Delegate Pietro Piutti was able to see VMware present extensively on their vSphere offering at Tech Field Day this past March. In a recent post on his blog, Pietro does a deep dive on how to deploy and consume some modern apps on vSphere with Kubernetes. Be sure to check out Pietro’s post as well as the VMware presentations from Tech Field Day on our website!
VMware Cloud DR Is Good Enough?
Is VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery good enough for you? Ned Bellavance, delegate at Tech Field Day earlier this month, does a daily check-in to recap the VMware presentation on their Cloud Disaster Recovery product. He goes over the type of customer that this VMware offering would be best for, tune in to his video to find out if it’s for you!
Democratizing Kubernetes on VMware With vSphere With Tanzu
Tanzu, VMware’s portfolio of products to build, run, and manage Kubernetes controlled container-based applications is becoming more cohesive and organized, according to Pietro Piutti of The vGeek Blog
Tech Field Day 22: Delivering On-Demand, Easy to Use Disaster Recovery as a Service Solution With Cloud Economics
Tech Field Day 22 is coming! At the upcoming event we have a plethora of great sponsors including VMware. In a post on their Cloud Community blog, the good folks over at VMware preview their session and provide their intended agenda. We look forward to hearing from VMware about their Cloud Disaster Recovery offering and more in their presentations at Tech Field Day 22!
What vRealize Cloud Management Can Do for VMware Cloud on AWS
It was great to have VMware at Cloud Field Day earlier this month! In a blog post on their website, the VMware team walks through their three part presentation on what VMware Cloud Management can do for VMware Cloud on AWS. Check out their videos that walk through Planning and Migrating Applications, Managing Applications, and the Self-Service Hybrid Cloud. A big thank you to VMware for presenting such great content, we look forward to seeing them again soon!
Hybrid Cloud for Everyone
Is the promise of a Kubernetes-based hybrid cloud world still out of reach for many enterprises and businesses? Cloud Field Day 9 delegate, Founder and CEO, Holden Information Services, LLC; IT Professional; Writer; Analyst, Michael Stump says yes. The times of lift and shift and refactor are over, and VMware has recognized that its clients come from all spectrums of the cloud journey. Its suite of vRealize applications, particularly the vRealize Operations Manager tool, showcased during Cloud Field Day 9, assists in the planning stages of a cloud project at any stage of the cloud journey.
CFD9: VMware’s vRealize Cloud Journey Story
Nothing in enterprise IT is ideal, says Becky Elliot, Cloud Field Day delegate and enterprise IT expert. That includes lifting and shifting applications instead of modernizing them to make the most of cloud-native agility like containers and object storage. VMware presented at Cloud Field Day 9 and its vRealize Suite and its SaaS and Hybrid are designed to help organizations get to the cloud and shift from on-premises vSphere to VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC), perhaps at least partially solving the lift and shift problem.
TECHunplugged Videocast: Cloud Filed Day 9 Part 1
Veteran Field Day delegate Arjan Timmerman virtually attended Cloud Field Day earlier this month and had the chance to see a fantastic lineup of presenters. As we headed into event week, Arjan was looking forward to the presentations and previewed each of the presenting companies on his TECHunplugged videocast! If you haven’t seen it yet, be sure to check out Arjan’s preview on YouTube as well as all the presentations from Cloud Field Day on our website!
VMware vRealize Operations, Automation and VMware Network Insight
VMware kicked off Cloud Field Day last month by discussing their vRealize portfolio! Delegate Barry Coombs took a closer look at this in his Tech Doodles series. Barry notes that he was particularly impressed with how far VMware has come with delivering aaS options for the portfolio that have feature parity with the on-premises versions. Check out VMware’s full presentation on our website!
Project Monterey: What We Know So Far
On her blog, Gina Rosenthal compiles everything we know about the big “Project Monterey” announcement that came out of VMworld 2020 this year. Gina was a delegate at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld 2020 and got to be up front and center when Pensando, a partner on Project Monetary with VMware, presented a more in depth look on the new endeavor. For more information on Project Monterey, check out Gina’s blog which includes Pensando’s presentation!
Tech Field Day 21: Google’s VMware Managed Service
The LinkedIn explores Google Cloud’s new VMware Engine, as presented at Tech Field Day 21. The VMware Engine runs on high-performance hardware with 100 Gbps networking, and offers benefits like seamless migration, easy scaling, Rapid innovation, and self-service experiences. The author praises the offering’s ease of provisioning, its lift-and-shift capabilities, and its integration with other Google Cloud services, while noting that operational responsibilities like backup & DR, and monitoring would still be customer-responsibilities.
Tech Field Day 21: VMware Presents on Many Topics
Pete Welcher, a delegate at Tech Field Day in March, was impressed with VMware’s fast-paced and informational presentations. He writes about VMware’s jam-packed presentations including their focus on automation and orchestration of the datacenter in the cloud. We’re grateful for Pete’s time as a delegate and his recaps of event content from our Tech Field Day events! To check out VMware’s presentations, head on over to our website.
Building a Hybrid Cloud for Stateless Virtual Desktops With VMware Horizon on VMware Cloud on AWS
This past Spring there was a seemingly insurmountable mountain of challenges facing companies as they worked to migrate from offices to remote work. Through the transition, it was apparent that virtual desktops could help ease the burden for overworked IT teams. The VMware Horizon on VMware Cloud on AWS is one of the unique tools helping to simplify the transition caused by the pandemic. VMware’s technology makes the transition to and from different workspaces easier and greatly simplifies system updates. With the underlying infrastructure managed by VMware, IT administrators can place their focus and time elsewhere. Check out VMware’s presentations from Cloud Field Day on our website!
Better Late Than Never: Tech Field Day 21 Summary
Pete Welcher was one of the delegates at Tech Field Day earlier this year. Pete writes that he was impressed with all three presenters at Tech Field Day (Zerto, Google Cloud, and VMware) and writes about how each brought their own unique perspective in his event summary. We’re thankful for his participation in Tech Field Day and for his recap, even if it is later than he had planned!
Redefining Service Protection With VMware Service-Defined Firewall
The world of security is always changing and so are the challenges around it. Writing for Gestalt IT, Tom Hollingsworth (the “Networking Nerd”) writes about the evolving challenges facing the traditional firewall and how VMware is working to combat those challenges with its Service-Defined Firewall. Check out Tom’s post and VMware’s presentation on their new security products at Security Field Day.
Coffee Hour – Mobility Field Day 5
Rowell Dionicio and François Vergès over at the Clear to Send podcast recently previewed what to expect at Mobility Field Day. They were particularly interested to see VMware as a presenting company and can’t wait to hear what they’ll be discussing. They also look at some of the delegates attending to the event, note the increased importance of wireless security within the voices around the table, and how the virtual event is changing who can be a delegate.
VMware’s vSphere Unites Containers and Virtual Machines Under One Platform
At Tech Field Day 21, VMware highlighted the addition of Kubernetes support to vSphere 7 via VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 4.0, VMware’s Software-Defined Data Center solution for the Hybrid Cloud. This greatly anticipated announcement from VMware lets enterprises unify virtualized and containerized workloads into a single platform that can be centrally managed.
Why Did VMware Buy Datrium? | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 8, 2020
In this episode of the Gestalt IT Rundown, Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discussed the recent acquisition of Datrium by VMware. This was positioned as a DRaaS play for VMware’s cloud offerings, helping to refine their overall DR strategy. Rich found it interesting that Datrium had been billing themselves as a HCI vendor, to have them acquired for DR assets.
Monday Hot Take: VMware Acquires Datrium
In this edition of Gina Rosenthal’s Monday Hot Takes, she breaks down the acquisition of Datrium by VMware. She discusses how VMware will integrate this acquisition into their overall cloud disaster recovery plans. To get up to date on all that Datrium offers, she went to the Tech Field Day presentation archives to get up to speed on their tech stack. What stuck her was how much of Datrium was built to be a competitor to VSAN, and how deliberate VMware was in their announcement to stick to a DRaaS play with the acquisition.
VMware to Acquire Datrium
For Chris Evans, VMware’s approach to disaster recovery had seemed to take a pretty old school approach of emulating array-based replication, based on what he saw at Cloud Field Day earlier this year. This left a potential gap in their approach, that seems to have been filled by their recently announced acquisition of Datrium. This now gives VMware a modern DR solution that stands up to competing offerings, and adds a data mobility solution that extends out of the private data center and allows data migrations between public clouds.
