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VMware Gets Closer To The Cloud At VMworld 2017

The recently held VMworld 2017 event in Las Vegas witnessed several groundbreaking announcements. The company' s premier customer and ecosystem conference is held bi-annually, one in the states and one in Europe, and it covers the latest developments in the world of virtualization and cloud computing. The attendees comprised 20,000+ tech enthusiasts.

The event kicked off with welcome address of VMware' s CEO Pat Gelsinger. He asserted his gratitude for being able to serve as CEO. After briefly mentioning about the Hudson floods, he went on to say that with technology in the modern age, science fiction is quickly becoming scientific fact. Gelsinger emphasized that the biggest change that society has undergone recently be in expectations and perspective.

He emphasized that VMware is not trying to bring back old jobs, it is trying to automate them away to create new, higher value roles for people in changing industries. He spoke of the shift in the tech industry first towards centralization, with the cloud, and now back towards decentralization with the intelligent edge, and IoT.

Gelsinger also reminded about VMware’ s Pulse set of IoT technologies, which was announced earlier this year at Dell EMC World. It is a feature set aside for factories, smart cities, etc. VMware’ s alignment with Fujitsu had opened spheres to work with Toyota&mdash bringing the beta version of Pulse IoT technologies to next-gen autonomous vehicles.

Another announcement from VMworld was that Fujitsu is planning on packaging VMware cloud solutions with K5, the company’ s own Cloud Service. Eventually, two companies are also planning to extend solutions to VMware’ s cloud infrastructure platform, VMware Cloud Foundation (comprised of VMware’ s vSphere software-defined compute, vSAN storage, and NSX network and security services).

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