Fountainhead

APRIL 7, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Egenera creates physical & virtual servers transparently. Egenera just announced that its embedding virtual machine provisioning within its PAN Manager software for free. Mobile Work. (4). Mobility. (2). Virtualization. (31).

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Virtualization Dell Data Center Cloud 100

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 25, 2014

The keynote starts with a catchy, jazzy dance/music piece, and then Robin Matlock, Chief Marketing Officer for VMware, takes the stage. VMware is on a voyage of brave transformation itself, and Gelsinger provides examples of VMware’s BYOD efforts and running all of VMware’s SAP ERP efforts on vCloud Air.

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Vmware Hardware Cloud Virtualization 79

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.)

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Applications Video 60

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.). Naturally, VDI is a key part of this effort, and Herrod reviews the improvements that VMware made in the last release of View, version 5.1.

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Vmware Windows Virtualization Applications 109

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.

Vmware 60

Vmware Cloud IBM Security 60

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?

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Network Windows 60

Fountainhead

JUNE 1, 2011

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. 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. Mobile Work. (4). Mobility. (2). Virtualization. (31).

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Financial Cloud Data Center Vmware 172

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?

Operating Systems 131

Operating Systems Apple Applications Linux 131

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.

Virtualization 78

Virtualization Storage Hardware Disaster Recovery 78

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! Virtualization. If you’re not familiar with VCF, see here.). I’m so far behind.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Vmware Windows Cloud 60

Fountainhead

JUNE 29, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Theyre also both teaming with virtualization providers, as well as hoping for success in cloud computing. True, both have made huge strides in the hardware world to allow for blade repurposing, I/O, address, and storage naming portability, etc.

Analysis 147

Analysis HP Data Center Virtualization 147

Fountainhead

JANUARY 24, 2011

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. The technology behind this was a combination of orchestrating physical and virtual devices, which automatically composed appropriate infrastructure stacks to keep the service SLA within pre-defined bounds. Enter Virtualization. Fountainhead.

Cloud 216

Cloud Data Center Virtualization Data 216

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Augmented or virtual reality, gaming, and the combination of gamification with social media leverages AI for personalization and enhancing online dynamics. Cloud-native apps, microservices and mobile apps drive revenue with their real-time customer interactions. The storage for these features is referred to as a feature store.

Strategy 116

Strategy Data Applications Cloud 116

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

What’s really interesting to me is the (completely uncoordinated) alignment between Matt’s list of skills for networking pros and the list I provided to virtualization pros in a series of recent VMUG presentations (refer to slide 15, but the list is software development basics, Linux, automation/orchestration, and public cloud services).

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Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 60

Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Significant increase in the number of options available for various business requirements and loads “Bare metal” servers that aren’t virtual. Containers , like Docker, that makes deploying software much easier and faster. The cloud will therefore spin up a new instance with a container-ready version of the OS at the bottom.

Cloud 70

Cloud Web Services Hardware Software 70

Storage IO Blog

JUNE 30, 2017

New optional features include support for mobile platforms and book, along with scaling for enterprise as well as cloud environments. The NVMe Express trade group (e.g. nvmexpress.org) announced the completion of NVMe 1.3 specification.

Data 40

Data Mobile Groups Cloud 40

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. Aarna has amassed a total of $3.5

WAN 62

WAN Wireless Network Cloud 62

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).

Vmware 65

Vmware Architecture Applications Storage 65

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This is a liveblog of IDF 2014 session DATS002, titled “Virtualizing the Network to Enable a Software-Defined Infrastructure (SDI)” The speakers are Brian Johnson (Solutions Architect, Intel) and Jim Pinkerton (Windows Server Architect, Microsoft). According to Johnson, service function chaining (SFC) is a key component of NFV.

Virtualization 60

Virtualization Network Intel Cloud 60

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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Virtualization Data Center Network Storage 157

Fountainhead

MARCH 5, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. What if software virtualization is the tip of the iceberg? When most IT professionals think "virtualization" they are mostly wanting to consolidate/reduce hardware. Players: VMware, Citrix, MSFT, Parallels, etc. Mobile Work. (4).

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Virtualization Software Software Data Center 124

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

It starts by building upon the core of virtualized infrastructure, made possibe by VMware’s compute, storage, and network virtualization solutions. Somehow, though, this stuff needs to be connected to the end users—via desktop, mobile, content collaboration, and tying it all together with identity management.

Vmware 60

Vmware Applications Network Video 60

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. Virtualization. What’s new?

Windows 72

Windows Backup SMB Small Business 72

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. By offloading data storage and optimizing the network, the DPU frees the CPU power for mission-critical applications.

Data Center 134

Data Center Data Architecture Fractional CTO 134

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

CloudFoundry is open source software developed by VMware and now part of the Pivotal Initiative, an independent entity funded by VMware and EMC. The framework allows developers to create apps that can run on Amazon Web Services, OpenStack clouds or VMware’s vCloud and vSphere environments. Virtualization.

Data Center 197

Data Center IBM Data Cloud 197

Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. 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. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead.

Hardware 100

Hardware Data Center Storage Virtualization 100

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

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. Many companies have now transitioned to using clouds for access to IT resources such as servers and storage.

Data Center 203

Data Center Cloud Data Applications 203

Virtualized Greek

MARCH 25, 2014

A smartphone takes a PDA, MP3 player and camera and merge them into a mobile phone. The CPU, Storage and in some cases network are collapsing into tightly integrated platforms. Examples include Nutanix on the hardware side and VMware VSAN or EMC ScaleIO on the software side. PC & Server Hardware Virtualization Convergence'

Storage 60

Storage Hardware Enterprise Enterprise 60

Fountainhead

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Lots of talk about cloud computing, IT operations, virtualization and more. In fact, Compute fabrics might just be the next big thing after OS virtualization. Virtualizing I/O and converging the transport. Virtual networking.

Data Center 113

Data Center Virtualization Load Balancer Network 113

Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. These connections also give the blades very fast Ethernet access to both the network and storage devices and eliminate the need for a storage-area network (SAN). Instead, the blades would talk directly to the storage servers. Mobile Work. (4).

Data Center 100

Data Center Dell Virtualization Storage 100

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Virtualizing the Network to Enable a Software-Defined Infrastructure (SDI): [link]. Enabling Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networking with the Intel Open Network Platform Server Reference Architecture Design: [link]. Disclosure: I work for VMware, but was invited to attend IDF at Intel’s expense.).

Intel 60

Intel Network Architecture Virtualization 60

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 12, 2022

Nvidia buys block storage software developer Excelero. In early March it announced its second of 2022, Excelero, which develops software for securing and accelerating arrays of flash storage for use in enterprise high-performance computing. Dell and VMware to split up. Atlassian buys Percept.ai. Citrix closes $2.25

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Enterprise Enterprise Oracle SAP 143