Enabling an AI-ready Infrastructure with VMware

whitePaper | December 4, 2022

IT spending remains buoyant, as the momentum for digital transformation initiatives continues to accelerate. New technologies are giving organizations a boost in operational efficiency, improving customer outreach, and enabling better collaboration between business users. In ESG’s annual research survey of senior IT decision makers, 26% of respondents described their organization’s digital transformation initiatives as mature, and a further 47% said they were currently implementing and executing various digital transformation initiatives. Six years ago, these percentages were 13% and 38% respectively, showing just how far digital transformation has come.

whitePaper | October 3, 2022

Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is unleashing fundamental innovation in the way organizations buy, deploy, and operate network infrastructures. By leveraging open standards and commodity hardware, NFV delivers cost savings, enhanced flexibility, improved performance, and more. However, without the right safeguards, organizations can also see their vulnerabilities increase when they move to a Virtualized Network Functions (VNF) architecture. This white paper offers a detailed look at the unique security implications of adopting NFV approaches, and it provides a number of best practices to employ to ensure sensitive data and transmissions remain secure in these environments.

whitePaper | February 23, 2023

The private 5G market is at an early stage of development, but activity in the market is increasing. 5G accounted for over 50% of all publicly disclosed private network announcements at the end of 2022, according to Analysys Mason’s Private LTE/5G networks tracker.1 5G’s share is lower when non-public announcements are included, but it is expected that most private networks will eventually use 5G.

whitePaper | May 27, 2022

This best practice guide will provide advice for making the right choice in your environment. It will recommend or discourage the usage of options depending on your workload. Fixing configuration issues and performing tuning tasks will increase the performance of VM Guest's near to bare metal.

whitePaper | September 7, 2022

The need for organizations to change to meet evolving business environments is not a new concept. However, what is new in our current moment is the pace of change. Organizations across all industries now have to adapt to a rapidly evolving IT and application environment. These changes have been accelerated by a global pandemic that is forcing employees to work remotely and by the adoption of modern applications that are distributed across corporate data centers, multiple public clouds, and increasingly, edge locations. Unfortunately, both of these efforts create more IT complexity.

whitePaper | January 1, 2023

2020 will go down in history as the year the world met with one of its most significant challenges in nearly a century – the great coronavirus pandemic. The resulting situation can be aptly described by the term “VUCA,” an acronym standing for Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity. In other words, the world faced a crisis.