Matt and Ray were both at VMworld 2019 in San Francisco this past week, and we did an impromptu podcast on recent news at the show.
VMware announced a number of new projects and just prior to the show they announced the intent to acquire Pivotal and Carbon Black. Pat’s keynote the first day was about a number of new products and features but he also spent time discussing how they were going to incorporate these acquisitions.
One thing that caught a lot of attention was “The Tanzu Portfolio”, which was all about how VMware is adopting Kubernetes as an integral and native part of vSphere moving forward. Project Pacific was their working name for integrating Kubernetes as a native feature of vSphere. And the Tanzu Mission Control was a new multi-cloud/hybrid cloud management solution for Kubernetes clusters wherever they ran.
VMware has had a rather lengthy history with container support from project Photon, to VIC, to running PKS ontop of vSphere. But with Project Pacific, Kubernetes is now being brought under the covers of vSphere and any ESXi cluster becomes a .Kubernetes cluster.
We also talked a little bit about Carbon Black and it’s endpoint security. Neither of us are security experts but Matt mentioned another company he talked with at the show that based their product on workload profiling to determine when something has gone amiss.
It’s Ray’s belief that Carbon Black does much the same profilings only for endpoint devices desktops, laptops, and mobile devices (maybe not thin clients).
Pat also talked a bit about IoT and edge processing at the show and they have a push to support more forms of edge computing.
Ray mentioned he talked with HiveCell, at the show who had a standalone Arm server about the size of a big book that can be stood up just about anywhere there’s power and ethernet.
Unfortunately there’s some background noise on the podcast and it happens to be a short one, at over 16.5 minutes. This podcast represents a departure for us, as the Greybeards have never done a live recording at a conference before. We plan to do more of this so we hope you enjoy it. Please let us know what you think about it and if there’s anything we could do to improve our live recording shows. There’s more on the recording so listen to the podcast to learn more.
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Matt Leib
Matt Leib (@MBLeib), one of our co-hosts, has been blogging in the storage space for over 10 years, with work experience both on the engineering and presales/product marketing.. His blog is at Virtually Tied to My Desktop and he’s on LinkedIN.