VMware Inc. positions its platform for managing virtual machines and container orchestration — VMware Cloud Foundation — as “the simplest path to the hybrid cloud.” This has not gone unnoticed by one of its major partners and that firm’s own customer base. “VMware Cloud Foundation has really caught the attention of our mid- to enterprise-sized customers,” said ...

VMware Inc. signaled its intention to become a major player in the Kubernetes container space with the introduction of Tanzu at VMworld one year ago. It hasn’t taken its foot off the gas since. The company’s expanding Tanzu portfolio now includes Tanzu Kubernetes Grid, Tanzu Application Service and Tanzu Mission Control as a centralized management ...

VMworld 2020 kicked off with a series of announcements involving a wide range of enterprise interests, from security, multicloud, hybrid cloud and modernizing applications to artificial intelligence, machine learning and networking. The day’s news also brought into focus the many partnerships that VMware Inc. has formed to bring new technologies to market. “This is one of ...

As a container orchestration tool, Kubernetes is flexible, scalable, powerful and reliable. But one thing it is not is simple to use. In the business world, this represents what is known as a market opportunity, and Mirantis Inc. is focused on leveraging the Docker Inc. technology it acquired last year to make Kubernetes simpler, faster, ...

Some of the tech world’s biggest advances often begin with a simple conversation. In this case, the two people involved were Pat Gelsinger (pictured), chief executive officer of VMware Inc., and Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia Corp. Gelsinger was interested in capitalizing on VMware’s work with network interface controllers, hardware that connects computers with computer ...

Despite the economic disruption of 2020, the year has shaped up to be a pretty good one for VMware Inc. It is 2021 that poses some uncertainty for the enterprise information technology services giant. VMware’s most recent quarterly earnings beat Wall Street forecasts and reflected solid growth in subscription and software-as-a-service revenue. However, plans by ...

The technology world has a lengthy track record of game-changing innovations generated by research labs, ranging from transistors and hard drives to the graphical user interface, which made it possible for humans to interact with computers without having to write code. The Japanese telecom company NTT Ltd. is now seeking to follow in those same ...

It is easy to take for granted, but life would be vastly different without global reliance on space-based technology. Everything from GPS to weather tracking and a significant amount of web-based communications depends heavily on a complicated network of satellites orbiting Earth. Any disruption in this critical technology could have broad global implications, and this ...

During a time when it seems as though the entire planet has “gone digital,” the role of PagerDuty Inc. has come into sharper focus as a key player in keeping the critical work of IT organizations up and running. Mindful of enterprise and consumer need at such an important time, the company has chosen this ...

The global pandemic has moved entire industries online, along with many consumers. Will it remain this way forever? That was one of the questions that PagerDuty Inc. sought to clarify when it commissioned a global study earlier this year. Results from the survey are in, and they indicate that at least 40% of respondents believe demand ...