struggle to scale your applications to meet growing demands without breaking the bank. Server virtualization is a game-changing technology that has revolutionized the way organizations deploy and manage their IT infrastructure.

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Virtualization Storage Disaster Recovery Hardware 78

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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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". The post Lenovo TS140 Server and Storage I/O Review appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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Storage Vmware Architecture Windows 81

Storage IO Blog

JULY 10, 2013

Converged Compute, SSD Storage and Clouds Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) announced today several enhancements to their data storage and unified compute portfolio as part of their Maximize I.T. initiative.

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Storage IO Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Do you need or want to do a Do It Yourself (DIY) build of a small server compute cluster, or a software defined storage cluster (e.g. scale-out), or perhaps a converged storage for VMware VSAN, Microsoft SOFS or something else? Then the TS140 could be a fit for you.

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Storage Software Software Vmware 82

Scott Lowe

APRIL 25, 2014

Welcome to part 12 of the Learning NSX blog series, in which I continue the discussion around integration between OpenStack and VMware NSX, and in which I’ll provide more details about how exactly to integrate them. The basic steps look like this: Install the VMware NSX plugin for Neutron. Configure VMware NSX for Neutron.

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Vmware Network Transportation .Net 107

Virtualized Greek

DECEMBER 16, 2013

In my opinion, VMware is much too dependent on their vSphere product suite. This isn’t an analysis of VMware’s sales or market share. Earlier, I wrote a post on VMware’s path to ruling the datacenter. I also wrote a post on how VMware maybe on the path of previous tech giants such as Novell.

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Vmware Licensing Virtualization Enterprise 85

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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Vmware Virtualization Hardware Network 91

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. These HHDDs or SSHDs are self-contained in that the flash are built-in to the actual drive as part of its internal electronics circuit board (controller).

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Storage Vmware Architecture Operating Systems 83

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Most of Petco’s core business systems run on four InfiniBox® storage systems in multiple data centers. For the evolution of its enterprise storage infrastructure, Petco had stringent requirements to significantly improve speed, performance, reliability, and cost efficiency. Infinidat rose to the challenge.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 3, 2024

The stories abound about pricing increases following Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware in late 2023. A VMware licensing cost increase of 150%. For many VMware customers, the licensing model and price changes were abrupt. The same is true of what were previously a la carte VMware products. An increase of 300%.

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Vmware Licensing Cloud Virtualization 85

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. Naturally, given that the product was only announced today, these are very early thoughts.

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Storage Virtualization Vmware Network 127

Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2013

I try to keep the information linked to data center technologies like networking, storage, virtualization, and the like, but occasionally other items slip through. Some good advice here on scaling/sizing VXLAN in VMware deployments (as well as some useful background information to help explain the advice). Networking.

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