One of my favorite sessions at VMware Explore 2022 was the Microsoft General session. This may seem odd to many of you, but for me this is where I see many customers on their journey managing both VMware and Azure based technologies.

In this session Jeff Woolsey covered the Azure VMware Solution (vSphere running in Azure) and the Azure Arc technologies including Azure Arc for vSphere (Managing your vSphere environment from Azure).

For me it was a great session with a mixture of technical deep dive, evidence based case studies and demonstrations.

Here is my doodle.

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Here are my doodles from the VMworld 2022 General Session taking place in Barcelona. The key message behind the event was the need for organisations to move from a cloud first strategy to one of a cloud smart strategy.

You can read more on this on my blog post

There were lots of announcements covering VMware’s technologies from vSphere 8 and vSAN being GA, a free tier of VMware Aria Hub being made available and much more. you can check out most of the news from VMware in this post.

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