WMWorld 2016 Barcelona: IT-Online‘s Publisher Kathy Gibson joined VMworld 2016 to report on four full days of innovation designed to accelerate the business journey to a software-defined business, from mobile devices to the data center and the cloud. The industry’s top thought leaders, subject matter experts and IT professionals were immerse in the latest in cloud infrastructure and business mobility technology.
The future is bright for Africa …
Kathy Gibson reports from VMworld 2016 in Barcelona – African organisations will arguably see the greatest benefit from new technologies and services announced by VMware over the last few days. Matthew Kibby, regional director: sub-Saharan Africa at VMware, believes that the company’s move to embrace any cloud, any app and any device is particularly significant for customers in Africa and South Africa. Read more …
Why VMware Cloud on AWS is a big deal
Kathy Gibson reports from VMworld 2016 in Barcelona – The data centre has seen a lot of changes since VMware first commercialised virtualisation just a few years ago – and now the many benefits associated with those changes can be felt in the cloud as well. Virtualising the x86 server made such a massive difference to how data centres ran, their cost and manageability it was almost inevitable that virtualisation was extended to embrace storage and the networking environment as well. And now VMware is moving to virtualise the cloud too. Read more …
Cross-cloud ties IT environments together
Kathy Gibson reports from VMworld 2016 in Barcelona – Vmware has launched what it calls the next stage in the software-defined data centre (SDDC) journey, going one step beyond hybrid cloud with its Cross-Cloud Architecture. The Cross-Cloud Architecture brings compute, network and storage together, letting IT departments run, manage, connect and secure their applications across clouds and devices in a common operating environment. Read more …
Services assist with seamless cloud management
Kathy Gibson reports from VMworld 2016 in Barcelona – It’s just 10 years since cloud computing was first mooted as a commercial possibility, with one of its many selling points the fact that it relieves the user company from many of the tedious, time-consuming and expensive tasks associated with running their own data centres. But as companies increasingly turn to cloud for at least some of their computing needs, this benefit has proved to be a little elusive, says Guido Appenzeller, chief technology strategy officer: NSBU at VMware. Read more …