Hybrid Cloud

AWS promotes itself as alternative to its own VMware service

Why? Maybe because it looks likely VMw Cloud on Amazon is changing

PaaS + IaaS03 May 2024 | 6

VMware by Broadcom blinks again – this time easing change for cloud service providers

As the rumor mill whispers about a breakup with AWS

Virtualization01 May 2024 | 16

VMware by Broadcom offers a lifeline to small cloud service providers

Exclusive 'White label' program also means retaining customers

Virtualization19 Mar 2024 | 12

Microsoft brings its cloudy virtual desktops on-prem to AzureStack HCI

Just in time to cash in on VMware and Citrix uncertainty

Virtualization06 Feb 2024 | 4

Broadcom halves subscription price for VMware's flagship hybrid cloud suite

+Comment Also kills perpetual licenses, adds a vSphere bundle for smaller users

Virtualization12 Dec 2023 | 17

HPE starts Hybrid Cloud push, will herd users into GreenLake subs service

Unit aims to 'take share in storage, scale private cloud, and expand into infrastructure software'

On-Prem25 Oct 2023 |

It's 2023, so Lenovo made a bendy smartphone concept all about hybrid cloud AI

Had to kiss Nvidia's ring to make its vision real

Off-Prem25 Oct 2023 | 16

Here’s how VMware hopes to spend $1B Broadcom R&D budget boost

Explore Some of it will go to get you upgrading more often, other cash might smooth internal dev conflict

Virtualization24 Aug 2023 | 9

Oracle shrinks its on-prem cloud into a single rack

Big Red rigs start at 552 fourth-gen EPYC cores and 150TB storage, can scale to 6,624 cores and 3.4PB

On-Prem11 Aug 2023 | 1

AWS teases mysterious mil-spec 'Snowblade' server

Hybrid cloud hardware capable of running 208 vCPUs and a handful of cloud services while living on the edge

On-Prem07 Jun 2023 | 12

Dell pulls storage, PCs, and compute into Apex ITaaS platform – a little late

Dell World Continues feeding the hybrid cloud monster

Channel23 May 2023 |

IBM teases AI-infused hybrid cloudy upgrade to z/OS - Bingo!

Mainframes dating back to 2017 can run forthcoming OS, which has something for everyone – even COBOL coders

Systems01 Mar 2023 | 10

Meet the new Citrix, same as the old Citrix – but hybrid

First public word on 'new' direction reveals focus on core technologies and 'a ton of hiring' to modernize them a bit

Software16 Feb 2023 | 10

Microsoft's AI habit comes to data governance tool Purview

You're a high-risk worker who wants access to that file? Computer says no

Applications07 Feb 2023 | 3

Hybrid multi-cloud is a mess to clean up, not an innovation to excite

Opinion We really should have known better than to end up with siloed applications on different platforms

Off-Prem23 Dec 2022 | 11

VMware adds subscription version of basic vSphere for server consolidation

Why, when standard version costs a mere $1,349? Cloudy multi-premises management, perhaps

Virtualization15 Dec 2022 | 8

It would take a 'catastrophic' recession to stop tech spend growth, says IBM boss

Tells Economic Club of New York no one he knows is trimming IT budgets

Off-Prem18 Nov 2022 | 21

AWS adds bare metal support to EKS Anywhere

And throws some cold water on the 'K8s works best inside a VM' argument

On-Prem01 Jul 2022 | 3

VMware reveals vSphere-as-a-service – but not the price

Cloudy vSphere+ can manage multiple on-prem environments but not VMw-powered public clouds … for now

Virtualization28 Jun 2022 | 5

AWS launches fresh challenges to on-prem hardware vendors

Offers alternative to vanilla servers and recruits world's biggest tech distributors to push hybrid storage appliance

Off-Prem02 Jun 2022 | 4

Patch your VMware gear now – or yank it out, Uncle Sam tells federal agencies

Critical authentication bypass revealed, older flaws under active attack

CSO19 May 2022 | 6

AWS fixes strange clunks in its on-prem data-crunchers

Snowball Edge devices needed annual recertification holidays and required LAN-based management

Edge + IoT28 Apr 2022 | 1

VMware says server sprawl is back, and SmartNICs are the solution

More details emerge about 'Project Monterey' and its role driving infrastructure workloads into hybrid clouds

Virtualization27 Apr 2022 | 3

Containers may be more effective than VMs for hybrid apps – Gartner

Sure, licensing is a mess. Packaging, distribution in good shape, tho

Virtualization22 Mar 2022 | 7

General Dynamics bags $4.5bn hybrid cloud deal with US spy sat agency

Ten-year deal goes ahead after rival Leidos withdraws bid protest

On-Prem21 Mar 2022 |

IBM investors staged 2021 revolt over exec pay

Former Red Hat boss Jim Whitehurst's $22.5m share award got shareholders all steamed up, documents confirm

On-Prem09 Mar 2022 | 12

Nutanix sees hardware availability driving software sales

We found some servers? Quick: buy some software!

Systems03 Mar 2022 |

Nutanix reshuffles product portfolio into bigger bundles

Plan calls for this to end in tiers

Storage15 Feb 2022 | 2

Citrix says benefits are safe for staff – except maybe visa holders

Internal letter reveals detailed strategy for combining with TIBCO can wait until deal is done

Software10 Feb 2022 | 7

IBM confirms new mainframe to arrive 'late in first half of 2022'

Hybrid cloud is Big Blue's big bet, but big iron is predicted to bring a welcome revenue boost

HPC25 Jan 2022 | 35

Nutanix, VMware end legal fight over CEO Rajiv Ramaswami

Now they can get back to arguing about computers and clouds

Virtualization02 Dec 2021 |

Cisco tells UCS owners they may have a screw loose – in the server chassis

Power supplies are screwed up because they're not all screwed in

Systems01 Dec 2021 | 8

HPE campaigns against 'cloud first' push in UK public sector

Comment Because HPE does not do public cloud? No, no, it is 'for the good'

PaaS + IaaS24 Sep 2021 | 31

Cisco suggests multi-SaaS integration and a hypervisor alternative as the path to happy hybrid clouds

Also tries to bust blades out of the box with new UCS-X series

Off-Prem02 Jun 2021 |

AWS ECS Anywhere goes live. Is it worth the Amazon fee?

Amazon's container service running on-premises: a turnaround for a company that once scorned hybrid cloud

On-Prem01 Jun 2021 | 12

IBM teases new AIX release – the first since 2015

And guess what? Version 7.3 will emphasise hybrid cloud in line with new CEO Arvind Krishna's wishes

On-Prem24 Feb 2021 | 9

Nutanix, VMware are fighting again – yet it's just a sideshow. Why? Look at the giant predators circling

Comment It won't settle anything in the hybrid cloud market

PaaS + IaaS06 Jan 2021 |

AWS has just shown its new hybrid cloud ambitions make it an even broader threat

Comment While also making it harder to label dedicated and skilled sysadmins as recalcitrant box-huggers

SaaS03 Dec 2020 | 2

Cluster-struck Nutanix bares all for new AWS alliance

Catching up on elastic and hybrid options, but not for cloudy first-timers

On-Prem11 Aug 2020 | 2

AWS makes cloudy Outposts available across more of Asia

India, Malaysia, Taiwan and Thailand can now bring the Amazonian cloud on-prem

SaaS25 Jun 2020 |

VMware completes the native hybrid hyperscale set as Google turns on managed vSphere

As IBM becomes only cloud partner permitted to use Virtzilla's special subscription licence scrip

SaaS15 May 2020 | 1

Nutanix issues solid Q3 preview but also yanks mid-term targets

'A new company will emerge from this pandemic' says CEO

On-Prem06 May 2020 | 2

Microsoft teases more hybrid VMware-on-Azure action

For now, you get a preview of the official Azure VMware Solution to play with and a promise of availability in H2 2020

SaaS05 May 2020 |

Alibaba takes VMware where AWS and Microsoft don't – behind the Great Firewall

Only in China ‘for the moment’ which leaves the world to conquer

SaaS30 Apr 2020 |

Red Hat’s new CEO on surviving inside Big Blue: 'We don’t participate in IBM's culture. It’s that simple'

Interview Paul Cormier talks hybrid cloud growth and independence with El Reg

Software30 Apr 2020 | 44

Google and Cisco, sitting in a (spanning) tree, cloud N-E-T-W-O-R-K-I-N-G

Borg SD-WANS can now drive Chocolate Factory virty cloud networks and the workloads therein

Networks22 Apr 2020 | 2

AWS announces new single-purpose on-prem hardware and tie-in storage tier

Cloud colossus has gone very niche with video-shifter

SaaS21 Apr 2020 | 4

AWS rolls faster and more secure Snowballs

Identity and access management comes to movable edge

Storage17 Apr 2020 | 2

New IBM CEO Arvind Krishna says hybrid cloud will be bigger than mainframes, services, middleware

First day letter to staff calls for ‘maniacal focus’, OpenShift dominance and client love

SaaS07 Apr 2020 | 16

It's all about the returns: NetApp shutters certain EMEA offices and lays off staff

You and me baby ain't nothing but mammals, so let's do it like they do 'n' route tech sales through the channel

Storage30 Apr 2019 | 8

HPE has an idea about where you should stick your workloads... Ouch. No, definitely not there

In-house or in the cloud? Right Mix Advisor will tell you

On-Prem20 Mar 2019 |

IT bods, beware! AWS claims Storage Gateway appliance doesn't need you to manage it

And I heard a great voice saying: Behold, the hybrid tabernacle is with men

Storage19 Sep 2018 | 5

AWS launches on-premises EC2 instances for reverse hybrid cloud

They’ll run on the Snowball Edge data transfer device, which packs a Xeon D

SaaS18 Jul 2018 | 5

Hybrid cloud's no fun, can't get nothing done – will Rubrik make you whole again?

That data-management-for-everything software segment's getting crowded

Storage13 Jun 2018 | 2

Red Hat's CloudForms to slum it by wrangling boring old VMs

Life's suite for hybrid infrastructure running under new RHV update

Virtualization17 May 2018 | 2

VMware's cloud migration play beams down whole data centres

As Virtzilla-on-AWS lands in London and heads for the world

Virtualization07 Mar 2018 | 3