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.
Now that Azure users will be able to access the Docker Hub within the Azure management portal, it’s going to be a whole lot easier for developers to spin up Docker… Read more »
The week in cloud: Amazon has said that live migration would not have averted last month’s cloud reboots. But folks are betting it’s working on the technology just the same. Read more »
Symantec’s division comes just days after Hewlett-Packard and eBay did the same. It’s clear that big tech companies are streamlining themselves to please their shareholders. Read more »
Google continues to push hard for Chromebooks in the workplace, touting new features and a low annual price for support and management features. Read more »
In its present state, Cisco is too big and slow to compete in a downsizing world of IT vendors, according to RBC Capital Markets analyst Mark Sue. Read more »
… not that they’d admit it. Both cloud providers had to restart a bunch of customers’ workloads over the weekend. Live migration could have nipped that angst in the bud. Read more »