Engineers provide profound insights. About the world, work, and even the Cloud. I suspect the reason is that engineers, at least the ones I’ve met, think about things in terms of systems. Performant systems, emerging systems, and failed systems. “Everyone in the Cloud is failing. Not everyone knows it. Whether you’re a fresh startup or Read more...
451 Research is a global research and advisory firm. It generates the data-driven insight that empowers technology and service providers, IT leaders and financial professionals to capitalize on their market opportunity. In this new report, 451 Research is taking a look at VMware’s multi-cloud management line of solutions, specifically covering CloudHealth and vRealize brands. 451 Read more...
Have you ever been troubleshooting an issue on a VM and needed to view the detailed information located in the vmware.log file for the VM? When I was an admin, I would download the file from the datastore so I could search through the log messages. The file contains detailed VM activity messages including reconfiguration Read more...
vRealize Automation (vRA) 8.2 introduces many awesome new features including enhanced governance through shared infrastructure multi-tenancy, custom role based access control, and new approval options. Support for Terraform is provided directly on the design canvas and full support for the NSX-T Policy APIs is available. This blog post will walk through the new features Read more...
vRealize Operations 8.2 is now GA! This blog was co-authored with Brandon Gordon and John Dias. It doesn’t seem that long ago that we announced the latest release of vRealize Operations and vRealize Operations Cloud. However, a lot has happened in that time including our first-ever virtual VMworld that was packed with announcements Read more...
VMware vRealize Automation 8.2 is HERE, scroll down to learn more! We are announcing the general availability of VMware vRealize Automation 8.2, the latest release of VMware’s industry-leading modern infrastructure automation platform. With the new and enhanced capabilities in vRealize Automation 8.2, customers can rapidly implement self-service clouds, multicloud automation with governance, DevOps-based infrastructure Read more...
Providing a self-service catalog can be a great way to allow users in an organization to quickly get applications and services they need and can help IT focus on other tasks outside of just full-filling requests for machines. However when a catalog is presented to an organization it is important that there are some guardrails Read more...
As already discussed in the previous blog there are different people that are responsible for running a Kubernetes platform. This blog post it to illustrate who what different roles are involved in managing Kubernetes. All of these roles have a different perspective on how they look at Kubernetes and the view they have of the Read more...
VMware has announced an intent to acquire SaltStack! We are very excited about this announcement and we are sure our customers will be excited about this as well. You can read more about the acquisition here: https://blogs.vmware.com/management/2020/09/saltandvra.html SaltStack can help IT with the following: Continuous Compliance Vulnerability Remediation Security Scanning Event-Driven Orchestration Auto-Scaling Application Deployment And much more! In order Read more...
This week has seen the first virtual VMworld. While it certainly is not the same without the face-to-face personal interactions that VMworld helps to facilitate, there have been many benefits. Probably the biggest is that all of the breakout sessions are immediately available, giving access to hundreds of hours of quality content – covering industry Read more...
