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VMware VCDX by the Numbers: Nutanix's Rise
Analysis of VMware VCDX (certification) holders by employer in 2013, showing Nutanix ranking third alongside established data center giants like VCE and EMC. Evidence of Nutanix's rapid enterprise credibility in hyper-converged infrastructure.
Four Things VMware Must Do at VMworld
InformationWeek's 2013 analysis of four things VMware needed to do at VMworld to stay competitive — addressing cloud strategy, OpenStack pressure, hyper-convergence threats, and the transition from a pure hypervisor business to a broader software-defined infrastructure platform.
2013: The Year of Converged Infrastructure?
A 2013 enterprise IT blog post declaring it the year of converged infrastructure — pre-packaged stacks combining compute, storage, and networking from a single vendor. A snapshot of when hyper-convergence was becoming mainstream enterprise positioning.
Hadoop on VMware: Another Workload Conquered?
EMC's Chuck Hollis on running Hadoop workloads on VMware virtualization — the argument that bare-metal Hadoop deployments could be replaced by virtualized clusters with manageable performance trade-offs. A 2013 salvo in the bare-metal vs. virtualization debate for big data workloads.
Best Practices for Virtualizing Hadoop
Hadoop Summit presentation on best practices for running Hadoop on VMware HVE (Hadoop Virtualization Extensions) with Hortonworks HDP — addressing the core tension between virtualization flexibility and Hadoop's data locality requirements.
Nutanix: My Experience on a Recent VDI POC
An end-user IT practitioner's honest review of a Nutanix proof-of-concept for VDI workloads in 2013 — notable for being a real hands-on assessment rather than vendor marketing, at a time when Nutanix was still establishing itself in enterprise IT.
Towards an Elastic Elephant: Enabling Hadoop for the Cloud
VMware's CTO blog on making Hadoop work in elastic cloud environments — the fundamental tension between Hadoop's static cluster model and cloud infrastructure's on-demand scaling. A 2013 take on a problem that took years to fully solve.
Enabling vSphere Content-Based Read Cache for Citrix XenDesktop
Technical guide to enabling VMware vSphere's Content-Based Read Cache (CBRC) for Citrix XenDesktop VDI deployments — a storage performance optimization for virtual desktop infrastructure using host-side SSD caching.
Cloud Prizefight: VMware vs. OpenStack
Mirantis's analysis comparing VMware and OpenStack for enterprise private cloud — clearly biased toward OpenStack (Mirantis was an OpenStack services company), but provides a useful breakdown of the real trade-offs between proprietary and open-source virtualization stacks.
VMware to Cut 900 Jobs
VMware cut 900 jobs in January 2013 as part of an 'exit from certain business lines' — shares fell 15%. A signal of the strategic pressure the company was under from OpenStack and public cloud, even before AWS had clearly won.
How to Compare VMware and OpenStack
Mirantis SlideShare deck on how to compare VMware and OpenStack for enterprise private cloud decisions — a companion to their widely-read blog post. Useful for the specific evaluation criteria and TCO framing they used to make the OpenStack case.
The VMware Spinoff Returns: Pivotal
GigaOm's 2012 piece on the VMware/EMC spinoff that became Pivotal — a company formed from Cloud Foundry, Pivotal Labs, Spring, and Gemfire assets to compete in the enterprise cloud platform space. Pivotal IPO'd in 2018 and was acquired by VMware in 2019.