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Where Does VMware Go NextVMWorld Europe was held last week in Barcelona We saw the release ofvSphere 65 plus a suite of other products and enhancements to the coreplatform There was also the announcement of a partnership with AWS whichhad many (including myself) scratching their heads as to exactly what it meant So where is VMware headed Core Focus
One thing that has become apparent is VMwares focus on a core set of futureproducts that they see as being the revenue growth areas for the future Theseinclude NSX (virtualised networkingsecurity) and Virtual SAN (storage) I thinkthe networking piece is reasonably clear (although the challenge is how todeliver value for customers other than those at scale) but what about storage
VMware are pushing forward with Virtual SAN now providing the ability to useVirtual SAN resources outiside a vSphere cluster This may be a reaction toother vendors like Nutanix (who offered this feature earlier in the year) but itdoes start to encroach on the market of their parent company Dell-EMC
How confusing is that VMware wants you to ditch the storage array EMC andDell wants you to buy more Wheres the cutoff between the two Whenshould customers move from Virtual SAN to dedicated array - and moreimportant - who will tell them - VMware or EMC The Challenge of Containers
Unfortunately VMware is being attacked on all sides including the irresistiblemove towards containerisation Sometimes described as virtualisation litecontainers are more akin to running started tasks and batch jobs on themainframe A container is really just a collection of processes running anapplication within a number of isolation wrappers that implement multi-tenancyHowever for VMware they are a potential existential threat
Containers run on bare metal or potentially within a VM Certain aspects ofcontainers are still very immature including networking and storage Thenetworking pieces are being addressed and storage has made some advancestoo with the ability to use persistent storage and external arrays
The big problem however is the speed of development for the containerinitiative Docker CoreOS Rancher Labs and others are turning out newsoftware and features with rapid regularity - much faster than VMware aremanaging to achieve VMware Integrated Containers and the Photon platformhave taken an age to become GA (and are not there yet) Many customersmay see these as a cumbersome overhead to running a container ecosystemCase in point is the new VMware Kubernetes as a service offering End usersmay simply deploy Kubernetes themselves seeing no benefit to attaching moresoftware (and licensing) around what they have today The Bigger Challenge of Public Cloud
The bigger challenge though will come in the form of the public cloud VMwarehas chosen to embrace rather than compete in this area through newpartnerships with IBM (Softlayer) and AWS But isnt this just delaying theinevitable The new VMware on AWS offering runs vSphere on bare metalnot nested within AWS which perhaps provides some level of isolation from theAWS core features However over time customers will adapt to the opexmodel and surely try out AWS features like EC2 S3 and RDS - if they havent
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already VMware appears to making it easy for their customers to move awayto public cloud Bold Statements
Dell acquiring EMC was a bold statement EMC acquiring VMware was a boldmove that paid off big time Perhaps its time for VMware to acquire the likes ofDocker and make their own bold statement Server virtualisation has beenmassively successful VMware needs to move into the next emerging marketand make a play to own that one too in a market thats moving inexorably to ahybrid model
What do you think
Chris Evans
New Architecting IT Blog PostsFocus on High Performance NAS (21 October 2016)Peak VMware (18 October 2016)SNIA Has High Hopes for Swordfish (17 October 2016)Cloud Will Not Consume IT - Apparently (12 October 2016)Cache or Tier - Does it Matter (11 October 2016)
Other Blog PostsTop 5 Docker Questions from Microsoft Ignite (Docker blog 7 October2016)Avere Systems Announces New Complete Storage Solution (GeekFluentblog 20 September 2016)Demystifying Docker overlay networking (Nigel Poulton 12 October 2016)Storage product development is getting worse (Jukuit blog 18 October2016)Whats the Deal with Containers (Stephen Foskett Pack Rat 21October 2016)
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News Worth ReadingClick on the links to read the full story
Boston Business Journal Dell wins $30M settlement from EMC rival in patentnon-compete fight
A chief rival of EMC Corp has agreed to pay Dell Technologies $30 million tosettle legal disputes between EMC and the company that started years beforethe Dell-EMC merger The settlement agreement puts an end to a flurry ofclaims between EMC andPure Storage (NYSE PTSG) a California-based datastorage company related to Pure Storagersquos hiring of more than 40 EMCemployees
VentureBeat Google launches Coldline and multi-region cloud storage cutsprices for single-region tier
Google is announcing today new storage tiers available from the Google Cloudand specifically from the Google Cloud Platform Now customers can chooseto have Google automatically store their data in multiple geographicallydispersed data centers with the new Multi-Regional Storage tier which costs26 cents per gigabyte of data
The Register VMware waves white flag vSphere vRealize VSAN dock withDocker
VMworld Europe Containers are docking at this weeks VMworldEurope Barcelona shindig ndash with VMware supporting containers in its computestorage and management product set (vSphere VSAN and vRealize) forproduction use
The Next Platform Raising The Standard For Storage Memory Fabrics
People tend to obsess about processing when it comes to system design butultimately an application and its data lives in memory and anything that canimprove the capacity throughput and latency of memory will make all the
1
processing you throw at it result in useful work rather than wasted clockcycles
Ars Technica Transistor with a 1nm gate size is the worlds smallest
Conventional silicon-based electronics are rapidly approaching a fundamentalbarrier Below about five nanometers quantum effects make their behaviorunpredictable Thats led to research into alternative materials such as carbonnanotubes Now a large collaboration has taken a different materialmdashmolybdenum disulfide or MoS2mdashand used its distinctive properties to craft a
transistor that has a gate size of just one nanometer
The New Stack Container Camp UK Some Best Practices for ContinuousSecurity
While containers provide the base for the enterprises to move to a DevOps-style software development workflow enterprises are still wary of the securityimplications around the emerging technology At the Container Camp UK thisSeptember Red Hat Chief Technologist Chris Van Tuin offered some tips inmaintaining continuous security right alongside continuous development andintegration
Channel Register IBMs focus on cloud and software isnt novel - its survival
IBM believes it is closer than ever to returning to overall revenue growth for thefirst time in more than four years Thats looking at the whole picture thoughwhile cloud and software are pulling in the right direction the corporate goliathsremaining hardware operations are still looking pretty grim
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VMware are pushing forward with Virtual SAN now providing the ability to useVirtual SAN resources outiside a vSphere cluster This may be a reaction toother vendors like Nutanix (who offered this feature earlier in the year) but itdoes start to encroach on the market of their parent company Dell-EMC
How confusing is that VMware wants you to ditch the storage array EMC andDell wants you to buy more Wheres the cutoff between the two Whenshould customers move from Virtual SAN to dedicated array - and moreimportant - who will tell them - VMware or EMC The Challenge of Containers
Unfortunately VMware is being attacked on all sides including the irresistiblemove towards containerisation Sometimes described as virtualisation litecontainers are more akin to running started tasks and batch jobs on themainframe A container is really just a collection of processes running anapplication within a number of isolation wrappers that implement multi-tenancyHowever for VMware they are a potential existential threat
Containers run on bare metal or potentially within a VM Certain aspects ofcontainers are still very immature including networking and storage Thenetworking pieces are being addressed and storage has made some advancestoo with the ability to use persistent storage and external arrays
The big problem however is the speed of development for the containerinitiative Docker CoreOS Rancher Labs and others are turning out newsoftware and features with rapid regularity - much faster than VMware aremanaging to achieve VMware Integrated Containers and the Photon platformhave taken an age to become GA (and are not there yet) Many customersmay see these as a cumbersome overhead to running a container ecosystemCase in point is the new VMware Kubernetes as a service offering End usersmay simply deploy Kubernetes themselves seeing no benefit to attaching moresoftware (and licensing) around what they have today The Bigger Challenge of Public Cloud
The bigger challenge though will come in the form of the public cloud VMwarehas chosen to embrace rather than compete in this area through newpartnerships with IBM (Softlayer) and AWS But isnt this just delaying theinevitable The new VMware on AWS offering runs vSphere on bare metalnot nested within AWS which perhaps provides some level of isolation from theAWS core features However over time customers will adapt to the opexmodel and surely try out AWS features like EC2 S3 and RDS - if they havent
1
already VMware appears to making it easy for their customers to move awayto public cloud Bold Statements
Dell acquiring EMC was a bold statement EMC acquiring VMware was a boldmove that paid off big time Perhaps its time for VMware to acquire the likes ofDocker and make their own bold statement Server virtualisation has beenmassively successful VMware needs to move into the next emerging marketand make a play to own that one too in a market thats moving inexorably to ahybrid model
What do you think
Chris Evans
New Architecting IT Blog PostsFocus on High Performance NAS (21 October 2016)Peak VMware (18 October 2016)SNIA Has High Hopes for Swordfish (17 October 2016)Cloud Will Not Consume IT - Apparently (12 October 2016)Cache or Tier - Does it Matter (11 October 2016)
Other Blog PostsTop 5 Docker Questions from Microsoft Ignite (Docker blog 7 October2016)Avere Systems Announces New Complete Storage Solution (GeekFluentblog 20 September 2016)Demystifying Docker overlay networking (Nigel Poulton 12 October 2016)Storage product development is getting worse (Jukuit blog 18 October2016)Whats the Deal with Containers (Stephen Foskett Pack Rat 21October 2016)
1
News Worth ReadingClick on the links to read the full story
Boston Business Journal Dell wins $30M settlement from EMC rival in patentnon-compete fight
A chief rival of EMC Corp has agreed to pay Dell Technologies $30 million tosettle legal disputes between EMC and the company that started years beforethe Dell-EMC merger The settlement agreement puts an end to a flurry ofclaims between EMC andPure Storage (NYSE PTSG) a California-based datastorage company related to Pure Storagersquos hiring of more than 40 EMCemployees
VentureBeat Google launches Coldline and multi-region cloud storage cutsprices for single-region tier
Google is announcing today new storage tiers available from the Google Cloudand specifically from the Google Cloud Platform Now customers can chooseto have Google automatically store their data in multiple geographicallydispersed data centers with the new Multi-Regional Storage tier which costs26 cents per gigabyte of data
The Register VMware waves white flag vSphere vRealize VSAN dock withDocker
VMworld Europe Containers are docking at this weeks VMworldEurope Barcelona shindig ndash with VMware supporting containers in its computestorage and management product set (vSphere VSAN and vRealize) forproduction use
The Next Platform Raising The Standard For Storage Memory Fabrics
People tend to obsess about processing when it comes to system design butultimately an application and its data lives in memory and anything that canimprove the capacity throughput and latency of memory will make all the
1
processing you throw at it result in useful work rather than wasted clockcycles
Ars Technica Transistor with a 1nm gate size is the worlds smallest
Conventional silicon-based electronics are rapidly approaching a fundamentalbarrier Below about five nanometers quantum effects make their behaviorunpredictable Thats led to research into alternative materials such as carbonnanotubes Now a large collaboration has taken a different materialmdashmolybdenum disulfide or MoS2mdashand used its distinctive properties to craft a
transistor that has a gate size of just one nanometer
The New Stack Container Camp UK Some Best Practices for ContinuousSecurity
While containers provide the base for the enterprises to move to a DevOps-style software development workflow enterprises are still wary of the securityimplications around the emerging technology At the Container Camp UK thisSeptember Red Hat Chief Technologist Chris Van Tuin offered some tips inmaintaining continuous security right alongside continuous development andintegration
Channel Register IBMs focus on cloud and software isnt novel - its survival
IBM believes it is closer than ever to returning to overall revenue growth for thefirst time in more than four years Thats looking at the whole picture thoughwhile cloud and software are pulling in the right direction the corporate goliathsremaining hardware operations are still looking pretty grim
Were interested in your feedback Is there anything you would like to seecovered in these newsletters or on the blog Do you have an opinion on any ofthe content Just hit reply to this email or continue the conversation onlinearchitectingit on Twitter or via Linkedin
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already VMware appears to making it easy for their customers to move awayto public cloud Bold Statements
Dell acquiring EMC was a bold statement EMC acquiring VMware was a boldmove that paid off big time Perhaps its time for VMware to acquire the likes ofDocker and make their own bold statement Server virtualisation has beenmassively successful VMware needs to move into the next emerging marketand make a play to own that one too in a market thats moving inexorably to ahybrid model
What do you think
Chris Evans
New Architecting IT Blog PostsFocus on High Performance NAS (21 October 2016)Peak VMware (18 October 2016)SNIA Has High Hopes for Swordfish (17 October 2016)Cloud Will Not Consume IT - Apparently (12 October 2016)Cache or Tier - Does it Matter (11 October 2016)
Other Blog PostsTop 5 Docker Questions from Microsoft Ignite (Docker blog 7 October2016)Avere Systems Announces New Complete Storage Solution (GeekFluentblog 20 September 2016)Demystifying Docker overlay networking (Nigel Poulton 12 October 2016)Storage product development is getting worse (Jukuit blog 18 October2016)Whats the Deal with Containers (Stephen Foskett Pack Rat 21October 2016)
1
News Worth ReadingClick on the links to read the full story
Boston Business Journal Dell wins $30M settlement from EMC rival in patentnon-compete fight
A chief rival of EMC Corp has agreed to pay Dell Technologies $30 million tosettle legal disputes between EMC and the company that started years beforethe Dell-EMC merger The settlement agreement puts an end to a flurry ofclaims between EMC andPure Storage (NYSE PTSG) a California-based datastorage company related to Pure Storagersquos hiring of more than 40 EMCemployees
VentureBeat Google launches Coldline and multi-region cloud storage cutsprices for single-region tier
Google is announcing today new storage tiers available from the Google Cloudand specifically from the Google Cloud Platform Now customers can chooseto have Google automatically store their data in multiple geographicallydispersed data centers with the new Multi-Regional Storage tier which costs26 cents per gigabyte of data
The Register VMware waves white flag vSphere vRealize VSAN dock withDocker
VMworld Europe Containers are docking at this weeks VMworldEurope Barcelona shindig ndash with VMware supporting containers in its computestorage and management product set (vSphere VSAN and vRealize) forproduction use
The Next Platform Raising The Standard For Storage Memory Fabrics
People tend to obsess about processing when it comes to system design butultimately an application and its data lives in memory and anything that canimprove the capacity throughput and latency of memory will make all the
1
processing you throw at it result in useful work rather than wasted clockcycles
Ars Technica Transistor with a 1nm gate size is the worlds smallest
Conventional silicon-based electronics are rapidly approaching a fundamentalbarrier Below about five nanometers quantum effects make their behaviorunpredictable Thats led to research into alternative materials such as carbonnanotubes Now a large collaboration has taken a different materialmdashmolybdenum disulfide or MoS2mdashand used its distinctive properties to craft a
transistor that has a gate size of just one nanometer
The New Stack Container Camp UK Some Best Practices for ContinuousSecurity
While containers provide the base for the enterprises to move to a DevOps-style software development workflow enterprises are still wary of the securityimplications around the emerging technology At the Container Camp UK thisSeptember Red Hat Chief Technologist Chris Van Tuin offered some tips inmaintaining continuous security right alongside continuous development andintegration
Channel Register IBMs focus on cloud and software isnt novel - its survival
IBM believes it is closer than ever to returning to overall revenue growth for thefirst time in more than four years Thats looking at the whole picture thoughwhile cloud and software are pulling in the right direction the corporate goliathsremaining hardware operations are still looking pretty grim
Were interested in your feedback Is there anything you would like to seecovered in these newsletters or on the blog Do you have an opinion on any ofthe content Just hit reply to this email or continue the conversation onlinearchitectingit on Twitter or via Linkedin
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News Worth ReadingClick on the links to read the full story
Boston Business Journal Dell wins $30M settlement from EMC rival in patentnon-compete fight
A chief rival of EMC Corp has agreed to pay Dell Technologies $30 million tosettle legal disputes between EMC and the company that started years beforethe Dell-EMC merger The settlement agreement puts an end to a flurry ofclaims between EMC andPure Storage (NYSE PTSG) a California-based datastorage company related to Pure Storagersquos hiring of more than 40 EMCemployees
VentureBeat Google launches Coldline and multi-region cloud storage cutsprices for single-region tier
Google is announcing today new storage tiers available from the Google Cloudand specifically from the Google Cloud Platform Now customers can chooseto have Google automatically store their data in multiple geographicallydispersed data centers with the new Multi-Regional Storage tier which costs26 cents per gigabyte of data
The Register VMware waves white flag vSphere vRealize VSAN dock withDocker
VMworld Europe Containers are docking at this weeks VMworldEurope Barcelona shindig ndash with VMware supporting containers in its computestorage and management product set (vSphere VSAN and vRealize) forproduction use
The Next Platform Raising The Standard For Storage Memory Fabrics
People tend to obsess about processing when it comes to system design butultimately an application and its data lives in memory and anything that canimprove the capacity throughput and latency of memory will make all the
1
processing you throw at it result in useful work rather than wasted clockcycles
Ars Technica Transistor with a 1nm gate size is the worlds smallest
Conventional silicon-based electronics are rapidly approaching a fundamentalbarrier Below about five nanometers quantum effects make their behaviorunpredictable Thats led to research into alternative materials such as carbonnanotubes Now a large collaboration has taken a different materialmdashmolybdenum disulfide or MoS2mdashand used its distinctive properties to craft a
transistor that has a gate size of just one nanometer
The New Stack Container Camp UK Some Best Practices for ContinuousSecurity
While containers provide the base for the enterprises to move to a DevOps-style software development workflow enterprises are still wary of the securityimplications around the emerging technology At the Container Camp UK thisSeptember Red Hat Chief Technologist Chris Van Tuin offered some tips inmaintaining continuous security right alongside continuous development andintegration
Channel Register IBMs focus on cloud and software isnt novel - its survival
IBM believes it is closer than ever to returning to overall revenue growth for thefirst time in more than four years Thats looking at the whole picture thoughwhile cloud and software are pulling in the right direction the corporate goliathsremaining hardware operations are still looking pretty grim
Were interested in your feedback Is there anything you would like to seecovered in these newsletters or on the blog Do you have an opinion on any ofthe content Just hit reply to this email or continue the conversation onlinearchitectingit on Twitter or via Linkedin
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processing you throw at it result in useful work rather than wasted clockcycles
Ars Technica Transistor with a 1nm gate size is the worlds smallest
Conventional silicon-based electronics are rapidly approaching a fundamentalbarrier Below about five nanometers quantum effects make their behaviorunpredictable Thats led to research into alternative materials such as carbonnanotubes Now a large collaboration has taken a different materialmdashmolybdenum disulfide or MoS2mdashand used its distinctive properties to craft a
transistor that has a gate size of just one nanometer
The New Stack Container Camp UK Some Best Practices for ContinuousSecurity
While containers provide the base for the enterprises to move to a DevOps-style software development workflow enterprises are still wary of the securityimplications around the emerging technology At the Container Camp UK thisSeptember Red Hat Chief Technologist Chris Van Tuin offered some tips inmaintaining continuous security right alongside continuous development andintegration
Channel Register IBMs focus on cloud and software isnt novel - its survival
IBM believes it is closer than ever to returning to overall revenue growth for thefirst time in more than four years Thats looking at the whole picture thoughwhile cloud and software are pulling in the right direction the corporate goliathsremaining hardware operations are still looking pretty grim
Were interested in your feedback Is there anything you would like to seecovered in these newsletters or on the blog Do you have an opinion on any ofthe content Just hit reply to this email or continue the conversation onlinearchitectingit on Twitter or via Linkedin
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