Steve Herrod, CTO of VMware, discussed the impact on the industry with VXLAN, as well as the keynote speech from VMworld 2011 with John Furrier, Founder of SiliconANGLE, and Dave Vellante, Co-Founder of Wikibon.
Herrod credited VMware with studying historic patterns and the impacts of mainframes and client server computing on the old UNIX systems to be able to bring virtualization to today's industry standard operating systems, software and hardware.
Furrier picked out several aspects from the keynote, stating that performance and availability are solid, and asked Herrod to speak to the status of mobility and security from a product standpoint. Herrod said that virtualization's true promise is bringing about efficiency and mobility, meaning users can run applications wherever there are available resources for it. He believes they have made progress on compute and storage with their industry partners on allowing mobility. He described VXLAN as the last real physical impediment to true mobility across parts inside data centers and across multiple data centers.
On the topic of security, Herrod explained, "VMware is, by necessity, transforming the way security works. And we have to, as leading the way of this mobile computing . . . so we've had to take ownership on creating the interfaces and the APIs where the existing ways of finding problems can fit." He went on to say that vShield and the different areas of vShield are about recognizing a more mobile world has to have a different way of doing it. Symantec, RSA, and McAfee are also building products for security.
Vellante asked if Herrod could see an architectural advancement where security is made a priority. Herrod responded, "With virtualization, security can come right next to the application . . . also, once you're right by an application, you can make things like firewalls a lot more restrictive than you might traditionally do. You tend to do a lowest common denominator security when you're trying to protect a whole chunk of different applications behind the scene."
Herrod weighed in on one of Furrier's favorite subjects - Big Data. He stated that they are tracking various big data use cases, as well as thinking about how applications use new types of databases. He said, "I do think the cloud has very good promise for things that need to do as much crunching as possible. That's exactly why you want to expand and use elasticity." He mentioned they are looking at how to run products like Hadoop and Greenplum directly on the virtualization layer so that the customer can run it within their data center or out in the cloud when they need more capacity.
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Steve Herrod, VMware | VMworld 2011
Steve Herrod, CTO of VMware, discussed the impact on the industry with VXLAN, as well as the keynote speech from VMworld 2011 with John Furrier, Founder of SiliconANGLE, and Dave Vellante, Co-Founder of Wikibon.
Herrod credited VMware with studying historic patterns and the impacts of mainframes and client server computing on the old UNIX systems to be able to bring virtualization to today's industry standard operating systems, software and hardware.
Furrier picked out several aspects from the keynote, stating that performance and availability are solid, and asked Herrod to speak to the status of mobility and security from a product standpoint. Herrod said that virtualization's true promise is bringing about efficiency and mobility, meaning users can run applications wherever there are available resources for it. He believes they have made progress on compute and storage with their industry partners on allowing mobility. He described VXLAN as the last real physical impediment to true mobility across parts inside data centers and across multiple data centers.
On the topic of security, Herrod explained, "VMware is, by necessity, transforming the way security works. And we have to, as leading the way of this mobile computing . . . so we've had to take ownership on creating the interfaces and the APIs where the existing ways of finding problems can fit." He went on to say that vShield and the different areas of vShield are about recognizing a more mobile world has to have a different way of doing it. Symantec, RSA, and McAfee are also building products for security.
Vellante asked if Herrod could see an architectural advancement where security is made a priority. Herrod responded, "With virtualization, security can come right next to the application . . . also, once you're right by an application, you can make things like firewalls a lot more restrictive than you might traditionally do. You tend to do a lowest common denominator security when you're trying to protect a whole chunk of different applications behind the scene."
Herrod weighed in on one of Furrier's favorite subjects - Big Data. He stated that they are tracking various big data use cases, as well as thinking about how applications use new types of databases. He said, "I do think the cloud has very good promise for things that need to do as much crunching as possible. That's exactly why you want to expand and use elasticity." He mentioned they are looking at how to run products like Hadoop and Greenplum directly on the virtualization layer so that the customer can run it within their data center or out in the cloud when they need more capacity.
