VMware Multi-Cloud Podcast

On this episode of the VMware Multi-Cloud podcast, we take a look at VMware’s new Cloud-Ready Framework. Our guests are John Maronne and William Lam. John is a Senior Manager leads a team of Solution Architects focused on helping customer architect multi-cloud environments based on VMware Cloud. William is Senior Staff Solution Architect and part of VMware’s Cloud Solutions Business Unit where he focuses on providing expert guidance to customers on VMware Cloud also works with VMware R&D to continuously improve the capabilities of our cloud offerings. On the show, we discussed a new program that they are driving intended to provide rich architectural guidance to organizations struggling with multi-cloud challenges. Unlike hyper-scaler frameworks that only focus on the use of their own public cloud, the new VMware Cloud Ready Framework looks at architectural considerations that span designing, deploying and running a cloud that includes the data center and any combination of off-premises environments including edge, managed service provider-hosted clouds and the hyper-scaler clouds of AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle, IBM and Alibaba.

VMware’s Cloud Ready Framework simplifies architecting your multi-cloud environment

on today’s multi-cloud podcast, Eric Nielsen and David Jasso sit down with Mandy Storbakken to discuss DevOps and its relationship to Cloud Management. Mandy is a VMware Technology Evangelist with a primary focus on Multi-Cloud Management. The podcast starts with a discussion of what makes the “Ops” part of DevOps so much different than what people think about when they think about more traditional IT Ops. The discussion also addressed how you can assess whether your DevOps program is hitting the mark in terms of adding value to your organization. Finally, the final part of the show focused on understanding the requirements that an effective cloud management solution must address in order to support DevOps across the application development lifecycle.

VMware Multi-Cloud Podcast: DevOps and Cloud Management w/ Mandy Storbakken

On today’s multi-cloud podcast, Eric Nielsen and David Jasso talk with Jeff Eberhard, a solution architect for Oracle Cloud VMware Solution. Jeff has been on the show before when he was a solution architect at VMware focused on VMware Cloud on AWS. Since that time Jeff has joined Oracle and now is helping our joint customers build out their hybrid cloud using the best of both VMware and Oracle. On the show, we discuss the most common use cases that are driving customers to adopt VMware on Oracle. We also look at some of the differences in how organizations approach their hybrid cloud needs and what are some of the key technical differentiators that the Oracle Cloud VMware Solution brings to the marketplace…

Creating a VMware Hybrid Cloud Using Oracle Cloud VMware Solution w/ Jeff Eberhard

Introduction to VMware Multi-Cloud Podcast - Eric Nilsen & David Jasso

VMware Application Platform Strategy -  Emad Benjamin

On podcast Edition, Host Eric Nielsen, Sr Director, Community, and Social Marketing & Co-host David Jasso, Senior Director, VMware Cloud Product Marketing interview John Harris & Timmy Carr to talk about VMware Tanzu,  Containers and Kubernetes Portfolio.

VMware Tanzu Introduction - John Harris & Timmy Carr

In this episode, host Eric Nielsen, Sr. Director Social Media & Communities VMware and  Co-host David Jasso, Director, VMware Cloud Services Product Marketing will interview Tom Hite, Senior Director, Professional Services Engineering Emerging Services
to talk about how to leverage a data-centric framework to design modern apps that will run in multi-cloud environments. Called the Six Sevens, this framework looks at six fundamental data orchestration processes that exist in every project and seven foundational choices app dev teams will make in every project. The goal of the framework is to ensure that teams make well-reasoned and explicit decisions about the data that will be created, used, moved, stored and transformed as a result of the application being built. Making explicit decisions upfront, at the start of the project, will avoid negative and unintended consequences that could negatively impact a company’s bottom line and ruin their reputation. 

I hope you will find this episode useful and learn at least one new thing. It was produced with care for you.

Building Modern Apps for Multi-Cloud Environments - Tom Hite

In podcast edition, Bill Shetti and Dan Ilson talk about how to leverage a process called Continuous Verification to improve the effectiveness of CI/CD pipelines in order to reduce the amount of post-deployment work necessary to support cloud-delivered applications. Bill and Dan are part of a team of VMware Cloud Evangelist focused on building and running applications on AWS, Azure, and Google. Their team has created multiple videos, blogs and code samples highlighting how to leverage continuous verification for the purposes of ensuring that deployed applications will operate within budget, will be free of misconfigurations that can create security risks and that governance checks that validate the matching of users to environments are executed in advance of code deployment. The team leverages both VMware and a wide range of 3rd party development products as part of their continuous verification efforts.

Improve DevOps efforts with Continuous Verification - Bill Shetti & Dan Ilson

In this podcast edition, we talk with Senior Manager, VMware Cloud Solution Engineering, Jeff Eberhard about why it can be so challenging to quickly and easily move an application from the data center to the cloud. We discuss how most traditional, client-server, applications running in the data center have some form of application to infrastructure dependency that makes its likely that anyone moving an app from the data center to a hyper-scaler cloud will need to rewrite some amount of the code to make the app run as expected. Fortunately, the work that VMware is doing to make it possible to run the VMware Cloud Stack on any of the major hyper-scalers offers an answer to this problem.

How VMware can help make cloud migration simple - Jeff Eberhard

Intrinsic Security and Multi-Cloud Operations - Muneyb Minhazuddin

A Maturity Model for Multi-Cloud Management -Rachel Dines & Ennio Carboni

In this podcast edition, Eric Nielsen and David Jasso talk with Robin Querin around the idea that there are many different ways to think about what “Cloud Is”. Robin leads VMware’s Cloud Management Technologist practice. Robin points out that many people think about cloud as if it were a destination. My cloud is AWS or Azure or Google. But as we all move into a world where one organization may be using AWS and Azure and Google; it’s more useful to return to the idea that cloud is an operating model. Thinking about cloud this way allows you to focus on building a cloud environment that can easily support operations across a multi-cloud landscape. The other big idea that organizations need to think about is the idea that cloud is personal. If you want to build a world-class cloud that addresses the needs of real people, you need focused on their needs upfront. If you put these two ideas together, the first that cloud is an operating model and second that cloud is personal; you will architect a solution that meets your cloud computing needs today and well into the future…

Why the Definition of What Cloud Is Matters -Robin Querin

Richard Seroter leads technical marketing for VMware’s Modern Applications Business Unit, Marketing at Pivotal, a 12-time Microsoft MVP for cloud, an instructor for developer-centric training company Pluralsight, the lead InfoQ.com editor for cloud computing, and author of multiple books on application integration strategies. As VP of Product Marketing at Pivotal, Richard heads up product, partner, customer, and technical marketing and helps customers see how to transform the way they build software. Richard maintains a regularly updated blog (seroter.wordpress.com) on topics of architecture and solution design and can be found on Twitter as @rseroter.

Pivotal Labs & Tanzu Portfolio - Richard Seroter

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

On this Multi-Cloud Podcast edition, Kit Colbert, CTO for VMware’s Cloud Business Unit talks with us about how an organization’s application modernization strategies interact with their multi-cloud use needs. He also addresses how VMware’s unique approach to delivering a multi-cloud architecture addresses the need of organizations to have access to the innovative cloud services from hyper-scaler cloud providers and a simplified cross-cloud operating model.

VMware’s Unique Architecture for Application Modernization and Multi-Cloud Use

The guests on this podcast include Martin Hosken and John Marrone. Martin is a Chief Technologist for VMware Cloud Services and John leads a solution architect team chartered with helping customers build and run multi-cloud environments across the data center, the edge, managed service providers, and public clouds such as AWS, Azure and Google. On this podcast, David and Eric talk with Martin and John about multi-cloud reference architectures that they are creating. John’s team has created 9 reference architectures that help customers create hybrid clouds using VMware Cloud Foundation technologies on-premise and on AWS. His team is now working on expanding this work to also cover Azure and Google. Martin has written two detailed technical guides (reference architectures and best practices) that highlight how to effectively deploy VMware technologies in a Managed Service Provider and also on AWS. Much of the work in both of these guides are directly applicable to private cloud scenarios as well

VMware Multi-Cloud Reference Architectures – A Toolkit for Cloud Architects

In this podcast, we will look at how VMware is optimizing and expanding the capabilities of vSphere to support modern applications such as event streaming and machine learning platforms.
Justin Murray works as a Technical Marketing Architect at VMware. Justin creates technical material and guidance for VMware customers and the VMware field organization to promote the virtualization of modern applications on VMware's vSphere platform. Justin also works closely with VMware's partner ISVs (Independent Software Vendors) to ensure their products work well on vSphere.

Optimizing VMware vSphere to support modern application architectures

Our guest on today’s VMware Multi-Cloud podcast is Cody Carlson. Cody is Senior Solution Architect working within VMware’s Global Customer Support Organization. Unlike many of our guests who work with customers before they deploy a solution based on VMware, Cody most often works with customers after they have deployed their solution and have run into some level of difficulty with the way they architected it. Recently Cody has been spending a lot of time with Terraform by HashiCorp. Terraform is fast becoming one of the most used tools for automating the provisioning of infrastructure in the cloud. On the podcast, Cody gives us a quick tutorial on Infrastructure as Code or IaC and then goes on to discuss the reasons Terraform has become so attractive to teams that have to build and deploy infrastructure stacks across multi-cloud environments. We wrap up talking about how teams can use vRealize Automation alongside of Terraform to create a much richer set of capabilities then either product can deliver on its own

Managing multi-cloud resource provisioning with Terraform and vRealize Automation

Our guest on today’s VMware Multi-Cloud Podcast is Jad El-Zein. Jad is a Technology Director in VMware's Cloud Management Office of the CTO with nearly two and a half decades of experience in IT. Jad’s background includes over a decade long tenure with Lockheed Martin where he was a customer of VMware. He and has spent much of the last decade at VMware focused on multi-cloud management and data center automation. Our interview of Jad focused on understanding how machine learning is now becoming an integral part IT operations management. Jad helped Eric and I understand how VMware vRealize is leveraging the concept of a “digital twin” to continuously simulate the behavior of any IT environment, simulating potentially millions of adjustments. vRealize can then automatically implement those actions that have the most impact on improving the overall performance of the environment.

Improving multi-cloud management using machine learning w/ Jad El-Zein

On our most recent multi-cloud podcast we talk with Harmen Vander Linde. Harmen is a Senior Director in VMware’s Office of the CTO where he heads up the Cloud Data Platforms Team. One of the areas where Harmen and his team have been focused recently is the development of a new “Observability Framework”. We started our discussion by looking at the roots of this new discipline. Observability has evolved from IT infrastructure and application monitoring. Tech innovation in the areas of public cloud computing; modern apps based on containers and micro-services and the need to satisfy the need of DevOps teams looking to troubleshoot these apps has given rise to the need for something beyond traditional monitoring. Harmen then walked us through a new observability framework that he and his pan VMware team have created to address observability needs. We finished our session with a recap of the current state of observability as well as what app and IT professionals can expect in the future.

Modern Apps and a New Framework for Observability w/ Harmen Vander Linde

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