In a major show of industry collaboration, Deutsche Telekom has combined with AWS and VMware, plus Mavenir and Dell, to develop a global private 5G network and edge compute platform for enterprises. The new proof of concept is dubbed a “globally distributed enterprise network”, which bundles both global and private cellular connectivity from Deutsche Telekom, … Read more
How-To Running VMware Workstation on a Low-Cost Mini PC I ran some benchmarking tools on the ACEMAGIC AD15 Mini PC in a previous article. I found that it was very performant with its 8-core/16-thread Intel Core i7 11800H Processor. This led me to believe that VMware Workstation would perform very well on it. Workstation is … Read more
The rapid expansion of internet accessibility around the world means that many people now possess at least one edge device, fueling an unprecedented surge in data consumption. To effectively decipher the amount of information from these endpoints, there’s an imperative for a software-defined edge infrastructure. This infrastructure serves as the backbone for deploying applications capable … Read more
How to Pass Host Hardware Information to a VMware Workstation VM There are various reasons why you may want to reflect the actual hardware the VM is running on rather than as a VM; by adding these three lines to the VMware configuration file, you can easily reflect this. If you’ve followed my series of … Read more
How to Autostart VMware Workstation VMs In my series of articles on using VMware Workstation on an Intel NUC 13 Pro Desk Edition PC (starting here), I configured a half dozen or so virtual machines (VMs) as thin clients so I could use them for demonstrations and testing. It worked fine, but recently, Windows 11 … Read more
In my VMware Explore wrap-up post, one of my key takeaways was that the edge is the next big frontier for the company. Given that, I thought examining VMware Inc.’s vision of the edge a bit more closely made sense. The afternoon keynotes were highlighted by Sanjay Uppal, senior vice president and general manager for … Read more
VMware Inc has announced new capabilities, solutions, and services to help customers accelerate their digital transformation at edge. Enterprises and service providers alike are looking to edge for digital transformation. Edge deployments are proprietary integrations of custom hardware and software. They are giving way to the new software-defined edge that is intelligent, programmable, and scalable … Read more
eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. At the recent VMware Explore conference, a key focus was the emerging edge computing industry. VMware, best known as a data center company, has built a strong edge portfolio, enabling companies to run … Read more
VMware Explore played host to a lot of discourse on multicloud and artificial intelligence-related announcements filtering out from the company’s ecosystem. Equally important, however, are edge-related developments that stand to expand VMware Inc.’s operational model to cater to the increasing number of relevant verticals. “One of the underappreciated announcements here [that] flew under the radar a little was … Read more
Last year at VMware Explore, the xLabs team in the Office of the CTO introduced VMware Project Keswick, which showed how you can simplify edge workloads and device management by bringing zero-touch provisioning and GitOps best practices to your edge fleet. A VMware {code} session even showed how homes could be managed to monitor, control, … Read more