“I thought future:net was the smartest of the networking conferences I’ve attended this year. The speakers were excellent — especially the customer and end-user stories, which provided valuable insight…it reminded me a lot of the first years of the Open Network Summit — the brain trust of the industry would attend, and that made it Read more...
Several years ago, the CEO of a Fortune 100 company remarked: “If you went to bed last night as an industrial company, you’re going to wake up this morning as a software and analytics company.” Today, these words are more true than ever—but so is the reality that the digital transformation in business has also Read more...
Digital transformation is a top business initiative for CIO’s. What does it really mean for IT and how does it impact the business itself? In this post, we will try to cover some of the basics. Digital transformation is a fundamental change to an organization’s product development and product delivery process to deliver a highly Read more...
This past week at VMware has been quite exciting! Pat Gelsinger, VMware CEO, reported on the Q4 2016 earnings call that VMware NSX has more than 2,400 customers exiting 2016. Today, we continue that momentum by announcing new releases of our two different VMware NSX platforms – VMware NSX™ for vSphere® 6.3 and VMware NSX-T Read more...
Last week VMware hosted its Q4 2016 earnings call and shared financial results. VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger and the executive team have frequently highlighted VMware NSX growth and success on these calls. For Q4, NSX license bookings grew over 50 percent year-over-year. Annualizing our Q4 total bookings for NSX, it is now at a $1B Read more...
Across industries, the race is on to digital transformation. It’s all about business innovation and redefinition. The transformations are huge: Tesla isn’t just a car manufacturer; it’s a software business that makes cars. CITI is a software business that makes loans. GE is a software business that makes industrial equipment. Register for this VMworld 2016 Read more...
I’m very excited that I get the opportunity to report on another exceptional quarter for VMware NSX. As a company, we’re demonstrating that NSX will be an important growth driver for the foreseeable future. We added more than 200 new NSX customers in the quarter, and have more than 120 customers that have spent more Read more...
I’d like to share some personal news with you, industry watchers and fans of VMware’s network virtualization offering. As network virtualization starts to mature, and it has, I have thought hard about how best to participate in the broader movement of infrastructure to software and services that I believe so strongly in. Having spent the Read more...
Last week, we spoke at the RSA Conference about a new concept in security – the Goldilocks zone. With the help of Art Coviello, Executive Chairman of RSA, Chris Young, senior vice president and GM of Cisco’s Security business unit, and Lee Klarich, senior vice president of product management from Palo Alto Networks, we departed Read more...
This afternoon, VMware announced Q4 2013 and FY2013 earnings. The results can be found here in our earnings press release. During the earnings call, we provided an update on VMware NSX momentum which we want to share with you. In the fourth quarter, we delivered VMware NSX, our network virtualization platform, which we believe will Read more...
