VMworld 2015 Europe: CTO6660 - Hot Topics in VMware Research

When you are the industry leader and out in front of the pack, being a fast-follower isn't an option. In order to secure our customers' future, VMware partners with some of the leading academic researchers in systems and networks. We also invest in a robust research and innovation pipeline whose goal is to deliver innovative and disruptive products to our customers. Come to this technical session and hear from VMware's Chief Research Officer about recent research trends and how we see them shaping our industry. Some of the topics to be covered include: the virtualization of heterogeneous computing (GP-GPU, FPGA, etc.); new approaches to building scalable and consistent distributed systems (how to have your cake and eat it too); the next generation of cloud computing; and recent advances in algorithms (approximation, sampling, “power of choice”, etc.).