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VMware: We're building one of the biggest SDN deployments in the industry

VMware hopes to make the networking components of its soon-to-be-released vCloud Hybrid Service one of its biggest selling points, and in doing so the company plans to build one the largest software-defined networking (SDN) deployments in the industry.

By Brandon Butler | 11 June, 2013 20:07

Tags: Cloud networking, Amazon cloud networking, VMware cloud networking, Cloud, VMware cloud, cloud computing, internet, VMware, LAN & WAN, Amazon Cloud, SDN
Public cloud shakeup: VMware in, Dell out, and OpenStack in limbo?

It's been a busy week in the cloud. Dell ditched plans to build its own cloud and instead will work with partners, while focusing on private clouds. In an opposite move, VMware revealed its plans for how it will compete in the public cloud market.

By Brandon Butler | 24 May, 2013 18:12

Tags: Amazon Web Services, Dell cloud, VMware cloud, hitachi, cloud computing, internet, VMware, Amazon Cloud, Dell, hitachi data systems, Google, OpenStack cloud, Cloud, Cloudscaling, Joyent
VMware launches network-savvy cloud service

VMware has launched its long-anticipated public infrastructure as a service (IaaS), touting its virtual networking capabilities as a differentiator from other established hybrid cloud offerings.

By Joab Jackson | 21 May, 2013 19:16

Tags: cloud computing, internet, Infrastructure services, VMware
Dell dumps OpenStack and VMware for public cloud, focuses on private clouds

Dell has dramatically shifted its cloud computing strategy, canceling plans it once had to launch a public cloud service based on the OpenStack open source platform, and discontinuing a VMware-based public cloud it already has on the market.

By Brandon Butler | 20 May, 2013 22:19

Tags: Dell, Dell cloud, Cloud, OpenStack cloud, VMware cloud, cloud computing, internet, OpenStack, VMware
How VMware will try to shake up the Cloud market this week

There have been rumors and speculation. There have been whispers and rumblings. But this week VMware is expected to release details about its plans to launch a public Ccloud offering, the central part of its new hybrid Cloud strategy.

By Brandon Butler | 20 May, 2013 16:17

Tags: Amazon Web Services, VMware public cloud, Microsoft, Cloud, VMware cloud, cloud computing, internet, vCloud Director clouds, VMware, rackspace, Google

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Tutorials about VMware

5 excellent uses of Windows 8 Hyper-V

Windows 8's bare-metal virtualization layer is a great way to create an app sandbox, run a test machine, launch a VHD appliance, and more

By Serdar Yegulalp | 05 December, 2012 11:16

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Windows 8, Microsoft, Microsoft Hyper-V, Windows, virtual desktop, software, operating systems, VMware, virtualization

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Features about VMware

Dual persona smartphones non grata at Starz

Among several BYOD strategies Starz has tried over the past five years, dual persona smartphones -- offering employees a business and personal interface -- took off like a lead balloon.

By Lucas Mearian | 04 June, 2013 10:18

Tags: consumer electronics, Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), Mobile device management, smartphones, mobile, IT management, VMware, consumerization of IT, Blackberry
IT's new concern: The personal Cloud

As personal and professional Clouds converge, IT's mission to improve productivity while protecting corporate apps and data is getting tougher.

By Robert L. Mitchell | 20 May, 2013 10:14

Tags: consumerization of IT, dropbox, private cloud, IT management, cloud computing, internet, VMware
Amazon's biggest competitor in the Cloud: Salesforce.com?

Who is Amazon's biggest competitor in the cloud?

By Brandon Butler | 04 April, 2013 20:11

Tags: Amazon Web Services, Salesforce.com cloud, Salesforce cloud, Salesforce.com, cloud computing, internet, OpenStack, VMware, rackspace, Amazon Cloud, Google, Microsoft, WD, Cloud, Joyent
13 events that defined Cisco's 2012

From software defined networking challenges to killing Cius and corporate restricting moves, it was a busy year for Cisco.

By Jim Duffy | 12 December, 2012 17:58

Tags: year-end 2012, Linksys, Networking, Cius, Application Control Engine, John Chambers, VMware, LAN & WAN, emc, Cisco software, Cisco Systems, SDN, cisco
Cloud computing showdown: Amazon vs. Rackspace (OpenStack) vs. Microsoft vs. Google

It wouldn't be a mischaracterization to equate the cloud computing industry to the wild, wild west.

By Brandon Butler | 03 December, 2012 13:14

Tags: amazon, Amazon vs. Rackspace, Google Cloud, Amazon vs. Google, Microsoft cloud, cloud computing, internet, Amazon Cloud, Apple, catalyst, Gartner, microsoft azure, Google, vs. Google, Cloud, OpenStack, VMware

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Whitepapers about VMware

Securing the Promise of Virtualisation

For today’s enterprise, this whitepaper identifies three general areas of risk associated with risk; those that are traditionally areas of risk, the hazards that are exclusive to virtualisation and the more recent set of risks that are associated with newly formed hybrid environments. Read more to find out how to keep pace with evolving threats, quicker provisioning and dynamically mobile workloads.
Securing the Promise of Virtualisation
Changing the Game for Anti-Virus in the Virtual Datacentre
Agentless Security for Virtual Environments