At the bustling Shift event held in the iconic BAFTA in London, we were fortunate to engage in a profound conversation with Anna Griffin, the Chief Marketing Officer at Commvault. Our discussion shone a light on the exciting transition within IT, moving from traditional data protection methodologies to a comprehensive cyber resiliency strategy. With a palpable enthusiasm, we explored Commvault's proactive response to the ever-evolving cyber threat landscape.

The Heart of Cyber Resiliency

Cyber resiliency has become the cornerstone of contemporary data protection strategies. Anna elaborated on how Commvault is navigating this pivotal shift, with a keen focus on integrating security within the data itself. This strategic move is indicative of Commvault's foresight in tackling the challenges of safeguarding data across the increasingly hybrid environments of today.

A Data-Centric Approach

The conversation highlighted the significance of adopting a data-centric mindset in today's dispersed data realms. Commvault is at the forefront, advocating for a unified protection strategy that alleviates the complexity of managing various security tools across different environments. This integrated approach is crucial in a landscape where data is scattered across multiple platforms, each presenting its own set of vulnerabilities.

Innovating Data Recovery

One of the most captivating aspects of our talk was discovering Commvault's pioneering work in cloud-based clean room recovery. This forward-thinking initiative enables organisations to test and affirm their recovery processes in a cost-effective and manageable way. It marks a significant advancement, empowering businesses to confidently navigate and recover from cyber incidents.

AI: Transforming Data Protection

The discussion wouldn't be complete without touching on the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in data protection. Commvault is leading the charge in embedding AI into their platforms, transforming the way data protection is administered. AI acts as a co-pilot for administrators, offering recommendations, insights, and reducing the likelihood of human error. This integration marks a shift towards smarter, more efficient, and reliable data protection practices.

Conclusion

Our enlightening discussion with Anna Griffin at the Shift event was truly revelatory. Commvault's dedication to steering the data protection discourse towards cyber resiliency, their commitment to a data-centric security philosophy, and their innovative use of AI and cloud technologies underscore their leadership in the data protection realm.

As our conversation drew to a close, it was evident that Commvault is not merely adapting to changes in the IT landscape; they are actively shaping the future of data protection. Their approach to cyber resiliency is a proactive endeavour to ensure that businesses can not only survive but thrive in the digital era. Commvault's vision for a more secure, resilient, and intelligent digital ecosystem is not just aspirational; it's a reality they are diligently creating, making the digital world a safer place for businesses to innovate and expand.

Stepping into the BAFTA HQ for the Commvault SHIFT event felt like entering a nexus where the legacy of storytelling meets the cutting edge of technology. With walls echoing cinematic greatness and rooms sponsored by the Dolby family and Steven Spielberg, the stage was perfectly set for a narrative of transformation and forward-thinking strategy in cyber resilience.

As we've observed Commvault's transition from a data protection platform to a holistic cyber resilience solution, this event painted a vivid picture of that strategic evolution.

The Hybrid IT Landscape and the Commvault Cloud

Today's IT landscape is nothing short of hybrid – offering staggering business advantages but at the same time, bringing forth data fragmentation and complex management challenges. The day was filled with conversations around the ensuing chaos and the pivotal role of a cyber resilience platform like Commvault Cloud.

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NIST Framework in Focus

A significant part of the presentation revolved around the NIST framework, which is fundamentally a blueprint for improving cybersecurity and resilience. The framework lays out five key functions – Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover – that help organisations develop a robust cybersecurity posture. The message was clear: whilst Indentify, Detect and Protect often takes the limelight, respond and recovery is just as crucial. The focus on thorough testing and robust recovery plans is not just recommended; it's essential.

Innovative Recovery with Cleanroom Technology

A standout feature that piqued interest was Commvault's cleanroom recovery functionality. In the event of a breach, the ability to swiftly and safely recover is paramount, and Commvault's solution facilitates this by enabling businesses to recover quickly into Azure. This isn't just about speed; it's about providing a controlled environment for both testing and actual recovery scenarios, automating the setup of the landing zone in the process.

Meet Arlie: The AI Virtual Assistant

Another highlight for me was the introduction of Arlie, Commvault’s AI virtual assistant. Arlie takes user interaction to a new level, providing insights and support embedded right into the AI. It's not just about delegating tasks; it's about empowering admins with the knowledge to carry out these tasks themselves – a truly educational approach that resonates with our belief in not just delivering solutions but also delivering knowledge.

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Conversations with the Commvault Team

The day culminated with an influencer and analyst session, offering us a golden opportunity to engage with Commvault's key team members. It was more than just a chance to see the technology – it was a window into the minds shaping the technology, understanding the 'whys' and 'hows', and witnessing the solutions in action.

Wrapping Up an Enlightening Day

As the event wrapped up, it was clear that Commvault is not just participating in the cyber resilience conversation; they're actively sculpting it. With the community buzzing, the Cleanroom Technology on the horizon, and the prospect of getting hands-on with Arlie, it’s safe to say we're not just excited – we're looking at the future of cyber resilience with eyes wide open.

We're diving into Commvault’s latest shift with my new video on Commvault's announcements from their Shift event. It's about their new platform, Commvault Cloud, powered by Metallic AI, and it's set to redefine what we expect from cybersecurity and data protection.

For a deeper look at my complete analysis and the implications of Commvault’s innovative direction, check out my full blog post at Tech Doodles. We discuss the looming $30 billion ransomware threat, Commvault's smart use of AI with Arlie, and how this platform is not just about recovery, but a proactive stance against cyber threats.

Get the full story - Commvault's Vision for Cyber Resilience: Introducing Commvault Cloud — Tech Doodles

In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, data protection and security have become paramount concerns for organisations worldwide. Cyber threats are growing in sophistication, and traditional reactive approaches are no longer sufficient. That's why we are thrilled to present our latest video, which delves into the groundbreaking announcements from Commvault's recent event, "Accelerating Cyber Defence and Response with Next Generation Data Protection."

Key Takeaways:

During the event, we explored how Commvault is revolutionising the field of data protection and security. Our video uncovers the powerful features and innovative solutions that make Commvault a leader in the industry.

1. CEO Sanjay Mirchandani's Keynote: Sanjay discussed the dual implications of AI, the blurring boundaries between data protection and security, and the vital importance of swift recovery. Commvault's proactive approach ensures that their platform acts as an active shield against potential cyber threats.

2. Advanced Features: We dive into the technical aspects of Commvault's innovative protection and security solutions. From the centralised Cloud Command dashboard to Risk Analysis, Threat Scan, Auto Recovery, and Threatwise Advisor, Commvault offers an all-in-one solution that simplifies management, secures sensitive data, and enhances recovery readiness.

3. CISO Panel Discussion: We also highlight the engaging panel discussion hosted by Steve Preston, featuring industry experts who share insights on the critical role of the CISO, the AI threat, and the changing face of risk in the age of COVID-19.

To learn more about these exciting announcements and gain deeper insights into Commvault's next-gen solutions, we invite you to read our detailed blog post on TechDoodles.co.uk. There, you'll find our TechDoodles capturing key points, thoughts, and additional information about the event.

Conclusion:

In this ever-evolving digital landscape, it's crucial to stay ahead of the curve regarding data protection and security. Commvault's innovative approach and proactive solutions are setting new industry standards.

I recently had the opportunity to attend Tech Field Day 27, where industry leaders in the CXL space, Memverge, AsteraLabs, and the CXL Consortium, presented their latest developments in high-speed interconnect technology. These presentations highlighted how Compute Express Link (CXL) is poised to revolutionise server architecture and transform memory utilisation in data centres.

CXL provides a unified, high-performance interface for memory, storage, and computational resources, enabling efficient processing of large amounts of data with reduced latency. With CXL, data centre operators can build more scalable, efficient, and versatile systems, allowing for better energy efficiency and reduced costs.

One of the key advantages of CXL is its ability to provide a high-speed interface between CPUs and other accelerators. This can significantly reduce latency and improve performance in data centre applications such as machine learning, artificial intelligence, and big data analytics. CXL also provides a unified interface for memory, and computational resources, simplifying system design and management and improving resource utilisation.

CXL is highly scalable and efficient, allowing data centre operators to build systems that can scale up or down as needed without sacrificing performance or efficiency. By reducing the complexity and cost of memory management, CXL promises to improve the overall performance of data centre applications.

Just as Storage Area Networks (SANs) revolutionised how storage is managed in data centres, CXL is poised to transform how memory is utilised in server architectures. Like SANs, CXL offers a scalable and efficient solution to a critical problem in data centre architecture. As data centre applications have grown in complexity and demand, the need for faster and more efficient memory utilisation has become increasingly important. CXL provides the necessary bandwidth and performance to keep up with these demands, allowing companies to build systems that can scale up or down as needed without sacrificing performance or efficiency.

CXL is a game-changing technology that promises to transform memory utilisation in data centres. With its scalability, versatility, and energy efficiency, CXL will play a critical role in the future of server architecture. The developments presented at Tech Field Day 27 highlight the exciting advancements and demonstrate the potential for CXL to revolutionise the data centre industry, just as SANs did for storage.

If, like me, you are new to the concepts of CXL, I highly recommend you watch the presentation by the CXL Consortium below. Also, be sure to check out the websites of the CXL presenters for more information, the links are below.

Astera Labs

CXL

MemVerge

Commvault has recently released its semi-annual platform release introducing new capabilities across the hybrid cloud. Check out my video and doodle below for more information regarding what you can expect in this release.

Features within this release include

• Google Cloud Regional Snapshot support

• New Data Protection support for DevOps Protection

• Oracle Compute Infrastructure (OCI) Storage Tiering

• Improved backup times for Hadoop File Systems (HDFS)

• Enhanced security integrations with Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) platforms

• Compliance Lock – Protect critical data with immutable storage

• Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

• New security enhancements & certifications help improve security posture and compliance.

In my doodle below, you can see my thoughts and further information about this release.

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Further to this, Commvault has released a blog post drilling into these features
Commvault Platform Release 2023

You can now watch the Commvault webinar covering this release on demand using the button below.

Whilst at VMware Explore in Barcelona I attended this awesome session regarding the new features in vSphere 8. This session was hosted by Dave Morera and Himanshu Singh both from VMware. Much of the session focused on how vSphere 8 can now be used in many hybrid configuration with vSphere+ as well as the new hardware architectures allowing vSphere to make use of DPU’s for offloading of processing.

If you would like to read more about vSphere 8 be sure to check out the blog linked below.

What's New in vSphere 8? | VMware

You can see my doodle below capturing my key thoughts from the session.

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The roadmap session was the third session I created a doodle for at Commvault Connections 2022. Be sure to check out the other blog posts and doodles at the links below.

1. Commvault Connections Keynote

2. Customer Panel

3. Roadmap

The roadmap session built upon the fundamental principles of the Commvault strategy with further insight into the direction and products that are coming. It is clear that Commvault takes a high level of pride in its ability to connect with its users, their community and listen to what is needed. One of the statistics that was shared was the fact that four hundred product enhancements in the last year have come from direct customer feedback.

Key to the Commvault strategy are the following three principles

1. End-to-end data visibility

2. Broadest Workload Protection

3. Faster Business Response

You can see further detail regarding the announcements and planned focus areas in the doodle below.

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Commvault Connections was a great opportunity not only to hear an update from Commvault on their strategy but also to get insight into wider technology trends and real-life insights from customers. Across the conference, I created doodles for three of the sessions. You can find the links to the other sessions below.

1. Commvault Connections Keynote

2. Customer Panel

3. Roadmap

Keynote Thoughts

The keynote was led by Commvault’s fantastic CEO, Sanjay Mirchandani. Sanjay is a great keynote speaker, always giving great clarity and getting through the fluff to the points that matter.

There was a theme across the conference about innovating with confidence. The keynote set about explaining what this means and the backstory behind how we got to where we are today.

Ultimately IT professionals are now responsible for delivering the dreams of the organisation and its leaders. But delivering the dreams isn’t enough on its own it needs to be done in a managed and secure way.

To deliver these dreams, IT and business professionals have turned to SaaS applications and multiple cloud resources to achieve what is needed. Whilst these disparate resources have allowed for an increase in innovation and a reduction in time to value, it has led to massive complexity around security and data protection.

Mirchandani explained that your data has a higher value to not only you but also attackers, which has led to an increased need to protect and secure.

He explained that IT professionals need the right tools to gain control of these disparate workloads, offering the confidence to the business that they can innovate with confidence whilst IT ensures that everything is professionally managed, protected, and secure. These tools are exactly what Commvault sets to deliver.

Several technologies were discussed to help with this overall goal. This included Metallic Threatwise, an early warning system that proactively baits, deceives, and surfaces bad actors. Threatwise makes it harder for hackers to find your organisation’s valuable data, reducing their dwell time to help ensure you aren’t compromised. This was a completely different approach from those I have heard of before, especially for it to be included as part of a data management platform. I look forward to digging more into this in the future.

Also discussed was Commvault’s breadth of portfolio, offering protection across not only a wide range of solutions but also across on-premises and cloud technology with a unified management solution in their Command Center product.

It was clear that Commvault’s approach focuses on simplicity and flexibility across its portfolio.

You can see my doodle from the keynote below, covering the key elements that stood out to me.

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My second session at ChefConf 2022 was ‘Config Management Isn’t Dead’ by Brittney Woods, Manager - Server Automation, H&R Block.

This was a great session based on Brittney’s learned experiences using Chef for config management across multiple roles. Brittney is a fantastic presenter and hopefully, we get to meet her hermit crab and hamster in her next presentation 😄.

This really is a session you must watch to get the most out of the content

https://prgress.co/3cSJtgI

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My main take ways from this session were as follows

1. Configuration Management is about much more than deployment alone. It is about continuously managing you configuration. Only with good config management and compliance can you understand drift over time and ensure your solutions remain in compliance.

2. Configuration management is about much more than just VMs. Configuration management extends to containers and the cloud as well.

3. Using configuration management to manage images for VMs and containers can ensure compliance and expedite delivery.

4. Configuration management can and should be integrated with infrastructure automation platforms like Terraform.

5. Chef can be used to ensure that your resources always comply with CIS benchmarks and DISA-STIGs etc

6. Config Management is a critical component to allow the barrier for entry to be lowered for developers who need to innovate faster whilst ensuring security and compliance

Watch the session for yourself

https://prgress.co/3cSJtgI

Disclaimer: Tech Doodles through Tech Crossing Limited has been paid by Progress to create content covering ChefConf22. Whilst Tech Crossing Limited and the authors of this blog post have been paid to create the content, there has been no influence or editorial control by Progress.

The first session I attended at ChefConf 2022 was the roadmap session with Prashanth Nanjundappa, VP of Product Management Progress Chef.

You can watch the session yourself at the link below.

https://prgress.co/3ARHT6N

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Prashanth was joined by his colleagues to review the progress they have made over the last year and their plans for the year ahead.

Presenting alongside Prashanth was:-

Stephen Blankenship - Principal Product Manager - Infra, Desktop and Application Delivery

Sharan Rayakar - Principal Product Manager - Compliance and Security

Nischal Reddy - Principal Product Manager - Platform and Cloud

Looking Back

Over the last year, it was discussed how there had been a focus on making the products easier to use as well as ensuring they deliver quicker time to value.

To this end the following features have been worked upon or improved over the last year.

1. Flexible deployment models

   1. On-Premises

   2. Chef SaaS

   3. Marketplace Deployments (Azure and AWS)

   4. High-Availability Deployment Models

2. Automation of Infra Views

   1. Allowing users to undertake increased management tasks from the UI rather than just the command interface. This makes the product easier to use and to pick up for inexperienced users whilst advanced users can continue to use the command interface.

3. Data Feed

   1. Send Chef Client Run and Compliance Scan data to 3rd party tools like IT Asset Management and Config management solutions.

      1. Webhook Integrations

         1. ServiceNow

         2. Splunk

         3. ELK

         4. Custom

      2. Storage Integrations

         1. Amazon S3

         2. minio

4. IoT and Edge Management

   1. Using Chef Habitat to manage all applications and dependencies across and IoT estate.

      1. This has been proven to save management time and increase efficiencies.

5. Chef Cloud Security - Chef CSPM

   1. Chef Cloud Security allows users to assess their cloud infrastructures in AWS, Azure and GCP against up-to-date best practise and compliance guidelines.

   2. Container orchestration platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes are also supported.

6. New Audit and Remediation Content for Chef Compliance

   1. A large amount of new audit and remediation content has been added to Chef Compliance, allowing support for new and updated OS’s and Apps.

Looking Forward

As the session turned to look at the roadmap there was a discussion regarding how Progress had engaged with their users and the Chef community to decide upon the roadmap items. The highest voted requests were, Easy upgrades, support for scheduling push jobs, integration with IT operational support systems, support for agentless models and the ability to manage container environments.

Based upon this feedback the forward-looking roadmap is going to focus on the following three areas 1. Ease of Use and Upgrades, 2. Job Orchestration and 3. Hybrid Cloud and SaaS. It was explained how moving forward they are going to take a platform approach building a unified and extendable Enterprise Automation Platform.

Key messages from the roadmap included

• General Availability of Chef SaaS at the beginning of 2023

• Persona-related insights to be added to Compliance and Security, allowing users to identify relevant insights quickly and to remediate as required.

• Chef CPSM will have improved flows with fewer clicks allowing quicker time to value across an increasing number of cloud resources.

• The Chef Client will support rolling updates and centralised management with the ability to support two client versions simultaneously for cookbook compatibility.

• Job Orchestration Service - Will have a push-centric model with granular control allowing jobs to be run on a reoccurring basis with exception supported. It will also support jobs to be run based upon conditions.

• Workstation will have the introduction of a frequent actions UI

  • Based upon user research, it will enable new team members and non “Chef experts” to be productive in Chef faster.

Watch the session: https://prgress.co/3ARHT6N

Conclusion

It was interesting to hear directly from the people managing the products, learning what had been implemented over the last year and the direction of the products moving forward. I was impressed by how the product roadmap had been driven by direct feedback from the users and the community.

It was clear there is a big focus on ease of use and value to the users. I particularly like the sound of the SaaS platform for ease of adoption, the persona-based insights, and the ability to check cloud infrastructure compliance quickly and easily.

You can watch the session yourself at the link below.

https://prgress.co/3ARHT6N

Disclaimer: Tech Doodles through Tech Crossing Limited has been paid by Progress to create content covering ChefConf22. Whilst Tech Crossing Limited and the authors of this blog post have been paid to create the content, there has been no influence or editorial control by Progress.

Recently I joined Commvault to discuss the challenges with data protection as organisations embrace the cloud.

You are able to watch the recent webinar where I spoke on this subject alongside Commvault’s Marc Lucas and Ronnie Kaftal here >> Commvault-Spotlight on Digital Transformation.

The doodle below summarises the areas for discussion in the webinar.

Most of us at the moment are seeing fast adoption of cloud based services such as SaaS like Microsoft 365 or IaaS with platforms like Azure, AWS, Google Cloud and more. Whilst these services help organisations accelerate innovation and remove the burden of many administrative functions, there is still the need to manage and protect the data.

In this situation it isn’t uncommon for many point fix solutions to be implemented. This fixes the problem in a specific area but equally leads to a fragmentation of points of management, policy and monitoring.

This is where Commvault comes in unifying data management and protection across on-premises and the cloud, across tradition applications and modern applications.

Metallic is Commvault’s data management as a service platform, it uses the same code base as the on-premises version but delivered a full cloud service and importantly you have a single point of management on-premises and in the cloud with their Control Center management plane.

Operators further get to choose where the data they wish to protect is stored with three different storage plane options.

1. Full SaaS storage plane delivered as part of the service in a local Azure Region or with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

2. Bring your own storage from private cloud, public cloud or on-premises options.

3. Commvault’s HSX appliances .

During the webinar we saw how the Metallic platform allowed data to be managed across all infrastructure and application areas.

• Demo One - Backup of a VM rom Nutanix being recovered to Azure

• Demo Two - An Azure VM being backed-up to Metallic Cloud Storage and recovered to AWS

• Demo Three - A SQL server database on-premises being recovered to a cloud based PaaS solution

• Demo Four - Kubernetes and Database backup via Metallic.

Conclusion

It has been really good to work with Commvault to understand their offerings for hybrid-cloud management. Commvault aren’t a company that has gone and acquired companies to fix gaps in their portfolio, they have built the integrations from scratch and importantly unlike some others this results in a single management plane.

If you would like to learn more about Metallic you can check out the website below

SaaS Backup & Recovery Solutions for Data Protection & Compliance (metallic.io)

Disclaimer: Tech Doodles through Tech Crossing Limited has been paid by Commvault to create content covering the Metallic product set. Whilst Tech Crossing Limited and the authors of this blog post have been paid to create the content, there has been no influence or editorial control by Commvault.

Dell Tech World 2022 was important for two reasons. First, this was the first Dell Tech World since the spin-off of VMware. Second this was one of the first major in person tech conferences since the start of the COVID pandemic.  

I didn’t make it out to Vegas this year but tuned in online, after all we are now in the era of flexibility and freedom. Attend any major conference, from anywhere and on any device or something like that.  

As a long time, VMware vExpert, Dell Partner and Technologist, keeping up to date with what is going on in the world of infrastructure is of high importance to me.  

There were several themes covering Dell Tech World 2022, these being flexible and hybrid working, multi-cloud, cyber protection or resilience and the power of data.  

During Michael Dell’s Monday keynote, he spoke about the on-prem / off-prem debate being over. He said that the future is in multi-cloud with data flowing seamlessly across.   

90% of customers already have workloads on-premises and in public clouds and 75% are using three or more clouds 

Michael Dell – Dell Tech World 2022 Keynote 

Dell wants to be the leader in multi-cloud and at the edge. He spoke about the rise in use cases such as IoT and highly automated environments requiring new edge computing solutions near the source of the data. This is an area Dell will be able to excel in due to their hardware offerings and close relationship with VMware despite the spin-off.  

10% of data today is processed outside of datacentres, but by 2025 75% of enterprise data will be processed at the edge.  

Michael Dell – Dell Tech World 2022 Keynote 

However due to this growth in data, Michael Dell explained that the attack surface will also be bigger for cyberattacks.  

Ransomware attacks are the #1 threat for most organisations and are occurring every 11 seconds. With an average cost of $13m per occurrence.   

Michael Dell – Dell Tech World 2022 Keynote 

Dell have been innovating in these spaces and desire to create an end-to-end integrated path. What really stood out for me at Dell Tech World was many of the big announcements were all about services or software. Dell, a well-known hardware giant is certainly investing a lot in these areas to be relevant in this multi-cloud as-a-service world.  

Central to this is Dell APEX, Dell’s as-a-Service portfolio. Michael Dell spoke about APEX being focused on business outcomes and being accessible to developers. APEX was announced last year at Dell Tech World as a companywide transformation to as-a-Service. Chuck Whitten spoke of the principles of APEX being simplicity, agility and control in the multi-cloud world.   

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Previously announced within the APEX portfolio was APEX Cloud Service with VMware Cloud and APEX Backup Services.  

At Dell Tech World ‘22 we saw the announcement of APEX Cyber Recovery Services with the promise of further APEX services to come including high-performance computing, machine learning operations, VDI and more.  

APEX Cyber Recovery Services is run and managed by Dell, offering a secure immutable cyber recovery vault for workload replication. Customers should be able to be reassured of their ability to recover from a cyberattack whilst benefiting from being able to offload the day-to-day tasks to Dell.  

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But the innovation towards multi-cloud didn’t end there. There were announcements from both the data protection and storage divisions further embracing integration with the public cloud.   

CyberSense for AWS – Uses adaptive analytics, machine learning and forensic tools to detect, diagnose and help with cyber recovery operations. Dell say this will allow you to diagnose and recover quickly within AWS.  

PowerProtect Cyber Recovery for Azure – Available from the Azure marketplace next month, this will allow you to isolate and protect workloads from ransomware attacks. You will get an isolated data centre environment via an isolated recovery vault. Data is replicated from production with minimal access for data protection. When it comes to recovery you can recover on-premises or within Azure.  

Also demonstrated at the conference was Project Alpine. Project Alpine offers Software Defined Storage capabilities to expand Dell’s storage portfolio to the cloud. Demonstrated was the ability to connect storage from a PowerStore device to the public cloud. Google Cloud, Azure and AWS were shown on screen during the demo.  

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The final big announcement was regarding a partnership with Snowflake, a cloud data platform vendor. With this partnership users of Dell’s object storage will be able to move data to Snowflake’s cloud platform for analytics and warehouse capabilities. Secondly, you will be able to leverage snowflakes capabilities on-premises without the need to move the data. 

For me, Dell Tech World is a positive step in the right direction for Dell. They are wanting to maximise their capabilities and reach with their hardware solutions by embracing the public cloud with their software solutions and services capabilities. For me it now all comes down to the execution and how we see these solutions being delivered and utilised by the customers. I look forward to seeing the Project Alpine and the APEX solutions in action.  

Here is my third and final doodle from the F5 NGINX Sprint 2.0 event that I have been attending with the Tech Field Day Delegates.

During the sessions the specialists at NGINX ran the journey of modernising enterprise applications incorporating the components with NGINX including, NGNIX, NGINX Plus, NGINX App Protect, NGINX Instance Manage, Contoller and much more

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I’ve enjoyed learning about NGINX and the NGINX portfolio during the Sprint 2.0 event. I hadn’t previously had much experience with NGINX, and now after Sprint 2.0, I understand how enterprise organisations are using NGINX’s open source applications and commercial applications to solve day two operational issues.

I think it is excellent for NGINX and their customers that there will be further investment and focus on open source products and engagement. This is clearly an area that attracts new customers through the developer community but then drives new customers to the commercial products when day 2 problems need to be solved by the operations team.

I was also particularly impressed by the F5 integration in the portfolio with technologies such as App Protect but as well as this there is claear delination between NGINX and F5 Big-IP with Big-IP focusing on traditional applications and NGINX on modern adaptable applications.

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As described in my earlier blog post I have been attending F5 NGINX Sprint this week, this blog post focuses on the second half of the initial day which looked at the announcements, commitments as well as a Q&A with Gus Robertson and Rob Whiteley.

During the first day of the conference, there were three commitments and three (and one bonus!) announcements.

These were as follows

Commitment 1

Increase open source development and encourage community contribution

Commitment 2

Continue to innovate the data plane of modern, cloud-native applications

Commitment 3

Create a clear and consistent open-source vs commercial demarcation

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Announcement 1

NGINX is joining forces with the Kubernetes community

Announcement 2

NGINX will release new open-source projects at every layer of the delivery stack

Announcement 3

NGINX Modern Apps Reference Architecture

Bonus Announcement

NGINX unveiled a new interactive community experience that is now arriving.

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Thoughts Regarding the Announcements and Commitments

The commitments and announcements were firmly focused on the community, whether that is the user community or the wider open source community. Learning about NGINX’s history it is clear that their commitment to open source and the community has been core to their business, now part of F5 they are wanting to renew this commitment and demonstrate how being part of F5 means they are able to dedicate more time, people and money to the community and open source programmes which undoubtedly would have been a concern for some after acquisition.

The Modern Apps Reference Architecture (MARA) is aimed to help people spin up a complete and fully operational microservices architecture quickly and easily. MARA integrates open source solutions from NGINX and partners that are pre-wired and preconfigured meaning it is fully production-ready. This means that DevOps teams can easily access MARA from the GitHub repo and deploy it in production with minimal frustration.

You can access the MARA GitHub Repo here.

Tech Field Day Q&A with Gus Robertson and Rob Whiteley

To finish the day I was lucky enough to be part of the Tech Field Day panel for the Q&A with Gus Robertson and Rob Whiteley. I highly recommend watching this session when available and I will update this post with the link. During this session, there were some great questions from the delegates looking at the technology, community, open-source commitment as well as the commercial model and why people should choose to opt for a paid commercial model at the appropriate time. I was particularly impressed with how NGINX has not only managed to appeal to the operation teams via their commercial offerings that meet day 2 needs around scale, performance and security as well as appealing to developers with the open-source offerings and community engagement.

I was particularly interested in the possibility of AI and ML services being developed in the future leveraging the position of the NGINX technologies in the data plane. They spoke about looking to leverage this position in the future in conjunction with AI and ML to offer, predictive analytics to help scale and grow or prevent issues but also to offer business insights regarding the customer journey based upon the insights they could see.

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You can re-watch the sessions from NGINX Sprint 2.0 and find out more about the NGINX technologies at https://www.nginx.com

With my fellow Tech Field Day delegates, we attended NGINX Sprint 2.0. Below is my first doodle from the first day's sessions.

This doodle covers the changing face of applications and the impact the Covid period has had on transformation. Some of the thoughts NGINX customers Audi and Blackrock had on why they selected NGINX for their modern applications. I particularly liked Blackrocks session that explored their R3SPs for application deployment and how NGINX met these. These were

Resilience

Scale

Security

Stability

Performance

Finally, the doodle shows the significant changes that NGINX has made to their platforms since the last sprint event.

As NGINX is relatively new to me, what impressed me was the ability for their products to support both developers and ops with modern application deployments, allowing scale, simplicity of deployment and flexibility alongside enhanced security thanks to the integrated F5 technologies.

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The below graphic shows the different components within the NGINX portfolio, these include

NGINX Plus - An all in one load balancer, content cache and web server

NGINX Controller - Manage load balancers, API gateways and service mesh deployments at scale

NGINX App Protect - Modern app security powered by F5 WAF technology running on NGINX Plus

NGINX Unit - Dynamic application server with a REST API driven configuration

NGINX Ingress Controller - Ingress load balancing on kubernetes platforms

NGINX Instance Manager - Configure, Scale and manage your open source and enterprise configurations across your business

NGINX Service Mesh - Secure service to service management of both north south and east west traffic in kubernetes environments

NGINX Amplify - Cloud hosts monitoring and statistical analysis for NGINX and NGINX Plus

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There are so many tips and tricks that we could share to ensure you make the most out of VMworld. Whilst these tips differ slightly than if the event were in person (where we would be telling you to wear comfortable shoes), below we have included our top tips to ensure you make the most out of this year's virtual event (and fingers crossed the last virtual one we have to attend).

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Book the time out!

The problem with a virtual event can be the temptation to tune in whilst you are still trying to keep up with business as usual! So our advice would be to treat it like an in-person event, get permission from your boss to attend and dedicate the time to it!

Think about what you want to achieve by attending the conference

Before picking your sessions, think about what you want to achieve by attending the conference. What projects are coming up at work, or what skills gaps do you or your organisation have that you can use your time attending VMworld to achieve? Maybe write yourself a shortlist of questions to answer with your attendance!

Build your agenda

Taking the above in mind, take the time before the event to look at the session catalogue and add the sessions to your agenda using the session builder. Without doing this, it can be overwhelming selecting which sessions to watch during the event due to the pure amount of content to choose from (like a child in a sweet shop).

Filter sessions in the session catalogue

With so many sessions and fantastic content, it can sometimes be difficult to filter through to find relevant information. Therefore, in the session catalogue, we recommend using the filters on the left of the page to filter by session type, product, track, topic, level and more. This will help you find the sessions that are relevant to you.

Get involved in the community

One of the best bits of VMworld is the community engagement throughout every aspect of the event, whether during a keynote, walking around the exhibition hall or during the events in the evening. This is definitely one of the key elements that we miss with events being virtual at the moment, but that isn't to say that the community feel isn't there. So get involved in the conversation on Twitter using #VMworld2021 and engage with the community, share your thoughts, opinions and of course, share others content to help promote their content too!

We will be joining the conference and sharing our thoughts with the community on Twitter, so follow us at VirtualisedReal and BizTechMeg!

Get comfortable and avoid the distractions

When the time has come for your to tune in for VMworld 2021, get comfortable (maybe tune in from your TV in the lounge!), bring your snacks, set your out of office, turn on do not disturb in Teams and tune in! We recommend taking notes during the sessions, but if that doesn't suit you, reserve time in your agenda to reflect on what you have learnt and note the actions you wish to take with this newfound knowledge!

We hope you find these tips useful and enjoy your virtual trip to VMworld 2021!

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It's that time of year again where I start looking forward to conference season and at the top of my agenda is always VMworld, VMware’s multi-cloud event. Sadly with COVID still lingering on, I won't be making my usual pilgrimage to VMworld in Barcelona but enjoying it from the comfort of my own home.

VMworld this year will be the first VMworld since 2012 (I believe) where Pat Gelsinger is no longer CEO, but don't threat, VMware is in safe hands with Raghu Raghuram at the helm. Raghu Gaghuram isn't a new face at VMware, and those who have attended VMworld before like I will be very used to seeing him on stage. Nonetheless, it will be exciting to see Raghu take the stage and see what the future of VMware looks like under him.

If you haven’t already registered for VMworld, ensure to head over there now and get registered.

For me, there are three important things about attending VMworld 

1. Understand where our industry is going, how VMware is talking about their technologies, and the shifts we are seeing. For this, I look for strategic and high-level sessions.

2. Dive deep into the Technology so I understand how it works and how it will benefit my customers. For this, I look for architecture and deep-dive sessions.

3. Spend time with the vCommunity including, community members, VMware employees and partners. This is more difficult when the conference is virtual, but head over to Twitter, connect with the vCommunity and follow the hashtags! You can follow me @virtualisedreal

As Chief Technologist, I have a broad remit of technologies I follow and talk to customers about. So the list below represents some of the areas that are of interest to me. I have tried to link to all the sessions so you can easily find them and then add them to your schedule when the schedule builder is launched.

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Inspire Change

Accessibility with Productivity Apps - Design Studio [UX2553]

Join us as we dive into what accessibility is and how we are working towards a future that includes all people regardless of limitations in tech - Does your organization offer solutions that adhere to current accessibility standards? Learn and give us feedback on what is important to your organization when it comes to accessibility for your teams. VMware Design Studios are interactive sessions exploring technical previews and early design ideas. Participants will be asked to sign an NDA.

Ajayan Subramanian, UX Designer, VMware

 Any App, Any Cloud, Any Device Is Not Enough – We Need to Add Any User [IC1351]

VMware's solutions strive to achieve secure digital transformation without disruption for a digital foundation, and deliver any app, on any cloud, to any device. This is frequently summarized as the three anys in VMware's advertising. The missing any is any user. This talk will address what VMware is doing to add the fourth any—any user, including users with disabilities. It will also discuss what users need to do to integrate the fourth any in their organizations.

Sheri Byrne-Haber, Senior Staff Accessibility Architect, VMware

Security

Addressing Malware and Advanced Threats in the Network [SEC2027]

Today’s reality is that security breaches are a given. Sophisticated attackers are too numerous and too determined to get caught by perimeter defenses. Hear insights into how the adversaries are evading defenses and focuses on how the Network Detection and Response capabilities of NSX Advanced Threat Prevention provide the visibility, detection and prevention of advanced threats.

Chad Skipper, Global Security Technologist, VMware

Giovanni Vigna, Sr. Director Threat Intelligence, VMware

A Practical Approach for End-to-End Zero Trust [SEC2733]

Digital transformations around app modernization, multi-cloud infrastructure, and remote users has accelerated the need to move away from perimeter-only security to a more distributed security with tighter access controls to resources. Zero trust approach aims to address the security challenges but can seem complex - from where to start and what’s in scope. In this session, we will discuss specific capabilities that will enable you to achieve a zero trust architecture that’s aligned to the NIST guidance and covers secure access for users as well secure access to workloads. 

Shawn Bass, CTO End User Computing, VMware

A Practical Guide to Implementing Zero Trust [SEC1028]

What is Zero Trust, and how can you get started? A new model of working from anywhere on any device requires a new model of network security. Zero Trust, born from the concept of “never trust, always verify,” assumes that no device, person, network or packet can be trusted, and builds access privileges from there. Zero Trust network access moves from a network-centric security process to an identity- and context-based security approach. These modern concepts help leverage the security and benefits of a cloud-hosted solution, while easing IT deployment and maintenance of costly remote access services. In this session, we will take a practical approach on how to start on your Zero Trust journey using VMware Secure Access.

Peter Bjork, Principal Architect, VMware 

Better Secure Remote Workers with VMware Carbon Black Cloud [SEC2666]

The Anywhere Workspace brings together management and security for remote workers. Although this vision solves the challenge of remote work for IT and security teams, it begins with an innovative approach to security. This session will focus on how VMware Carbon Black Cloud can meet the endpoint security needs for your organization within the context of the VMware Anywhere Workspace vision.

Elizabeth Schultheisz, PMM, VMware

Simplified Security with VMware Carbon Black Cloud [SEC2490]

As network breaches become more prevalent, are you confident your network can fend them off? Does the complexity of network security seem like a daunting task? If so, you will want to join us for a conversation about how VMware Carbon Black Cloud can make security easier and more efficient. Join us for a discussion on tips and tricks to make managing your endpoint security a little more effortless.

Jamie Kaushik, Senior Technical Trainer, VMware 

Multi-Cloud

A Guide to Application Migration Nirvana [MCL1264]

Have you experienced application migration paralysis? We have. Join this session to learn how VMware vRealize Network Insight uses application discovery and migration planning to understand your applications before migrating them, and then uses an integration into VMware HCX to seamlessly start migrating. We will spill the beans on how VMware IT and our customers solved their migration headaches. Through mostly demos, we will show how to: • Discover your application workloads • Map out application dependencies • Analyze network traffic to make informed decisions • Seamlessly move the discovered applications into VMware HCX • Migrate the applications to VMware Cloud on AWS, Azure VMware Solution, and Google Cloud VMware Engine

Martijn Smit, Technical Marketing Architect, VMware

Azure VMware Solution Best Practices for Implementation and Migration [MCL3114S]

Join us for an interactive discussion on best practices when implementing, migrating and managing your Azure VMware Solution environment. Learn from our Azure VMware Solution experts and their experiences working closely with customers throughout deployment, including how to optimize for different scenarios and how to leverage the best of VMware and Azure services.

Jeramiah Dooley, Principal Cloud Advocate, Microsoft

Shannon Kuehn, Cloud Advocate, Microsoft 

Azure VMware Solution: Platform Deep Dive [MCL3078S]

Explore the latest releases from Azure VMware Solution, including technical overviews for new integrations of popular disaster recovery and backup solutions such as VMware Site Recovery Manager and Zerto. Learn more about how to take advantage of new connectivity between your Azure VMware Solution environment and other Azure services for storage, management, security and more.

Ramprasad Gowrishankar, Principal PM, Microsoft

Benefits of Azure Virtual Desktop and VMware Horizon Cloud Service [MCL3093S]

Learn about the latest product updates and benefits. Ask your critical questions to our panel of experts from Microsoft and VMware.

Gabe Knuth, Sr. Product Line Marketing Manager, VMware

John Jenner, Microsoft

Strategy and Vision to Accelerate Cloud Provider and MSP Growth [MCL2075]

The opportunity for cloud providers, MSPs and other partners continues to grow. VMware is committed to helping our world-class ecosystem of cloud providers, MSPs and solutions providers take advantage of the multi-cloud opportunity. In this session, you will hear from our product leaders and experts on our strategy and vision for cloud partners. You will learn about our latest products and solutions to help providers develop hyperscaler-class clouds, new services available through an asset-light model, and how we’re embracing the multi-cloud world to help partners grow and thrive with greater choice for their customers.

Rajeev Bhardwaj, VMware  

App Modernisation

Adopting Containers Through VMware Tanzu - The Benefits [MCL2874S]

Adopting agile and cloud-native development methods and tools is key to the future success of many businesses. Most businesses adopted virtualization many years ago to increase the efficiency and utilization of their IT estate and are now seeking ways to take that investment forward into the cloud-native world. For VMware customers, Tanzu provides a clear path towards that goal and the business benefits that it can yield. As one of VMware’s top partners and also a Gartner leader in Multicloud, helping customers adopt a more developer-centric approach to cloud-native development through the adoption of containers and Kubernetes is core to Rackspace Technology VMware services.

Amine El Badaoui, Product Architect, Rackspace

An End-to-End Demo of Day 0 to Day 2 VMware Tanzu Management with vRealize [APP1586]

In this session, we will take you through a Day 1 and beyond demonstration of how VMware vRealize Automation, vRealize Operations, vRealize Log Insight, and vRealize Network Insight can come together to deploy, manage and troubleshoot Kubernetes...

Matt Bradford, Sr. Technical Marketing Architect, VMware

Sam McGeown, Staff Technical Marketing Architect, VMware

 A Guide to vSphere with VMware Tanzu: Day 2 Operations for the VI Admin [APP1718]

This session will cover the basics of Kubernetes architecture, and day 2 operations when deployed on vSphere. As the Virtual Infrastructure administrator, the more you know about the software that runs on top of your platform, the better service...

Simon Conyard, Senior Solution Engineer, VMware

Dean Lewis, Senior Solutions Engineer – Cloud Management, VMware

What's New in vSphere [APP1205]

This is the anchor session for all VMworld attendees interested in VMware vSphere, and it is a VMworld staple. We will provide an overview of all that’s new in vSphere this year, discuss key technology trends and customer challenges, share how the latest capabilities in vSphere help customers meet the needs for key use cases, and highlight some real-world customer successes. We will also provide guidance on key sessions on related topics that attendees should not miss at VMworld. This session is where you want to start your VMworld 2021 journey.

Himanshu Singh, Group Manager, VMware

Ken Werneburg, Director of Technical Marketing, VMware

Application Migration Patterns [CODE2750]

Every organization is looking to migrate their applications to the cloud or cloud-native. I will share my learnings from the application modernisation/migration experience at VMware (for customer) and in enterprises (pre-VMWare). I begin where the 5R discussion ends. Answering the critical "How" part of the undertaking.

Yogi Rampuria, Advisory Platform Architect, VMware

End-User Services

Advanced Architectures for Deploying Horizon in the Cloud [EUS1129]

This session will dive into many of the advanced VMware Cloud on AWS design considerations and topologies that impact delivering VMware Horizon on VMware Cloud on AWS. These design considerations and topologies are not limited to Horizon. We will also dive deep into integration with AWS and connectivity options. We will review architectures deployed by VMware Professional Services to show real-life applications of how Horizon on VMware Cloud on AWS met desired business outcomes. We will review additional cloud offerings that can host Horizon, such as Azure VMware Solution and Google Cloud VMware Engine, and outline the similarities and differences of these solutions.

Bob Barna, Consulting Architect, VMware 

Architecting Multi-Cloud Horizon [EUS1547]

Learn how to architect multi-cloud VMware Horizon deployments. This technical session will cover the deployment options and platforms available, including Horizon, Horizon Cloud Service on Microsoft Azure, Horizon on VMware Cloud on AWS, Horizon on Azure VMware Solution, and Horizon on Google Cloud VMware Engine. Find out how Horizon Control Plane Services, such as Universal Broker and Image Management Service, aid in both administration and user access.

Chris Halstead, Senior Staff Architect, VMware

Hilko Lantinga, Staff Architect, VMware 

Ask Me Anything from the End-User Computing Experts [EUS2636]

Meet the End User Computing experts, bring your questions and ask us anything (as long as it is slightly related to EUC)! These experts are prepared to answer your toughest questions spanning from virtual desktops and apps, unified endpoint management, security, to practical tips and tricks, successful implementations...the list goes on.

Christopher Dayton, Director, VMware

Spencer Pitts, Chief Technologist, VMware 

Drop It Like It's Hot Reloaded: The Windows Dropship Session is Back [EUS1581]

A DeskCon experience session. With IT teams and employees working from home and offices facing extended closures, how are you provisioning and deploying new Windows desktops and laptops to new hires and employees due for a refresh? Planning a Windows 10 zero-touch device provisioning experience for your users? We will deep dive into everything you need to know about drop-ship provisioning, including factory and connected provisioning. Modernizing deployment can be challenging and overwhelming with many dependencies on other technologies. Come learn what it takes to make this a reality.

Ameya Jambavalikar, Senior Product Manager, VMware

Josh Burris, Staff Architect, VMware 

Now, Next, and Beyond: Innovation Showcase with VMware EUC CTO Shawn Bass [EUS2467]

Shawn Bass, CTO for VMware EUC, gives a closer look at the new innovations in Workspace ONE, Horizon, and Anywhere Workspace. Learn how VMware thinks about the future of technology for end-user computing, Zero Trust security, and distributed work. This session also serves as the introduction to our VDIscover track for Day 2 of VMworld.

Shawn Bass, CTO End User Computing, VMware 

The Accidental VDI Admin: Carl Webster’s Analysis of Horizon 8 [EUS2460]

He’s back. Last year, Carl Webster spent six weeks testing VMware Horizon 7.12, building and tearing down his lab 5 times and shared his findings in a wildly popular VDIscover session. This year, Carl will share his experiences with Horizon 8. Carl’s background includes independently working with VDI and app publishing products like Citrix for over 30 years. Whether you were or weren’t able to attend his session last year, this is going to be one you won’t want to miss.

Carl Webster, Owner, CarlWebster.com

Brian Madden, Distinguished Technologist, VMware 

Vision and Innovation

Fireside Chat with Michael J. Fox and VMware CMO Carol Carpenter [VI3148]

Emmy-award-winning actor, author and patient advocate Michael J. Fox sits down with VMware Chief Marketing Officer Carol Carpenter to discuss his life and his passion to help find a cure to Parkinson’s disease. Other topics include maintaining inherent optimism while managing many challenges, balancing a career, family and charity work and sharing how technology and research can help pave a path for a cure Michael J. Fox is an award-winning actor, best-selling author and patient advocate. Fox was diagnosed with young-onset Parkinson's disease and years later launched The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research in 2000. Since then, Fox has been a steadfast advocate for research and patients and through it all, has continued his acting career and written 4 books including his most recent memoir, No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality, published in November 2020.

Carol Carpenter, CMO, VMware

Michael J. Fox 

Accelerating Innovation: Strategies for Winning Across Clouds and Apps [GEN3103]

What’s the best way to speed up business innovation? How can you deliver apps and services faster to improve the customer experience? Is it possible to maximize cloud advantages while avoiding the slow-you-down trade-offs of the past? There’s no better way to open VMworld 2021 than with a look at strategies to accelerate your business. Join CEO Raghu Raghuram as he lays out his vision for the future of multi-cloud technology, providing a view into the innovations VMware is driving at the intersection of clouds and apps. He will explore how leading organizations are challenging the status quo to move fast, gain a competitive advantage and stay secure. VMware President Sumit Dhawan will share a perspective on how VMware is delivering the critical capabilities that every digital business needs, with a special focus on the first-hand experience of VMware customers around the world. In this must-see session, you can expect a mix of new insights, practical info and a good dose of inspiration for accelerating your own business and technology success.

Raghu Raghuram, CEO, VMware

Sumit Dhawan, President, VMware

If you have not yet registered for VMworld 2021, register now and start building your schedule!

With VMworld just around the corner and coming around before we know it, now is a great time to look at the schedule, understand what sessions will be included, and build your schedule for the event.

If you have not yet registered for VMworld 2021 - register now!

Once you have registered, take a look at all the fantastic sessions and build your schedule!

This year I am taking a keen interest in security and employee experience. With so much changing throughout 2020, I perceive these two areas as the biggest impacted and needed to adapt quickly. Furthermore, these changes need to be future proof for the world of 'new normal'. Below are the top sessions I recommend you add to your schedule for VMworld 2021!

Achieving Happiness: The Quest for something new [IC1484] – Amanda Belvins & Steve Athanas

After 2020 and 2021, not the years we had planned, it has changed our view on many things. Ensuring I always put my happiness first is crucial, and the pandemic highlighted the importance of this for me. I think the fact that VMware are including sessions around wellbeing, happiness and people in the agenda is incredible and speaks volumes.

Digital Employee Experience: The Key to a Successful Anywhere Workspace [EUS2069] – Amit Sharma

With a large percentage of the workforce now working remotely, employee experience from day 1 has changed drastically. Not only has the technology needed to adapt to accommodate this for onboarding, but the people, processes and culture have needed to adapt also. Technologies such as Workspace ONE enable businesses to monitor and automate employee engagement to allow businesses to proactively remediate actions to improve employee experience and further engage their workforce.

Another session related to this subject is: How to support a remote workforce with Workspace ONE [EUS1723] – Pooja Chengappa & Dany Leclerc

Next Year's News: EUC's Vision and Announcements with CTO Shawn Bass [EUS2470]

I always find that Shawn Bass’ EUC keynote session is one of my favourites at VMworld and one that I have always ensured I attend when I am at VMworld. It is not only great to hear the latest announcements about new features from VMware, but it is also always insightful to hear from Shawn about the reason behind the new features and bring it into context for businesses.

How to Improve Your Endpoint Security and Simplify Your Workflows [SEC2662] – Justin Flack

With data being completely segregated and dispersed due to the pandemic, businesses have to manage and secure data in new ways. This session will be engaging to understand VMware’s vision for security in terms of protection, detection and response.

Becoming a Force for Good: A Panel on Adapting to a Changing Tech Community [IC1352]

After the ex-CTO of VMware, Pat Gelsinger announced that Technology needs to be used for a force for good at VMworld 2019; it will be great to hear from the panellists about how VMware and their employees have been innovating and working to constantly deliver upon this vision.

The Time Is Now – Align Your Cybersecurity Needs and Objectives [SEC2390] – Martin Redler

With the cyber-security landscape constantly changing, businesses are having to change how they manage and secure data. This session will cover building a secure strategy to meet your businesses security objectives and protect data.

Multi-Cloud: Can It Solve Future Business Challenges? [MCL3016S]

With many organisations beginning to look at moving to the cloud, this session will inform and interesting to understand from real-life experiences how multi-cloud can solve business challenges. This session will deliver a large amount of advice for people looking to move to multi-cloud and hopefully answer some questions about it.

Register for VMworld 2021 now and build your schedule!

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