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Jimmy Chunga is talking with vRealize Automation’s Technical Marketing Director Chris McClanahan about the different types of infrastructure pipelines and why they’re so important. They also take some time to discuss the incredible features of VMware Code Stream!

To learn more about vRealize Automation, visit: https://www.vmware.com/products/vrealize-automation/media.html

Infrastructure Pipelines and Why They’re Important

In this episode, the VMware Events team will talk about what they are preparing for VMworld 2021. Stay tuned and register for VMworld 2021 here: https://www.vmware.com/vmworld/en/ind...

VMworld 2021 W/ Allison Crooker, Amanda Johnson & Sandra Haan - VMware CMTY Podcast #566 -

Learn what it takes for an organization to move from a traditional product mindset to a SaaS mindset and how that move promoted a business transformation throughout the entire organization. Listen as Roopa Raj, VMware VP and Head of IT, APJ shares how we changed ways of working in line with a SaaS mindset and how VMware IT enables seamless customer, partner, and colleague experiences. This is the second in a 15-part series on digital transformation at VMware. Check back for new episodes.

Digital Transformation Podcast Series, Part 2: Moving from a Product to a SaaS Mindset

Check out this new episode to learn more about recently released VMware Application Catalog.

Reach out to the team at app-catalog@vmware.com to get access to a demo catalog
To see all applications available on VMware Application Catalog today, you can visit https://app-catalog.vmware.com/catalog
Product Webpage – https://tanzu.vmware.com/application-catalog 
VMware Application Catalog technical Documentation - https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Application-Catalog/index.html

VMware Application Catalog- What is it?

Welcome to the fifth episode of the VMware Runs on VMware podcast series about Digital Transformation, where we speak with VMware IT and get insights on how we achieve digital transformation at VMware. In the first two episodes, CIO Jason Conyard, IT CTO Jerry Ibrahim and head of Engineering and Architecture, VP Roopa Raj, talked about the organizational impact, the foundational decisions, and the SaaS mindset that is so essential for digital transformation. In the third episode, we got into the details of how we achieved digital transformation with VMware IT leadership; and the fourth episode was all about how we embarked on our multi-cloud journey. To hear these earlier podcasts, check the links provided below. 

 

This fifth part of 15 explores our journey of building, running, and managing the modern apps platform powered by VMware Tanzu with Varinder Kumar, Senior Director of IT, and Manas Singh, IT Manager. Previous episodes are online under Podcasts in the Resources section of our microsite - Vmware.com/company/vmware-on-vmware.

Digital Transformation Podcast Series, Part 5: Build, Run, Manage Modern Apps with VMware Tanzu

This sixth part of 15 about Digital Transformation at VMware explores the topic of security. Companies worry about how can we secure our applications in the cloud and provide a sense of confidence to our customers that their data is also secure on the cloud. Two stalwarts from VMware Security team, Director of Information Security strategy Craig Savage and Director, Security Architecture Bharat HC, join to discuss this critical topic,

 

In the first two episodes, CIO Jason Conyard, IT CTO Jerry Ibrahim and head of Engineering and Architecture, VP Roopa Raj, talked about the organizational impact, the foundational decisions, and the SaaS mindset that is so essential for digital transformation. In the third episode, we got into the details of how we achieved digital transformation with VMware IT leadership; and the fourth episode discussed how we embarked on our multi-cloud journey and the fifth episode explored how we build, run, and manage our modern apps platform powered by VMware Tanzu®. 

 

 

Previous episodes are online under Podcasts in the Resources section of our microsite vmware.com/company/vmware-on-vmware.

Digital Transformation Podcast Series, Part 6: Security in a Multi-Cloud Environment

In this episode we're talking with Bob Plankers, Staff Technical Marketing Architect,  who focuses on Cloud Security. Bob will discuss what's new in VMC Security, and how the VMware Cloud stacks up to other clouds with respect to security in general. He'll also discuss new developments that support Trusted Platform Modules, and things to do and see at VMware Explore, VMware's annual conference.
 
Resources mentioned in this episode:
 
VMware Cloud Trust Center:  https://www.vmware.com/products/trust-center.html
Security Configuration Guides and references for securing cloud infrastructure:  https://core.vmware.com/security
Bob's Session at VMware Explore(which you should all attend): https://bit.ly/3BV7zSf 
VMware Explore: https://www.vmware.com/explore/us.html

VMware Cloud Security with Bob Plankers

VMware Community, VMUG, and VMware Explore Updates w/ Ariel Sanchez

For Cybersecurity Awareness Month, WiCyS Executive Director Lynn Dohm joins Karen Worstell on Ask the Howlers to discuss how we can grow and diversify the cybersecurity workforce.

Ask the Howlers | See Yourself in Cyber with Lynn Dohm

S1:E11
Over the course of 2020, we’ve had the opportunity to share conversations with some of VMware’s top experts, about issues that are keeping financial services professionals up at night. But we benefit from also sharing views from people in similar roles or positions and how they are handling the same challenges we’re wrestling with.

In this episode of Don’t Break The Bank, our podcast for curious minds in the financial services industry, we speak to Violeta Ciurel, insurance giant AXA’s transformation expert. Hear how this multinational FS provider tackled the pandemic, both in its earliest, most confusing of stages, and in the weeks and months that followed. 

**About Matthew**
Matthew O'Neill is a husband, dad, geek and Industry Managing Director, Advanced Technology Group in the Office of the CTO at VMware.
You can find Matthew on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewoneill/) and [Twitter](https://twitter.com/MatthewON).

**About Brian**
Brian Hayes is an audiophile, dad, builder of sheds, maker of mirth, world traveller and EMEA Financial Services Industry Lead at VMware.
You can find Brian on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-hayes-global-transformation-infrastructure-leadership-innovation-cyber-cloud-digital-delivery/).

EPISODE NOTES
Over the course of 2020, we’ve had the opportunity to share conversations with some of VMware’s top experts, about issues that are keeping financial services professionals up at night. But we benefit from also sharing views from people in similar roles or positions and how they are handling the same challenges we’re wrestling with.

 

In this episode of Don’t Break The Bank, our podcast for curious minds in the financial services industry, we speak to Violeta Ciurel, insurance giant AXA’s transformation expert. Hear how this multinational FS provider tackled the pandemic, both in its earliest, most confusing of stages, and in the weeks and months that followed.

 

**About Matthew**

Matthew O'Neill is a husband, dad, geek and Industry Managing Director, Advanced Technology Group in the Office of the CTO at VMware.

You can find Matthew on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewoneill/) and [Twitter](https://twitter.com/MatthewON).

 

**About Brian**

Brian Hayes is an audiophile, dad, builder of sheds, maker of mirth, world traveller and EMEA Financial Services Industry Lead at VMware.

You can find Brian on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-hayes-global-transformation-infrastructure-leadership-innovation-cyber-cloud-digital-delivery/).

How AXA handled the pandemic, as told by its transformation expert with Violeta Ciurel

Tom Kellermann is the Head of Cybersecurity Strategy for VMware and is on the Board for Cyber Crime Investigations for the United States Secret Service. In this episode of Don’t Break the Bank, Tom walks us through the findings of VMware’s latest cybersecurity report. We find out who the cyber crime cartels are targeting right now, how they’re staging their attacks and what to do about it. 




EPISODE NOTES
3 Takeaways:

Cyber attacks targeting market strategies and nonpublic market information are growing.
The healthcare sector has become a more vulnerable target for extortion because of the pandemic.
Organizations should proactively hunt out cyber threats before digital transformations or the rollout of new technologies.
Key Quotes: 

“The healthcare sector has been dealing with a secondary infection--their own cyber crime pandemic, and ransomware is to blame.” - Tom
“SolarWinds was probably the most widespread systemic act of cyber crime or espionage in the history of the world.” - Tom
“Proactive organizations begin with cyber threat hunting--essentially making sure that no one is in the bank vault when they close for the day.” - Tom
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Links

Tom Kellermann LinkedIn

Tom Kellermann Twitter

Modern Bank Heists 4.0 Report

Carbon Black Inc.

The Howlers

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About the Hosts

Matthew O'Neill is a husband, dad, geek and Industry Managing Director, Advanced Technology Group in the Office of the CTO at VMware.

You can find Matthew on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Brian Hayes is an audiophile, dad, builder of sheds, maker of mirth, world traveller and EMEA Financial Services Industry Lead at VMware.

You can find Brian on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-hayes-global-transformation-infrastructure-leadership-innovation-cyber-cloud-digital-delivery/

S2: E3 Howlers on the Hunt: Chasing Cybercrime Threats with Tom Kellerman

In this episode of Don’t Break the Bank, we talk to Jennifer Manry, Vice President of the Global Industries Group at VMware. Jennifer talks us through how to motivate teams and navigate businesses during times of digital transformation. 

EPISODE NOTES
3 Takeaways:

Always invest time and effort in eliminating non-value added work and automating where possible. You can't continue to come back and ask for more money without demonstrating that you’re being responsible with the budget already given. 
Make sure your tech experts feel connected to the customer experience. Ask IT to do ride alongs - listen to someone on the desk. Do empathy interviews and talk to people. 
The growth mindset of the organization - the willingness to do new things and manage through change with positivity and energy - is paramount to making all of the technology work to its fullest capability. You need to get buy-in to move forward.
Key Quotes: 

"Customer interaction is a really important thing to spend time on. So I definitely encourage people who are in tech to go talk to customers. You immediately know how important you are to the business.” - Jennifer
“The theme I hear in most of these customer interactions is every one of them is grappling now with a transformation journey that they knew they had to make but now are having to do it on an even more accelerated timeline. I think all of them had multifaceted plans but now are having to execute on some of them in days and weeks as opposed to quarters of years.” - Jennifer
“Teammates should look for ways to eliminate costs on one side so that they can free up money for new innovation and new investment on the other. You can't just continue to radically grow your technology dollars year over year. You've got to start to tidy up the house in order to make room for new things.” - Jennifer
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Links

Jennifer Manry LinkedIn

Women Who Code

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About the Hosts

Matthew O'Neill is a husband, dad, geek and Industry Managing Director, Advanced Technology Group in the Office of the CTO at VMware.

You can find Matthew on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Brian Hayes is an audiophile, dad, builder of sheds, maker of mirth, world traveller and EMEA Financial Services Industry Lead at VMware.

You can find Brian on LinkedIn.

S2:E7 If Only I Had Known That Before I Joined...with Jennifer Manry

In this episode of Don’t Break the Bank, we talk to Sumit Dhawan, President of VMware. Sumit explains the hows of meeting customer expectations and explains why that should be a company’s benchmark for success.

EPISODE NOTES
Episode Notes
3 Takeaways:

Spend lots of time with customers. That’s the best way to effectively communicate the services on offer and to get an honest barometer check on how well a customer’s needs are being met.
Creating a broad, customer-focused definition of success motivates the entire organization to think about how and what needs to be done to ensure customers are satisfied. 
When it comes to distributed enterprise and distributed workforce, the last thing you want is to go back to the mainframe closed days. Then you completely stop innovation because you're tying application development velocity straight into infrastructure. That’s never been healthy, and it never will be the right approach going forward.
Key Quotes: 

"Customers are not necessarily looking for products and technologies. They're looking for partners themselves who are going to be able to take them into the future.” - Sumit
“Software is about creating a vision, a destination, what I call a dream. Until customers see and envision the dream the same way as you do, and our teams fulfill that dream in a structured and methodical way, none of us are successful.”  - Sumit
“Matching the solutions and then making [customers] successful is the core DNA and the job of sales, which is misunderstood until you've done it.” - Sumit
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Links

Sumit Dhawan LinkedIn

Sumit Dhawan Twitter

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About the Hosts

Matthew O'Neill is a husband, dad, geek and Industry Managing Director, Advanced Technology Group in the Office of the CTO at VMware.

You can find Matthew on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Brian Hayes is an audiophile, dad, builder of sheds, maker of mirth, world traveller and EMEA Financial Services Industry Lead at VMware.

You can find Brian on LinkedIn.

S2:E11 Customer First, Customer Always with Sumit Dhawan

In this episode of the VMware CMTY podcast, the Host, Eric Nielsen, sits down with Steve Lord, Product Line manager at VMware, to discuss  Cloud Director service Expanding Multi-Cloud Services on Oracle Cloud. 
Steve shares his expertise in cloud services, specifically his role as a product line manager for VMware's cloud director service. They discuss the importance of managing different cloud relationships and the complexity of managing workloads across multiple environments. Steve also highlights the financial benefits of moving away from on-premises data centers to a subscription-based cloud service.

Later in the episode, the conversation turns to Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions and the advantages of using a hyperscaler like Oracle. Steve emphasizes the importance of having a cost-effective DR solution in place and how it can be achieved using Oracle's cloud service.

Throughout the episode, the hosts and Steve touch on various topics related to the IT industry, including the benefits of cloud services, the importance of multi-cloud orientation, and the future of cloud director software. This podcast is a must-listen for anyone interested in the IT industry and the ever-evolving world of cloud services.

 If you enjoyed this episode, please consider subscribing to our @vBarbecue YT Channel, and follow us on Twitter as @vmwarepodcasts.

Thanks again for tuning in!

VMware CMTY Podcast #639 - Cloud Director service Expanding Multi-Cloud Services on Oracle Cloud

In this podcast episode, Zia Yusuf, Senior Vice President, Strategic Ecosystem & Industry Solutions at VMware, discusses his outlook on economic development, emerging markets, and the use of technology to benefit and enhance business as a competitive capability. He also provides thoughts on how companies and customers should operate in a changing world affected by enhanced digital transformation, and how startups and large incumbent companies approach the adoption of new technologies. Yusuf also talks about how AI and ML are game-changing technologies that will have a big impact on financial services. Additionally, he emphasizes the need for companies to have a robust ecosystem strategy and to take advantage of SaaS technology to iterate faster and cheaper than before.

S2:E19 - Ecosystems, Culture, Transformation and Parking with Zia Yusuf

In this episode of "Don't Break the Bank," Joe Baguley, Vice President and CTO EMEA at VMware, discusses digital transformation, security and compliance, and the evolving role of CTOs. Baguley emphasizes that digital transformation is not just about technology, but also about people and processes, and that organizations must integrate security and compliance into their plans from the outset to avoid costly and damaging security breaches in the future. He also discusses the evolving role of CTOs, which now require a different skillset and mindset, including a deep understanding of business strategy and the ability to communicate effectively with non-technical stakeholders. Baguley concludes with advice to focus on building relationships and collaborating with others, as success in the technology industry often happens at the intersection of different disciplines and perspectives.

S3:E1 - Solving problems with technology instead of creating them, with Joe Baguley

Bryan Hurd, Aon Cyber’s Chief of Office, joins Karen Worstell on Ask the Howlers to chat about risk reduction in a changing threat landscape.

Ask The Howlers | Risk Reduction in a Changing Threat Landscape

In this episode, we flip the script on our show and put Brian Hayes, Senior Director, Financial Services Industry Vertical at VMWare in the guest seat. We discuss the digital transformation of the financial services industry. Brian highlights the need for financial institutions to embrace digital transformation, adopt agile methodologies, and cultivate a culture of innovation to stay competitive in the rapidly changing industry.

S3 E2: Flipping the script with Brian Hayes

A change management strategy is required to minimize disruptions to IT services. In this episode of our digital transformation podcast series, meet VMware Director for IT Infrastructure PMO & Compliance Grant Nowell and VMware Sr. Manager for IT Change & Release Automation Sudheendra Chadaga as they talk about implementing the change ‘enablement’ strategy at VMware, challenges, and how it has evolved over the years in the IT industry. This is the eleventh episode of the VMware Runs on VMware Podcast series on Digital Transformation.

To listen to past episodes of the digital transformation podcast series, visit the VMware Runs on VMware SoundCloud page or the resources section of our microsite: www.vmware.com/company/vmware-on-vmware.html

Digital Transformation Podcast Series, Part 11: Change Management Transformation

VMware CMTY Podcast #654 - Leveraging the full power OCVS and vSphere w/Todd Muirhead & Bob Goldsand

VMware’s Bharath Rangarajan sits down with Stanford economics professor and work from home researcher Nick Bloom to discuss how artificial intelligence might impact the future of hybrid and remote work trends.

Links mentioned:
VMware Report:  https://www.vmware.com/learn/2251368_REG.html
VMware End-User Computing Blog: blogs.vmware.com/euc/
VMware Explore 2023 Las Vegas EUC News: https://news.vmware.com/releases/vmware-explore-2023-anywhere-workspace

Nick Bloom: www.wfhresearch.com; https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-bloom-86b79510b/

The Future of Work S1 E2: How Generative AI Will Impact Hybrid Work

CMTY Podcast #659 - Creating Powershell w/ ChatGPT Code Hackathon w/ Dale Hassigner

Digital Transformation Podcast, Part 12: How VMware IT harnessed seamless Monitoring using Wavefront

Digital Transformation Podcast Series, Part 13: Enabling accessibility in all VMware products

Follow our IT pros through space and time as they solve tech crises in classic sci-fi films.

I.T. > SCI-FI PODCAST TEASER

New research from the Economist Intelligence Unit shows that technology decisions are moving to the business users.

The Decentralization of Tech Drives Innovation, Strains IT

#402 - Open Source w/Dirk Hoj

#410 - HOL Updates w/David Rollins

#411 - All things Security w/Tom Corn

#424 - PowerCli 10.0 w/Kyle Ruddy.

On this edition of VMware Community Podcast, Jonas Rosland - Open Source Community Manager for Cloud Native, interviewBoskey Savla -  Product Line Marketing Manager to talk about Kubernetes.

VMware Community Podcast - Kubernetes with Boskey Savla and Jonas Rosland

VMware Communities Roundtable

#477 - Cloud Economics with Bill Roth

#476 - VMworld 2019 Strategy and Content  w/Cate Hind & Allison Crooker

#475 - Secure State Multi-Cloud Security  w/Shrivatsa  Upadhye

#474 - vROPs 7.5 w/Matt Bradford & Matt Jones

In this VMware. Multi-Cloud Podcast episode, Eric Nielsen and David Jasso talk with Venky Despande. Venky is a Product Manager for VMware NSX with more than 20 years of experience working with networking and security technologies. Together we take a tour of VMware NSX to see how it relates to architecting a multi-cloud environment. In the podcast, we start by taking a look at the role of VMware NSX in improving operations within the data center. NSX provides capabilities that improve network operations in multiple areas; from network connectivity, to load balancing, through firewalls. We extend the discussion to see how NSX addresses the same domains in a hybrid cloud scenario. Having a single control plane across multiple clouds makes it far easier for organizations to accomplish cross-cloud networking related connectivity and security use cases…

Achieving cross cloud networking and security using VMware NSX w/ Venke Deshpande

In this episode, we sit down with Bask Iyer, VMware CIO, and Chief Digital Transformation Officer to discuss his views on the techniques that technology leaders are using to become customer-obsessed. In this conversation, Bask talks about the responsibilities and opportunities that the CIO has regarding the customer experience as well as fundamental topics like key distinctions that need to be made between internal and external customers.

CIO Exchange Podcast

CIO Exchange Podcast - Bask_Iyer - Being Costumer Obsessed - EP1

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