VMware and Okta have partnered to combine identity management tools with a technology platform designed to help enterprise customers manage applications on laptops, tablets or smartphones. The partnership introduced two promotional offers for VMware Workspace ONE customers to avail of the Okta Identity Cloud via a local channel partner, Okta said Tuesday. Workspace ONE is an intelligence-based platform built to help […] More

VMware plans to build a microgrid at the company’s headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif., and test the system’s potential to generate renewable energy for the public and private sectors. The project will aim to provide necessary resources to facilitate emergency response operations in the area in the event of a power and fuel shortage, VMware said Thursday. […] More

Rob Sherry, senior director of federal health care at VMware, has shared lessons that he believes information technology professionals could learn from the Defense Department’s project to modernize the military electronic health records system, Fedscoop reported Tuesday. He told the publication in an interview IT leaders should help end users adapt to EHR system changes and […] More

Andy Jassy and Pat Gelsinger, respectively CEOs of Amazon Web Services  and VMware, announced at a recent industry event that both companies will debut a hybrid cloud service intended for government customers in the AWS GovCloud region by the end of 2019. Both executives spoke about the planned release of VMware Cloud on AWS and other joint offerings at the […] More

Dell Technologies‘ VMware subsidiary has agreed to buy a Dell EMC software suite designed to provide communication service providers with root cause analysis management and assurance tools as they launch services on existing and 5G networks. VMware said Thursday it will integrate the Dell EMC Service Assurance Suite offering into its network functions virtualization portfolio for the telecommunications sector, […] More

Science Applications International Corp. has received design certification under a VMware partnership program for software-defined data center technology. SAIC said Tuesday it deployed an “active-active” configuration of its SDDC architecture using VMware’s automated deployment toolkit. John Walsh III, senior vice president and general manager of SAIC’s information technology solutions market segment, said the partnership seeks to help customers address […] More

VMware and Amazon Web Services have unveiled a hybrid cloud service designed to help government agencies accelerate migration of applications to the cloud and securely manage workloads through a common infrastructure. VMware Cloud on AWS GovCloud (US) runs on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud bare-metal infrastructure and is equipped with VMware’s Cloud Foundation software-defined data […] More

Carahsoft Technology has received a public sector solution provider designation from Amazon Web Services and agreed to offer a hybrid cloud service from an AWS-VMware partnership to government agencies. The VMware Cloud on AWS offering is designed to help customers run information technology applications on a vSphere-based cloud environment, Carahsoft said Wednesday. Carahsoft President Craig Abod, a 2018 Wash100 […] More

Bill Rowan, vice president of federal sales at VMware, told MeriTalk in an interview published Tuesday that federal agencies should have an exit strategy that would enable them to transition applications from one cloud service provider to another in order to facilitate the migration process and minimize disruption. “Every time I move from one cloud to another, if […] More

Bill Rowan, vice president of federal sales at VMware, told MeriTalk in an interview published Wednesday that federal agencies that plan to migrate to the cloud should build a “zero-trust environment.” “In a cloud environment, there is a need to micro-segment a network, so every single app has its own individual set of firewalls, provisioning, […] More

Mercer Rowe, former vice president of strategic partners at IBM‘s Watson and cloud computing platforms, has been named senior VP and general manager of a newly formed cloud business at Avaya. He will oversee research, development and sales of public, private and hybrid cloud offerings in his new position, Avaya said Wednesday. Jim Chirico, president and CEO at […] More

A virtual server made by a Cubic Mission Solutions subsidiary has completed VMware-standardized compatibility tests and evaluations needed to be listed within the VMware Compatibility Guide. The DTECH Labs-made M3-SE-VSVR-P virtual server has been demonstrated to be compatible with the VMware’s vSphere ESXi 6.5 platform, Cubic said Wednesday. “We are very pleased our M3-SE-VSVR virtual server is now listed in the […] More