by Rich Bourdeau The biggest challenge for most companies today is the ability to go faster than the competition. Competitive advantages that use to last decades can be lost in a matter of years or even months if companies fail to stay ahead of customer needs and what the competition can deliver. For companies that […]

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There has been a lot of buzz around vSphere Lifecycle since VMworld. My last few blog posts on VMware Tools have had a tremendous amount of traffic, so I decided to continue with the theme and give you all what it appears you want more of. So in this post, LET’S TALK TOOLS! I Feel […]

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IEEE Hot Interconnects is the premier international forum for researchers and developers of state-of-the-art hardware and software architectures and implementations for interconnection networks of all scales, ranging from multi-core on-chip interconnects to those within systems, clusters, data centers and clouds. This year, Hot Interconnects was held in Santa Clara, CA from August 26-28. I’m grateful to the organizers of this year’s conference for inviting me to deliver a talk about Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). I was put forward by VMware as a speaker for the symposium, as I am considered the subject matter expert here for NFV. The talk was well received by the audience, which was more than 150 strong. VMware was formed out of a Stanford research project to virtualize the x86 architecture, a difficult feat considering the complexity of x86 architecture. Over the past several years, both Intel and AMD have added support in hardware for virtualization extensions that helped improve performance and scale for hypervisors to support more workloads with higher consolidation ratios. Today, about 75% of x86 server workloads run in virtual machines (VMs), primarily on data center infrastructure. NFV is about leveraging standard virtualization technology to consolidate network equipment onto industry standard high volume servers, switches and [...]

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Achieve your Software-Defined Storage Solution Competency accreditation by registering and completing this new Virtual SAN: Deploy and Manage 6.0 course. The course is available either as an instructor led or live online three day course.

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This is a cross-post from the VMware vSphere blog. Cloud-native applications are gaining mindshare, especially containerized apps that align well with the requirements of DevOps workflows, microservices, and immutable infrastructure trends. Developers and infrastructure experts must soon identify the platform for their next-generation workloads. Wouldn’t it be great if existing investments in skills, infrastructure, and […]

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VMworld 2015 Europeis just a few weeks away! Now is the time to start thinking about which sessions and activities to attend. We have some terrific30 minute Theatre Sessions planned in the VMworld Education and Certification Lounge (Located in Hall 7)each day. Be sure to add these to your personalizedschedule using the VMworld 2015 Europe […]

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This yearPartner Exchange is coming to VMworld 2015 Europe! Don’t miss this unique opportunity:register for Partner Exchange on Monday 12th October, the day before VMworld (for which you need to register separately). What can you expect? An event like no other, where the only focus is you, anda fantastic opportunityto network with your peers, VMware […]

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In the last few months we have been working with Ansible to develop a set of cloud modules that would allow mutual customers to get the benefits of the flexibility that Ansible provides paired with VMware vCloud® Air™ enterprise grade services. In particular we have developed a new cloud module for provisioning vApps in vCloud […]

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By Carl Olafson For those not familiar with vRealize Operations Manager (vROps), it delivers critical capacity management and performance monitoring capabilities. This provides a level of insight into your infrastructure that no business running on vSphere should function without. If you are going to perform a proof-of-concept, pilot or deploy vROps, the first question that […]

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