VMworld

VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger at VMworld 2018

VMware rolls security into core with vSphere Platinum

August 28, 2018 Robert Dutt Comments Off

LAS VEGAS — Pat Gelsinger does not have a lot nice to say about the state of security. In his VMworld 2018 keynote here, VMware’s CEO called the state of security “broken today” because “the […]

VMware Canada country manager Sean Forkan

VMware on track for Canadian launch with AWS in first quarter 2019

August 28, 2018 Robert Dutt Comments Off

As it launches its VMware on AWS infrastructure offering Australia, VMware sets a target Canadian launch for the first quarter of 2019, and the Canadian team says the timing is ideal for market maturity and demand.

[…]

Dell EMC tinkers with cloud-enabled infrastructure solutions portfolio

August 28, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off

There were few – actually no – major Dell EMC new product announcements made around their cloud infrastructure portfolio at VMworld. There were a lot of little ones, however, as well as some overarching messaging about focus and strategy.

[…]

At VMware’s 20th birthday party, CEO Gelsinger plots company’s next act

August 28, 2018 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Kicking off VMworld in VMware’s 20th year, Pat Gelsinger outlines the company’s history of building bridges, and identifies the next bridge to cross.

[…]

ThinPrint launches new positioning initiative, expands VMware partnership

August 27, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off

ThinPrint adds a new Mobile Print solution for VMware Workspace ONE, as the company launches a new initiative designed to emphasize their broader vision and capabilities to customers.

[…]

IGEL sees strong momentum in IDC report showing Linux thin client growth

August 27, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off

IGEL will be demonstrating their software-defined endpoint computing solutions around two events this week, at the Open Source Summit in Vancouver, and right next to VMworld in Las Vegas, with the latter being something of a guerilla operation.

[…]

Canadian channel, customers, positioned to profit from VMware reorientation around cloud

September 15, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

Both VMworld 2017 events ramped up cloud offerings, infrastructure and designations, as VMware rebrands its image to customers around the cloud.

[…]

VMware shuffles channel execs to focus on strategy, operations

August 29, 2017 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Former VMware channel chief Ross Brown moves to building strategic partnerships, while Brandon Sweeney takes over day-to-day channel operations.

[…]

VMware Canada transitioning to “channel-first mindset”

August 29, 2017 Robert Dutt Comments Off

VMware Canada moves to get partner more involved in more sales, earlier in the process, as the longstanding “channel tax” is scrapped.

[…]

Komprise improves partner margins with launch of first channel program

August 25, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

Veteran channels leader Zach Edwards was brought in by Komprise to design the new program, and improve Komprise’s support to its channel, which is their entire route to market.

[…]

Tegile goes all-NVMe route with new N-Series

August 21, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

Tegile becomes the second vendor to announce an all-flash version around the generation of NVMe drives that is about to ship, with massive performance and latency improvements over existing product.

[…]

Independent but accelerated: Gelsinger, Dell discuss post-merger place for VMware

August 30, 2016 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Michael Dell and Pat Gelsinger weigh in on the benefits of VMware as part of the post-merger Dell family, stress ecossytem scale and downplay conflicts.

[…]

Ross Brown, senior vice president of partners and alliances for VMware

VMware sees momentum from deal reg, incentives changes

August 30, 2016 Robert Dutt Comments Off

VMware says partners are more engaged, selling more and more often after changes to deal registration and a shift on partner incentives.

[…]

Tegile Systems announces massively scalable IntelliFlash Cloud Platform

August 29, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

Tegile says its new scale-out platform, with flash prices starting at about 50 cents/GB, will make on-prem flash cheaper than the public cloud and thus give channel partners a powerful weapon.

[…]

Exablox expands partner primary flash storage opportunities with scale-out OneBlox 5210

August 25, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

Exablox unveils the OneBlox 5210, a scale-out low-cost flash product with object storage under the hood, that lists for $29,000 diskless, with 4 TB SSDs a further $2,000 each.

[…]

Raghu Raghuram, software-defined data centre chief at VMWare.

VMware continues its hyper-converged journey with EVO SDDC

September 4, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off

VMware’s new Evo SDDC spec takes its converged architecture play into the high end, aiming to simply create software-defined data centres.

[…]

Scott Millard, vice president of Americas channels at EMC.

EMC introduces Federation-wide cloud partner credential

September 3, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off

The new credential provides partners access to deploy the Federation Enterprise Hybrid Cloud, part of a push to create channel program alignment amongst Federation members.

[…]