As the day kicks off at VMworld today here in lovely hot Las Vegas tons of people are filling the VM Village hang space area around the giant screens.
One of the most interesting quotes from Pat Gelsinger was that “Today is the slowest day in technology for the rest of your life.” The rate of change in our lives due to technology will continue to increase and speed up. Very true Pat!
What vSphere/ESX was for the first decades of VMware, NSX could be the same for the next decade.”
There was a long demo of the VMware Cloud on AWS and the integrated products using the “Elastic Sky Pizza Company”
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VMware, Pivotal and Google Cloud, today unveiled Pivotal Container Service (PKS), which will enable enterprises and service providers to deliver production level Kubernetes on VMware vSphere and Google Cloud Platform. It will provide compatibility to Google Container Engine (GKE). This new product will be available later this year in Q4 of calendar year 2017. It will be a standalone product that will work with the Pivotal Cloud Foundry® (PCF). This was all jointly announced by Pat Gelsinger (VMware), Michael Dell (Dell/EMC of course), Rob Mee (CEO Pivotal) and Sam Ramji (Google Cloud). It was interesting the cultural differences seen on stage with the four executives. Three had sportscoats and dress shirts/slacks on and one had a T-shirt and blue jeans. Can anyone guess which company was the blue jeans style company? Let me Google that for you… Yes it was the Google exec. Now one concession to the Pivotal exec was that he was wearing tennis shoes with his slacks.
NSX, Kubernetes, vRealize Automation, Wavefront telemetry will all be in working in this environment together.
Pivotal and VMware were announced as Platinum Members of the Cloud Native Foundation (Home of the Kubernetes).
There may be additional announcements later in the day.