VMware this week expanded the scope of its cloud migration efforts to include workloads that aren’t running on its virtual machine. VMware HCX leverages replication and virtual machine mobility technology to make it easier to automate the migration of either VMware-based workloads or those running on rival platforms to the latest generation of VMware platforms. […]
VMware Adds Cloud Automation for DevOps
Those who follow my blog will recall that I covered (and did some work for) CloudCoreo, a cloud security and compliance start-up. What the company was working on was intriguing to me because it pulled many things into the realm of DevOps through automation at a time when cloud security was a big issue. It’s […]
VMware to Acquire Avi Networks for NetOps Capability
VMware announced it intends to acquire Avi Networks for an undisclosed price as part of an ongoing effort to close the gap between network operations (NetOps) and DevOps. Once this deal closes, sometime between now and August, VMware plans to add a software-based load balancer, along with a web application firewall (WAF) and a service […]
Dell Technologies Drives Automation Deeper into Platforms
Dell Technologies this week launched a series of initiatives intended to provide IT organizations with multiple deployment options for Dell EMC appliances and servers, including forthcoming managed service offering through which Dell will manage private cloud platforms based on VMware software on behalf of customers. Announced at the Dell Technologies World 2019 conference, Dell EMC […]
VMware Drops Managed Cloud Onto Dell EMC Appliances
At the Dell Technologies World conference, VMware today announced it will make available an instance of its managed cloud platform on appliances from Dell EMC in the second half of this year. VMware Cloud for Dell EMC is a turnkey platform that combines VMware compute, storage and networking software in a single offering managed and […]
VMware Doubles Down on IT Automation
VMware this week moved to inject application and operating system monitoring capabilities into the VMware vRealize cloud management platform to make it easier to employ dashboards to map the relationships between applications and the underlying IT infrastructure they run on. In addition, VMware enhanced its capacity optimization tools to enable IT teams to run “what […]
VMware Advances Hybrid Cloud Ambitions
VMware today advanced its hybrid cloud strategy by making a series of updates to existing offerings, including the CloudHealth by VMware software-as-a-service (SaaS) application for managing and optimizing cloud applications, which VMware acquired last summer. In addition, VMware Cloud on AWS is now available in data centers operated by Amazon Web Services in Canada, Paris […]
VMware Brings NSX Network Virtualization into DevOps Realm
At the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2019 conference, VMware moved to bring network virtualization into the realm of DevOps by adding support for a declarative programming model and JSON data formats to version 2.4 of NSX-T. In addition, VMware is making it possible to use the open source Ansible automation framework to deploy NSX-T. Finally, […]
VMware Wavefront Adds AI, Distributed Tracing
VMware has updated its Wavefront monitoring service to include support for distributed tracing along with anomaly detection capabilities enabled by machine learning algorithms. Stela Udovicic, senior director for product marketing for Wavefront by VMware, said the addition of the distributed tracing support, now available as part of a public beta, means that a single monitoring […]
VMware Extends Scope of Alliance with IBM
On the heels of IBM announcing its intent to acquire Red Hat, VMware announced at the VMworld Europe 2018 conference this week an extension of its longstanding cloud alliance with IBM. Red Hat competes directly with VMware; yet, there are also more than 1,600 customers running VMware on the IBM cloud. Ajay Patel, senior vice […]