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

Application Virtual Networks – Enabling Stronger Mobility and Flexibility with VMware Cloud Foundation

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By: Nick Marshall One of the new features in the 3.9.1 release of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is use of Application Virtual Networks (AVNs) to completely abstract the hardware and realize the true value from a software-defined cloud computing model. As an introduction, AVNs are software-defined overlay networks that serve as specialized purpose in the Read more...

Announcing General Availability of VMware Cloud Foundation 3.9.1

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By: Lavanya Shastri On January 14th 2020, VMware achieved general availability of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 3.9.1, introducing support for Application Virtual Networks, API support for multiple physical NICs and vSphere Distributed switches, and improvements to Cloud Builder and Developer Center.  The following post provides an overview of the release content and links to additional Read more...

Delivering Global Scale, Management and Visibility with VMware Cloud Foundation 3.9

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As customers continue to expand their VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) footprint at global scale, there is a growing set of real-world deployment requirements that is driving further innovation to the product. These requirements surface through customer interactions and help the VCF product team to prioritize and address these requirements as rapidly as possible. Today VMware Read more...

Managing Large Scale Deployments with VCF Multi-Instance Management

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By: Lavanya Shastri, Product Line Manager, VMware Cloud Foundation Managing Large Scale Deployments with VCF Multi-Instance Management With the GA of VMware Cloud Foundation 3.9, customers now have the ability to view the health of all workloads running across all VCF instances globally enabling them to treat their data centers as a single resource pool Read more...

Secure and On-Demand Hybrid Cloud Transformation

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By James Klazura – Director, Global Partners VMware VMware and Hitachi To stay ahead of the competition, companies spanning across all industries need to have an agile and secure infrastructure to digitally transform their competitive edge. A key underlying enabler is a modernized data center, allowing agile and secure provisioning of any workload, whether a Read more...

Announcing General Availability of VMware Cloud Foundation 3.8.1

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As pre-announced last week at VMworld, VMware Cloud Foundation 3.8.1 is GA as of September 3, 2019! What’s New?The VMware Cloud Foundation 3.8.1 release includes the following: Automated deployment of PKS: Enables the automated deployment and the configuration of VMware Enterprise PKS on an NSX-T workload domain. Dual Authentication Support: Provides the two-factor authentication for Read more...

Accelerating Kubernetes Adoption with VMware PKS on Cloud Foundation

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VMworld will feature a number of advanced technologies centered around building robust, highly secure, comprehensive container ecosystems that will fuel continued innovation through development of Cloud Native Apps. It’s clear that Kubernetes has taken pole position for Container as a Service (CAAS) deployments and that the industry has embraced VMware PKS as one of the Read more...

Announcing VMware Cloud Foundation Platinum

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Announcing VMware Cloud Foundation Platinum VMware released the latest edition in the VMware Cloud Foundation family, delivering the industry’s most comprehensive security offering for Hybrid Cloud deployments with Cloud Foundation Platinum.  Building directly off the momentum of vSphere Platinum, driven by strong demand for AppDefense which provides enhanced security protection for workloads and the vSphere Read more...