VMworld 2014 News and Insta-Analysis: VMware Doubles Down on the Cloud — forbes.com

As VMware lifts the curtain on its annual festival to virtualization, cloud and the myriad ways software is eating the data center, for an event that’s become a milestone on the annual tech calendar where IT managers and sysadmins rub shoulders with industry executives, analysts and entrepreneurs, its clear the VMware will not be left behind as the cloud dramatically reshapes IT strategies and operations. Today at VMworld 2014, the company continued its evolution from a purveyor of hypervisors and systems management software to a provider of a full spectrum of cloud infrastructure software and services by opening with the expected enhancements to its core vCloud management software and NSX virtual networking product. It went on to announce a marketing exercise designed to simplify branding and sales by bundling and renaming several management products into the new vRealize Suite and rechristening its vCloud hybrid service vCloud Air.

Read More