During the recently concluded VMware Explore gathering in San Francisco, NetApp Inc. and VMware Inc. announced a partnership expansion that will include new customer-driven initiatives for migrating enterprise workloads to multicloud architectures. The partnership expansion followed many years of collaboration, a point that was noted during keynote presentations at the event by VMware executives. “It ...

One of the major changes at VMware Explore in August was the name itself. The event, previously known as VMworld, was rebranded in 2022 to reflect the company’s own transition from being a virtualization pioneer and developing the private cloud to what has become a multicloud universe. “It wasn’t just to come back to what ...

In the 1999 sci-fi action thriller “The Matrix,” one of the lead characters confronts a choice between taking a red pill to learn a life-changing truth about the future or a blue pill that will keep him in blissful ignorance. Google Cloud is extending the red pill/blue pill analogy to encompass a third option surrounding ...

Among the many questions surrounding VMware Explore this week was how the partnership between Dell Technologies Inc. and VMware Inc. would continue nearly one year after Dell divested VMware from the corporate family. According to executives from both firms, the partnership has remained strong, and the conference schedule provided testimony for that. “Here at VMware ...

We have already seen the “Great Resignation” when 47 million Americans voluntarily quit their jobs in 2021. In VMware Inc.’s view of the technology universe, 2022 will be the year of the “Great Replatforming.” At the VMware Explore gathering in San Francisco this week, Chief Executive Raghu Raghuram (pictured) appeared on the keynote stage and ...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is making a global push for supply chain security in its server line. Two years ago, HPE launched its Trusted Supply Chain initiative to advance end-to-end security in servers for U.S. federal and public sector customers. This month, HPE is announcing an expansion of this program globally for its ProLiant server ...

At a time when kids his age were playing Little League baseball or collecting marbles, Bassam Tabbara (pictured) was already a developer. He got his first computer as a child and started his own company at 14. “I started programming when I was nine,” said Tabbara, in an exclusive interview with SiliconANGLE Media. “I was immediately ...

When EMC Corp. acquired VMware Inc. for $625 million in 2004, it was also the first year of VMworld. So perhaps it is only fitting that on the first gathering of VMware Explore in San Francisco this month, an acquisition is again front-page news. The newly renamed event comes at a time when much of ...

Events of the past year have focused the security community on a shifting environment in which tech vulnerabilities are playing a role in warfare, DevOps and global finance. Examples of this new reality can be seen in the use of cyber weapons during the conflict between Ukraine and Russia, persistent vulnerabilities found in the use ...

The rise of supercloud has raised an intriguing question about the cloud market’s future: How will the major cloud providers react to having companies such as Snowflake Inc., Zscaler Inc. and Databricks Inc. building highly successful businesses on top of hyperscale platforms? On one hand, Amazon Web Services Inc. generates a handsome profit from its ...