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VMware And Pivotal: What Would A Merger Mean For The Cloud Foundry/Kubernetes Debate

by Joseph Tsidulko

A leading Pivotal and VMware partner sees potential to bring closer together the competing platforms, and to expand market reach for both Pivotal Cloud Foundry and the Pivotal Container Service (PKS) joint project with VMware

Lenovo ThinkSystem Servers With AMD Cuts VMware Licensing Costs

by Mark Haranas

‘The fact that you can run as many cores in a single processor as you can with two processors from another manufacturer, that means you can cut down your licensing costs considerably,’ says Stefan Bockhop, executive director of channels for Lenovo’s North America Data Center Group.

VMware In Talks To Acquire Pivotal Software

by Joseph Tsidulko

The Cloud Foundry leader spun out of VMware and EMC several years ago. Now it may be reunited with the virtualization kingpin at a premium of 80 percent of its current share price.

Dell Technologies Cloud Takes Integration Complexity ‘Off The Table’

by Mark Haranas

‘We have a lot of momentum going on in terms of customer adoption of our Dell Technologies Cloud platform,’ says Brian Payne, vice president of Dell Technologies Cloud product management.

Oracle Exadata Creator Launches SaaS Backup ‘Disruptor’ Clumio

by Mark Haranas

‘From a complexity perspective, things get worse as enterprise customers move into a world of multi-cloud with Google Cloud Platform, Azure, AWS and VMware Cloud -- that was the reason why we started Clumio. We fundamentally believe that backup fits the proven model for SaaS,’ says Clumio CEO and co-founder Poojan Kumar.

AWS To Expand VMware Cloud On AWS Availability

by Donna Goodison

‘Our regional expansion has moved at a very, very fast pace,’ says Rima Olinger, AWS’ global alliance lead of VMware Cloud on AWS. ‘This is compared to what you see as single or two regions with other competitors. We are way ahead of the curve.’

Here's Who Made Gartner’s 2019 Magic Quadrant For Data Center Networking

by Mark Haranas

From Cisco and Juniper Networks to VMware and Arista Networks, here’s who made Gartner’s 2019 Magic Quadrant for Data Center Networks.

Michael Dell: 2008 Financial Crisis Delayed Dell EMC Merger

by Mark Haranas

Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell talks to CRN about the history and execution of his blockbuster $67 billion acquisition of EMC.

The 25 Most Influential Executives Of 2019

by CRN Staff

Here we present the 2019 class of the 25 Most Influential individuals in the technology industry.

CloudSimple: The Firm That Got VMware Workloads On Google, Azure Public Clouds

by Joseph F. Kovar

CloudSimple, the third-party developer of the technology that allows VMware workloads run natively on both Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure, wants customers to do with GCP and Azure what they can already do on AWS using VMware Cloud on AWS.

VMware’s Former Storage R&D Boss Is HPE’s New Hybrid IT CTO

by Mark Haranas

BlueData’s former CEO and co-founder will take over the CTO reigns for Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s Hybrid IT business unit.

VMware, Google Partner: VMware Cloud Foundation To Run On GCP

by Joseph F. Kovar

While the new Google Cloud VMware Solution by CloudSimple seems similar to the integration of VMware workloads on Amazon Web Services via VMware Cloud for AWS, the focus is on a single partner, CloudSimple, in which Microsoft has an equity stake.

VMware’s Bitfusion And Uhana AI Acquisitions: 5 Things To Know

by Mark Haranas

VMware’s acquisition tear continued this month with the acquisitions of startups Bitfusion and Uhana. Here are five things you need to know about VMware’s M&A strategy.

The 10 Coolest Open Source Software Tools of 2019 (so far)

by Joseph Tsidulko

CRN breaks down the top 10 coolest open source software tools so far in 2019.

10 Biggest VMware Stories Of 2019 (So Far)

by Mark Haranas

From bold acquisitions to blockbuster integrations, here are the ten biggest VMware stories of 2019 so far.