Cisco, Nutanix, and Pure Storage challenge VMware with validated infrastructure offering independent scaling, unified management, and no vendor lock-in.

VMware on Monday announced plans for a new VMware Infrastructure release that will be available in the fourth quarter. The release was described by Bogomil Balkansky, senior director of product ...

Pure Storage seems to be everywhere in its market, and it is continuously pushing boundaries—in a good way. At this week’s VMware Explore event (still known as VMWorld to me) in Las Vegas, the company ...

Carlos Soto is an award-winning reviewer and journalist with 20 years of experience covering technology and business within various sectors and industries. Virtualization software makes up the ...

VMware has admitted overly conservative guidance based on synthetic testing caused the company to over-spec its storage servers for years. New telemetry data shows real-world vSAN ESA clusters ...

Shared storage hardware is commonplace in larger organizations, but smaller ones typically can't justify the expense. But shared storage is required for many core virtualization features, including ...

Channel sources close to VMware say the company is planning to embed a version of EMC's Avamar backup software into its vSphere virtualization and cloud platform, a move that would breach the ...

VMware vSphere 4 Enterprise Edition's thin-provisioning capability allows virtual machines to share disk-space allocation with other virtual machines. Configuring virtual machine instances with thin ...

Key among the announcements made at VMware Explore 2022 was the launch of version 8 of vSphere and vSAN. With that backdrop, ComputerWeekly.com’s French sister website, LeMagIT, met with John ...

VMware is rounding out its new “software-defined data center” strategy with the acquisition of virtual storage company Virsto Software. “We believe that by extending the benefits of virtualization to ...

When VMware launched its latest virtualization platform, vSphere, it introduced the phrase “cloud operating system” to the IT industry. With the prior version, VMware Infrastructure 3.5, it was easy ...