Rick Walsworth

Rick is on the VMware Cloud Foundation Product Marketing team, brings over 25 years of experience in software, infrastructure, machine learning and all things cloud. Rick is a geek at heart and when not working you can find him on a local lake in his MasterCraft X9.

Recent Posts

Accelerating Hybrid Cloud AI Workloads with VMware Cloud Foundation (Part 2)

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[This second installment of a 2 part blog series that explores deployment of full stack HCI infrastructure with acceleration technologies validated through a set of reference architectures built using VMware Cloud Foundation, VMware Tanzu and Intel® Optane™ persistent memory, second generation Intel Xeon™ scalable processors  along with Intel Deep Learning Boost technologies. Thanks to the Read more...

Accelerating Hybrid Cloud AI Workloads with VMware Cloud Foundation (Part 1)

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[This 2 part blog series will explore deployment of full stack HCI infrastructure with acceleration technologies validated through a set of reference architectures built using VMware Cloud Foundation, VMware Tanzu and Intel® Optane™ persistent memory, second generation Intel Xeon™ scalable processors  along with Intel Deep Learning Boost technologies. Thanks to the Intel Data Center and Read more...

IoT Edge Security with VMware Validated Designs

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Organizations spanning all industries are undergoing major technological shifts by leveraging software defined infrastructure to improve efficiency, increase customer engagement and enhance operational agility.  Internet of Things (IoT) solutions represent a solid use case for digital transformation by extending software control of physical devices to optimize operational processes and physical assets to enhance flexibility, create Read more...
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Announcing General Availability of VMware Cloud Foundation 4.1

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VMware is pleased to announce general availability of VMware Cloud Foundation 4.1, providing important new features that deliver developer ready infrastructure, allowing customers to scale without compromise while simplifying operations of VCF deployments.  A summary of the new features and capabilities can be found below along with useful links to blogs, release notes and updated Read more...

New Features and Certifications for VMware Cloud Foundation Data Protection API Workflows

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One of the new product features that didn’t get a lot of exposure during the recent VMware Cloud Foundation 4.1 launch are the enhanced data protection and recovery mechanisms for VCF.  These new capabilities, enabled through SDDC manager, automate comprehensive backup and recovery workflows via a set ofAPIs with industry leading data protection solutions. This Read more...

VMware Cloud Foundation at VMworld 2020

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It doesn’t take Captain Obvious[1] to know that VMworld 2020 will be like no other VMworld ever before.  First off,  a VMworld 2020 is virtual and a general pass is FREE.  Although many of us will miss the ability to connect with customers, partners, friends and colleagues, the VMworld team is doing an amazing job Read more...
VMware Cloud Foundation 4.1

What’s New with VMware Cloud Foundation 4.1

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The VMware Cloud Foundation product team is pleased to announce the upcoming release of VMware Cloud Foundation 4.1. This new release builds upon the industry momentum and traction from the March announcement of VMware Cloud Foundation 4.0 with Tanzu by introducing new features and functionality that deliver developer ready infrastructure, allowing customers to scale without Read more...

Delivering New Cloud Provider Services with VMware Cloud Foundation 4.0 and VMware Cloud Director 10.1

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The VMware Cloud Provider Program (VCPP) is a very successful program with more than 4,000 participating partners. Many of these VCPP partners offer VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) based dedicated cloud services to enable their customers to enjoy the full benefit of hybrid cloud with maximum consistency between cloud and on-premise. VMware Cloud Director (VCD) is Read more...
Cloud Foundation 4.0.1

Announcing VMware Cloud Foundation 4.0.1

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VMware is proud to announce General Availability of VMware Cloud Foundation 4.0.1 providing important enhancements and features to the full stack HCI solution. Within VMware Cloud Foundation 4.0.1, the following new enhancements are now available: NSX-T cluster-level upgrade support: Users can upgrade specific host clusters within a workload domain so that the upgrade can fit Read more...

Introducing VMware Cloud Foundation 3.10

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VMware is announcing General Availability of VMware Cloud Foundation version 3.10 bringing in new capabilities for VCF customers running version 3.9.1 and earlier releases.  VMware Cloud Foundation 3.10 includes the following capabilities: The VMware Cloud Foundation 3.10 release includes the following: ESXi Cluster-Level and Parallel Upgrades: Enables you to update the ESXi software on multiple Read more...