By: Stefan Grigorov (Information Systems Engineer) and Cy Whitfield (Information Systems Engineer) Migrating from legacy Windows 7 and 8.1 operating systems to Windows 10 (Win10) was no small undertaking. The migration encompassed all VMware’s global regions and their on-site/remote colleagues. There were numerous challenges, including converting colleagues to a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) from Read more...
By: Pam Cocca (Director, Colleague Experience and Technology – Americas), Orlando Diaz (Information Systems Senior Manager), John Drummond (Senior Director, Information Systems), Dane Tadsen (Information Systems Senior Engineer) and Cy Whitfield (Inforamtion Systems Engineer) Imaging and delivering Dell laptops with the latest Windows operating system to VMware colleagues traditionally involved a very labor-intensive, time-consuming, Read more...
By Dan Sanford, Information System Senior Engineer, VMware VMware actively supports more than 13,000 Macs for both onsite and remote colleagues (our term for end users). Before managing the Macs with VMware Workspace ONE®, VMware IT didn’t have a great management solution in place. The Macs were being individually imaged by a thumb-drive Read more...
By Cathal Cleary, Director, CPE Services management, VMware While cloud technology has revolutionized the way enterprises consume IT, there are significant challenges surrounding control and optimization of spend. The public cloud makes it very easy to sign-up and consume public cloud resources—so easy, in fact, that people tend not to think about the Read more...
By Vasil Kaftandzhiev (Service Delivery Lead, Colleague Experience and Technology Team), Robert Coggins (Information Systems Staff Engineer), Orlando Diaz (Senior Manager of Information Systems), and John Drummond (Senior Director, Information Systems)—all VMware Despite the media hype, not every enterprise cloud venture results in a success story from a return on investment (ROI) standpoint. While they offer Read more...
By Richard Leong, Senior Director of Colleague Experience and Technology, VMware Millennials (those born in 1981 through 1996) account for 40% of the workforce today, a number that will increase to greater than 50% by 2022. That means the standard workplace will undergo dramatic change as there will be an expectation that the Read more...
By Richard Leong, Senior Director, Unified Communications and Collaboration Over the years I have been fortunate to speak with many customers and industry peers about various experiences and perspectives on unified collaboration (UC). The most common topic that arises is around a ‘standard’ or ‘single tool’ approach (via a large UC platform) versus Read more...
By Jason Conyard, VP, Colleague Experience and Technology Every enterprise is going through a digital transformation, although oftentimes that ends up easier said than done. For VMware IT, successfully turning digital transformation from an amorphous concept into reality involved both advanced technology and understanding the human factor. From a pure technology standpoint, VMware Read more...
By: Bask Iyer, CIO VMware; General Manager, Edge/IoT, Dell Technologies Albert Einstein said, “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination.” Imagination coupled with empowerment have been the two drivers of success for the VMware IT team in 2018. Acknowledging our progress, Computerworld last year recognized this unique culture by ranking VMware as Read more...
By Michelle McNeil, Senior Director, ePRO (Portfolio Management, Resiliency & Operations), BTA, VMware As a global enterprise with a far-reaching vendor and partner revenue/bookings operations, ensuring consistent uptime and anticipating potential crises is a mission-critical endeavor. This where the Crisis Management Team (CMT) comes into play. A combined effort involving IT, order management, finance, and other Read more...
