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The experience of a technology company’s chief executive officer can often be a roller coaster ride with highs, lows, dips, hairpin turns, sudden drops and a lot of bumping around. So Pat Gelsinger (pictured), chief executive of VMware Inc., could probably be forgiven if …
‘Don’t neglect the network,’ warns tech evangelist
As the information technology infrastructure evolves, with differing levels of abstraction and complexity, monitoring and managing it also becomes more difficult. With a revolving carousel of options encompassing servers, storage, on-premises operations and public cloud, the overall network can easily get overlooked. …
My cloud infrastructure is built, now how do I monitor it?
Imagine the experience of driving today’s car without any dashboard. No speedometer, gas gauge, trouble lights or temperature controls. That’s the example that unified monitoring software company CA Technologies Inc. likes to use when describing the challenge facing network administrators who must …
AWS partnership big news for VMware. The Google Cloud deal? Not so much, say analysts
Industry analysts had no shortage of opinions at this week’s VMworld event in Las Vegas. Some new partnership announcements were major and gathered well-deserved attention; others fell flat. There was plenty of energy, fueled by a large number of new attendees, but …
IBM talks about alphas instead of betas in storage
When IBM Corp. announced its second quarter earnings in June, the news of two straight growth quarters in the company’s storage business got some attention. With flash as a catalyst and storage hardware margins on the rise, it made sense that the …
Dell EMC and VMware team up in the latest episode of ‘Stack Wars’
While there has been plenty of news this week surrounding VMware Inc.’s latest offerings, Dell EMC has not been lost in the shuffle. The company made several significant announcements involving the Software-Defined Data Center, turnkey hybrid cloud platforms and a set of …
VMware’s ‘big tent’ strategy designed to keep power players close
On Monday, VMware Inc. announced general availability for its customers by going live on the Amazon Web Services Inc. public cloud. On Tuesday, the company released the news that it would partner with Pivotal to provide commercial-grade Kubernetes distributions for both Google Cloud …
VMware extends private cloud to Dell Technologies
It seems as though announcements involving VMware Inc.’s private cloud technology are coming on a daily basis. On Tuesday, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. rolled out a composable infrastructure for VMware private clouds. This followed the news last week that CenturyLink Inc. will …
Software-defined networking and security top of mind for VMware customers
VMware Inc.’s offerings, such as Wavefront, vRNI, NSX and AppDefense, are geared to support architectures in the evolving era of the software-defined data center. As the company’s customers realize that not everything is going into the public cloud, they are prioritizing solutions …
Corporate boards need AI to deal with cyber risks
Increased cyberattacks are forcing many corporate boards to take a closer look at protection and prevention measures in the information technology infrastructure. And as boards become more involved, they are looking at a technology toolbox that includes artificial intelligence and machine learning …