By Aju Sukumaran, Senior Manager, Information Systems Colleague Experience & Technology (CET); Swapnil Hendre, Director, Solutions Engineering and Design—both VMware Our IT teams employ the VMware Horizon® virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) for a variety of mission-critical activities. These include mergers & acquisitions, desktop replacements, bring your own device (BYOD) scenarios, contract and temporary employees, Read more...
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 Aju Sukumaran, Information Systems Senior Manager Today, delivering ideal colleague (end user) experiences is more complicated and fraught with error potential than ever before, and that puts virtual desktop administrators in a tough position. VDI administrators have a lot of manage, and worry about That’s why VMware IT developed a Read more...
By Catherine Greenberg, Director, VMware on VMware Program The VMware on VMware team is excited to share our IT best practices and VMware product deployment journeys at VMworld 2019 US, and we hope to see you there! Great advice. One on one If you’re an existing VMware customer, schedule a meeting Read more...
By Sergey Malakhov, R&D Manager, VMware VMware’s internal developers and site reliability engineers (SREs) use a variety of tools to maintain our private cloud. One of them is JIRA, a software development tool used to plan, track and release software. Up until recently, the primary instance of JIRA was deployed in a data center, and Read more...
by Kandy O’Mara, Solutions Architect, VMware As part of our hybrid cloud journey, VMware IT needed to provide a network filesystem (NFS) for VMs and application workloads in VMware Cloud on AWS. These applications include SAP Landscape Virtualization Management (LVM), Atlassian Jira, and the VMware Blog applications. All require shared filesystems, which play an important Read more...
By Lyubomir Lyubenov, Cloud Service Architect, VMware, and Jeremy Sage, Senior Cloud Site Reliability Engineer, VMware One of the most popular areas at any VMworld is the Hands-on Lab (HOL), where attendees can test drive VMware technologies without purchasing equipment, software, or licenses. With more than 20,000 attendees in Las Vegas this year, the HOL Read more...
By Chris Mutchler, Cloud Service Architect; Lyubo Lyubenov, Cloud Service Architect; and Jeremy Sage, Senior Cloud Site Reliability Engineer, VMware VMware Hands-on Labs (HOL) offer VMware customers special access to the latest VMware technologies without requiring purchase of equipment or licenses. While available year-round, the HOL program sees major use at the VMworld conferences. HOL Read more...
by Velchamy Sankarlingam, Vice President, Cloud Services Development & Operations To learn more about how IT utilized VMware Cloud on AWS for disaster recovery, read the blog, “How VMware Migrated the VMworld Portal to VMware Cloud on AWS.” After successfully using VMware Cloud on AWS for the VMworld HOL, we were evaluating additional workload to Read more...
by Swapnil S. Hendre, Director, Solutions Engineering and Design: Jerry Li, Senior Manager, IT Service Transition; and Zaigui Wang, Senior Manager, Cloud Infrastructure Operations, VMware To learn more about IT’s business drivers for VMware Cloud on AWS, read the blog, VMware’s Journey to VMware Cloud on AWS – Part 2. To migrate our first major Read more...
