By Brian Morton, Technical Program Manager (Cloud and Productivity Engineering); Lyubomir Lyubenov, Cloud Architect; Brandon Bazan, Sr. Site Reliability Engineer, all VMware This year at VMworld 2019 US, our Hands-on Labs (HOLs) were more popular than ever. Attendees were able to test drive full working versions of VMware technologies without having to purchase Read more...
By Craig Savage, Industry Security Architect—Information Security, VMware Like every multinational enterprise, VMware is subject to thousands of attempted cyberattacks every day. Keeping ahead of the game—and protecting our people—requires innovative thinking, an especially vital approach in the cloud era. We’re only human Despite all the technological advances in the field, the Read more...
By Richard Leong, Senior Director, Unified Communications and Collaboration; Josh Burton, Senior Manager, Global AV and Events; Vipin Nair Manager, UCC – Global AV Engineering; Aju Sukumaran, Information Systems Senior Manager—all VMware While VMware’s existing smart conference room solutions were ‘getting the job done’, they relied on expensive proprietary third-party hardware and custom Read more...
By Richard Leong, Senior Director, Colleague Experience and Technology, VMware As a global enterprise, attracting and retaining the best talent (what we call colleagues) has always been a priority for VMware. But what does that mean in practice? For us, it revolves around what we call the colleague experience, roughly defined as any aspect Read more...
By Iliyan Petkov, Senior Cloud Site Reliability Engineer The VMware Cloud & Productivity Engineering (CPE) team has spent the last 18+ months transitioning traditional operations to a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) model. Now, entire environments are built and managed by code (commonly known as Infrastructure-as-Code, IaC), making them much more adaptable to cloud-based Read more...
By Cathal Cleary, Director, CPE Services Management, and Casey Lems, Senior Cloud Security Architect, both VMware CloudHealth by VMware enables our IT teams to have unprecedented insight into cloud spend. In fact, it has reduced VMware’s cloud computing costs by more than 30 percent to date, among other benefits. (Read CloudHealth blog). Paired with VMware Read more...
By Mehul Patel, Sr. Manager, DevOps and Platform Enablement, and Pervinder Sudan, DevOps Lead, VMware Today, VMware IT leverages VMware vRealize® Automation™ (vRA) and VMware vRealize Code Stream Service™ to allow VMware DevOps to ‘be everywhere’ by enabling public experiences (surfacing functionality/capability as a service with transparent underlying platforms) on our private cloud, Read more...
By Tom Ralph, Sr. Cloud Service Architect; Zaigui Wang, Senior Manager, Cloud Infrastructure Operations; and Mohammed Kajamoideen, Senior Cloud Infrastructure Administrator—all VMware Managing the infrastructure lifecycle—from Day 0 to Day 2 and beyond (Day 2+)—can involve a lot of pain and frustration if not done correctly, especially when the best laid plans go off Read more...
By Zaigui Wang, Senior Manager, Cloud Infrastructure Operations; Mohammed Kajamoideen, Senior Cloud Infrastructure Administrator; Chanh Chi, Senior Director, IT—all VMware VMware IT employs VMware vSAN™, an enterprise-class storage virtualization software, for lifecycle management of regional deployments such as VMware Horizon® 7and branch office footprints—in addition to main production data centers. While Day 0 and Read more...
