The experience of a technology company’s chief executive officer can often be a roller coaster ride with highs, lows, dips, hairpin turns, sudden drops and a lot of bumping around. So Pat Gelsinger (pictured), chief executive of VMware Inc., could probably be forgiven if he pleads a severe case of whiplash. After taking the company’s helm in ...

As the information technology infrastructure evolves, with differing levels of abstraction and complexity, monitoring and managing it also becomes more difficult. With a revolving carousel of options encompassing servers, storage, on-premises operations and public cloud, the overall network can easily get overlooked. One tech evangelist and executive at unified monitoring software company CA Technologies Inc. ...

Imagine the experience of driving today’s car without any dashboard. No speedometer, gas gauge, trouble lights or temperature controls. That’s the example that unified monitoring software company CA Technologies Inc. likes to use when describing the challenge facing network administrators who must manage an increasingly complex cloud and hybrid-information technology infrastructure. “The IT team needs ...

Industry analysts had no shortage of opinions at this week’s VMworld event in Las Vegas. Some new partnership announcements were major and gathered well-deserved attention; others fell flat. There was plenty of energy, fueled by a large number of new attendees, but fierce competition in the cloud space will bring added pressure next year to ...

When IBM Corp. announced its second quarter earnings in June, the news of two straight growth quarters in the company’s storage business got some attention. With flash as a catalyst and storage hardware margins on the rise, it made sense that the company would seek to capitalize on that momentum with announcements as part of ...

While there has been plenty of news this week surrounding VMware Inc.’s latest offerings, Dell EMC has not been lost in the shuffle. The company made several significant announcements involving the Software-Defined Data Center, turnkey hybrid cloud platforms and a set of pre-tested, cloud-ready systems that combine Dell EMC and VMware products. “Our job is ...

On Monday, VMware Inc. announced general availability for its customers by going live on the Amazon Web Services Inc. public cloud. On Tuesday, the company released the news that it would partner with Pivotal to provide commercial-grade Kubernetes distributions for both Google Cloud and VMware vSphere. Both announcements illustrate a developing theme this week at VMworld ...

It seems as though announcements involving VMware Inc.’s private cloud technology are coming on a daily basis. On Tuesday, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. rolled out a composable infrastructure for VMware private clouds. This followed the news last week that CenturyLink Inc. will be integrating more of VMware’s software-defined data center offerings in its private cloud. ...

VMware Inc.’s offerings, such as Wavefront, vRNI, NSX and AppDefense, are geared to support architectures in the evolving era of the software-defined data center. As the company’s customers realize that not everything is going into the public cloud, they are prioritizing solutions to meet business needs. VMware is moving rapidly to capitalize on preference in ...

Increased cyberattacks are forcing many corporate boards to take a closer look at protection and prevention measures in the information technology infrastructure. And as boards become more involved, they are looking at a technology toolbox that includes artificial intelligence and machine learning to deal with the risks posed by threat actors who are generating more ...