{"id":4601,"date":"2012-11-14T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2012\/nov\/14\/vmware-begins-a-new-phase-in-its-evolution\/"},"modified":"2012-11-14T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T17:00:00","slug":"vmware-begins-a-new-phase-in-its-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/vmware-begins-a-new-phase-in-its-evolution\/","title":{"rendered":"VMware begins a new phase in its evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Roy Illsley, Principal Analyst, IT Software<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>VMware has been the force behind many of the server infrastructure virtualisation transformations that have taken place in the data centre over the last decade.<\/p>\n<p>The infrastructure virtualization market is now reaching maturity, with about 50% of x86 data centres now virtualised, and VMware needed to extend its solutions to expand beyond server virtualization.<\/p>\n<p>At VMWorld 2012 Europe, more than 8,000 delegates witnessed the shift in emphasis as VMware&rsquo;s new CEO, Pat Gelsinger, announced the company&rsquo;s move to become a heterogeneous data centre and cloud management vendor.<\/p>\n<p>The other key announcement, following on from VMWorld US where VMware released the tools needed to build the software-defined data center (SDDC), was the move to provide the management tools needed to operationalize the SDDC. VMware also signaled a change in approach to end-user computing, focusing on the management and governance of applications &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Roy Illsley, Principal Analyst, IT Software<br \/>\nVMware has been the force behind many of the server infrastructure virtualisation transformations that have taken place in the data centre over the last decade.<br \/>\nThe infrastructure virtualization market is &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}