Monday, August 31
From an Operations Transformation Services perspective, the first full day of VMworld was a cracker! (I’m British – that means very good!)
By Andy Troup
Our presenters had a number of insights to share (remember, with your VMworld conference pass you have access to recordings of any sessions you might have missed within 24 hours, found either on the VMworld mobile app or on vmworld.com). Dave Crane, one of our Operations Transformation Services solution architects, offered this advice in the Advanced Automation Use session this morning:
“If you only take away one key point from this session, it should be about the importance of a reference framework“.
The reference framework is oriented around a specific capability (in the example presented in this session, the automated provisioning process). The reference framework document describes all of the steps in the capability, ensures business and IT alignment, and provides the baseline for your governance activities (leave a comment on this post if you have a specific question for Dave regarding this topic).
One of our customer presenters took us through their multi-year transformation journey story (people and process alignment featuring prominently, again!), and the critical role that the vRealize Operations tool plays in terms of visibility and management along that journey.
Tomorrow will be another really interesting day, with a variety of transformation topics. Of particular note, I’d like to call attention to the Organizational Change Group Discussion at 12:30 PM (OPT 4743) where a number of our solution architects with extensive on-site customer experience will share real-world organizational change insights, best practices and pitfalls in an interactive format.
Here’s the schedule for Tuesday, September 1:
- 11:30 AM – OPT 4953:
Operationalizing VMware NSX: Practical Strategies and Lessons from Real-World Implementations - 12:30 PM – OPT 4743:
Organizational Change Group Discussion - 1:00 PM – OPT 4868:
DevOps Transformation: Culture, Technology or Both? - 2:30 PM – OPT 4992:
vRealize CodeStream: Is DevOps about Tools or Transformation? - 4:00 PM – OPT 5222:
Keys to Successfully Marketing and Managing your vRealize Automation Service Catalog - 5:30 PM – OPT 5075:
Six Steps to Establish Your IT Business Management Office (ITBMO) with vRealize Business
Visit the VMworld mobile app to locate these sessions, and be sure to follow us on Twitter to find more information and resources: @VMwareCloudOps.
See you at Moscone.
Andy Troup is a Cloud Operations Architect with over 25 years of IT experience. He specializes in Cloud Operations and Technology Consulting Service Development. Andy is also a vCAP DCA and VCP. Andy possesses a proven background in design, deployment and management of enterprise IT projects. Previously, Andy co-delivered the world’s first and subsequent vCloud Operational Assessments (Colt Telecomm & Norwegian Government Agency) to enable the early adoption of VMware’s vCloud implementation.
