In the tech industry, transformation is both inevitable and essential in order to survive. As the chief executive officer of one major Silicon Valley firm once put it, companies that fight the waves of technology end up as driftwood. Cisco Systems Inc. is one of those businesses that has successfully ridden the waves. Now in ...

After acquiring the enterprise business from Docker Inc. last year, Mirantis Inc. did something that a lot of firms, eager to reap value from its new investment, might not have done. The company first listened to customers. What Mirantis heard from its customer base, which included large multinational companies such as Apple Inc., Visa Inc., ...

One of the key announcements during VMworld 2020 was Project Monterey, a collaboration between VMware Inc. and three other companies to redefine hybrid architecture for a new generation of applications. Working with Nvidia Corp., Pensando Inc. and Intel Corp., VMware is leveraging smart network interface controllers to build a consistent digital foundation on which applications can ...

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 ...