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Employing a CPA: How Cloud Pod Architecture Redefines Disaster Recovery and Experiences

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  By Aju Sukumaran, Senior Manager, Information Systems Colleague Experience & Technology (CET); Bartosz Bernat, Senior Information Systems Engineer; Jishan T S, Information Systems Senior Engineer; all VMware     VMware continually strives to bring the best technology to the forefront, often introducing hundreds of features on the backend over a product’s lifecycle. Unfortunately, all these Read more...
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How VMware IT Proved Virtual Reality Can Be Virtually Indispensable

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  By Richard Leong, Senior Director, Unified Communications and Collaboration, and Josh Burton, Senior Manager, Global AV and Engineering Services—both VMware   The nature of the workforce is changing, and one of the driving factors is millennial workers for whom technology is second nature—and expected! In fact, recent surveys have shown that millennial workers believe Read more...
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@VMworld 2019 Europe—How VMware IT Goes from Day 0 to Day 2+ (Without Missing a Beat)

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  By Tom Ralph, Sr. Cloud Service Architect; Zaigui Wang, Director, 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 the Read more...
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VMworld 2019 US Hands-on Labs—Breaking New Records While Delivering Seamless Experiences

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  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...
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Think Quick! How Safe Is Your Data Right Now?

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  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...
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VMware IT’s Essential PKS-Driven Cloud-Native Journey Using vSphere CNS on vSAN

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  By Alfred Cheung, Lead Cloud Infrastructure Administrator; Chanh Chi, Senior Director IT; Ravi Dasari, Senior Cloud Infrastructure Administrator; Jason Hutson, Sr. Cloud Infrastructure Engineer; Kandy O’Mara, Director, Cloud Infrastructure; Telmo Rodrigues, Sr. Cloud Infrastructure Engineer; Alex Romanenko, Staff Engineer; Manas Singh, Senior Applications Administrator; Zaigui Wang, Director, Cloud Infrastructure Operations—all VMware     VMware IT Read more...
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It’s the Talk of the Town! How VMware IT Reimagined the Conference Room

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  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...
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How vRLI Proved VMware IT’s Infrastructure-as-Code Business Model a Success

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  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...