VMware Explore Europe | Barcelona | Exterior View | photo by Fevzi Korkutata

This was the first VMware Explore attendance for me and I thought preparing a blog post catalog for VMware solutions and exhibitions stands would help people around the world.

I had the incredible opportunity to attend VMware Explore, an event that left me both inspired and educated about the future of technology. From engaging exhibition stands to knowledgeable staff, the event was a unique journey into the world of virtualization and cloud computing.

VMware Explore Exhibition Stands and Offerings

The Vibrant Exhibition Stands

One of the highlights of VMware Explore was the impressive exhibition area. The stands were not only visually appealing but also informative, showcasing the latest innovations and solutions in the world of virtualization, multi cloud technology and application modernization with VMware Tanzu. Each booth had something unique to offer, from interactive demos to in-depth discussions with experts.

Knowledgeable and Approachable Staff

The heart of any successful event is its people, and VMware Explore did not disappoint. The staff at each booth were not only knowledgeable about their products and services but also incredibly approachable. They patiently answered my questions and engaged in meaningful conversations about the challenges and opportunities in the world of virtualization.

Capturing the Faces Behind Innovation & ME

One of the most welcoming aspects of my visit to VMware Explore Barcelona was the openness and enthusiasm of the exhibition stand staff. They not only eagerly shared insights into VMware’s cutting-edge technologies but also encouraged me to document the experience by taking their pictures. This not only made for great memories but also highlighted the friendly and approachable nature of the individuals who are at the forefront of driving innovation in the world of virtualization. Their willingness to be photographed showcased a sense of pride in their work and a commitment to fostering connections with attendees like me, making the event all the more memorable. It was a delightful reminder that technology isn’t just about machines and software; it’s about the passionate people who bring these innovations to life.

VMware Explore Europe | Barcelona | Interior View | photo by Fevzi Korkutata

Documentation: VMware Exhibition Stands and Offerings

In this documentation, I embark on a detailed journey through the dynamic world of VMware Exhibition Stands and Offerings as witnessed at the VMware Explore Barcelona event. I have designed this comprehensive guide is to provide a comprehensive overview of the exhibition stands, the technologies on display, and the remarkable insights shared by the dedicated staff. Whether you’re an IT enthusiast, a technology professional, or simply curious about the latest innovations in virtualization and cloud computing, this documentation will serve as your window into the event, capturing the essence of VMware’s commitment to shaping the future of technology.

From captivating displays to engaging discussions with knowledgeable staff, this table of contents will guide you through the highlights of my experience, showcasing the innovative solutions and the passionate professionals who make VMware Explore an unforgettable event.

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Table of Contents: VMware Exhibition Stands and Offerings

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Simplify Multisite Workload Mobility with Day 2 Ops

— VMware NSX Federation

— VMware Aria Operations for Network

About Dominic Foley: Staff Solutions Architect at VMware focusing on software defined networking & security solutions based on NSX. Since joining the company in 2014, he has worked with customers from all verticals helping to enable, design and deliver their digital networking transformation.
Learn more: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dfprofile/

**Tobias Huelsdau** | Lead Solution Engineer SD-WAN, VMware

About Tobias Huelsdau: He is a Lead Solution Engineer SD-WAN at VMware and he lives in Munich, Germany.

Learn more: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dfprofile/

VMware NSX Federation

With NSX Federation, you can manage multiple NSX-T Data Center environments with a single pane of glass view, create gateways and segments that span one or more locations, and configure and enforce firewall rules consistently across locations.

Once you have installed the Global Manager and have added locations, you can configure networking and security from Global Manager.

Documentation and Learning Links:

VMware Aria Operations for Networks

Monitor, discover, and analyze to build an optimized, highly-available and secure network infrastructure across clouds. (Formerly vRealize Network Insight)

VMware Aria Operations for Networks provides security planning and network
visibility across the virtual cloud network.

vRealize Network Insight helps you build an optimized, highly available and secure network infrastructure across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. It provides network visibility and analytics to accelerate micro-segmentation security, minimize risk during application migration, optimize network performance and confidently manage and scale VMware NSX, VMware SD-WAN, and Kubernetes deployments.

Documentation and Learning Links:

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Innovation and Emerging Technologies

— VMware Blockchain

— Sustainability

— Advanced Product Development

**Jens Lusebrink** | Senior Blockchain Specialist Engineer, VMware

About Jens Lusebrink: He is a professional Technology Strategist, with a successful track-record and a broad technology know how spanning from data warehousing, CRM systems to Content Management and Blockchain. Over 20 years he has successfully leveraged his analytical skills with his business expertise and his fast understanding of customer requirements across EMEA.
Learn more: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenslusebrink/

VMware Blockchain is Bringing Ethereum to the Enterprise

VMware Blockchain is making Ethereum platforms more compatible for enterprise use cases by addressing several critical gaps — privacy, scalability and performance, governance, and support.

VMware Blockchain Overview

VMware Blockchain is an enterprise-grade blockchain platform that enables multi-party workflows. It uses advanced techniques such as byzantine fault-tolerant state machine replication, authenticated data structures, and integration with smart contract execution engines to enable customers to build and run decentralized multi-party applications.

Documentation and Learning Links:

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Multi-Cloud Expert Zone

VMware Cross-Cloud Services

— Multi-Cloud Best Practices
— Multi-Cloud Operating Models
— Architecture Discussions

Customer Experience and Success

— VMware Professional Services
— VMware Learning
— VMware Customer Success

**Stefano Alei**, Head of CXS Portfolio GTM Security, VMware | **Andrea Siviero,** Principal Architect, VMware | **Karen Wade,** Senior Product Marketing Manager, VMware

About Stefano Alei: A senior professional with more than 20 years of experience with a broad international understanding with great passion, energy and commitment. He is business driven with excellent collaborative, communications and customers/partners engagement skills developed during the various activities delivered across EMEA. He is responsible for the Go-to-Market strategy for both Virtual Cloud Networking and Security Services for VMware.
Learn more: https://www.linkedin.com/in/salei/

About Andrea Siviero: He collaborates closely with VMware’s product business units, global sales teams, corporate marketing functions, partners, and customers to keep a pulse on the impactful use cases and latest innovations in the cloud infrastructure space.
Learn more: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreasiviero/

About Karen Wade: High-energy marketing professional with extensive experience generating awareness and demand for cloud and enterprise software solutions.
Learn more: https://www.linkedin.com/in/klwade/

VMware Cross-Cloud Services

Capitalize on the power of multiple clouds with VMware Cross-Cloud services. Take control of your multi-cloud environment with Cross-Cloud™ services — an integrated portfolio of SaaS solutions to build, run, manage and secure all of your apps across any cloud.

Multi-Cloud Architecture Solutions

Streamline cloud operations and create cost-savings efficiencies by leveraging multiple cloud computing environments in a single network architecture.

Customer Experience and Success

New technologies are reshaping and disrupting business models. Moving beyond simply managing IT to a position of leveraging technology to create value for the business is now a CIO imperative. Customer Experience and Success can help you continually get value from the VMware investments you’ve made. Our teams will help you:

Architect, deploy, integrate and operationalize solutions
Guide, monitor, and measure your success
Train your IT workforce
Prevent issues and resolve problems

Professional Services

Investments in IT are more about business impact than about individual technologies. Our outcome-focused methodology for defining and implementing long-term solutions can help you deliver real business value. We work with your team to:

Define your desired IT and business outcomes
Identify gaps in your competencies, capabilities, and culture
Design and implement a solution to deliver your desired outcomes
Create the roles, skills, and processes needed to manage and operate at scale
Drive adoption and consumption throughout the organization

Our broad expertise, deep knowledge of VMware technology, and concentrated focus on your industry challenges can help get you where you need to be, sooner.

VMware Learning

VMware Learning provides training and certification programs designed to grow your skills and validate your ability to leverage all the opportunities made possible by your VMware solutions.

Whether you are looking for Individual learning or a learning solution for your enterprise’s entire IT team, we offer a subscription to meet your training and certification needs.

Documentation and Learning Links:

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Run Kubernetes Everywhere

— VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid

**Berkcan Görkem Özlü,** Senior Tanzu Solution Engineer, VMware

About Berkcan Görkem Özlü: He is working as Tanzu Solution Enginer at VMware. Görkem is an expert about technical designing and maintaining the core platform components such as VMware TKGi (Pivotal PKS), VMware NSX-T, VMware Tanzu Service Mesh, VMware Healthwatch, VMware ESXi/vCenter…

Enterprise-Ready Kubernetes Runtime

Power your modern applications with VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid

VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid provides organizations with a consistent, upstream-compatible Kubernetes substrate that is ready for end-user workloads and ecosystem integrations. Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) is central to many of the offerings in the VMware Tanzu portfolio, and provides the Kubernetes runtime for VMware Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations.

What Is Tanzu Kubernetes Grid?

Tanzu Kubernetes Grid allows you to make Kubernetes available to developers as a utility, just like an electricity grid. Operators and developers can use this grid to create and manage clusters in the declarative manner that is familiar to Kubernetes users and keep them version-compatible with upstream Kubernetes.

Tanzu Kubernetes Grid deploys clusters using an opinionated configuration of Kubernetes open-source software that is supported by VMware, so that you do not have to build a Kubernetes environment by yourself. In addition to validated Kubernetes component binaries, Tanzu Kubernetes Grid provides packaged services such as networking, authentication, ingress control, and logging that a production Kubernetes environment requires.

Documentation and Learning Links:

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Operate Edge-Native Apps on an Integrated Edge Platform

— VMware Edge Compute Stack

**Michael Wright,** VMware Edge — Modern Apps/Lead Solutions Architect, VMware

About Michael Wright: He is driving improved business outcomes using modern custom software supply chain practices and technologies. Helping enterprises make the most effective use of modern application development techniques, data, tools and cloud operating models to deliver revenue increase, employee efficiency, and improved customer loyalty.
Learn more: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelpwright/

VMware Edge Compute Stack

Build, run, manage, connect and protect edge-native applications at the Near and Far Edge. The VMware Edge Compute Stack platform combines flexible infrastructure, AIOps and seamless integrations across clouds to deliver the power of edge computing.

Run Your VMware Workloads on Major Public Clouds

— Azure VMware Solution

— Google Cloud VMware Engine

— Oracle Cloud VMware Solution

About Jean-François Boyer: He is Cloud Solution Architect Azure VMware Solution (AVS) at VMware.
Learn more: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jean-fran%C3%A7ois-boyer-27735b20/

About Andy Steven: He is Senior Staff Cloud Architect at VMware and living at UK.
Learn more: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andy-steven-314564b/

Azure VMware Solution

Seamlessly extend or migrate your existing on-premises VMware environment to Azure VMware Solution.

What is Azure VMware Solution?

Azure VMware Solution is an infrastructure-as-a-service private cloud offering a VMware software stack running on dedicated bare-metal servers in Azure regions. Azure VMware Solution enables a fast path to the cloud for seamlessly migrating or extending existing VMware workloads from on-premises environments to Azure without the cost, effort or risk of re-architecting applications or retooling operations. It is a service sold and supported by Microsoft, backed and cloud verified by VMware. Q. What VMware products are included with this solution? A. Customers can maintain operational consistency as they accelerate a move to the cloud with the use of familiar VMware technology and tools including some of the latest versions of vSphere, NSX, and vSAN. With additional features from HCX Enterprise, customers can further simplify their migration efforts to Azure including support for bulk live migrations.

Documentation and Learning Links:

Page at Microsoft.com: Azure VMware Solution
Documentation at Microsoft.com: Azure VMware Solution documentation
Page at VMware.com: Azure VMware Solution
E-Blast PDF Documentation: Azure VMware Solution
Azure VMware Solution FAQ (PDF Format)
Documentation at VMware.com: Azure VMware Solution Planning and Deployment Guide

Google Cloud VMware Engine

Save OpEx, build capacity and unlock insights by extending VMware environments into Google Cloud Platform.

Easily lift and shift your VMware-based applications to Google Cloud without changes to your apps, tools, or processes. Includes all the hardware and VMware licenses to run in a dedicated VMware SDDC in Google Cloud.

Cloud.Google.Com Overview

Read our new info brief with IDC, “Strategies for Successful Migration to Public Clouds”
Get started quickly by migrating your VMware environment with just a few clicks
Provision an entire VMware SDDC in about 30 minutes across 14 global regions
Learn how our customers modernize their apps with Google Cloud VMware Engine
Explore the latest VMware Engine news, articles, and reports

Documentation and Learning Links

Google.com Page: Google Cloud VMware Engine
TUTORIAL: Google Cloud VMware Engine how-to guides
Learn how to access the VMware Engine portal, migrate workloads, and manage private clouds, networking, the vSphere client, and more.
Learn more
WHITEPAPER: Running VMware-based applications in Google Cloud
Deeper insights into how VMware Engine facilitates migrating your apps to Google Cloud and the impact on networking, security, monitoring, and maintenance.
Learn more
WHITEPAPER: Private cloud networking for Google Cloud VMware Engine
Explore networking concepts, typical traffic flows, and considerations for using VMware Engine to design a private cloud architecture within Google Cloud.
Learn more
VMware.com Page: Google Cloud VMware Engine
Google Cloud VMware Engine Overview Hands-on Lab
Documentation: Google Cloud VMware Engine documentation

Oracle Cloud VMware Solution

Security, predictability, and control make Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) the ideal platform for VMware. Rapidly transpose VMware estates to the cloud without changes to best practices or tools. VMware environments operate in a securely isolated customer tenancy with predictable performance and costs. Customers manage cloud infrastructure and VMware consoles for complete administrative control.

Oracle Cloud VMware Solution

Oracle Cloud VMware Solution allows you to create and manage VMware enabled software-defined data centers (SDDCs) in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

Oracle Cloud VMware Solution Highlights

An Oracle Cloud VMware Solution gives you full access to the features of a VMware SDDC, along with the following benefits:

High availability: All VMware components are distributed across different fault domains within the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure region’s availability domains. vSAN converged storage technology replicates data across all of the ESXi hosts in the SDDC.
Scalability: You can start with 3 ESXi hosts and scale up to 64 hosts in a single SDDC.
Lift and shift: Migration of on-premises VMware workloads to a Oracle Cloud VMware Solution is seamless.
Full integration: Because the SDDC resides in a virtual cloud network (VCN), it can be configured to communicate with other Oracle Cloud Infrastructure resources such as compute instances, DB systems and Autonomous Databases, and so on.
Manageability: The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console provides workflows to facilitate SDDC creation and networking configuration.
Layer 2 networking: SDDCs are configured with VLANs, which support applications that need layer 2 networking to run in the public cloud.

Getting Started with Oracle Cloud VMware Solution

Documentation and Learning Links

Page Oracle.com: Oracle Cloud VMware Solution
Documentation Oracle.com: Oracle Cloud VMware Solution
Getting Started PDF Document: Getting Started with Oracle Cloud VMware Solution

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Run Business-Critical Apps and Kubernetes on VMware Cloud

— VMware vSphere

— VMware Tanzu

**Sudhir Balasubramanian**, Senior Staff Solution Architect & Global Oracle Field Practice Lead, VMware

About Sudhir Balasubramanian: He is a Senior Staff Solutions Architect & Global Practice Lead — Oracle Technologies , specializing in all Oracle Technologies on VMware SDDC stack. Prior to joining VMware in 2012 , Sudhir has worked for close to 26 + years , starting his Oracle career as early as 1995, working as Principal Oracle Database Administrator (DBA)/Oracle Architect in Oracle Technologies for fortune 100 companies including Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) , Sony Electronics, Epsilon Marketing (Aspen/Newgen), Teletech Corp, SAIC, Active Network and Sempra Energy Holdings before joining VMware in 2012.

Learn more: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sudhirbalasubramanian/

Enterprise Workload Platform: vSphere

Bring the benefits of the cloud to on-premises workloads. vSphere supercharges performance, enhances operational efficiency, and accelerates innovation.

VMware vSphere is VMware’s virtualization platform, which transforms data centers into aggregated computing infrastructures that include CPU, storage, and networking resources. vSphere manages these infrastructures as a unified operating environment, and provides you with the tools to administer the data centers that participate in that environment.

The two core components of vSphere are ESXi and vCenter Server. ESXi is the virtualization platform where you create and run virtual machines and virtual appliances. vCenter Server is the service through which you manage multiple hosts connected in a network and pool host resources

Documentation and Learning Links

VMware Tanzu

VMware Tanzu is a modular, cloud native application platform that enables vital DevSecOps outcomes in a multi-cloud world.

VMware Tanzu provides a full stack of capabilities for modernizing your applications and infrastructure to continuously deliver better software to production. The VMware Tanzu portfolio simplifies multi-cloud operations, and allows developers to easily access the resources they need to build modern applications.

VMware Tanzu allows you to containerize your workloads to run in the cloud, while increasing security and manageability. You can refactor existing software to be delivered continuously and resiliently. You run and manage your applications consistently everywhere, on a secure and scalable infrastructure with a conformant Kubernetes runtime.

VMware Tanzu cloud native app platform components

Tanzu Application Platform: Consistent developer experience for cloud native apps on any Kubernetes
Learn more: https://tanzu.vmware.com/application-platform
Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations: Scalable, secure cloud native platform operations for any and many clouds
Learn more: https://tanzu.vmware.com/kubernetes-operations
Tanzu Labs: Cloud native consulting services for modernizing, building, and managing apps and platforms
Learn more: https://tanzu.vmware.com/labs

Documentation and Learning Links

Tanzu Web Portal at VMware.COM: VMware Tanzu
Read the all Tanzu Solution Brief (PDF): Solution Overview Brief
VMware Tanzu Content Library
Documentation: VMware Tanzu Documentation

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Simplify Storage Management

— VMware vSAN

— VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes

— VMware Cloud Flex Storage

**Ian Campbell**, UK&I Solution Engineer, Hybrid Cloud — SDDC, VMware

About Ian Campbell: He is Lead Solution Engineer and Hybrid Cloud — SDDC at UK VMware. His specialties HCI, Software Defined Data Centre, SAN, NAS, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, Data Replication, Virtualisation, Data Protection, Data Archiving, Data Backup/Restore.

Learn more: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ian-campbell-3957542/

Storage Virtualization Software: vSAN

Reduce storage cost and complexity with VMware vSAN, enterprise-class storage virtualization software that provides the easiest path to HCI and hybrid cloud.

VMware vSAN is a software-defined, enterprise storage solution that supports hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) systems. vSAN is fully integrated with VMware vSphere, as a distributed layer of software within the ESXi hypervisor.

vSAN aggregates local or direct-attached data storage devices to create a single storage pool shared across all hosts in a vSAN cluster. A hybrid vSAN cluster uses flash devices for cache and magnetic drives for capacity. All-flash vSAN clusters use flash devices for both the cache and capacity. vSAN Express Storage Architecture uses NVMe-based TLC flash devices and high performance network interfaces. These architectures provide a flash-optimized, resilient shared datastore designed for the software-defined data center (SDDC).

Documentation and Learning Links

VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes

VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes, also known as vVols, virtualizes SAN and NAS devices by abstracting physical hardware resources into logical pools of capacity. The Virtual Volumes functionality changes the storage management paradigm from managing space inside datastores to managing abstract storage objects handled by storage arrays.

With Virtual Volumes, abstract storage containers replace traditional storage volumes based on LUNs or NFS shares. In vCenter Server, the storage containers are represented by Virtual Volumes datastores. Virtual Volumes datastores store virtual volumes, objects that encapsulate virtual machine files.

Virtual volumes are objects exported by a compliant storage system and typically correspond one-to-one with a virtual machine disk and other VM-related files. A virtual volume is created and manipulated out-of-band, not in the data path, by a VASA provider.

A VASA provider, or a storage provider, is developed through vSphere APIs for Storage Awareness. The storage provider enables communication between the ESXi hosts, vCenter Server, and the vSphere Client on one side, and the storage system on the other. The VASA provider runs on the storage side and integrates with the vSphere Storage Monitoring Service (SMS) to manage all aspects of Virtual Volumes storage. The VASA provider maps virtual disk objects and their derivatives, such as clones, snapshots, and replicas, directly to the virtual volumes on the storage system.

Documentation and Learning Links

VMware Cloud Flex Storage

Scale storage capacity without adding hosts with VMware Cloud Flex Storage — a flexible, simple and cost-effective way to store and manage your data.

Mware Cloud Flex Storage™ offers a new approach to help better align your cloud resources with the needs of your applications and data. With this scalable, elastic and natively integrated storage service for VMware Cloud™ on AWS, fully managed by VMware, you can flexibility scale storage and compute independently of each other and pay only for the resources you use.

Enterprise-Class Storage for the Multi-Cloud
Expand storage capacity without adding hosts and streamline operations with VMware Cloud Flex Storage. Delivered with simple cloud economics, our cloud storage service offers an elastic and natively integrated solution for VMware Cloud on AWS that is fully managed by VMware. And it allows you to pay for only the resources you need with a straightforward, consumption-based pricing model.

Documentation and Learning Links

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Simplify Kubernetes Management

— VMware Tanzu Mission Control

**Ramiro Salas**, Security Tech Lead, Tanzu Kubernetes Platform R&D, VMware

About Ramiro Salas: Technology professional with 30+ years in the Software and Telecom industries with broad areas of knowledge across many geographies. Interested in distributed systems, platforms, identity and security for large organizations .

Learn more: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rsalas/

Simplified Kubernetes Management

VMware Tanzu Mission Control is a centralized management hub with a robust policy engine that simplifies multi-cloud and fleet Kubernetes management.

Manage your clusters consistently across clouds through cluster attach and centralized policy management. Create clusters targeting on-premises locations, vSphere, VMware Cloud, or cloud providers.

Platform operators can reduce complexity through centralized management, increase consistency through configuration management, and offer a better developer experience with self-service through Tanzu Mission Control.

Documentation and Learning Links

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Run Your VMware Workloads on AWS Cloud

— VMware Cloud on AWS

— VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts

— VMware Cloud Flex Storage

**Mirit Gorohovsky**, Product Line Manager, VMware

About Mirit Gorohovsky: She is Product Line Manager at VMware. She lives in Tel Aviv District, Israel.

Learn more: https://www.linkedin.com/in/miritgorohovsky/

VMware Cloud on AWS

VMware Cloud™ on AWS brings VMware’s enterprise-class SDDC software to the AWS Cloud with optimized access to AWS services. Powered by VMware Cloud Foundation, VMware Cloud on AWS integrates our compute, storage and network virtualization products (VMware vSphere®, vSAN™ and NSX®) along with VMware vCenter management, optimized to run on dedicated, elastic, bare-metal AWS infrastructure.

Moving to the public cloud offers your organization some unquestionable and very attractive benefits. But there are definite challenges along the way that are as unique as the workloads you run and how much of your on‑premises operations you want to move to the public cloud. This paper will help you assess your own cloud readiness and present why VMware Cloud on AWS is an optimal solution to consider when it comes to modernizing and future‑proofing your existing applications.

Documentation and Learning Links

On-Premises Infrastructure as a Service: VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts

Get the agility and innovation of VMware Cloud in your own data center, delivered as a service.

For customers looking to extend their AWS-centric model to their data center, VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts delivers the agility and innovation of AWS cloud on-premises, where customers continue to have control of their data and applications as they are used to in their on-premises environment, but at the same time, they can take advantage of cloud operating model in their data center.

It is a jointly engineered on-premises as-a-service solution, powered by VMware Cloud Foundation™, that integrates VMware’s enterprise-class Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) software for compute (VMware vSphere®), storage (VMware vSAN™), and networking (VMware NSX®), along with VMware vCenter® Management, which runs on next-generation, dedicated, Amazon Nitro-based EC2 bare-metal instances provisioned in AWS Outposts. It provides a deeply integrated hybrid cloud environment with a unified control plane that provides access to VMware Cloud on AWS capacity and regional native AWS services.

Documentation and Learning Links

VMware Cloud Flex Storage

Scale storage capacity without adding hosts with VMware Cloud Flex Storage — a flexible, simple and cost-effective way to store and manage your data.

Mware Cloud Flex Storage™ offers a new approach to help better align your cloud resources with the needs of your applications and data. With this scalable, elastic and natively integrated storage service for VMware Cloud™ on AWS, fully managed by VMware, you can flexibility scale storage and compute independently of each other and pay only for the resources you use.

Enterprise-Class Storage for the Multi-Cloud
Expand storage capacity without adding hosts and streamline operations with VMware Cloud Flex Storage. Delivered with simple cloud economics, our cloud storage service offers an elastic and natively integrated solution for VMware Cloud on AWS that is fully managed by VMware. And it allows you to pay for only the resources you need with a straightforward, consumption-based pricing model.

Documentation and Learning Links

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Converge Edge Security and Networking

— VMware SASE

— VMware SD-WAN

— VMware Edge Networking Intelligence

**Attila Csontos**, SASE Technical Enablement Specialist, VMware

About Attila Csontos: He is SASE technical enablement specialist at VMware. He lives in Hungary.

Learn more: https://www.linkedin.com/in/attila-csontos-4069a142/

Secure Access Service Edge (SASE)

Cloud-native and cloud-delivered networking and security for the distributed edge.

Businesses are moving applications to the cloud while allowing users to access them remotely. At the same time, companies must protect themselves from ever-evolving security threats. SASE allows IT to support these changes by providing the same experience whether users are in the office or outside it. SASE combines network and security services to enable a unified edge and cloud service model.

SASE is cloud-delivered networking with security. SASE components include software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN), Secure Access, Cloud Web Security and Cloud Firewall.

Documentation and Learning Links

Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN)

Deliver high performance, reliable branch access across clouds and apps. Optimize traffic over multiple connections for a better user experience anywhere

SD-WAN is the application of software based network technologies that virtualize WAN connections. SD-WAN decouples network software services from underlying hardware to create a virtualized network overlay. Enabling users anywhere to connect to applications anywhere, SD-WAN offers flexibility, simplicity, performance, security, and cloud scale. It also boasts ease of deployment, central management and control and assured application performance.

Documentation and Learning Links

VMware Edge Networking Intelligence

Proactively manage client experience with AIOps for end user and IoT device performance, security, and self-healing in wireless and wired LAN, SD-WAN, and SASE.

Most organizations lack true visibility and analytics into end user and IoT devices on their network. VMware Edge Network Intelligence™ can fill that gap.

Documentation and Learning Links

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Accelerate Endpoint and Workload Security

— VMware Carbon Black

**Laurie Reynaud**, Sales Engineer -IT, SaaS, Cybersecurity, VMware

About Laurie Reynaud: She is Senior Solution Engineer at VMware. She lives in Catalonia Barcelona, Barcelona.

Learn more: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurie-reynaud-91b86459/

Endpoint Security Solution: VMware Carbon Black Endpoint

VMware Carbon Black Endpoint consolidates multiple endpoint security capabilities using one agent and console, helping you operate faster and more effectively.

VMware Carbon Black Cloud Endpoint Standard is a next-generation antivirus (NGAV) and behavioral endpoint detection and response (EDR) solution that protects against the full spectrum of modern cyber-attacks. Using the VMware Carbon Black Cloud’s universal agent and console, the solution applies behavioral analytics to endpoint events to streamline detection, prevention, and response to cyber-attacks.

How is Endpoint Standard different from traditional antivirus solutions?

Traditional antivirus software has become outdated and rarely successful at detecting smart malware and malwareless attacks. NGAV solutions are rising to the task of stopping these modern threats by using new tactics. Endpoint Standard can prevent and detect a variety of threats — including malware, non-malware, and fileless attacks. The majority of today’s malicious actors leverage fileless or non-malware attacks. Endpoint Standard leverages multiple layers of prevention to take you beyond traditional Anti-Virus protection.

Documentation and Learning Links

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Scale EVPN Deployment and DPU-Based Acceleration

— VMware NSX

**Stuart Shepherd**, Senior Solution Engineer, Networking & Security, VMware

About Stuart Shepherd: A highly motivated and adaptable professional, with extensive experience in the design and delivery of network solutions, from both a pre- and post- sales perspective.

Learn more: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stuartmshepherd/

Network Virtualization Platform: VMware NSX

Manage the entire network as a single entity from a single pane of glass with VMware NSX

Enable your virtual cloud network with full-stack network and security virtualization. Connect and protect applications across your data center, multi-cloud and container infrastructure. NSX reproduces the entire network model in software, so you can create and provision any network topology in seconds and deliver critical apps and services faster and easier.

Documentation and Learning Links

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Secure the Hybrid Workforce

— VMware Workspace ONE Mobile Threat Defense

— VMware Unified Access

— VMware Workspace ONE Intelligence

**Arkadiusz Krowczynski**, Senior Solution Engineer, VMware | **Sylvie Ngo**, Digital Workspace Solution Engineer, VMware

About Arkadiusz Krowczynski: He is Senior Solution Engineer at VMware. He lives in Menden, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Learn more: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arkadiusz-krowczynski-50a9a9169/

About Sylvie Ngo: He is Digital Workspace Solution Engineer at VMware. He lives in Paris, Île-de-France.

Learn more: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sylvie-ngo-455712140/

Mobile Device Security: Workspace ONE Mobile Threat Defense

Protect mobile devices from phishing and application, device, and rogue network originated threats. Powered by Lookout, VMware mobile device security integrates with Workspace ONE.

Address the dangers of phishing and web content threats, vulnerabilities, and behaviors unique to iOS, Android, and Chrome OS with specialized mobile device security powered by Lookout. Through integrations with the Workspace ONE platform, mobile device security is easy to deploy and manage, and offers enhanced protection designed to secure your workspace and enhance Zero Trust initiatives.

Documentation and Learning Links

VMware Unified Access

Unified Access Gateway offers basic and cascade-mode architecture models for deployment. Both configurations support load-balancing for high availability and SSL/TLS offloading.

Example Basic and Cascade Deployment of VMware Tunnel and Content

The Unified Access Gateway backend appliance is deployed in the internal network, which hosts internal resources. Edge services enabled on the front-end can forward valid traffic to the backend appliance after authentication is complete. The front-end appliance must have an internal DNS record that the backend appliance can resolve. This deployment model separates the publicly available appliance from the appliance that connects directly to internal resources, providing an added layer of security.

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Integrated Insights and Automation for the Anywhere: Workspace Workspace ONE Intelligence

Workspace ONE Intelligence is a modern platform service delivering insights, analytics and automation across the anywhere workspace.

Workspace ONE Intelligence is a cloud service built for the VMware Workspace ONE platform that provides deep insights, analytics, and automation for your entire digital workspace. Together, these capabilities strengthen security across your entire environment — a guard dog that protects your environment with vigilance and strength.

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Modernize Endpoint Management

— VMware Workspace ONE

**Gaston Zubillaga**, Digital Solution Engineer, VMware

About Gaston Zubillaga: Industrial Engineer, Technological Institute of Buenos Aires (ITBA) graduate, passionate about Technology, Cryptocurrencies, Cybersecurity, DevOps culture and Cloud Computing. Besides his current position, he’ve been working on his own entrepreneurship for more than 15 years now.

Learn more: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gaston-zubillaga/

Anywhere Workspace Platform: VMware Workspace ONE

VMware Workspace ONE is an intelligence-driven digital workspace platform that enables you to simply and securely deliver and manage any app on any device, anywhere.

Using Workspace ONE Intelligent Hub, employees can access their personalized enterprise app catalog .

VMware Anywhere Workspace enables organizations to deliver a consistent, secure and scalable workspace experience to their hybrid workforce. Evolving the digital workspace benefits from the guidance of a modern and unified EUC team that can engage with other IT and business stakeholders. Anywhere Workspace initiatives drive tighter collaboration across the organization by establishing common objectives and KPIs. Anywhere Workspace success involves a combination of change management to introduce new technology and methodologies, leadership to champion new practices, and program management to ensure coordination and governance.

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Secure Multi-Cloud Workloads and Networks

— VMware Carbon Black

— VMware NSX Gateway Firewall

— VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery

**Krzysztof Raczynski**, VMware Senior Solution Engineer Security, VMware

About Krzysztof Raczynski: Customer success oriented solutions architect helping enterprises to achieve their digital transformation. Building synergy across business units that improve their TCOs and ROIs with emerging technologies.

Learn more: https://www.linkedin.com/in/krzysztof-raczynski/

Endpoint Security Solution: VMware Carbon Black Endpoint

VMware Carbon Black Endpoint consolidates multiple endpoint security capabilities using one agent and console, helping you operate faster and more effectively.

VMware Carbon Black Cloud Endpoint Standard is a next-generation antivirus (NGAV) and behavioral endpoint detection and response (EDR) solution that protects against the full spectrum of modern cyber-attacks. Using the VMware Carbon Black Cloud’s universal agent and console, the solution applies behavioral analytics to endpoint events to streamline detection, prevention, and response to cyber-attacks.

How is Endpoint Standard different from traditional antivirus solutions?

Traditional antivirus software has become outdated and rarely successful at detecting smart malware and malwareless attacks. NGAV solutions are rising to the task of stopping these modern threats by using new tactics. Endpoint Standard can prevent and detect a variety of threats — including malware, non-malware, and fileless attacks. The majority of today’s malicious actors leverage fileless or non-malware attacks. Endpoint Standard leverages multiple layers of prevention to take you beyond traditional Anti-Virus protection.

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Layer-7 Firewall: VMware NSX Gateway Firewall

Deliver robust network security with a software-only, Layer-7 firewall deployed at zone boundaries to protect physical workloads, private clouds, and the public cloud edge with NSX Gateway Firewall.

When the NSX Gateway Firewall is deployed in conjunction with the NSX Distributed Firewall, it’s easy to extend consistent layer 2–7 security controls across all applications and workloads, whether they’re running in the private or public cloud. This ensures that all workloads everywhere are subject to the same security policies.

Documentation and Learning Links

Disaster Recovery as a Service Solution: VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery

Easily access on-demand disaster recovery, delivered as a SaaS solution, with cloud economics.

VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery is a VMware delivered disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) offering that protects on-premises vSphere and VMware Cloud on AWS workloads to VMware Cloud on AWS. It efficiently replicates VMs to a scale-out cloud file system that can store hundreds of recovery points with recovery point objectives (RPOs) as low as 30 minutes. This enables recovery for a wide variety of disasters including ransomware. Virtual machines are recovered to a software-defined data center (SDDC) running in VMware Cloud on AWS. VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery also offers fail-back capabilities to bring your workloads back to their original location after the disaster is remediated. Built for IT infrastructure professionals responsible for IT services and their availability, it provides highly reliable, low TCO, easy to use disaster recovery with fast recovery capabilities.

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Jump-Start Your App Modernization

— VMware Tanzu Application Service

— VMware Tanzu Labs

— Spring

**Gareth Smith**, Staff Software Engineer, VMware

About Gareth Smith: He is Staff Software Engineer at VMware. He lives London, England.

Learn more: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gareth-smith-3153b04

VMware Tanzu Application Service

VMware Tanzu Application Service is a modern application platform for enterprises that want to continuously deliver and run microservices across clouds.

Open-source software provides the basis for TAS for VMs, which is the VMware distribution of Cloud Foundry Application Runtime software for hosting apps. VMware offers additional commercial features, enterprise services, support, documentation, certificates, and other value-adds.

Documentation and Learning Links

VMware Tanzu Labs

VMware Tanzu Labs partners with organizations worldwide to accelerate the delivery of software and modernize legacy apps, while reducing operating costs and risk.
VMware Tanzu Labs Official Website

Build apps: Partner with us and match proven product development methods with modern technology — and revitalize the way you build software.
Learn more: https://tanzu.vmware.com/app-development
Modernize apps: Migrating your existing apps can be daunting — but it doesn’t have to be. We’ll help you develop a tailored app modernization strategy that delivers production outcomes. Improve agility while reducing cost and tech debt with our proven tools and techniques.
Learn more: https://tanzu.vmware.com/application-modernization
Build a platform: For your organization to succeed, you need to deliver innovative products more rapidly and provide the value your customers expect. That requires a Kubernetes strategy, a cutting-edge platform, and the technical expertise to deliver it in production. And that’s where VMware Tanzu Labs comes in.
Learn more: https://tanzu.vmware.com/platform-development
Transform data: For your organization to succeed, you need to deliver innovative products more rapidly and provide the value your customers expect. That requires a Kubernetes strategy, a cutting-edge platform, and the technical expertise to deliver it in production. And that’s where VMware Tanzu Labs comes in.
Learn more: https://tanzu.vmware.com/data-transformation
App Navigator: VMware App Navigator™ takes an agile approach to application portfolio analysis, leveraging automated tooling and hands-on experimentation to minimize risk and accelerate your modernization execution.
Learn more: https://tanzu.vmware.com/app-navigator
Services for nonprofits: VMware Tanzu Act is a program that partners with nonprofit organizations and charities to identify, design, and develop practical solutions to pressing challenges around the world. Tanzu Act projects involve developers, designers, and product managers from VMware Tanzu Labs, building products and learning collaboratively with nonprofit customers at a discounted rate.
Learn more: https://tanzu.vmware.com/act

Spring

Spring makes programming Java quicker, easier, and safer for everybody. Spring’s focus on speed, simplicity, and productivity has made it the world’s most popular Java framework.

The distributed nature of microservices brings challenges. Spring helps you mitigate these. With several ready-to-run cloud patterns, Spring Cloud can help with service discovery, load-balancing, circuit-breaking, distributed tracing, and monitoring. It can even act as an API gateway.

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Simplify Multi-Cloud Kubernetes Ops

— VMware Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations

**Vijaykumar Arumuga Nadar** | Senior Engineering Manager, VMware

About Vijaykumar Arumuga Nadar: Vijayakumar also known as Vijay (VJ) — Engineering Leader & Passionate Technologist with 15+ years of Industry experience in Information Technology. At VMware, Vijay is Leading and Managing the Edge Engineering team and responsible for the development and deliverables for Tanzu Edge and related areas.

Learn more: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vijayakumar0328/

VMware Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations

The foundation for a modern, multi-cloud container infrastructure

VMware Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations provides a simplified, consistent approach to container deployment, scaling, and management with tools, automation, and data-driven insights.

VMware Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations is a set of products and services for cloud infrastructure administrators and operators, to allow you to create, manage, and monitor your Kubernetes environment across multiple platforms. The documentation for Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations includes reference architecture documentation, component product documentation, solution briefs and demos, blogs, and videos and podcasts.

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Improve Developer Experience

— VMware Tanzu Application Platform

**Ben Wilcock**, Technical Marketing Manager, VMware

About Ben Wilcock: In his early career, Ben specialized in software design, software development, software architecture, event-driven architecture, microservices, and cloud-native architecture. He’s occupied a variety of technical roles including, developer, architect, manager, and consultant. Amongst the many techniques he’s championed are agile development, test-driven development, pairing, mobbing, domain-driven design (DDD), Command & Query Responsibility Separation (CQRS), event sourcing, event storming, event modeling, and more.

Learn more: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benwilcock/

VMware Tanzu Application Platform

TAP includes foundational elements that enable developers to quickly begin building and testing applications regardless of their familiarity with Kubernetes. Operations teams can create application scaffolding templates with baked-in security and compliance guardrails.

VMware Tanzu Application Platform provides development teams a pre-paved path to production to get code running on any compliant public cloud or on-premises Kubernetes cluster, enabling security and scale. It is an application-aware platform that is modular so teams can customize it based on their organization’s preferences.

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Connect and Secure Modern Apps and APIs

— VMware Tanzu Service Mesh

— VMware Container Networking with Antrea

— VMware Carbon Black Container

**Ali Al Idrees**, Senior Staff Solution Engineer, Networking & Security, EMEA

About Ali Al Idrees: He is working as a Technology Lead for Modern Apps and Kubernetes Networking & Security in VMware covering EMEA.

Learn more: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aidrees/

VMware Tanzu Service Mesh

Tanzu Service Mesh provides advanced, end-to-end connectivity, security, and insights for modern applications — across application end-users, microservices, APIs, and data — enabling compliance with Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and data protection and privacy regulations.

VMware Tanzu™ Service Mesh™, built on VMware NSX®, is VMware’s enterprise-class service mesh solution that provides consistent control and security for microservices, end users, and data — across all your clusters and clouds — in the most demanding multicluster and multicloud environments.

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VMware Container Networking with Antrea

VMware container networking with Antrea is an integrated Kubernetes service for managing Windows and Linux workloads across multiple clouds.

Mware Container Networking™ with Antrea™ offers users signed images and binaries, along with full enterprise support for Project Antrea, a Cloud Native Computing Foundation sandbox project. VMware Container Networking integrates with managed Kubernetes services to further enhance Kubernetes network policies. It also supports Windows and Linux workloads on Kubernetes across multiple clouds.

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Container Security: VMware Carbon Black Container

Enable continuous visibility, security, and compliance for the full lifecycle of containers and Kubernetes applications from development to production.

VMware Carbon Black Container™ brings VMware’s deep knowledge and expertise in workloads and security to Kubernetes to help organizations reduce risk, maintain compliance, and achieve simple, secure Kubernetes environments at scale. With a fast and easy deployment process, this user-friendly solution provides immediate visibility and control that Security teams need to secure Kubernetes clusters and the applications deployed on them.

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Prevent Lateral Movement of Threats

— VMware NSX Distributed Firewall

— VMware NSX Intelligence and Malware Prevention

— VMware NSX Advanced Threat Prevention

**Gaurav Goyal**, Lead Solutions Engineer, Network & Security, VMware

About Gaurav Goyal: He is working as Lead Solution Engineer at VMware. He has strong skills like; •Technical presales and leadership Experience in Network & Cyber Security. •Implementing and supporting Networks for different clients Globally. •Project Management experience — Enterprise IT Project Life Cycle. •In-depth knowledge and experience in cost management, time management, risk management, change control and integration management… etc.

Learn more: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gauravgoyal0022/

Ransomware Protection: NSX Distributed Firewall

Secure your multi-cloud environments with a software-based Layer 7 firewall with advanced threat prevention distributed at each workload.

VMware NSX Distributed Firewall Architecture

The VMware NSX Distributed Firewall is a software-defined Layer 7 firewall purpose-built to secure multi-cloud traffic across virtualized workloads. It provides stateful firewalling with IDS/IPS, sandboxing, and NTA/NDR — delivered as software and distributed to each host. With complete visibility into applications and flows, the NSX Distributed Firewall delivers superior security with policy automation that’s linked to the workload lifecycle. Unlike traditional firewalls that require network redesign and traffic hair-pinning, the NSX Distributed Firewall distributes the firewalling to each host, radically simplifying the security architecture. This allows security teams to easily segment the network, stop the lateral movement of attacks, and automate policy in a vastly simpler operational model.

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Distributed Network Analytics Engine: NSX Intelligence

Deliver granular security and segmentation, simplify policy compliance, and streamline security operations with VMware NSX Intelligence, an NSX-native distributed analytics engine

Built natively within NSX, NSX Intelligence provides distributed analytics
that empower network and application security teams.

At its foundation, VMware NSX Intelligence is a distributed analytics engine built and managed natively within NSX. It empowers network and application security teams to deliver a more granular security posture, simplify compliance analysis, and enable proactive security.

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NSX Malware Prevention

NSX Malware Prevention can detect and prevent known malicious files and unknown malicious files. Unknown malicious files are also referred to as zero-day threats. To detect malware, NSX Malware Prevention uses a combination of the following techniques :

Hash-based detection of known malicious files
Local analysis of unknown files
Cloud analysis of unknown files

Concept diagram of NSX Malware Prevention

On the north-south traffic, the NSX Malware Prevention feature uses the IDS/IPS engine on the NSX Edges to extract or intercept the files that are entering the data center. On the east-west traffic, this feature uses the capabilities of the NSX Guest Introspection (GI) platform. If the file bypasses scrutiny on the NSX Edge and reaches the host, the file is extracted by the GI thin agent on guest VMs.

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VMware NSX Advanced Threat Prevention

VMware NSX Advanced Threat Prevention (ATP) is a solution that enhances your data center firewall by using machine learning to identify and protect against advanced threats.

Powered by machine learning, VMware’s Advanced Threat Prevention (ATP) offering for the NSX Service-defined Firewall delivers network traffic analysis, intrusion detection and prevention, and advance malware analysis with comprehensive network detection and response capabilities. The solution is purpose-built to protect data center traffic with the industry’s highest fidelity insights into advanced threats.

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Modernize Telco Networks

— VMware Telco Cloud

**Anton Davidovskiy**, Architect, VMware

About Anton Davidovskiy: He is an architect at VMware. VCDX-{DCV,NV} #277, TOGAF 9, CKA, CKS, etc. Doing fun stuff with tech.
Full stack — from storage/compute/network design to CI/CD pipelines

Learn more: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adavidovskiy/

Cloud Smart. Transform Faster.

Deliver your application on any cloud, anywhere. From the core and the RAN to the edge and the cloud, VMware can help you be cloud smart and transform faster.

What is Telco Cloud?

Telco cloud is a next-generation network architecture that combines software-defined networking, network functions virtualization, and cloud native technology into a distributed computing network. Since the network and the computing resources are distributed across sites and clouds, automation and orchestration are required.

This evolution refers to the deployment of virtualized and programmable network infrastructure that takes advantage of automation and artificial intelligence. Furthermore, it encompasses the adoption of innovative cloud business practices that change the way networks operate.

Fundamental Shift in The Telco Landscape

Telcos are facing an increasingly complex market. They are seeing declining growth of core services while seeing an increasing demand for new digital and enterprise services. Unfortunately, most communication service providers (CSPs) are unable to effectively meet these new challenges due to rigid hardware-based network infrastructures that limit efficient operational processes and that have a high cost to build and operate.

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Recover from Ransomware and Disasters

— VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery

— VMware Site Recovery Manager

— VMware Site Recovery

**Cato Grace**, Sr.Technical Marketing Manager, VMware

About Cato Grace: He is a Sr.Technical Marketing Manager working for the Storage and Availability Technical Marketing organization at VMware. A portion of my responsibilities revolve around developing content to enable and provide technical leadership for customers, partners, and communities. His primary focus is Availability, Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity.

Learn more: https://www.linkedin.com/in/catograce/

VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery

Easily access on-demand disaster recovery, delivered as a SaaS solution, with cloud economics.

VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery is an on-demand disaster and ransomware recovery service that provides an easy-to-use Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution, and offers cloud economics to keep your disaster and ransomware recovery costs under control.

You can use VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery (commonly called VMware Cloud DR or VCDR) to protect your vSphere virtual machines (VMs) by replicating them to the cloud, and recovering them to a target VMware Cloud Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) on VMware Cloud on AWS. You can create the target “recovery” SDDC immediately prior to performing a recovery, and it does not need to be provisioned to support replications in the steady state.

Site Recovery Manager

Automate orchestration of failover and failback to minimize downtime and improve availability with VMware Site Recovery Manager.

VMware Site Recovery Manager is a business continuity and disaster recovery solution that helps you plan, test, and run the recovery of virtual machines between a protected vCenter Server site and a recovery vCenter Server site.

VMware Site Recovery

Protect your workloads both on-premises and on VMware Cloud on AWS with VMware Site Recovery — on-demand disaster recovery as-a-service (DRaaS).

VMware Site Recovery™ is a business continuity and disaster recovery solution that helps you to plan, test, and run the recovery of virtual machines between a protected vCenter Server on-premises site and a recovery vCenter Server site on VMware Cloud™ on AWS and the reverse.

VMware Site Recovery uses the host-based replication feature of vSphere Replication and the orchestration of VMware Site Recovery Manager.

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Operate Your Cloud On-Premises

— VMware Cloud Foundation

— VMware Cloud on Dell

— VMware Cloud on Equinix Metal

**Lukas Henning**, Senior Solutions Engineer, VMware

About Lukas Henning: He is a Senior Solutions Engineer working at VMware. He lives in Frankfurt, Germany.

Learn more: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lukas-henning-a0b7687a/

Multi-Cloud Platform: VMware Cloud Foundation

Efficiently manage VM and container-based workloads with our multi-cloud platform, delivering the benefits of the cloud to on-premises, full-stack HCI deployments.

VMware Cloud Foundation is a multi-cloud platform for modernizing data centers and deploying modern apps. VMware Cloud Foundation delivers enterprise agility, reliability, and efficiency for customers seeking to deploy private and hybrid clouds. VMware Cloud Foundation is based on VMware’s proven and comprehensive software-defined stack including VMware vSphere, VMware vSAN, VMware NSX®, and VMware vRealize® Suite, providing a complete set of software-defined services for compute, storage, networking, security, and cloud management to run enterprise apps — traditional or containerized — across hybrid clouds.

Infrastructure as a Service: VMware Cloud on Dell

Combine the simplicity and agility of public cloud with the security and control of on-premises infrastructure with a fully-managed hybrid cloud platform.

Simple, Secure Cloud Infrastructure as a Service

Delivered as a service to data center and edge locations, VMware Cloud on Dell and its hybrid cloud services provide simple, secure, and scalable infrastructure. Remove the friction of day-to-day tasks with cloud-like ease-of-use for on-premises workloads and unparalleled consistency between your on-premises and public cloud environments.

VMware Cloud on Equinix Metal

VMware Cloud on Equinix Metal combines VMware Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) with Equinix Metal Hardware as a Service (HWaaS) to extend customers’ cloud environments into distributed metro locations, satisfy business-critical performance demands at the edge, and confidently preserve the integrity of enterprise workloads.

VMware Cloud on Equinix Metal has some unique benefits:

Multi-Cloud Platform with consistent infrastructure & operations

VMware Cloud delivers a consistent infrastructure and operations platform across public clouds, partner clouds, data centers and edge locations. Optimized for both traditional and modern apps, VMware Cloud creates a single platform for all apps in any environment and unifies environments with consistent operations and security. Customers benefit from enterprise reliability, resiliency, and governance without requiring re-work or re-rewriting applications.

Support for broad range of traditional and modern applications

VMware Cloud on Equinix Metal provides an infrastructure platform for customers to modernize their existing enterprise applications on and enables them to run their enterprise workloads of today and tomorrow. Learn more: https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud/2022/11/07/introducing-vmware-cloud-on-equinix-metal/

Globally available in 30+ metropolitan areas worldwide

One benefit is the lower latency offered by VMware Cloud on Equinix. Equinix data centers are located in top metropolitan areas with dense ecosystems of localized network, cloud and service provider partners.

Learn more: https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud/2022/11/07/introducing-vmware-cloud-on-equinix-metal/

Next Gen Bare Metal Server architecture

VMware Cloud on Equinix Metal leverages Equinix Metal — an interconnected bare metal as a service platform, where single tenant, high performance bare metal servers are provisioned within minutes via a click of a button or an API call.

Low latency access to Public Cloud services

Equinix Fabric is an advanced software-defined interconnection that offers direct connectivity to your workloads running in the Public Cloud via fast low-latency interconnection links such as Azure ExpressRoute, AWS Direct Connect and Google Cloud Interconnect.

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Deliver Sovereign Multi-Cloud Innovation

— VMware Cloud Director

— VMware Tanzu

— VMware NSX

**Eiad Al Aqqad**, Principal Solution Architect, VMware

About Eiad Al Aqqad: He is Consulting Architect in VMware’s Professional Services — Software Defined Data Center Practice. He’s based out of the Toronto, Ontario. As Consulting Architect, He focus on driving adoption of VMware’s industry-leading Cloud Management Platform and the overall Software-Defined Datacenter (SDDC) vision while addressing the unique business needs and objectives of VMware’s global enterprise customers.

Learn More: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eiadalaqqad/

Cloud Service Delivery Platform: VMware Cloud Director

Operate and manage your cloud service business with VMware Cloud Director, the leading cloud service delivery platform.

Deliver secure, efficient, and elastic cloud resources to thousands of enterprises and IT teams across the world. Operate and manage successful cloud-service businesses using VMware Cloud director.

New to VMware Cloud Director?

VMware Cloud Director is a cloud services platform that delivers secure, isolated, and elastic virtual data center compute, network, storage, and security in a self-service model.

VMware Tanzu: Innovate and quickly grow your business on any
and many clouds

VMware Tanzu is a modular, cloud native application platform that enables vital DevSecOps outcomes in a multi-cloud world.

Driving business growth with cloud native apps

Your business relies on continuously delivering and optimizing modern software that provides the best customer experiences and competitive advantages on any cloud and at the edge. Your software portfolio probably includes new cloud native and existing apps that are modernized for cloud environments. Being great at modern software means focusing on the full lifecycle of building, delivering and managing cloud native apps — from how you support developers to operating in production at scale.

VMware NSX

Manage the entire network as a single entity from a single pane of glass with VMware NSX.

VMware NSX® is the network virtualization and security platform that enables VMware’s cloud networking solution with a software-defined approach to networking that extends across data centers, clouds and application frameworks. With NSX, networking and security are brought closer to the application wherever it’s running, from virtual machines (VMs) to containers to physical servers.

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Multi-Cloud Management: What’s New

— VMware Aria Hub powered by VMware Aria Graph

— VMware Aria Migration

— VMware Aria Guardrails

— VMware Aria Business Insights

**Michael Poore**, Senior Technical Marketing Manager, VMware

About Michael Poore: He is an accomplished technologist and leader with many years’ experience in the IT industry (both the public and private sectors). Focussed on virtualisation and cloud technologies with a particular emphasis on multi-cloud, cloud services, automation and orchestration.

Learn more: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelpoore/

Multi-Cloud Management Platform: VMware Aria Hub powered by VMware Aria Graph

Central multi-cloud management platform powered by cloud scale, graph-based data store technology.

Multi-cloud management solution unifying cost, performance, configuration, and delivery automation in a single platform with a common control plane and data model for any cloud, any platform, any tool, and every persona.

VMware Aria Migration

Aria Migration accelerates and simplifies the multi-cloud migration journey by identifying and migrating applications to the optimal cloud, based on the user’s goals for security, performance, cost, and time.

There are three steps within Aria Migration to identify, plan and move workloads to their optimal cloud.

Assessment: Identify network flows between apps, discover services, app tiers and VMs/servers that comprise the app.
Planning: Machine Learning driven process to understand app boundaries, app migration complexities, and dependencies.
Migration: Automated migration waves of workloads at scale using vRealize Network Insight Toolkit with VMware HCX.

What’s New in VMware Aria Guardrails — November 2022

The November release of VMware Aria Guardrails arrived just as we descended on Las Vegas for AWS re:Invent. The timing could not have been better as the release included some new features that resonated well with people that visited the VMware booth.

Azure support and library templates
Additional Cost and Security library templates
Discovery of existing cloud accounts and governance enforcement

Try VMware Aria Guardrails

The addition of support for Azure in this release of VMware Aria Guardrails makes it a true Multi-Cloud Management solution that will suit customers using multiple cloud providers. And it’s not just for new cloud accounts, with the addition of brownfield account discovery and templating it can be adopted by customers with existing cloud accounts as well.

To try out VMware Aria Automation and VMware Aria Guardrails, activate a free trial on the VMware website and see these new features for yourself.

VMware Aria Business Insights

VMware Aria Business Insights is an intelligent event management capability that leverages AI/ML to automatically organize symptoms across apps and infrastructure and determine actionable business insights. Where previously IT operations users had access to events in a siloed, isolated sense, challenges exist with sorting through the noise and determining what is relevant and what is not.

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Multi-Cloud Management: Operations

— VMware Aria Operations

— VMware Skyline

**Thomas Kopt**, Lead Solution Engineer — Multi-Cloud Management, VMware

About Thomas Kopton: He is working as Lead Solution Engineer at VMware since 2016. He is living in Germany and actively blogging about VMware Cloud Management at http://thomas-kopton.de/

Learn more: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-kopton-618944106/

VMware Aria Operations

Enable self-driving IT Operations Management across private, hybrid and multi-cloud environments with a unified operations platform that delivers continuous performance, capacity and cost optimization, intelligent remediation and integrated compliance through AI/ML and predictive analytics.

Self-Driving IT Operations Management in a Unified, ML-Powered Platform

VMware Aria Operations (formerly VMware vRealize® Operations™) automates and simplifies IT management with full-stack visibility from physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure — including Virtual Machines (VMs) and containers — to the applications they support. It delivers continuous performance optimization, efficient capacity and cost management, proactive planning, intelligent remediation and integrated compliance. It is available on premises and as-a-service.

Proactive Intelligence and Issue Resolution: VMware Skyline

Expect the unexpected in your IT environment with Skyline, an innovative, proactive intelligence offering designed to keep you out of harm’s way.

What is VMware Skyline?

VMware Skyline™ is a proactive self-service support technology available to customers with an active Production Support or Premier Services contract. Skyline automatically and securely collects, aggregates and analyzes customer specific product usage data to proactively identify potential issues and improve time-to-resolution.

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Boost Digital Employee Experience (DEX)

— VMware Workspace ONE

— VMware Workspace ONE Assist

VMware Workspace ONE

VMware Workspace ONE is an intelligence-driven digital workspace platform that enables you to simply and securely deliver and manage any app on any device, anywhere.

Deliver an Engaging Employee Experience

VMware Workspace ONE integrates access control, application management and multi-platform endpoint management into a single platform and is available as a cloud service or on-premises deployment.

Remote Employee Support: Workspace ONE Assist

Enable IT and help desk staff to remotely support employees with device tasks and issues, directly from the Workspace ONE console.

Workspace ONE Assist

VMware Workspace ONE Assist, together with Workspace ONE UEM powered by AirWatch, enables you to remotely access and troubleshoot devices in real time. Workspace ONE Assist is privacy-friendly. End users can accept, pause, and end a remote session at any time for privacy reasons.

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Connect and Migrate Multi-Cloud Applications

— VMware Cloud on AWS

— VMware HCX

Integrated Hybrid Cloud Service: VMware Cloud on AWS

Be a hybrid cloud hero. Extend your private cloud vSphere workloads to AWS Cloud — securely, rapidly and easily.

VMware Cloud on AWS is an integrated cloud offering jointly developed by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and VMware. You can deliver a highly scalable and secure service by migrating and extending your on-premises VMware vSphere-based environments to the AWS Cloud running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).

Application Migration and Mobility Platform: VMware HCX

VMware HCX streamlines application migration, workload rebalancing and business continuity across data centers and clouds.

VMware HCX®, an application mobility platform, simplifies application migration, workload rebalancing, and business continuity across data centers and clouds. VMware HCX enables high-performance, large-scale app mobility across VMware vSphere® and non-vSphere cloud and on-premises environments to accelerate data center modernization and cloud transformation.

Extend Your On-Premises Environments to the Cloud

Move applications seamlessly between environments at scale and avoid the cost and complexity of refactoring apps.

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Multi-Cloud Management: Automation

— VMware Aria Automation

— VMware Aria Automation Config

— VMware Aria Automation for Secure Clouds

Modern Infrastructure Automation Platform: VMware Aria Automation

Simplify your cloud experience with a modern automation platform.

VMware Aria Automation™ is a modern infrastructure automation platform with event-driven state management. It is designated to help organizations control and secure self-service multi-cloud with governance and DevOps-based infrastructure delivery.

VMware Aria Automation for Secure Clouds

VMware Aria Automation for Secure Clouds (formerly CloudHealth Secure State) integration with Amazon Security Lake is another step towards helping customers effectively monitor cloud risk and operationalize security.

VMware Aria Automation for Secure Clouds is a real-time, contextual cloud configuration security platform that enables IT & developer teams to reduce misconfiguration risk across public cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure.

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Multi-Cloud Management: Cost

— VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth

— VMware Aria Operations

VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth

Simplify financial management, streamline operations, and improve cross-organizational collaboration across your multi-cloud environment.

Benefits

Make Sense of Your Cloud Data: Get visibility into a rich set of data for managing your multi-cloud environment.
Optimize and Control Your Cloud Spend: Improve resource utilization and realize cost savings with tailored recommendations.
Enhance Your Cloud Management Practice: With more than $20B of annualized cloud spend under management, CloudHealth has experience supporting 20,000+ organizations worldwide.

VMware Aria Operations

Enable self-driving IT Operations Management across private, hybrid and multi-cloud environments with a unified operations platform that delivers continuous performance, capacity and cost optimization, intelligent remediation and integrated compliance through AI/ML and predictive analytics.

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Run on the Enterprise Workload Platform

— VMware vSphere 8

— VMware vSphere+

— VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 2.0

Enterprise Workload Platform: vSphere

Bring the benefits of the cloud to on-premises workloads. vSphere supercharges performance, enhances operational efficiency, and accelerates innovation.

What’s New in vSphere 8?

VMware vSphere 8 is the enterprise workload platform that brings the benefits of cloud to on-premises workloads. It supercharges performance with DPU and GPU based acceleration, enhances operational efficiency through the VMware Cloud Console, seamlessly integrates with add-on hybrid cloud services, and accelerates innovation with an enterprise-ready integrated Kubernetes runtime that runs containers alongside VMs.

What is vSphere+

VMware® vSphere+™ is a multi-cloud workload platform that brings the benefits of VMware Cloud Services to your on-premises workloads. vSphere+ combines the industry-leading virtualization technology, an enterprise-ready Kubernetes environment, and high-value cloud services to transform your existing on-premises deployments into a SaaS-enabled infrastructure.

A First Look at ClusterClass Deployments using Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 2.0

The pace of open-source Kubernetes releases has slowed down and a greater focus has been put on stability. We are finally at a time when Kubernetes is ready for mainstream consumption. VMware is known for implementing and operationalizing enterprise-ready software, and so there have been a few different iterations of Kubernetes in the VMware Tanzu portfolio.

Learn more: https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/clusterclass-deployments-tanzu-kubernetes-grid-2-0

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Simplify Cloud App Delivery and Security

— VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer

NSX Advanced Load Balancer

NSX Advanced Load Balancer (Avi) with Cloud Services has multi-cloud load balancing, web application firewall, and container ingress services.

Customers gain flexible deployment and simplified control.

Features

Multi-Cloud Consistency — Simplify administration with centralized policies and operational consistency
Pervasive Analytics — Gain unprecedented insights with application performance monitoring and security
Full Lifecycle Automation — Free teams from manual tasks with application delivery automation
Future Proof — Extend application services seamlessly to cloud-native and containerized applications

ANY Cloud. ANY App. ONE NSX Advanced Load Balancer.

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VMware Ambassador 2023 | Fevzi Korkutata, Volthread

I have been awarded as a VMware ambassador at the VMware PartnerConnect event! 🏆🌟

**Fevzi Korkutata @ Partner Connect Event 2023**

It is truly an honor to be recognized by such a renowned organization. I want to express my heartfelt gratitude to VMware for this incredible opportunity. As a VMware ambassador, I am excited to further deepen my knowledge in #DevOps, #VMwareTanzu, and other cutting-edge technologies.

I look forward to sharing my expertise and experiences with the VMware community and helping businesses unlock their full potential. Thank you to everyone who has supported me on this journey!

**Fevzi Korkutata, Volthread | VMware Ambassador 2023**

Learn More: https://korkutata.medium.com/vmware-ambassador-2023-10a75952ce46

Author

M.Fevzi Korkutata

CTO @ Volthread
VMware VCP, Kubernetes CKA, Oracle ACE

Cleared Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Exam

Learn More: Cleared Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Exam

Cleared Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Exam

I have successfully passed the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

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Oracle ACE Pro Certificate Presented to Fevzi Korkutata

Learn More: https://korkutata.medium.com/oracle-ace-pro-certificate-presented-to-fevzi-korkutata-52fc71f554e7

Oracle ACE Pro Certificate Presented to Fevzi Korkutata

In Recognition and Appreciation of my Technical and Community Leadership

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VMware Exhibition Stands and Offerings at VMware Explores around the World

“Check these great people and technologies!” Unique VMware Solution Catalog by M.Fevzi Korkutata

This was the first VMware Explore attendance for me and I thought preparing a blog post catalog for VMware solutions and exhibitions stands would help people around the world.

VMware Explore Exhibition Stands and Offerings

The Vibrant Exhibition Stands

Knowledgeable and Approachable Staff

Capturing the Faces Behind Innovation & ME

Documentation: VMware Exhibition Stands and Offerings

Table of Contents: VMware Exhibition Stands and Offerings

Appendix

Table of People at VMware Exhibition

Simplify Multisite Workload Mobility with Day 2 Ops

— VMware NSX Federation

— VMware Aria Operations for Network

VMware NSX Federation

VMware Aria Operations for Networks

Innovation and Emerging Technologies

— VMware Blockchain

— Sustainability

— Advanced Product Development

VMware Blockchain is Bringing Ethereum to the Enterprise

VMware Blockchain Overview

Multi-Cloud Expert Zone

VMware Cross-Cloud Services

Customer Experience and Success

VMware Cross-Cloud Services

Multi-Cloud Architecture Solutions

Customer Experience and Success

Professional Services

VMware Learning

Run Kubernetes Everywhere

— VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid

Enterprise-Ready Kubernetes Runtime

What Is Tanzu Kubernetes Grid?

Operate Edge-Native Apps on an Integrated Edge Platform

— VMware Edge Compute Stack

VMware Edge Compute Stack

Related Solutions

Run Your VMware Workloads on Major Public Clouds

— Azure VMware Solution

— Google Cloud VMware Engine

— Oracle Cloud VMware Solution

Azure VMware Solution

What is Azure VMware Solution?

Google Cloud VMware Engine

Cloud.Google.Com Overview

Documentation and Learning Links

Oracle Cloud VMware Solution

Oracle Cloud VMware Solution

Oracle Cloud VMware Solution Highlights

Documentation and Learning Links

Run Business-Critical Apps and Kubernetes on VMware Cloud

— VMware vSphere

— VMware Tanzu

Enterprise Workload Platform: vSphere

Documentation and Learning Links

VMware Tanzu

VMware Tanzu cloud native app platform components

Documentation and Learning Links

Simplify Storage Management

— VMware vSAN

— VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes

— VMware Cloud Flex Storage

Storage Virtualization Software: vSAN

Documentation and Learning Links

VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes

Documentation and Learning Links

VMware Cloud Flex Storage

Documentation and Learning Links

Simplify Kubernetes Management

— VMware Tanzu Mission Control

Simplified Kubernetes Management

Documentation and Learning Links

Run Your VMware Workloads on AWS Cloud

— VMware Cloud on AWS

— VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts

— VMware Cloud Flex Storage

VMware Cloud on AWS

Documentation and Learning Links

On-Premises Infrastructure as a Service: VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts