CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 15, 2022

Integrating a new network after an acquisition can be a sizable headache for any CIO. Traditionally, to integrate its acquisitions, Koch would flatten the acquired company’s core network, says Matt Hoag, CTO of business solutions at Koch. It’s more complicated than standard networking, Hoag says. Laying the foundation.

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CTO Network Cloud Data Center 97

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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Vmware Virtualization Storage Training 112

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 23, 2023

And this is our shared goal and vision together with VMware. VMware has an amazing opportunity to further grow and scale its pioneering virtualization technology, and Broadcom is committed to innovation and building VMware’s professional services capabilities. The core technology to do this already exists at VMware.

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Vmware Cloud Security Enterprise 144

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Moving workloads to the cloud has been proven to reduce enterprises’ energy usage and their carbon footprint by at least 30%. These include Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service, hybrid and multi-cloud deployments, storage, and a wide array of modern, custom cloud-native applications.

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Vmware Disaster Recovery Energy Cloud 98

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). One key takeaway so far is that I need to deepen my networking knowledge. Life at VMware, Two Weeks In.

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Vmware Storage Virtualization Network 94

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. In my role as an advisor to the enterprise, I try to reasonably look as far ahead in the future of enterprise IT. You take away vSphere and what is VMware exactly?

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Vmware Licensing Virtualization Enterprise 85

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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Vmware Virtualization Groups Storage 95

Storage IO Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The earlier proof-points focused on SSD as a target or storage device. In the following proof-points, the Seagate Enterprise 1200 SSD is used as a shared read cache (write-through). Using a write-through cache enables a given amount of SSD to give a performance benefit to other local and networked storage devices.

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Enterprise Enterprise Storage Vmware 58

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 11, 2013

A couple of weeks ago I had the privilege of joining Richard Campbell on RunAs Radio to talk VMware NSX and network virtualization. If you’d like to hear us get geeky about network virtualization and where it might take our industry, head over and listen to episode 346. Talking Network Virtualization on RunAs Radio.

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Virtualization Network Vmware Storage 60

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The company’s compute, networking, and storage offerings encompass a wide range of managed IT services and draw on its 12,000-mile fiber network. As enterprises continue their digital transformations, they require more high-performance computing capabilities and generate more data, both of which require more power.

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Data Center Energy Disaster Recovery Vmware 98

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 14, 2022

CIOs of large enterprises have pain points that are complex, underscoring the need for suppliers to listen intently and understand their predicaments. The challenges of managing data, the lifeblood of any enterprise, are continuously evolving and require attention because ignoring them only makes the “pain points” worse.

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Devops Storage Enterprise Enterprise 119

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.

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Vmware Virtualization Hardware Network 91

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 12, 2022

The most concerning issue about most enterprises going multi-cloud is their lack of preparation to make multi-cloud and hybrid cloud work as a solution platform for the business,” writes noted InfoWorld cloud columnist David Linthicum. But it’s easy to go astray without proper planning.

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Cloud Vmware Disaster Recovery Applications 52

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

a data center, cloud, and Managed Services provider, is quick to point out that enterprises’ data sovereignty requirements are growing in scope. Actual control over data, its collection, storage, use and management is becoming one of the key topics in discussions about the global internet. Wojciech Stramski, CEO of Beyond.pl

Cloud 105

Cloud Data Center Vmware Disaster Recovery 105

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.

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Virtualization Network Vmware Load Balancer 134

Storage IO Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Back to the Seagate 1200 12Gbs Enterprise SAS SSD which is covered in this StorageIO Industry Trends Perspective thought leadership white paper.

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Enterprise Enterprise Big Data Vmware 58

Scott Lowe

APRIL 30, 2014

Reader Brian Markussen—with whom I had the pleasure to speak at the Danish VMUG in Copenhagen earlier this month—brought to my attention an issue between VMware vSphere’s health check feature and Cisco UCS when using Cisco’s VIC cards. vSphere Network Health Check and Cisco UCS. VMware ESX Networking Articles.

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Network Vmware Virtualization Intel 63

Scott Lowe

JUNE 12, 2013

Good friend (and now colleague ) John Troyer asked me via e-mail if I had a “reading list” for networking and network virtualization. ” So, here it is—a list of resources for networking and network virtualization. Network Heresy is a great site. Network Overlays vs. Network Virtualization.

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Resources Virtualization Network Vmware 65

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 9, 2023

With 8 high-performance data centers strategically located across Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin, the company offers maximum redundancy and isolation from natural disasters with a full portfolio of cloud services that meet enterprises’ most demanding compute, storage, and networking requirements.

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Data Center Disaster Recovery Vmware Energy 93

Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 25, 2013

Trying to kill time on the plane on my way to VMworld 2013; my mind got to wondering what VMware needs to show at VMworld 2013 in order to maintain their position within the enterprise. VMware has some great technology. VMware is not lacking for innovation. But having great tech only gets you in front of the engineer.

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Vmware CTO Virtualization VOIP 64

Virtualized Greek

APRIL 11, 2013

It’s very difficult to imagine an enterprise Cloud that both would co-exist. The drivers for a Cloud provider selecting a Cloud management platform are different from an Enterprise selecting a Cloud manager. So, it is a consideration but we are just looking at traditional enterprise public Clouds on this post.

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Vmware Data Center Cloud Virtualization 69

Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Today, Dell as in Michael Dell and his corporation Dell along with partner Silver Lake investment announced a $67B USD deal that they are acquiring EMC along with their stake in VMware which will stay an independently public traded company.

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Dell Vmware Storage Cloud 40

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2022

Enterprises are betting big on machine learning (ML). IDC’s numbers look even worse, with only 31% of enterprises surveyed saying that they have AI functioning in production. Why are so many enterprises finding it difficult to realize their ML goals? . So how can enterprises overcome these challenges? IDC agrees.

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Dell Artificial Intelligence Intel Enterprise 134

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 20, 2023

We recently caught up with Aaron Tebbutt, strategic vendor alliance manager, to learn more about iomart, get his thoughts on what it means for the company to be among the prestigious providers to have earned the VMware Cloud Verified distinction, and learn what he sees as the pivotal issues shaping the cloud. “We

Cloud 52

Cloud Vmware Disaster Recovery Enterprise 52

Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 26, 2013

VMware approaches these two technical challenges in two ways. Stateless images allow you to save a great deal of storage but limits the user’s ability to customize their environment. This increases the storage and management overhead. In the future VMware is “carve” up the image into layers.

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Vmware Virtualization Windows Applications 49

Scott Lowe

APRIL 28, 2014

Welcome to part 13 of the Learning NSX blog series, in which I revisit the idea of logical networking with VMware NSX. To start things off, let’s first do a quick recap of what it looks like to manually create a logical network in VMware NSX (all of this is described in part 5 of the series): Create a logical switch.

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Network Vmware .Net Virtualization 60

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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Vmware Development Cloud Data Center 65

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 28, 2022

At midpoint 2021, 73% of surveyed enterprises said they were using two public clouds, and 26% were using three or more. Or how European PVC manufacturer Kem One within months was able to migrate its previous two-data-center infrastructure to public cloud with VMware Cloud on AWS with less than 15 minutes of downtime for its 900 SAP ERP users.

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Cloud Trends Vmware SAP 52

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Networking. Matt Oswalt has a great post on the need for networking professionals to learn basic scripting skills—something he (rightfully) distinguishes from programming as a full-time occupation. Further, he follows that up with a post on how automation is more than just configuration management ; it’s about network services.

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Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

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. I’m truly awed by the talent on this team.

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Vmware Virtualization Travel Network 129

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 3, 2023

With nearly 140 employees, the high-performance data center provides government agencies with mission-critical compute, storage, and networking solutions needed to provide important services to citizens. One of the provided services is the high availability and performance of the VMware based vCloud platform. “We

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Data Center Government Vmware Data 52

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 116

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Networking. In this post on why networking needs a Chaos Monkey , Mike Bushong applies to the terms to networks—a snowflake network is an intricately crafted network that is carefully tailored to utilize a custom subset of networking features unique to your environment. Here’s a good source.

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Vmware Storage Linux Network 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

Networking. The networking “old guard” likes to talk about how x86 servers and virtualization create network bottlenecks due to performance concerns, but as Ivan points out in this post , it’s rapidly becoming—or has already become—a non-issue. Here’s a configuration example.

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Vmware Virtualization Network Linux 106

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Cisco announces its own OpenStack distribution—what will the effect be on VMware? Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. General Networking Storage Virtualization OpenStack OSS' OpenStack Design Summit and Conference Day 1 News Update.

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Storage Vmware Resources Virtualization 101

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2013

Depending on network connectivity, this might not get published until after the keynote is finished. 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.

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Vmware Virtualization Data Center Storage 63

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2013

Depending on network connectivity, I may or may not be able to update this post in real-time. VMware NSX, VMware VSAN, VMware Hybrid Cloud Service, and the expansion of the availability of Cloud Foundry. Next they move into a discussion of the networking side of the house. (My Making hybrid cloud ubiquitous.

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