Welcome to VMware’s IT Transformation site
Along the path to Cloud Computing, we have had some great successes, learned valuable lessons and have emerged with information to share. Our Cloud strategy fuels our evolution, and we consider the adoption of our own solutions to be both critical and unique. The solutions you will find here deliver rich on-demand services and showcase VMware as a trusted partner in creating agile, secure and cost-effective cloud solutions for our customers.
VMware continues to drive the journey to Cloud Computing by acquiring, developing and utilizing technologies that will inspire our customers on their own journeys. As part of our VMware on VMware (VoV) strategy, VMware develops and utilizes both products and solutions across the three key layers of Infrastructure, Application Platform and End-user technology. This three-layer approach enables us to fully leverage the capabilities of the Cloud while creating a comprehensive, cost-effective and streamlined offering for our customers. This site brings you to case studies and analysis from our own journey - real-world examples on how IT can truly transform the business.
End-user provisioning and management is key to unlocking the vast opportunities of the Cloud. Solutions in this layer offer companies the ability to provide users with a secure combination of devices of their choosing, accessible anytime, anywhere. Such freedom enables a seamless, global and interactive work environment, increasing both agility and productivity.
Collaboration through VMware Socialcast Social Media in the Cloud
Socialcast Builds Community and Increases IT Agility
Summary
VMware sought a way to increase dialog across the global enterprise. People at all levels and in all locations were asking for a way to have conversations and share information in an inclusive way that supported VMware’s culture of transparency. As consensus built that some kind of online community was the next right thing, IT had its own conversation about what would be required to manage it. VMware had chosen Socialcast as its social platform of choice and then acquired Socialcast in spring 2011. Socialcast was live at VMware by July.
Business Need:
- Meet demand from all levels of VMware community to easily have communications, collaboration and multi-level engagement
- Easily conduct both public and private conversations across all organizational and geographic boundaries
- Find a social community that can meet all needs without adding to IT overhead
Solution:
- Provide single communication platform
- Leverage SaaS model to avoid IT overhead
- Increase dialog with employees at all levels and across physical boundaries to improve sense of community at VMware
- Meet these demands without increasing the administrative overhead to manage a new platform
- Create community that would work on any employee’s platform of choice - across devices and operating systems
Benefits:
- Instantly facilitated forums for communication
- Ease-of-use solution enabled self-managing system
- Increased employee dialog with management; C-level changes and concerns now easily discussed in a two-way, transparent conversation
- Public and private conversations allow flexibility
- Improved IT agility achieved via instant user polling with high participation/feedback rates
- Improved sense of community furthered VMware’s culture of transparency
Enterprise Email and Collaboration on VMware Zimbra
VMware’s Move to Zimbra: Rollout Enables Collaboration for the Cloud
Summary
Zimbra, a popular, open-source email and collaboration solution, fit well into VMware’s strategy to offer enterprise-class applications for the Cloud. In addition to exposing internal users to the same business-critical applications VMware provides to its external customer base, management sought to understand the implications of implementing, tuning and optimizing a new solution in a fully virtualized environment.
Business Need:
- VMware needed an enterprise-class email and collaboration platform to expand its VMware vCloud™ strategy to deliver a well-integrated portfolio of compute, application development and core IT service clouds
Solution:
- Reduce dependency on competitor’s products while validating the strength of our own solutions
- Leverage Zimbra, the technology acquired by VMware from Yahoo in January 2010
- Replace VMware’s existing email system with Zimbra Collaboration Server, Network Edition
Benefits:
- Zimbra demonstrated in a virtualized production environment
- Adoption and advocacy fueled by open source architecture
- Mature web-based email solution vetted for production Cloud environments
- Zimbra furthered VMware’s mission of simplifying IT
- Zimbra added to the portfolio of offerings available to our VMware vCloud partner
Desktop Virtualization on VMware View
View Desktop Virtualization Drives Agility, Cost Savings and Improved User Experience
Summary
VMware users wanted to access their desktops anytime and from anywhere — on the road, from home, from their laptop or mobile device. VMware IT deployed its View technology for desktop virtualization and was able to give them what they wanted while reducing the total cost of ownership for each desktop in the growing global enterprise.
Business Need:
- Users demanded access to their desktop applications and data from any location and/or device
- IT needed to drive further cost and operational efficiencies while meeting user demands
- The company needed to bring the benefits of the Cloud to the desktop
Solution:
- Single solution deployed to extend desktops, data and applications to users regardless of location or device
- Enhanced, more mature solution to reduce provisioning to 10 minutes per user
- Reliable, secure desktop resources extended to users beyond the office
- Provide desktop virtualization while reducing the total cost of ownership for each desktop in the growing global enterprise
- Centralized infrastructure afforded by virtualization to drive user and IT benefits
Benefits:
- Centralized virtual machines streamline IT administration, boost security and improve user experience
- Backup times slashed
- User downtime for upgrades and patches virtually eliminated
- Login time reduced by half
- 5.0 upgrade delivers enhanced PCoIP performance, enabling IT to begin addressing provisioning of thin clients in remote offices
Bring Your Own Mobile
Bring Your Own Mobile Initiative Shares Responsibility, Drives Cost Savings
Summary
As the industry emerged from the downturn, VMware watched companies move away from providing employees with mobile devices and instead saw a trend toward shared responsibility and employee engagement in corporate expenses. The company adopted a “Bring Your Own Mobile” (BYOM) initiative for all U.S. employees in late 2011 and is currently shifting the ownership of devices and call plans to employees.
Business Need:
- Cost of providing mobile devices for employees had risen dramatically year-over-year
- IT and management overhead in provisioning users meant high TCO
- Corporate ownership drove device and plan choices that weren't users' first choice
Solution:
- Reduce the annual cost of provisioning users with mobile devices
- Transition to employee-owned devices and reduce company financial support for call plans
- Enable employees to select a mobile device plan that works for them
Benefits:
- Users have freedom to choose device of their preference—“Bring Your Own Mobile”
- Users benefit from corporate negotiated discounts for devices purchased from AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile
- Model of shared responsibility enables VMware cost savings
- IT cycles can now be better spent on strategic initiatives
Cloud-enabled Single Sign-On on VMware Horizon Application Manager (MyOneLogin)
Cloud-enabled Single Sign-on on VMware Horizon Application Manager (MyOneLogin) Ensures Security, Improves Applications Management and Simplifies Access
Summary
Remembering user names and passwords has become a challenge in the SaaS era where employees are using applications that may be enterprise-class or tiny niche applications that work on a mobile device. The need exists for IT organizations to maintain their company’s security posture and to audit access controls from a central location. VMware accomplished this by implementing Horizon Application Manager, a Cloud-based user authentication application that sits between the client and the Cloud-based applications to which users seek access. And by offering users one set of credentials, VMware IT delighted users while improving security and applications management.
Business Need:
- Increasing use of Cloud-based applications by employees, customers and partners put demands on IT to both simplify login and ensure security of company information
- More than 200 applications existed in the enterprise, 40 of which were customer-facing, all with unique sign-in requirements
- Managing authentication and entitlements was getting unwieldy for IT and frustrating for users
Solution:
- Implement Cloud-based, single sign-on to streamline user and IT workloads
- Leverage Cloud infrastructure for fast, effective deployment at a low cost
Benefits:
- Users love having only one login to remember
- Users have access to up to 22 applications from a single dashboard with one login
- IT gains a centralized view into usage, both by user and application
- Better insight into use enables improved cost efficiencies in application licensing
