March 10, 2020 04:01 pm
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VMware Embraces Kubernetes in Its Biggest Product Blitz in a Decade
Hailing it as its most significant update to its vSphere virtualization manager in a decade, VMware today is overhauling its portfolio of products to include native support of the Kubernetes orchestration manager for software containers along with a host of new tools for shifting and managing applications across multiple on-premises and cloud infrastructure stacks. From a report: The announcement continues VMware's multiyear odyssey from a supplier of virtualization software for on-premises data centers to an enabler of cloud migration and multicloud management. It also showcases the rapid integration of several acquisitions the company made last year. VMware was once seen as a prime potential victim of containers, which are portable and self-contained software environments bundled with applications, but it has responded by embracing the technology and is now building the red-hot Kubernetes manager into its flagship platform. "In the early days of virtualization VMware was a layer that lived across multiple environments; they're looking now to do the same in the cloud," Stu Miniman, senior analyst at Wikibon, a sister research firm to SiliconANGLE, said.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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