Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is enhancing its block storage and hardware capabilities within the Alletra MP Storage platform, which supports block, object, and file storage and is managed through GreenLake. Alletra now has the ability to scale up to 5.6 petabytes of NVMe capacity by adding more JBOF shelves. Additionally, HPE has introduced a subscription … Read more
Broadcom CEO Hock Tan this week publicized some concessions aimed at helping customers and partners ease into VMware’s recent business model changes. Tan reiterated that the controversial changes, like the end of perpetual licensing, aren’t going away. But amid questioning from antitrust officials in the European Union (EU), Tan announced that the company has already … Read more
Broadcom has blinked, and made a couple of changes to support VMware customers who don’t want to move to its new software bundle subscriptions. In a Monday post, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan restated his belief that VMware’s portfolio was too complex, and too poorly integrated, for the virtualization giant to represent true competition for hyperscale … Read more
VMware customers with perpetual licenses will still be supported. Broadcom CEO Hock Tan says the changed policy is in response to feedback from customers. Shortly after Broadcom acquired VMware in November 2023, it quickly became apparent that the move to subscription-only licenses was imminent. Perpetual licenses, where the software is purchased once and comes with … Read more
The Broadcom acquisition of VMware has been used as a moment for rivals to encourage partners and customers to consider alternatives. That process is continuing, despite Broadcom talking up the positives of the move, with the channel being encouraged to get into a position where it has options to put in front of customers. Against … Read more
VMware has added a large language model (LLM), available in beta, that it has trained to bring generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to the Tanzu platform, along with extensions to agent software based on the company’s machine learning algorithms to now make it simpler to set up the VMware Tanzu GemFire Vector DB Extension that … Read more
Work changed. Yes there was a pandemic and we all moved to embrace virtual remote working technologies (spoiler alert: some of us were doing that already) and started to worry about what our Zoom (other video collaboration technologies are also available) cameras were showing on the shelves behind us. But work has changed more fundamentally … Read more
VMware Explore 2023 Will Townsend This year, the VMware Explore 2023 world tour kicked off in Las Vegas, with regional conferences planned for Barcelona, Singapore, Sao Paulo and Tokyo later this fall. There were a handful of announcements that I found compelling at the U.S. event, and I would like to share my insights. In … Read more