VMware hasn’t been sitting on its hands while waiting for Broadcom to buy it: it has spent the past couple of years planning a move on the data services market.
As explained to The Register by Christos Karamanolis, a VMware fellow and boss of anything to do with data and storage, Virtzilla has observed growing diversity of the data-centric workloads run on its platform. While relational databases still dominate, object stores, caches, data warehouses, data lakes, and document stores have…