VMware is a software company that provides cloud and virtualization software and services, and was the first to successfully virtualize the x86 architecture. VMware’s desktop software runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, while its enterprise software hypervisors for servers, VMware ESX and VMware ESXi, are bare-metal hypervisors that run directly on server hardware without requiring an additional underlying operating system.
Pivotal, the cloud computing and big data company that spun out from EMC and VMware in 2013, is open sourcing its entire portfolio of big data technologies and is teaming up… Read more »
Enterprise organizations are actively looking for ways to leverage cloud computing. Cloud presents the single-largest opportunity for CIOs and the organizations they lead. The move to cloud is often part of… Read more »
The Cloud Foundry Foundation, put in place last year to promote the open-source platform as a service framework, now has new leadership. Sam Ramji, former VP of strategy of Apigee, is now… Read more »
VMware recently announced the integration of vCloud Air with Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Services to be integrated include: Google Cloud Storage (object), Google BigQuery (analytics), Google Cloud Datastore (NoSQL), and Google… Read more »
The week in cloud The past few weeks were not great for IBM but they did not bring the bloodbath — 110,000 job cuts or about 26 percent of total headcount — predicted by… Read more »
VMware has developed a reputation in some circles as being proprietary and less innovative than it was when the company made server virtualization a household word in the IT space, and it’s… Read more »
Pivotal, the cloud computing spinoff from EMC and VMware that launched in 2013, is preparing to blow up its big data business by open sourcing a whole lot of it. Rumors… Read more »
VMware’s Tony Scott has been chosen to become the next U.S. chief information officer, according to a White House announcement on Thursday. Scott will follow in the footsteps of previous U.S… Read more »
Internap is now offering OpenStack-based public cloud services for the enterprise-rich New York metropolitan area from its Secaucus, New Jersey data center. Atlanta-based Internap paints its OpenStack-based AgileCLOUD as a “scalable public cloud” with dedicated… Read more »