At VMworld, VMware rolls out an edge platform to run, manage, and secure “edge-native” apps across multiple clouds. VMware is all in at the edge as the company has rolled out new software to help enterprises support and manage ever-more distributed applications and data. At its virtual VMworld conference this week the company took the wraps off VMware … Read more
Unified Endpoint Management software lets IT manage all of an organization’s endpoint devices — smartphones, laptops, desktops, printers, IoT devices, and more — from a single management console. Here’s what to look for when shopping for a platform. Endpoint devices have become so ubiquitous, connected, and data-intensive that they are among the most valuable technology … Read more
VMware and Dell have untied the knot that has held them together since 2016, giving VMware new flexibility for partnerships and investment. VMware is once again a standalone company as it has officially split with its parent firm, Dell and untied the knot that has held them together since 2016. The move is widely seen as a … Read more
The integration of Microsoft’s Virtual WAN Hub and VMware’s SD-WAN is aimed at making it easier for customers to deploy widely distributed business applications. Microsoft and VMware have taken their well-established relationship up a notch by tying together application and network technologies to help customers support secure WAN access to critical enterprise applications. Specifically, the … Read more
Three tools from VMware’s portfolio — Workspace One, Carbon Black Cloud, and SASE — are now bundled, offering a suite of tools to simplify management of remote worker devices and applications. Providing secure access to vital applications has been a key challenge for businesses forced to adapt to remote working during the pandemic. And with … Read more
Under the new VMware licensing pricing model, one CPU license will cover up to 32 cores in a single CPU. If a CPU has more than 32 cores, additional CPU licenses will be required. VMware is increasing its CPU licensing prices for customers running CPUs with more than 32 physical cores. Effective April 2, if CPUs with more … Read more
Amazon Relational Database Service on VMware automates DB provisioning. VMware has taken another step to integrate its virtual kingdom with Amazon Web Services’ world with an on-premise service that will let customers automate database provisioning and management. The package, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) on VMware is available now for customers running VMware vSphere 6.5 or later and supports … Read more
VMware rolls out Tanzu platform to help customer build, run and manage Kubernetes containers. VMware has announced an initiative that will help make it easier for current vSphere customers to build and manage Kubernetes containers as the platform evolves. The company, at its VMworld customer event, announced VMware Tanzu which is made up of myriad … Read more
VMware will spend $2.7 billion on cloud-application developer Pivotal and $2.1 billion for security vendor Carbon Black – details at next week’s VMworld user conference. All things cloud are major topics of conversation at the VMworld user conference next week, ratcheded up a notch by VMware’s $4.8 billion plans to acquire cloud development firm Pivotal … Read more
Cisco, VMware, HPE and others tap into new Google Cloud Athos cloud technology. Cisco and Google have expanded their joint cloud-development activities to help customers more easily build secure multicloud and hybrid applications everywhere from on-premises data centers to public clouds. The expansion centers around Google’s new open-source hybrid cloud package called Anthos, which was … Read more
