VMware Moves Beyond Legacy Systems to Center of Multi-Cloud World

LAS VEGAS—Just a few years ago VMware was counted out as a legacy technology provider that was being overrun by Docker containers and declared a non-player in the cloud after famously selling off vCloud Air. Today things are much different since VMware is back at the center of the cloud picture—that is the fast-evolving multi-cloud concept and all that it entails, including private, hybrid and public clouds, Software as a Service, edge computing, and IoT environments. Patience has paid off for the company, which sowed the seeds over the last few years, with NSX network virtualization, VSAN software-defined storage, improvements to vSphere compute and vRealize management and automation tools, which have come together to create a fabric that can manage workloads across computing environments. VMworld 2018 here, VMware announced updates to those products along with a vision for how it is working to bind them into a universal control plane for multi-cloud computing.