VMworld 2017 Hot News – Building Tomorrow
And just as you think it cannot be better, faster and become more interesting you find out it can! VMware announced several new updates to its products on VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas. According to Pat Gelsinger, CEO VMware, VMware’s goal is to connect people…
Patrolling the Cloud border with HyTrust Boundary Controls
With more and more workloads (applications and data) virtualized and cloudinized the need for patrolling the border with Hytrust Boundary Controls is desperately needed. Virtualization and the cloud make data security more complicated. Virtual machines are by nature dynamic and highly portable. The benefits of virtual…
Interview with Mattias Sundling about Dutch vGurus, Future of Cloud and Trends
During VMworld I had a nice fast paced interview with Mattias Sundling about why there are so many vGurus in the Netherlands, the future of Clouds, key takeaways from VMworld and IT trends in general.
VMware acquires Nicira, the next step in cloud solutions.
Yesterday VMware announced their acquisition of Nicira, a 5 year-old company that has pioneered software-defined networking (SDN). VMware will pay $1.26B to buy Nicira, a company that has built software that has done for networking what VMware has done to virtualize computing. Nicira was created…
Hyper-V removed from OpenStack
The new version of OpenStack, which will be released in Q2 of 2012, does not support Microsoft Hyper-V anymore. The developers have had enough with the buggy code. One of the developers of OpenStack has written a patch with which the Hyper-V code and support…
VMware ready for the Enterprise Hybrid Cloud
Yesterday VMware announced that it is ready to deliver the enterprise hybrid cloud with the availability of VMware vCloud Datacenter services. For now this is only available from BlueLock and Colt and through beta services from Verizon. VMware also introduced VMware vCloud Connector, a free…
The cloud and the future according to Microsoft
Last Friday we had a session with Microsoft about ‘the Cloud’. We already heard a lot about clouds, but I must admit that both Microsoft presentations that day were refreshing. Every cloud provider does his best to bring cloud thinking to the mind, but what…
Webcast: Security in the Cloud: Protecting Confidential Data in Cloud Computing Environments
Title: Webcast: Security in the Cloud: Protecting Confidential Data in Cloud Computing Environments Location: online Link out: Click here Description: Cloud computing is opening up opportunities for cost savings and increased scalability of IT infrastructure. However, security concerns can sometimes obscure these benefits. In this…
Cisco & VMware join forces: Cisco Unified Computing System
Yesterday Cisco revealed more details about their Unified Computing System. The term was announced some time ago but nobody really knew what Cisco was planning. Some people even thought that Cisco was about to take over VMware as we already talked about in this article….