Posts tagged "vmworld2016"

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VMworld US 2016 Buzz: My wrap up thoughts + a VMworld Hot or Not

Sep 20, 2016

I arrived at VMworld a little sceptical this year. So much is changing in IT, cloud and DevOps is actually delivering the promises of a better way to do things, I wasn’t sure VMware was up to the task of pivoting/extending beyond being the best VM hypervisor/management company around. I do see tons of things happening at VMware. Cloud native apps and container management are being worked on fur...

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VMworld US 2016 Buzz: An Industry Roadmap: From storage to data management - STO7903

Sep 14, 2016

_Adding some more colour to the highlights from my VMworld US 2016 coverage:_ Next up to another storage session with one of the fathers of VSAN, Christos Karamanolis, who is also a VMware Fellow, I’ve heard Christos speak a number of times and he’s very much worth listening to. Christos started reiterating that data provides tremendous business value potential with a huge uptick in the amount...

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VMworld US 2016 Buzz: Office of the CTO Stand: CLOVE: Congestion-Aware Load Balancing from the Virtual Edge

Sep 14, 2016

_Adding some more colour to the highlights from my VMworld US 2016 coverage:_ I made a point as I always do at VMworld to head to the VMware Office of the CTO booth to have a glimpse into the future. I spoke to Aditi Ghag. This is all about building a congestion aware, fine-grained, distributed network load balancer. This means as soon as the packet enters the network at the vSwitch or physical...

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VMworld US 2016 Buzz: Office of the CTO Stand: Corfu Distributed Shared Log

Sep 14, 2016

_Adding some more colour to the highlights from my VMworld US 2016 coverage:_ I made a point as I always do at VMworld to head to the VMware Office of the CTO booth to have a glimpse into the future. I had been to a session which I blogged about: ( so here are my notes from that: Michael Wei spoke about Corfu which is an open source distributed open scale platform. He went through how a typical...

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VMworld US 2016 Buzz: Office of the CTO Stand: Enabling vMotion with Passthrough SR-IOV Network Devices for Latency Sensitive Apps

Sep 14, 2016

_Adding some more colour to the highlights from my VMworld US 2016 coverage:_ I made a point as I always do at VMworld to head to the VMware Office of the CTO booth to have a glimpse into the future. I spoke to Xin Xu. Currently VMware has a number of features for allowing latency sensitive apps to have a more direct path to the hardware which obviously speeds things up. However this breaks som...

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VMworld US 2016 Buzz: Office of the CTO Stand: Exo-Clones: Better Container Storage Management Across the Clouds

Sep 14, 2016

_Adding some more colour to the highlights from my VMworld US 2016 coverage:_ I made a point as I always do at VMworld to head to the VMware Office of the CTO booth to have a glimpse into the future. I had had a look at the stand talking about Exo-Clones and then also attended a session by Christos Karamanolis, who is also a VMware Fellow, I blogged about the whole sessions: ( which covers more...

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VMworld US 2016 Buzz: Office of the CTO Stand: P4: Programmable Data Planes

Sep 14, 2016

I made a point as I always do at VMworld to head to the VMware Office of the CTO booth to have a glimpse into the future. I spoke to Mihau Budiu who also talked at a session which I blogged about: ( so here are my notes from that: Towards a programmable Internet Mihau talked about P4 (Programming Protocol Independent Packet Processors). I had heard about P4 on the ( (is that P3?). This is a pro...

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VMworld US 2016 Buzz: Open Source as a Critical Ingredient in Enterprise Computing - CTO9606-S

Sep 14, 2016

_Adding some more colour to the highlights from my VMworld US 2016 coverage:_ Dirk started by saying open source software drives the internet, the more you head towards the infrastructure, the more you find open source. Amazon, Google, Facebook etc. use open source as the base of their business, Yahoo runs on FreeBSD. The major companies that use the internet are also therefore the developers o...

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VMworld US 2016 Buzz: The Parties!

Sep 14, 2016

_Adding some more colour to the highlights from my VMworld US 2016 coverage:_ The VMworld parties are part of the experience, vendors and community get together to sell and socialise. Here are some of the parties I attended to get an idea of what’s happening out of the conference center. VMworld itself kicks off its sales side with the opening of the Solutions Exchange by a Welcome Reception, at...

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VMworld US 2016 Buzz: The Solutions Exchange

Sep 14, 2016

_Adding some more colour to the highlights from my VMworld US 2016 coverage:_ I didn’t actually spend as much time as I normally do in the Solutions Exchange this year. I didn’t have any burning questions for particular vendors or new lines or inquiry. I was super busy covering other things anyway. However I think I messed up and should have (somehow) made more time. I did walk through all the...

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