News Dell EMC Unveils New SD-WAN Offerings By David Ramel 09/03/2019 Dell Technologies has unveiled new offerings in the software-defined wide-area-networking (SD-WAN) space, incorporating hardware from Dell EMC and VMware-based software. Announced at the recent VMworld conference, the offerings include: Dell EMC SD-WAN Solution, which combines VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud software with appliances available in […]
VMware Workstation Gets Hyper-V Support
News VMware Workstation Gets Hyper-V Support By Kurt Mackie 08/29/2019 VMware is adding support for Microsoft’s Hyper-V to its Workstation product, allowing it to tap other Microsoft technologies that depend on the Windows hypervisor. The news comes from a Monday VMworld session. According to a separate Tuesday announcement by Ben Armstrong, a principal program manager […]
VMware Lays Out Plan for Integrating Carbon Black
News VMware Lays Out Plan for Integrating Carbon Black By Scott Bekker 08/27/2019 VMware already has extensive plans for repurposing Carbon Black’s technology to improve security in vSphere, Workspace ONE, NSX and other products over the next few years. VMware’s Sanjay Poonen shared the roadmap as the big finale of VMworld’s kickoff keynote in San […]
VMware Widens Availability of Microsoft Azure Service
News VMware Widens Availability of Microsoft Azure Service By Scott Bekker 08/26/2019 VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger described plans to expand the VMware-Microsoft cloud offering during his VMworld 2019 keynote on Monday. The service, dubbed Azure VMware Solutions, allows organizations to run VMware workloads natively on Microsoft Azure. As Microsoft indicated at the product’s late-April launch, […]
Kubernetes Takes Center Stage at VMworld
News Kubernetes Takes Center Stage at VMworld By Scott Bekker 08/26/2019 All the best new product names and code names spoken during the VMworld kickoff keynote had to do with Kubernetes. The names that involved creative effort and an attempt at inspiration on the part of the product and marketing teams were “Tanzu,” “Project Pacific” […]
CenturyLink to Offer VMware Cloud on AWS
News CenturyLink to Offer VMware Cloud on AWS By David Ramel 08/26/2019 Ahead of this week’s VMworld conference, telecommunications provider CenturyLink pre-emptively announced some VMware news of its own with the unveiling of an upcoming VMware-based private cloud service on the Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) platform. Expected to launch by winter 2019, CenturyLink Private […]
MEF Finalizes SD-WAN Definition Standard
News MEF Finalizes SD-WAN Definition Standard By David Ramel 08/21/2019 Industry association MEF has completed what it claims to be the first global standard defining a software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN), along with its service attributes. Specifically, the SD-WAN Service Attributes and Services (MEF 70) “describes requirements for an application-aware, over-the-top WAN connectivity service that uses […]
Open Source flexiWAN SD-WAN Software Beta Ships
News Open Source flexiWAN SD-WAN Software Beta Ships By David Ramel 08/16/2019 Israeli start-up flexiWAN announced a beta version of its open source, open architecture software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) software is available for download. The company emerged from stealth last spring with a mission to democratize SD-WAN with its open source, open architecture approach that […]
VMware Announces Update To VMware HCX Enterprise
News VMware Announces Update To VMware HCX Enterprise By Wendy A. Hernandez 08/12/2019 Last week (Aug. 8) VMware Inc. updated its enterprise application mobility platform VMware HCX, which the company says is designed to “simplify workload migration, workload rebalancing, and optimize disaster recovery [DR] across datacenters and clouds.” The update introduces three key features to […]
Microsoft and Cisco Collaborate To Make Containerized Apps Easier
News Microsoft and Cisco Collaborate To Make Containerized Apps Easier By Wendy A. Hernandez 08/09/2019 Recently, Cisco Systems Inc. announced that it’s collaborating with Microsoft “to make it easier for customers to rapidly — and at scale — deploy and run containerized applications across both Cisco-based on-premises environments and Microsoft Azure.” This new partnership entails […]