Network Virtualization Is VMware’s Next Frontier

February 11, 2016 Off By David

Grazed from Fortune. Author: Barb Darrow.

VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger is banking that network virtualization will be a bigger deal for the company than its bread-and-butter vSphere server virtualization lineup in the not-so-distant future. He’d better hope so. As Gelsinger himself put it Wednesday, vSphere has 80% market share in corporate data centers, so there’s not that much room for growth there.

Network virtualization pools networking hardware—routers and switches—and configures and manages it as needed with software. Basically, the smarts of the system comes from the software, not the individual hardware components. “NSX is the next ESX,” Gelsinger told attendees of the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco on Wednesday…

ESX is the company’s basic and hugely successful ESX hypervisor, the foundation of VMware’s vSPhere server virtualization franchise…

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