Sometimes the strategic positioning of a company can become more obvious by observing who’s not on stage during its major annual conference than who is. After a series of keynote presentations during VMworld 2019 on Monday and Tuesday, it was clear to those in attendance that the focus was on Dell EMC/VMware products more than ...

The introduction of Tanzu, VMware Inc.’s modern apps portfolio, at the VMworld conference this week heralded an important move for the company in shaping the way that enterprises will run and manage software using the Kubernetes open-source container-orchestration system. It’s important for VMware because, without a move toward app management, the data center might not ...

The acquisition of Carbon Black by VMware Inc., announced last week, did not come cheap. The price tag was $2.1 billion, but one of VMware’s top executives feel strongly that the company got its money’s worth in the deal. “We looked at the landscape and felt it was ripe for disruption,” said Sanjay Poonen (pictured), ...

Based on a recent string of billion-dollar exits, cloud monitoring and enterprise software firms in general have been delivering nice payouts. And investors are taking notice. In the month of August alone, cloud monitoring service SignalFx Inc. was acquired by Splunk Inc.; Dynatrace Inc., another cloud monitoring service, went public and surged nearly 50% on its ...

Great-West Lifeco Inc., one of the largest and oldest financial services holding companies in Canada, is the target of hundreds of thousands of malware attacks every day, according to its global chief information officer. Yet, that’s not what worries CIO Phil Armstrong (pictured). It’s the fact that the malware itself is actually getting smarter. “The bad ...

Among the deluge of announcements this week from VMware Inc. has been the expansion of its telecommunications and edge cloud portfolio to enable the deployment of edge-based cloud networks, where end devices such as laptops, smartphones and connected sensors live. Executives at VMware clearly believe that demand for edge computing tools will only grow, a ...

On Monday, VMware Inc. and Druva Inc. jointly announced that Druva’s data protection platform would become available on VMware Cloud Marketplace and certified for VMware Cloud on AWS. The announcement indicated that it was the first time that a data protection and software as a service solution had been certified for both. “If you are ...

In his keynote remarks to open VMworld 2019 in San Francisco on Monday, Pat Gelsinger, VMware’s chief executive officer, made clear his company would be a significant multicloud player. The problem for Gelsinger (pictured0 and VMware is that technology spending data shows customers may be doubling down on public cloud commitments at the expense of ...

When he was head coach of the NFL’s New England Patriots in the 1990s, Bill Parcells was once asked if he thought he should be involved in acquiring players for his team. “If they want you to cook the dinner, at least they ought to let you shop for some of the groceries,” Parcells said. ...

Mark Phillip has always been a fan, but when he maxed out his credit cards to bootstrap his fledgling sports viewing digital business, his zeal suddenly became more than just a game. The Brooklyn-born, Austin-based, MIT dropout (pictured) had an idea in 2006 that there could be a market for sports fans who didn’t have the time to ...