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Docker Containerd Explained in Plain Words

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Authored by Massimo Re Ferre, Technical Product Manager for Cloud Native Apps I have been frequently asked “what’s [Docker] Containerd?” The short answer I gave may be of benefit for the larger community so I am turning this into a short blog post. I hope the condensed format is useful. Background: What’s the Problem Docker Read more...

Photon Platform v1.1 is Now Available for Download on Github

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Authored by James Zabala, Principal Architect and Product Lead for Photon Platform Today we’re excited to announce the release of Photon Platform v1.1! This is our fourth major release in 2016 and marks a major milestone in our concerted effort to build a true container-focused cloud platform. Download the bits on Github. Photon Platform is an Read more...

New Networking and Cloud Native Apps Hands-on Labs Released!

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VMware Hands-On Lab (HOL) by Dave Rollins Today we are releasing the reaming network and Cloud Native Apps labs in 2017 Hands-on Labs catalog.  While we have already released the HOL-1703 and HOL-1725 series of NSX based content, today’s labs focus on VMware Integrated OpenStack and Partner solutions from Check Point and Trend Micro. These Read more...

VMware Photon Platform: The Private Cloud for Developers

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Authored by Jared Rosoff, Chief Technologist Cloud-Native Applications Over the past few years our customers have been asking us how they can get the developer productivity and agility of the public cloud, but with the cost, security, and control of their private data center. Photon Platform, which we are announcing today at VMworld Barcelona, delivers Read more...

Cloud Native Apps: State of the Union – CNA7739-GD

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Authored by Emad Benjamin, Principal Architect, Global Services Advanced Architecture The room for this session was packed in Las Vegas, and boy did people come armed with their questions. It was great to see attendees for multiple companies who are paying attention to the Cloud Native Apps (CNA) space.  Now, we promised that what was discussed in Vegas would Read more...

Delivering Containers as a Service with Photon Platform

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Authored by Mark Peek, Principal Engineer, Cloud-Native Applications Technologies such as PaaS and containers are making developers increasingly more efficient at delivering their code into production. The tooling around continuous integration and continuous deployment is reducing the time it takes to safely push code through the delivery pipeline. Earlier this year we announced the Pivotal-VMware Read more...

Pivotal and VMware: The Lowdown on the High Up

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Authored by Alka Gupta, Senior Global Technical Alliance Manager Digital era is upon us. Every business is challenged by new innovations, whether it’s new products like Tesla, new business models like venmo or new user experiences like Uber. Customers and end users are expecting businesses to provide experiences that are personalized, localized, mobilized and responsive to their demands Read more...

VMworld Barcelona Pro Tips and Tricks

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Authored by Ryan Kelly, Staff Systems Engineer, Cloud Management We are just weeks away from VMworld’s 2016 Europe Conference in beautiful Barcelona Spain. This year will be my 5th year attending the Europe conference in Barcelona and I have learned a few things I want to share with all of you. I have actually been Read more...