School of Information Systems

VMWare Workstation a Software That Can Help Your Business Grow

We all know that technology is increasing as time goes by, there are thousands of new technologies produced every year and each year it keeps advancing. A lot of businesses implemented new technology to their business to keep up with the era, millions of businesses are using advanced technology to increase their growth, with the increase of technology of course Business model is changing too. Technology affects business so much that a company can store all their data not on paper but in a computer, this way they can store an infinite amount of data gathered. But the more technology has advanced the newer crimes rising such as ransomware, botnet, worm, data leak, data breach, etc. This crime will bring harm to small nor big companies.

Companies have found a way to countermeasure this attack by using Cybersecurity technology such as firewalls, IPS, Antivirus software, Encryption tools, Network Security Monitoring tools, and many more. Even though there are many tools to try companies with low tech knowledge will be confused about which tools to choose from and not only that there are various brands of firewalls etc. In here we will introduce to new software called VMware Workstation that will help you choose which tools to pick for your companies need.

VMware is a virtualization and cloud computing software provider based in Palo Alto, Calif. Founded in 1998, VMware is a subsidiary of Dell Technologies. With VMware server virtualization, a hypervisor is installed on the physical server to allow for multiple virtual machines (VMs) to run on the same physical server. Each VM can run its operating system (OS), which means multiple OSes can run on one physical server. All the VMs on the same physical server share resources, such as networking and RAM.

In 2019, VMware added support to its hypervisor to run containerized workloads in a Kubernetes cluster in a similar way. These types of workloads can be managed by the infrastructure team in the same way as virtual machines and the DevOps teams can deploy containers as they were used to. This software will help your companies networking and security problems. VMware workstations can offer you ways to help you virtualize a machine inside your computer. Imagine this you are not familiar with a ransomware attack, with a VMware workstation you can create a virtual machine and you can see what happens if a ransomware attack happens in that virtual machine, with this knowledge you know what a ransomware attack is, and you will know how to counter it.

This virtual machine not only can help you with security threats, but it can also help you train your IT employees to become more familiar with how your work environments process. Your IT employee can test various things into this virtual machine, that way your IT employee could gain more experience than before. VMware workstations give features such as advanced networking, ESXI Host Power Operations, Native OFV support, Scan for virtual machines, Windows 10 creator, Guest operating systems support, Security Features, and many more.

VMware workstation will surely help your business grew more than before, with this software your company can test various firewalls, networking, advanced configuration, and many more. With this knowledge, your company will gain more experience from cyber-attacks and how to handle them. VMware over the last two decades has transformed enterprise IT for all fortune 1000 companies. You too can rely on VMware to take you on this next transformational journey.

 

Reference:

https://searchvmware.techtarget.com/definition/VMware

Albert Adiprasetyo, Marisa Karsen