Scott Lowe

AUGUST 29, 2016

Today, VMware is expected to talk more about containers, end-user computing, and other topics not covered in yesterday’s general session (which focused heavily on Cross-Cloud Services, VMware’s new set of SaaS-based offerings for multi-cloud management). Preparing the end-user for the mobile-cloud era. That’s a shame.)

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Poonen positions Workplace One as the “Switzerland” solution that bridges different kinds of applications (Windows client-server apps, web apps, and mobile apps) with different kinds of devices (Apple, Google, Samsung, Microsoft). After a brief testimonial from Adidas, Poonen moves into the desktop/mobile portion of his keynote.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2013

This leads to a talk about VMware’s 10 years of innovation, with products and features like ESX, vMotion, DRS, Storage vMotion, and more. She then introduces Pat Gelsinger, VMware CEO. As we are moving into the mobile/cloud era, Pat thinks that four trends are shaping this era: social, mobile, cloud, and big data.

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Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 26, 2013

Robin walks us through the history of VMware’s disruptive technologies including ESX, vMotion and DRS. This leads us to the future of innovation at VMware with VMware’s CEO Pat Gelsinger’s. Based on VMware’s history, I’m expecting pretty major news. VMware has increased the virtual disk size limit from 2TB to 32TB.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 10, 2012

He starts out with a review of “the old way” of doing things versus the increasingly-popular “new way” (which often involves BYOD, tablets, mobile devices, etc.). ” Primarily this means how to handle Windows-based applications and managing Windows instances (like migrating to new versions of Windows).

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 29, 2017

Prior to the keynote, a number of announcements were released; here’s a quick look at a few of them: VMware and AWS Announce Initial Availability of VMware Cloud on AWS. VMware Integrated OpenStack 4.0 Gelsinger welcomes the crowd, and takes a minute to reflect upon his time at CEO of VMware.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Streaming data technologies unlock the ability to capture insights and take instant action on data that’s flowing into your organization; they’re a building block for developing applications that can respond in real-time to user actions, security threats, or other events. The application will contain ML mathematical algorithms.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

They recognized that trying to apply desktop computing paradigms to mobile devices wouldn’t work well. iOS wasn’t designed for laptops and workstations; it was designed for mobile devices. OS X wasn’t designed for mobile devices; it was designed for laptops and workstations. Apple and VMware…or Xen?

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

This is my irregularly-published collection of links and articles from around the Internet related to the major data center technologies: networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications/OSes, storage, and virtualization. Want to install VMware NSX in your home lab, but concerned about resource utilization?

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Although I stopped the migration in August 2017, I restarted it in April 2018 when I left VMware to join Heptio. Applications. By and large, application usage remains mostly unchanged from earlier: Markdown: I switched from Sublime Text to Visual Studio Code , but otherwise my Markdown workflows remain largely the same.

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Linux Report Vmware Google 60

Fountainhead

JUNE 1, 2011

As I subtly alluded-to in March, The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE Euronext) today launched their Capital Markets Community Platform (CMCP) along with partners EMC and VMware. Cloud is highly reliable : A lingering question has been whether the cloud - and associated automation controls - was reliable enough for mission-critical applications.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 17, 2020

Guiliano Bertello introduces PowerVCF , a PowerCLI module aimed at interacting with the SDDC Manager and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) stack. (If Now I really want to see hardware security key support in the desktop and mobile apps! Operating Systems/Applications. If you’re not familiar with VCF, see here.).

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Dataconomy

APRIL 26, 2023

The realm of edge computing has witnessed a substantial surge in recent years, propelled by the proliferation of remote work, the Internet of Things (IoT), and augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR) technologies, which have necessitated connectivity at the network’s periphery and novel applications.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

Anthony Burke (disclaimer: Anthony works for VMware in the NSBU) has a post on how to use Python to automate the bulk creation of firewall rules for use with the VMware NSX distributed firewall. Here’s a post by Grant Orchard on using VMware NSX’s security groups to protect workloads deployed via vCAC (now vRA).

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Dataconomy

MAY 23, 2023

It enables faster data analysis and decision-making, reduces reliance on the cloud for processing and storage, and minimizes the amount of data that needs to be transmitted over the network. By processing data locally, organizations can reduce bandwidth costs and achieve cost savings in data storage and transfer.

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Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Executives in all industries are using digital advances such as analytics, mobility, social media and smart embedded devices as well as improving their use of traditional technologies such as ERP to change customer relationships, internal processes and value propositions.

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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. With traditional physical servers, adding new applications or services often requires purchasing and installing additional hardware.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 22, 2022

But excitement over the advantages of multi-cloud—including modernization of cloud infrastructure, operations, and applications—needs to be balanced with caution. Managing and operating multiple applications and workloads across multiple clouds can create increased complexity and additional silos if not planned properly.

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Fountainhead

JANUARY 24, 2011

And its value proposition was simple and uncomplicated: Consolidate applications, reduce hardware sprawl. in order to provide enough performance for customers who were multi-tenant on hardware and storage, you had to make them non-multi-tenant. Mobile Work. (4). Mobility. (2). Enter Virtualization. It was a no-brainer.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 22, 2022

As VMware has observed , “In simple terms, a DPU is a programable device with hardware acceleration as well as having an ARM CPU complex capable of processing data. Meeting the infrastructure needs of next-gen data-centric applications. And the strategy of offloading and isolation certainly will help fortify cybersecurity.”.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2014

Ben Fathi, CTO of VMware, takes the stage to start the keynote, and goes through a recap of yesterday’s announcements: EVO and EVO:RAIL, vCloud Air rebranding and the availability of new services, VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO), and new product versions (vCloud Suite 5.8, betas of vSphere and VSAN).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

Continuing to sharpen its focus on enterprise cloud computing, IBM is joining forces with Pivotal to support CloudFoundry, the versatile platform as a service (PaaS) framework that allows developers to build applications that can run on multiple clouds. Storage Failures Hamper Cloud Foundry. IBM Pledges Full Support for CloudFoundry.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Poonen briefly recaps yesterday’s messaging, and then moves into the focus of today’s keynote—focusing on the “any application and any device” part of the “Ready for Any” messaging. According to Poonen, the core of the solution for “any application on any device” is VMware’s Workspace Suite. What about iOS and Android devices?

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Sean Daniel

APRIL 26, 2010

If you don’t have extra hardware, Vail installs flawlessly into Hyper-V based environments and one of our MVPS already has a blog post on how to install it into VMWare. Storage Server Essentials. (17). Windows Mobile. (23). Windows Mobile. Storage Server Essentials. What’s new? SBS 2011 Standard. (24).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

Paul Speciale is Chief Marketing Officer at Appcara , which is a provider of a model-based cloud application platform. He has more than 20 years of experience in assisting cloud, storage and data management technology companies as well as cloud service providers to address rapidly expanding Infrastructure-as-a-Service and big data sectors.

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Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Fundamentally, the concept abstracts-away a servers I/O, disk, storage connectivity, and out-of-band controls, making it a stateless entity. and the Host Bus Adaptor (HBA) for connection to storage. The result: Servers, their O/S, and sometimes even applications, were tightly-tied to their I/O. An alternative model.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

To that point, Microsoft has over 100K servers across their cloud properties, with >200K diverse services, first-party applications, and third-party applications. Johnson points out that Geneve was co-authored by Intel, MIcrosoft, VMware, and Red Hat, and is considered to be the next-generation encapsulation protocol.

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Fountainhead

DECEMBER 13, 2010

In essence, a server’s logical IO is consolidated down to a single (physical) converged network which carries data, storage and KVM traffic. You should think of IOV using the following analogy: The way in which the hypervisor abstracts software in the application domain, IOV abstracts IO and networking in the infrastructure domain.

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Fountainhead

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Think of it this way: Fabric Computing is the componentization and abstraction of infrastructure (such as CPU, Memory, Network and Storage). This is very much analogous to how OS virtualization componentizes and abstracts OS and application software stacks. Mobile Work. (4). Mobility. (2). Infrastructure Orchestration. (31).

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Fountainhead

MARCH 5, 2009

Software is abstracted away from the CPU, making management of applications more efficient. Players: VMware, Citrix, MSFT, Parallels, etc. But essentially its about converging data, storage, and even out-of-band management information along a single (high bandwidth, low-latency) wire. Mobile Work. (4). Mobility. (2).

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Virtualization Software Software Data Center 124

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Intel’s ONP Server reference design (“Sunrise Trail”) pushes Intel-based servers into markets they haven’t traditionally seen (telco/networking roles), especially in conjunction with strategy #3 above (as shown by the strong use of Intel DPDK to optimize Sunrise Trail for SDN/NFV applications). Sorry folks!

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 12, 2022

NetApps has agreed to buy Instaclustr, a service provider supporting open-source database, pipeline, and workflow applications in the cloud. Nvidia buys block storage software developer Excelero. It plans to integrate Brightpearl’s e-commerce management software with its Intacct cloud-based financial applications.

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