Communication service providers (CSPs) and Data networks face numerous challenges today. With broadband and mobile data traffic having grown at an exorbitant rate in the past decade, and real time content/video taking the largest market share*, consumers’ appetite for wireless content and mobile data is pushing CSP networks to a crisis point. At the same […]

Introduction This article will explain how the NSX-T components are backed-up and restored in case of a disaster. The procedure is pretty straight forward, but there are a few gotchas that you need to keep in mind before you can restore a backup. Backing-up the NSX-T Manager Cluster General backup procedure: Go to the backup page […]

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” – Alan Kay These words were echoed by Pat Gelsinger, VMware’s CEO, during the closing keynote at RADIO 2019 in May. That is what RADIO is all about: a glimpse into the future, a celebration of innovation, and most importantly, a testament to our […]

Today at Red Hat Summit, VMware and Red Hat announced mutual support for OpenShift 3.11 on VMware software-defined data center (SDDC) technologies, along with a mutually hosted reference architecture that details integration of all core VMware SDDC components—VMware vSAN, NSX-T and vSphere—with Red Hat OpenShift. In addition, we also plan to release a VMware Validated […]

Welcome to the VMware OCTO Application Platforms Team Blog Today we are releasing an Application Platforms OCTO Position Paper Brief Overview of the paper… We often meet customers that have migrated to the public cloud only to later determine that some of their critical legacy application patterns have transitioned to a public cloud implementation, and they […]

Chris Wolf and Daniel Beveridge, VMware Office of the CTO Cloud is increasingly evolving from a place, to an operating model. While we can and should embrace cloud computing, there are a few use cases where it’s simply more efficient to run a cloud service adjacent to where data is created or consumed, rather than […]

I used to write an annual blog post on my networking predictions for the year ahead, but it seems that I dropped the ball (as it were) at the end of 2017. My last effort — predicting the rise of SD-WAN, expansion of network virtualization outside the data center, and the importance of networking for […]