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VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger: Virtual network’s the highway to multicloud
Data is the center of gravity in the modern digital enterprise. It also simply has gravity; in large quantities, it’s hard to move to and fro. That’s why the compute, via a virtual network, must be the mover and shaker in a multicloud environment, according to Pat Gelsinger (pictured), chief executive officer of VMware Inc. “We can ...
VMware’s partners old and new must pass muster with customers, says CMO
VMware Inc. has long leveraged a vast partner ecosystem to help bill itself as the common operating environment for many different technologies. The addition of two heavy hitters — Amazon Web Services Inc. and Google Cloud Platform — is rocking the boat for both partners and customers. “There is a lot of historical legacy, and ...
VMware partners aren’t 100 percent in love with AWS deal, say analysts
VMware Inc. is paving a path to public cloud through deals with Amazon Web Services Inc. and now Google Cloud Platform. Good for its customers; but will its many smaller partners fall by the wayside? “Public cloud was a dirty word at VMworld a couple of years ago — now we’re embracing it,” said Stu Miniman ...
Google crashes VMworld 2017 with on-prem Kubernetes announcement
Just when everyone thought VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas was all about the Amazon Web Services Inc. deal, Google Cloud Platform crashed the party. Today, it announced a partnership with VMware Inc. to bring Kubernetes container orchestration on-premises with Pivotal Container Service, known as PKS. Is this a developer’s dream come true or just VMware ...
Michael Dell: The vehicle for traversing the multicloud world is VMware
Business is booming for public clouds, but 65 percent of workloads still live in corporate data centers. Dell Technologies Inc. wants to traverse both worlds by providing a multicloud solution. Can it, and its customers, have it all — or is it spreading itself too thin? “Cloud’s not a place; cloud’s a way of doing [information ...
VMware’s getting its cloud story straight, and data’s the bottom line
When they hear the term “digital transformation,” many people think: “Throw hardware overboard like you’re on the Titanic and get into this life jacket called cloud.” It’s a “too long; didn’t read” note to a story they ought to read through. “The goal is not to get rid of hardware; the goal is to get ...
Data protection as-a-service for a world in cloud/on-prem limbo
With customers scattering data like marbles to different cloud and on-premise locations, its good to be the guy on the side selling coverall data protection. Well, venture capitalists think so — they just invested $80 million in Druva Inc.’s infrastructure-agnostic data protection as-a-service. “The more data gets decentralized or fragmented, the more centralized the data management has ...
VMware is hedging its bets with its AWS partnership plus true private cloud
VMware Inc. — long entrenched in hundreds of thousands of private data centers — is now getting its cloud legs. Its own secure public cloud platform vCloud Air basically flopped. Will its Amazon Web Services Inc. partnership shore up its future in cloud or accidentally hand-feed its customers to AWS? Despite the trend away from ...
Blocking the ad blocker with smarter digital, social marketing
Despite the mountain of software tools and social platforms made available to marketers in recent years, conversion rates haven’t budged. E-Commerce conversion rates in the current year are 2.5 percent, according to Statista Inc. Not terrific considering 70 percent of marketers say converting leads is their top priority, according to Hubspot Inc. Perhaps they ...
Multicloud and Internet of Things come in SD-WAN packages
At face value, the Software-Defined Wide Area Network is a packaged information technology solution for organizations with multiple branch locations. But a boost from the latest cloud technology is revealing SD-WAN’s hidden talents, and it may even attract new customers by accidentally solving the multicloud management snafu. With cloud, SD-WAN becomes more than just a network solution ...