VMware Placing Its Bets

It has been a historic and transformational year for VMware as the virtualization leader doubles down on multi-cloud solutions, Amazon Web Services and Dell EMC technology synergies, and reinvents flagship platforms like NSX.

VMware has posted three straight quarters of solid growth this year thanks to launching some new next-generation tools and a technology roadmap that customers are buying into. Leading the charge through all of this is VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger, who CRN ranked No. 1 in its Top 100 Executives of 2018. "You know, a short 38-year career in technology and I'll tell you – I have never been as fired up as I am now," said Gelsinger during his keynote at Dell Technologies World 2018.

Here are ten of the coolest and biggest VMware tools and updates this year that you need to know.