VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

Dell Technologies and Microsoft are collaborating to deliver a joint Internet of Things (IoT) solution designed to help vertical customers simplify deploying their end-to-end IoT solutions, from the edge to the cloud. The combination of Microsoft Azure IoT applications and services, VMware Pulse IoT Center and Dell Edge Gateways will offer customers streamlined management, centralized monitoring and security from devices to the cloud. Together, Dell Technologies and Microsoft will make IoT easier for customers by delivering a secure solution that provides consistent infrastructure management from the edge to the cloud. The joint solution offers an underlying IoT infrastructure, management capabilities and security for customers looking to deploy IoT for scenarios like predictive maintenance, supply chain visibility and other use cases. The solution will deliver.... Read More

VMware announced the appointment of Ramkumar Narayanan as the Vice President and Managing Site Director, India. In his new role, Ramkumar will be heading VMware’s R&D Center in India. Niranjan Maka, Vice President (Global Sites R&D and IoT Engineering) said, “We are delighted to have Ram onboard the VMware team. He is an experienced engineering and business leader in data-driven digital product innovation spanning global enterprise and consumer industries. His extensive experience in product development, product management and product marketing will bring tremendous value to our R&D efforts. As an engineering industry veteran with experience as technology advisor to large and small enterprises he will play a crucial role in driving VMware India’s innovation and growth in the years to come.” Based out of Bangalore, Ramkumar Narayanan is a global leader focusing on data driven, digital product innovation spanning consumer and enterprise markets. Before joining...

Vodafone Group has agreed to a software licensing arrangement with VMware that will enable it to access a range of the technology vendor’s products. As part of that agreement, VMware will be one of the vendors to support the operator’s global rollout of Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) to accelerate its delivery of future products and services in a rapid, cost-efficient manner. Vodafone will deploy VMware vCloud NFV as part of its group-wide transformation program utilizing NFV and software-defined networking technologies across applications and networks. Vodafone will also receive Carrier-Grade Support, a new VMware offering to support the implementation of new software.... Read More

VMware has announced that it will become the first unified endpoint management (UEM) provider with full Chrome device management capabilities. VMware Workspace ONE, a digital workspace platform powered by VMware AirWatch UEM technology, will enable customers to unify management of Chrome devices alongside all other endpoints from a single console.  “The consumerization of the enterprise has left IT managing multiple operating systems on a variety of devices – some provided by the business and others brought in by employees. As Chrome OS continues to gain momentum, our customers are eager to manage these devices consistently along with all other endpoints including mobile devices. Using Workspace ONE, our customers will be able to securely manage the lifecycle of Chromebooks along with all their other endpoints giving them better security and a consistent user experience across all devices,” said Sumit Dhawan, Senior Vice-President and General Manager, End-User Computing, VM...

Kaspersky Lab  has announced it has extended the company’s collaboration with VMware to help enhance security capabilities of today’s software-defined data centers. Kaspersky Lab, a VMware TAP Elite partner, now joins the VMware NSX PartnerProgram to further improve protection of business-critical data for enterprises. Upon shipping the newest release of Kaspersky Security for Virtualization, this expanded relationship will give mutual customers the ability to deploy cutting-edge virtualized platforms for business critical workloads, empowered by a security solution which easily follows all infrastructure and network topology changes to defend the entire organization and its infrastructure from external and internal threats as well as from known or unknown vulnerabilities.... Read More

VMware has announced its intention to acquire Arkin Net, a software-defined data center security and operations company. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. The transaction is expected to close in Q2 2016. “Arkin is a great fit for VMware and its customers as we look to accelerate our growth businesses including cloud management and network virtualization. With VMware NSX combined with Arkin and vRealize, VMware will deliver the security and operations management plane for the SDDC. Over time, Arkin will solidify vRealize Suite’s position as the industry’s most comprehensive Cloud Management Platform that delivers application-focussed operations, NSX micro-segmentation at scale and cross-domain visibility and context across physical and logical infrastructure,” said Ajay Singh, Senior Vice-President & General Manager, Cloud Management Business Unit, VMware... Read More

Brocade and VMware have been selected by SmartSky Networks to build a cutting-edge air-to-ground broadband network. Brocade and VMware will be deploying network functions virtualization (NFV) solutions for high-speed and in-flight connectivity. SmartSky is deploying the Brocade Virtual Evolved Packet Core (vEPC) running on VMware vCloud NFV to implement a new network, connecting more than 250 cell sites strategically placed across the continental U.S. SmartSky’s air-to-ground network will provide airborne users with online experiences comparable with those in an office or at home. The combined NFV solution from Brocade and VMware enables SmartSky to take a software-defined approach to network infrastructure that is more agile, flexible and cost-effective than a hardware-based approach... Read more

EMC has added new solutions to its portfolio which has been designed to enable Indian businesses to take the leap towards a modern data center. The new VMAX All Flash is an all-flash storage array to natively support block, file, open systems and mainframe with the ability to scale up to 4PB of data. More than just improving raw performance, VMAX All Flash arrays build on the legendary reliability and flexibility of the VMAX platform. EMC is extending VMAX data services to VMAX All Flash, complete with a dramatically simplified management experience. Its appliance-based packaging now includes both hardware and software and its maintenance pricing is flat for the life of the ... Read more

To facilitate enterprises to take better advantage of Cloud,  IBM and VMware have inked a strategic partnership. This partnership will help customers to extend their existing workloads, as they are, from their on-premises software-defined data center to the cloud. “This partnership, an extension of our 14-year plus relationship with IBM, demonstrates a shared vision that will help enterprise customers more quickly and easily embrace the hybrid cloud. Our customers will be able to efficiently and securely deploy their proven software-defined solutions with sophisticated workload automation to take advantage of the flexibility and cost effectiveness of IBM Cloud ,” said Pat Gelsinger, Chief Executive Officer, VMware ... Read more

To help customers to readily address the most common use cases that have been identified by the company, VMware has revolutionized its cloud management platform with the introduction of VMware vRealize Suite 7 . It features new releases like VMware vRealize Operations and VMware vRealize Log Insight along with VMware vRealize Automation 7 and VMware vRealize Business for Cloud 7. “VMware is focussed on delivering an enterprise-ready hybrid cloud management platform to help our customers gain a major competitive edge as a digital business. VMware vRealize Suite 7 is designed to meet our customers’ strict requirements for day-one service provisioning and day-two operations of applications and infrastructure across multiple private and public cloud environments,” said Ajay Singh, Senior Vice-President & General Manager, Management Suites Business Unit, VMware ... See more :  http://www.varindia.com/vmware-enhances-its-cloud-management-platform/

VMware has introduced redefined advancements in VMware Horizon to deliver unparalleled speed in delivering personalized virtual applications and desktops, while offering cloud economics and a new cloud-optimized display protocol. A new hybrid-mode capability will be available in VMware Horizon Air to simplify application and desktop delivery by combining the benefits of hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) and Virtual SAN Ready Nodes with a single, cloud-based plane to manage on-premises and cloud deployments. With these advancements, VMware Horizon will offer the industry’s most comprehensive application and desktop virtualization portfolio with options for on-premises, off-premises or hybrid deployments... Read more

With the new launch of VMware Virtual SAN , the company has redefined its enterprise-proven, hyper-converged software portfolio. VMware is one of the most important players in hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) software with 3,000 customers in 21 months. The redefined software consists of VMware vSphere , Virtual SAN and vCenter Server transforms x86 servers and direct-attached storage into simple and robust HCI systems. It helps the organizations to reduce IT costs and management complexity while achieving breakthrough performance.  In conjunction with its expansive partner ecosystem, VMware offers its hyper-converged software on the broadest set of consumption options from turnkey HCI appliances developed jointly by VMware and EMC to certified platforms in the form of VMware Virtual SAN-Ready Nodes available from... For More Details

To address the end-user and enterprise IT business mobility needs, VMware has launched a new platform – Workspace ONE – for delivering secure digital workspaces for flexible workstyles and bring your own device (BYOD). The new platform is based on the principles of consumer simple and enterprise security. “In the mobile cloud era, employees, devices, applications and data increasingly live beyond the physical walls of the workplace, the data center, or the network. Digital enterprises are struggling to deliver a unified digital workspace due to disjointed technology and teams. We are proud to be the first to bring together identity, device management and application delivery on a single integrated platform so business can be conducted by mobile end-users regardless of platform, location, device or application,” said Sanjay Poonen, Executive Vice President & General Manager, End-User Computing, VMware . .. Read more

VMware is planning to acquire Boxer, a privately-held company that offers a comprehensive and secure personal information management (PIM) solution for mobile devices to businesses and consumers. The proliferation of applications, devices and an increasingly mobile workforce has driven up the cost and complexity of managing end-users. Access to mobile email is essential for employees who need to work on the go. However, corporate email often contains sensitive data and documents. It is important that companies have a strategy for productivity and social collaboration applications keeps data secure while providing an intuitive experience for end-users. Boxer enables secure synchronization and use of native and third-party productivity applications (email, calendar, tasks and contacts) and enterprise social collaboration tools (Salesforce, Box, Evernote, etc) across mobile devices and platforms (iOS and Android)... Raed more

VMware has announced new network functions virtualization (NFV) offerings to help communications services providers (CSPs) accelerate their implementation of NFV. The announcement includes the general availability of the VMware vCloud NFV platform, a new VMware Ready for NFV accreditation program and new carrier-grade services delivered by VMware and VMware partners. “A common platform approach supports a sustainable business model and is the only approach that breaks the linear connection between growth and cost, freeing operators to innovate at speed and scale,” said Michael Kennedy, Principal Analyst, ACG Research. “The low-cost NFV nodes of the common platform and ability to produce sustained labour productivity and asset efficiency gains are shown to achieve payback in under a year and produce more than .... Read more

At VMworld 2015, VMware has announced new innovations for the company’s unified hybrid cloud platform. These new public cloud services and software-defined solutions will enable customers to build applications faster, improve IT security, rapidly recover from disasters and drive meaningful business value. Raghu Raghuram, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Software-Defined Data Center Division, VMware, said, “Digital business transformation is creating new opportunities and new risks across every industry. Applications are the fuel of this digital business transformation. With our One Cloud, Any Application, Any Device strategy and our unified hybrid cloud platform, VMware is empowering the next wave of industry leaders to deliver applications with the stability, security and reliability of an enterprise, while allowing organizations to innovate with.” Read more

To empower enterprise IT operations teams to deliver containers in production on-premises and on VMware’s public cloud and VMware vCloud Air, VMware has introduced two new technology previews – VMware vSphere Integrated Containers and VMware Photon Platform. VMware is expanding its cloud-native technology portfolio with two new projects that promise to improve the developer experience for building applications using container technology while addressing enterprise IT requirements. VMware’s cloud-native technology portfolio is being designed to meet IT requirements across security and isolation, service-level agreements, data persistence, networking services and management... Read more

VMware has announced new End-User Computing innovations for universal application delivery and device management to help organizations transform business processes and deliver a more user- and application-centric experience. VMware End-User Computing solutions help customers bridge from the traditional world of client-server technologies to the new world of mobile-cloud technologies that deliver greater agility, seamless access across user devices and enhanced security. Moreover, with the expertise to help businesses accelerate the upgrade to Microsoft Windows 10 and achieve business mobility, VMware End-User Computing solutions will deliver consumer-grade simplicity, platform heterogeneity and accelerated application delivery for unified endpoint management. “A fundamental technology shift is under way as organizations seek to embrace and capitalize on business mobility. The opportunity for transformative change is massive, and VMware is innovating like never before. Our indust...

VMware has announced VMware EVO SDDC and VMware Virtual SAN 6.1. Serving as the foundation of VMware’s Unified Hybrid Cloud platform, the software-defined data center extends the virtualization principles of abstraction, pooling and automation across all data center resources and services. By extending virtualization across the data center, IT organizations can slash CAPEX by as much as 49 per cent, while reducing deployment and provisioning time from days to hours. VMware EVO SDDC will include foundational components of VMware’s hyper-converged infrastructure-VMware vSphere, VMware Virtual SAN and VMware NSX, which will enable the convergence of compute, storage and networking onto a single, integrated layer of software that can run on any commodity x86 infrastructure... Read more

VMware has announced a comprehensive solution to support Windows 10. Customers upgrading to Windows 10 can take advantage of the management, transition and app delivery tools provided by the VMware Workspace Suite, which includes AirWatch Enterprise Mobility Management, VMware Horizon, VMware Identity Manager and VMware Horizon FLEX. As the vast majority (96 per cent) of enterprises surveyed plan to use internal resources and existing staff to upgrade, according to a July 2015 TechValidate study commissioned by VMware, VMware supports the Windows 10 platform by providing tools internal IT departments need to help manage devices, deliver all application types and activate the new features introduced in Windows 10. VMware solutions are purpose-built to support customers embracing business mobility and updating to Windows 10, while continuing to support earlier Windows versions. vmware logo 300x300 VMware announces comprehensive solution to support Windows 10Windows 10 promises to ...