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SPECIAL REPORT: THE FUTURE OF THE DATA CENTER
At VMworld, VMware and Dell drive conversation on evolving virtualization from cloud to edge
Cloud-based information technology virtualization was the focus of VMworld 2018 this week in Las Vegas, not to mention the talk of the entire conference. As the conference draws toward a close on Thursday, Wikibon looks back at the highlights from the dozens of on-camera executive interviews on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE’s livestreaming mobile studio. Here are excerpts of ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE FUTURE OF THE DATA CENTER
On VMworld day two, VMware and Dell turn virtualization into tangible opportunities in edge computing
Virtualization may feel like an abstract technological construct, but it’s coming closer to everything that touches our lives. This idea of virtual computing is transforming our organizations and shaping the edge, embedded, mobile and other tangible devices at the heart of our technological existence. Without hypervisors, containers and other virtualization technologies, the digitization of our ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE FUTURE OF THE DATA CENTER
On VMworld day one, VMware goes deep on multicloud virtualization
Agility is the essence of the software-defined data center. As the longtime pacesetter in this market, VMware Inc. has built an agile solution portfolio that lets customers deploy virtual machines, containers and other virtualization technologies into a wide range of private, public, hybrid and multicloud configurations. This week at VMworld 2018 in Las Vegas, VMware ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE FUTURE OF THE DATA CENTER
Looking ahead to VMworld: Virtualization drives clouds to the edge
Platform and application virtualization are rapidly coming to the edge of the cloud. Paving the way are the multicore processors at the heart of devices for the most demanding “internet of things,” mobile and embedded applications. As virtualization takes hold at the cloud’s edge, it’s finding its first applications in the industrial IoT. Virtualization allows ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE FUTURE OF THE DATA CENTER
As VMworld nears, virtualization disrupts the cloud application ecosystem
Platform virtualization has traditionally involved abstracting application access to hardware resources, such as compute power, storage drives, random-access memory and I/O bandwidth. The next evolutionary step is to move up the stack, virtualizing application access to software resources, especially runtime engines, algorithm libraries and functional application programming interfaces. In a cloud-native world, this trend is ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE FUTURE OF THE DATA CENTER
Ahead of VMworld, virtualization confronts the cloud
Virtualization is an inexorable process under which applications become progressively more abstracted and independent from the underlying platforms on which their services execute. It’s the foundation for software-defined data centers that span hybrid multiclouds. It enables flexible partitioning, aggregation and composition of compute, storage, memory and bandwidth within and across diverse clouds, clusters, servers and ...
CLOUD SPECIAL REPORT
How ‘AIOps’ is optimizing cloud computing up and down the stack
Artificial intelligence workloads are consuming ever greater shares of information technology infrastructure resources. AI is also taking up residence as an embedded component for managing, monitoring, scaling, securing and controlling IT infrastructure. Increasingly, this emerging IT management paradigm goes by the name “AIOps.” This buzzword refers to two aspects of AI’s relationship to cloud infrastructures and ...
CLOUD SPECIAL REPORT
Analysis: Google puts Kubernetes at the center of its cloud application push
Google LLC has begun to pick up steam in the cloud wars, though it still lags considerably behind Amazon Web Services Inc. and Microsoft Corp.’s Azure in market share in the public cloud. One approach for gaining traction among enterprise cloud users is to build a substantial developer ecosystem. Today at Google Cloud Next ’18 ...
ANALYSIS
Hadoop’s star dims in the era of cloud object data storage and stream computing
One of the most noteworthy findings from Wikibon’s annual update to our big data market forecast was how seldom Hadoop was mentioned in vendors’ roadmaps. I wouldn’t say that Hadoop — open-source software for storing data and running applications on large hardware clusters — is entirely dead. Most big-data analytics platform and cloud providers still ...
DEEP DIVE
With new products, MongoDB drives NoSQL database more deeply into the enterprise
MongoDB has long been known as a niche player in the database wars. It’s one of the leading providers in the NoSQL segment of the database market, which emerged to handle data volumes in a scale-out architectures that traditional relational DBMSs struggled to support. From the start, NoSQL databases such as MongoDB have been engineered to ...