VMware launched its two-day virtual VMworld conference on Tuesday. It also announced several updates to VMware’s long-running strategic partnership (AWS) with Amazon Web Services (VMW). The VMware Cloud on AWS service, which is a hybrid cloud effort between AWS/VMware, was launched four VMworlds back. Customers of VMware vSphere have the option to extend their on-premises…
Month: November 2022
VMware Inc. To Help Customers Use AWS and Other Public Clouds. Although VMware Inc. offers its own vCloud Air public clouds platform, VMware Inc. is creating a new service to assist customers using public cloud services such as Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), and platforms from Microsoft or IBM. VMware today announced a technology preview for Cross-Cloud Services, which was presented at the VMworld 2016 conference in Las Vegas. This “showcases how customers can manage and govern applications running in private or public clouds, including AWS Azure, IBM Cloud, and Azure.” Some industry pundits referred to this as VMware abandoning the public cloud space and ceding market share to the undisputed leaders. This is in contrast to continuing to invest in vCloud Air which is described as a secure public cloud platform that offers compute, storage and networking, as well as disaster recovery. VMware released a statement today saying that Cross-Cloud Services (SaaS) are new Software as a Service (SaaS), offerings that enable visibility into cloud usage, costs, improve consistency networking and security policies, automate the deployment, management and migration of applications across vSphere, non-vSphere, private, and public clouds. Central IT can create a common operating environment that supports both public clouds as well as on-premises workloads. This allows developers and businesses to freely choose the cloud they want, while protecting data and controlling costs. VMware announced that the Cross-Cloud Services, which were being shown at VMworld, include:
Discovery and analytics: Enable discovery, onboarding, governance and governance of public clouds applications. Security and compliance: Micro-segmentation is used to monitor and ensure security and compliance across all clouds. Deployment and Migration: This gives developers the ability cross-cloud work, and IT the ability cross-cloud to manage applications with security compliance and compliance. However, the company…
VMware Releases Its One-Time AWS-Killer
VMware’s recent partnership on public cloud with Amazon Web Services (AWS), seems to have opened the doors for the sale of its competitor platform. The virtualization giant announced Tuesday that it will be selling its hybrid cloud product, called vCloud Air. This is a sign that it has given up on its long-running attempt to…
VMware offers AWS Greengrass Appliance for IoT Edge Computing
VMware Inc. has unveiled a new appliance that brings analytics and serverless computing to edge devices. A preview of the Linux-based AWS Greengrass Core VM Appliance 0.5 is available. “It lets you run local computation, messaging, data cache, sync and machine learning inference capabilities, on connected devices, in a secure manner.” The offering uses the…
VMware Presents Multicloud Vision with AWS in Forefront
Related: VMware-AWS Hybrid Cloud Solution goes Live On Monday, VMware launched its annual VMworld conference with a series of announcements aimed to highlight its multicloud plans. However, it’s clear that the most talked about announcement was its partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS). VMware Cloud on AWS, a hybrid-cloud solution that has been in development…
SIOS provides high availability SQL Server Clusters on AWS
SIOS Technology Corp. launched services to simplify and accelerate the deployment of high-availability SQL Server clusters in Amazon Web Services Inc.’s (AWS) cloud. The SIOS DataKeeper Cluster Edition is now available on AWS Marketplace. It can also be downloaded as an AWS Quick Start. Quick Starts are automated reference deployments of key AWS workloads. They…
Significance of MITRE ATT&CK framework
MITRE corporation introduced ATT&CK in 2013. It describes the phases of an adversary’s attack cycle. ATT&CK stands for Adversarial Techniques, Common Knowledge and is abbreviated as Adversarial Tactics. This framework is a global knowledge base that categorizes adversarial attacks and compiles them into tactics and techniques. It provides security analysts, red teams, and the blue…
Facebook should have end-to–end encryption
As a privacy defender myself, I believe that conversations in digital media should be kept private and cannot be viewed or recorded by anyone else in any way. This is the core idea behind ‘end-to end encryption’. What is end-to–end encryption? “End-to end encryption” encrypts communication between sender and receiver, making it almost impossible for…
SharePoint Enterprise Lands On AWS Marketplace
SharePoint Enterprise, Microsoft’s jack-of all-trades software for common business functions is now available on Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS). AWS executive Jeff Barr wrote last week that SharePoint Enterprise was designed to meet the needs of many different sizes and types of organizations, including multinational enterprises. It supports custom apps, mobile applications, business intelligence, and…
Set up AWS WorkSpaces
In the last few years, more organizations have started replacing their physical desktops by virtual desktops. Although virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), was once considered prohibitive, technology has advanced to the point where VDI is practical and costs are comparable to physical desktops. The infrastructure costs are the biggest obstacle to virtual desktop deployments. VDI deployments…