VMware on VMware
A Message From Bask Iyer, CIO and Chief Digital Transformation Officer
VMware literally runs on VMware products, apps and solutions, and we are honored to share our achievement and innovative initiatives. VMware IT partners with all parts of the business, including R&D to deploy VMware products in our environments and with Sales to share our product deployment journey with Customers. We’ve had a major impact on improving collaboration throughout the company and introducing infrastructure programs to complement app modernization. I am proud to be part a team focused on innovation, efficiency, agility, and resiliency, as well as part of a company whose philosophy is people and process first, followed by technology.
Contact us at vmwonvmw@vmware.com to connect with our IT subject matter experts and learn about our deployment journeys, IT best practices, and thought leadership.
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BLOGS
Sharing Our IT Experiences
At VMware, we use our own products and technology to solve our most critical challenges—the same ones faced daily by every IT organization. We share our IT experience, insights, and best practices in our blogs.
WEBINARS AND EVENTS
Our Presence at VMworld 2020
Join us online for VMworld 2020, where our IT subject matter experts (SMEs) will share best practices, lessons learned and implementation tips from their VMware product deployment journeys during Breakout sessions, Expert 1:1 sessions, and Expert roundtables.
You can also schedule 1:1 meetings with an IT SME on various topics during VMworld 2020. Contact your account representative or vmwonvmw@vmware.com to schedule a meeting. Check out vmworld.com for more details on these sessions.
For more information about how VMware IT uses our own products and technology to solve critical challenges, read our blogs and follow us on Twitter.
Achieving Perfect Balance. How VMware IT Solved Load Balancer Challenges
The load balancer landscape is changing rapidly, and more workloads are being moved to the cloud. There is also growing demand for these load balancers to be elastic. At VMware, our legacy load balancer lacked flexibility, cloud capabilities, and elasticity. Native load balancers provided by major cloud providers were not advanced enough to support our application requirements. Hear how VMware IT solved its load balancer problems using the NSX solution.
Date: Thursday, August 13, 2020, 9:00 - 10:00 AM IST
VMware Cloud Business Office: Our Secret Weapon for Taming Multi-Cloud
The Cloud Business Office (CBO) is the central enabler for organizations to manage multiple public clouds efficiently and consistently. Our CBO team governs all three major public clouds at VMware. In this discussion, we, will talk about the strategy VMware IT used to build the CBO, our goals, what functions were prioritized, how the team is structured, and the tools that support day-to-day operations.
Date: Tuesday, August 18, 2020, 9:00 - 9:45 AM PDT
VMware IT’s Journey to Cloud Native Architecture
The user experience has evolved, and customers now expect companies to roll out new features frequently. It’s expected with SaaS, that applications have high availability and low latency and are auto-scalable. Because monolith applications were never built for scale, it was next to impossible to roll out new features with ease. Fortunately, with the introduction of cloud native applications, building resilient, scalable and highly available systems is now a reality. In this session, we will share VMware IT”s journey from monolith to cloud native microservices.
Date: Tuesday, August 25, 2020, 9:00 - 10.00 AM IST
Evolution of Application Testing: How VMware Re-imagined Business Process Verification and Performance Engineering
Quality is everyone’s responsibility. At VMware, we recognize the need to be agile and responsive while balancing the need to ensure what we deliver meets business demands for functionality and performance. Discover how VMware IT transitioned to a hybrid testing model that uses a combination of centralized end-to-end testing and decentralized functional testing. By shifting left of testing, we eliminated redundancy while users evaluate products and processes, which allowed us to achieve our goal of performing testing while operating at maximum efficiency.
Date: Thursday, August 27, 2020, 9.00 – 10.00 AM IST
What VMware IT Learned From Moving to a Remote Workforce
As a tech company with hundreds of thousands of customers, VMware has resiliency plans for weather events, data center failures, cyberattacks, pandemics, and other crises. And while we hadn’t envisioned the scale of a pandemic like COVID-19, our business continuity preparation has served us well—a reminder that the right time to plan is when there is no crisis. In this webinar we will share how we enabled more than thirty thousand people in our workforce to work from home-quickly and smoothly.
Date: Wednesday, October 14, 2020, 8:00 - 9:00 AM PDT
If you have suggestions for future webinar topics or virtual events, please contact us at vmwonvmw@vmware.com.
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VMware IT's Journey with CloudHealth
Learn how VMware utilizes CloudHealth to give our internal customers control of their cloud budget.
Get to Know the IT Experts
Josh
Importance of the Meeting Experience
As the leader of the global Audio-Visual team at VMware, I try to infuse my team members with the same passion, energy, and enthusiasm I have for developing meaningful and progressive technology solutions that support our global meeting and event experiences. These efforts ultimately break down barriers created by physical distance, cultural communication, diversity, and personal limitations. And I love connecting people with the technology that enables a more productive experience.
Charlene
Curious About the Roots of Everything
As a database architect at VMware, I take a straightforward approach to challenges. I’m endlessly curious about the root cause of any problem—from disaster recovery to designing highly available architecture—and how IT can solve it in the simplest, most efficient way. I care about this because enterprises tend to overcomplicate solutions rather than look at the big picture of how customers actually use the technology. This can lead to delivering quick fixes instead of long-term answers and prevention.
Mehul
Manage Change by Preparing for Change
The key components to managing technology change are delivering quality IT processes at speed, eliminating redundant/time-consuming tasks, reducing overhead and doing it all securely. That’s a big part of my job as Senior Manager, IT Applications. But another significant part is helping DevOps become an organizational/cultural change agent. And that’s what makes what I do so exciting—I get to both create change solutions and shepherd them to make employees/external customers as efficient and productive as possible.
Scott
Technology Without Passion is ... Just Work
On paper, I use machine learning and micro-services to ensure internal/external end users are their most productive. But I’ve discovered that what truly drives innovation, better solutions and better products is a passion and curiosity for the work. I actually love coming to work (!) as a Member of Technical Staff, Emerging Technologies, knowing I can think out of the box to make things simpler, easier, and even more fun so people enjoy the technology instead of resenting it.
RESOURCES
Videos
- Adding Burst Capacity for the VMworld Hands-on Lab using VMware Cloud on AWS
- How VMware IT Migrated the VMworld Portal to VMware Cloud on AWS
- How VMware Implemented Network Virtualization with NSX
- How VMware IT Deployed vSphere 6.5 with Zero Downtime
- How VMware IT uses vSAN
- IT Uses Cloud Health
- Low-Cost Agility: VMware's Internal, Private Cloud
- Network Virtualization with NSX
- The Cube: VMware IT Use Case for Dell XtremIO X2
- Using vRealize Network Insight to Manage VMware's Private Cloud
- Using vRealize Log Insight to Manage VMware’s Private Cloud
- VMware IT and Integrated OpenStack
- VMware IT’s journey with SAP HANA on vSphere 6
- VMware chooses XtremIO X2 for the Highest Performance and Data Efficiency running SAP HANA
Webinar Recordings
- Achieving Perfect Balance. How VMware IT Solved Load Balancer Challenges
- Deploying Horizon View Using VMware Cloud on AWS
- Empowering Workspace ONE UEM For Mobile Users
- How VMware IT Deployed and Adopted Carbon Black Cloud
- How VMware IT Is Securing Applications Using NSX & Micro-Segmentation
- How VMware IT Manages Large-Scale Mac Deployments with Workspace ONE
- How VMware IT Migrated Production Services to a New Data Center
- How VMware IT Transformed WAN with VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud
- IT Transformation: VMware's Journey
- Running SAP HANA on vSphere
- Shifting IT from Cost Center to Innovation Center
- SiliconAngle Interview: CIO Bask Iyer at VMworld 2017 Europe
- SiliconAngle Interview: CIO Bask Iyer at VMworld 2017 US
- VMware Enables its Workforce for Remote Productivity - Quickly and Securely
- VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid: Accelerating Our Journey to Cloud-Native Apps
- VMworld Hybrid Cloud Hands-on-Lab Delivery
- VMware IT Explores Passwordless Security and Discovers Less is More
Join the VMware IT Team
VMware’s success would not be possible without our employees, from entry-level roles on up. Our unwavering focus on innovation with a collaborative mindset is what makes VMware IT so successful. That, plus the fact that we offer competitive benefits, a generous time-off policy, a beautiful park-like campus, and a program that allows colleagues to participate in community service activities of their choosing, make VMware IT a unique blend of people passionate about their work and their community. In fact, in Computerworld’s “The 100 Best Places to Work in IT 2019 we ranked 4th in the benefits category and 12th in the large organization category. We were also recognized for diversity and inclusion, being named to the Forbes “Best Employers for Diversity 2019” list.