VMware News: June 2021

Highlights

Unlock the secret to cloud acceleration with vRealize Cloud Universal

Find out how to become a cloud superhero with vRealize Cloud Universal! Join us July 15th as we take you through the journey to cloud. It’s more than dashboards, workloads, and switching from a capital expense model to operational expense model, it’s a complete culture shift.

Don’t miss our webcast for the 5 key superpowers that will help you unlock the secret to cloud acceleration and also learn.

• What to consider when navigating complex cloud environments
• How cloud federation can help break down silos
• Why flexibility is the key to lowering IT costs
• How the tools you use empower operational continuity

Sys Admin Appreciation Day

July 30th is the 22nd annual Sys Admin Appreciation day. However instead of just a single day, we’d like to spend the month of July celebrating the people who provision our systems, monitor them, keep them up to date and running smoothly. Thank you for making businesses possible. Let’s gather online as a community to share our stories from the trenches, thank a colleague, and look forward to what the next 22 years of sys admin life looks like. Starting July 1st, click here for all the info! #SysAdminDay

VMworld 2021 Registration Is Now Open!

This year’s online event is designed to help our customers welcome change. We invite you to explore how to deliver modern apps and secure them, manage clouds in any environment, seamlessly support an anywhere workspace, and accelerate business innovation from all your apps in a multi-cloud world. Register today!

Product Update

Kubeapps Meets Tanzu Kubernetes Grid: a New Release is Out

A new release of Kubeapps enables developers and admin clusters to deploy and manage trusted open source content in their VMware Tanzu™ Kubernetes Grid™ (TKG) workload clusters. Plus, Kubeapps also features full compatibility with the latest versions of Pinniped which means that it can be used with any OIDC provider for TKG clusters and even in managed clusters such as Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Try it now by adding VMware Marketplace as a public repository!

Podcast: Hybrid Cloud Management with vRealize Cloud Management and VMware Cloud on AWS

In this podcast episode, learn how to perform hybrid cloud management with vRealize Cloud Management solutions. VMware experts talk about the vRealize Cloud Management portfolio, key use cases customers are using, the benefits to customers, subscription options, and more.

VMware Cloud on AWS Resilient Infrastructure Maximizes Application Uptime

You can migrate existing business applications from on-premises VMware vSphere data centers to VMware Cloud on AWS without re-architecting for high availability because the infrastructure is resilient by design.

The VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC stack is ready for your critical applications and maximizes your uptime by preventing or reducing outages from failures at the host, rack, or data center layers. Watch this short video to see how VMware HA, AWS Partition Placement Groups, stretched clusters, and other innovations can minimize downtime and ensure your applications are providing your customers with the best possible service levels.

VMware NSX Advanced Firewall for VMware Cloud on AWS

We are pleased to announce a major expansion of VMware Cloud on AWS Network Security portfolio with the introduction of VMware NSX Advanced Firewall add-on. As you migrate and modernize your applications on the cloud, NSX Advanced Firewall capabilities help you secure your applications against a never-expanding set of threats on the internet. Learn more.

The Summer of 3 Transformations with VMware Tanzu

We now have yet another set of updates for each type of transformation that supports digitization and modernization. Learn about all the latest developments in the Tanzu portfolio.

What’s new in Tanzu? June 2021 Update

In this rapid-fire update on all the latest capabilities from VMware Tanzu, you’ll learn:

• New ways Tanzu is enabling transformation at the data layer
• New ways Tanzu is simplifying how developers adopt new application patterns
• New ways Tanzu is automating chores for platform teams building DevSecOps platforms
• Where to find resources to learn more

New VMware Skyline Advisor Release with Enhanced Email Notification

VMware Skyline, included with your Production Support, Premier Support, Customer Success 360 and vRealize Cloud Universal subscription, provides proactive intelligence to help keep you out of harm’s way. The latest Skyline Advisor releases include enhanced Collector Health and Upgrade email notifications available to Skyline Administrators.

• Unhealthy Skyline Collector notifications: emails are triggered when one or more Collectors are in an unhealthy status.
• Out-of-date Skyline Collector notifications: emails are triggered when one or more Skyline Collectors are out of date and need upgrading to the latest version.

Customer Success Stories

Telekom Malaysia Kickstarts App Modernization

Leading telco Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM) has partnered with VMware as part of its multi-year digital transformation journey from simple server virtualization over a decade ago, to container orchestration and a Kubernetes platform today.

TM is using Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition to enable modern apps development, VMware Ops Manager to extend the TKGI platform to other landscapes (prod/dev/dmz) as well as with secondary sites, and NSX-T for advanced container networking, load balancing capabilities and security policies. VMware also ran a year-long series of onsite workshops on containers and the VMware technology platform to address any resistance to change. Learn more here!

Events

Workspace ONE Office Hours

Join us for sessions that will enable you to leverage all of Workspace ONE’s capabilities to simply and securely deliver and manage any app on any device by integrating access control, application management, and multiplatform endpoint management. During 60-minute, interactive webcasts, you’ll engage with our experts about various Workspace ONE topics and explore:

• Common pitfalls
• Frequently asked questions
• Best available resources

Register for future sessions or view previous ones on-demand to get onboarding and optimizing tips from VMware Workspace ONE experts.

Security Connect On Demand

Security professionals from around the globe joined us at Security Connect on June 3rd to unveil new threat research, share industry trends and discuss leadership strategies. We’re excited to share that the 60+ sessions are now available on demand to you and your teams so you can get the most out of this virtual security event.

Revisit the on-demand sessions, or share access to the conference with your colleagues.

July 20th Webinar: Scale Your Virtual Desktops and Applications to the Cloud for Remote Work

Do you have urgent business continuity needs which rely on Windows applications and desktops to enable work-from-home capabilities? Or do you want to expand your desktops to the cloud for desktop bursting, protection, or proximity to applications running in AWS?

Join us to hear directly from experts: a deep dive session on VMware Horizon on VMware Cloud on AWS to easily expand capacity for an existing VDI environment or create a new environment in the cloud. Hear how leading organizations use the solution and how you can best architect, deploy, and scale for your VDI needs. Register now!

Cloud Camp Roadshow by VMware: Introduction to VMware Cloud on AWS for IT Practitioners

We welcome you to join our first-ever virtual Cloud Camp Roadshow co-hosted by VMware and AWS experts on July 22nd, 2021. VMware Cloud on AWS is a highly scalable, secure service that enables organizations to rapidly migrate, extend and protect their on-premises vSphere-based environments.

During this virtual roadshow, experts will take you through the architecture of VMware Cloud on AWS, a detailed walk-through of the console, and we’ll close with a word from one of our customers.

You won’t want to miss it!

Thought Leadership

Discovering Kubernetes-Ready Solutions for Cloud Native Applications

Containers have largely become the centerpiece of automation and DevOps in the enterprise—and Kubernetes has emerged as the gold standard for handling container orchestration. Here’s how.

Demo

Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Deployment on VMware Cloud on AWS

Watch this short video to learn how to deploy Tanzu Kubernetes Grid into a VMware Cloud on AWS environment.