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.
The storage giant has some secrets up its sleeve including how its acquisition of the Andy Becholsheim-backed DSSD startup will help fire up high-performance next-gen apps. Read more »
If you want to win enterprise workloads to your cloud, making it easy for in-house admins to manage their resources from a familiar screen is a good way to start. Read more »
Hybrid cloud blueprint recommends lots of VCE, EMC and VMware gear with support for AWS, Microsoft Azure and vCloud Air public clouds coming next year. Read more »
Given their huge resources, it’s obvious who the Big Three companies are in public cloud. The question is, after them, who else can compete. Read more »
EMC is taking on more of Cisco’s stake in VCE, maker of Vblock converged hardware. One reason? VCE partners Cisco and VMware have been at each other’s throats. Read more »
You can be a Google employee and an AWS customer, but that nuance is getting lost as Amazon banned Googlers from its annual customer-and-partner confab. Read more »
EMC and Cisco Systems have had an increasingly strained relationship, and now Bloomberg is reporting that Cisco will cut its stake in VCE, a five-year-old joint venture it launched with EMC and VMware… Read more »