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VMware: ‘The software-defined data center is coming’
VMware CTO Steve Herrod has a message for the IT world: "[S]pecialized software will replace specialized hardware throughout the data center." Via virtualizations and SDNs, software-defined data...
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VMware CEO: We want to make you technologically hip
The "Facebook generation," as VMware CEO Paul Martiz called it in a presentation Tuesday morning, is post-PC and post-paper, and they want to experience information within the context in which they're...
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VMware aims for Hadoop on VMs with ‘Serengeti’ project
VMware is launching a new open source project, called "Serengeti," that aims to let the Hadoop data-processing platform run on the virtualization leader's vSphere hypervisor. VMware apparently smells a...
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10 innovators changing the game for Internet infrastructure
The world of information technology is always changing, but in the last six years it has started to change more rapidly. We celebrate the people who are orchestrating this change. Here's ten innovators...
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How Bromium lets bad guys in and still keeps data safe
Forget the ideas of virtual desktops and desktop hypervisors to separate employees' work lives from their personal lives. Bromium, the latest company from Xen creators Simon Crosby and Ian Pratt,...
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VMware buys DynamicOps to manage Xen, AWS
VMware has acquired DynamicOps, a Burlington, Mass.-based cloud computing startup that spun out of banking giant Credit Suisse's IT department in 2008. VMware is touting DynamicOps ability to manage...
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Is VMware’s brain drain a sign of its influence, or of its demise?
The number of principal engineers and other technical leaders leaving the company and trying to have big impacts elsewhere suggests VMware might achieve mafia status a la Sun Microsystems, Facebook,...
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VMware, seeking scale, took its eye off the ball
As VMware CEO Paul Maritz launched a four-year acquisition spree that brought the virtualization kingpin into software development and end user applications where it competes with Microsoft and others,...
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Well played, EMC.
EMC might be smarter than we thought it was. If it handles the rumored spin-out and the Maritz-Gelsinger transition well, the companies under its banner could do great things. Of course, there are a...
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VMware to buy Nicira for $1.26B in a strategic leap of faith
VMware will spend $1.26 billion to buy software defined networking startup Nicira in a deal that shows how much VMware is counting on its vision of the software defined data center. This is a strategic...
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With Nicira buy, VMware claims cloud freedom of choice
VMware has made two big acquisitions this month, both focusing in part on the ability to work with competitive hypervisor and cloud computing software. The company seems to get that the future is in...
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Tintri gets $25M to tune flash storage for VMs
A Mountain View, Calif., storage startup called Tintri has raised $25 million for its virtualization-focused flash storage appliances. The appliances, called VMstore, mix hard-disk and solid-state...
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Nimble Storage gets $40M as IPO approaches
Flash storage startup Nimble Storage has raised another $40 million in preparation for an IPO within the next two years. The company, which builds appliances fusing both flash and hard disk drives, is...
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Software-defined networks: All about the application
Software-defined networks and data centers are the future if enterprises want to manage their infrastructure with the agility of cloud computing providers, but they're nowhere near ubiquity yet....
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Observing the software-defined network in the wild
Big Switch, Nicira and Schuberg Philis share their insights on software-defined networks--how they're being deployed today and how they will evolve to replace traditional infrastructure driven...
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WAN design for the cloud age
With current IT management dictating that more and more resources move from the local area network (LAN) to the wide area network (WAN), enterprise dependency on WAN is on the rise. This shift in WAN...
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VMware CTO Herrod leaves to join VC firm
VMware CTO Steve Herrod is leaving his post to join venture capital firm General Catalyst, where he'll be managing director. I think this is a big loss for VMware, which has already been hemorrhaging...
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OpenNebula open-sources service management layer with enterprise in mind
Partly to differentiate itself from the likes of OpenStack and Eucalyptus, and partly to boost enterprise adoption, OpenNebula is moving beyond its traditional business of infrastructure management....
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Forecast: sizing the software-defined networking market
Relatively small revenue streams in 2012 show that SDN needs to increase its acceptance to truly impact the broad IT market. Forecast: sizing the software-defined networking market originally published...
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Red Hat open sources its take on Hadoop storage
Red Hat is the latest company offering an alternative to the Hadoop Distributed File System, only this one is open source and ties into Red Hat's bigger vision of hybrid cloud computing. Red Hat open...
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