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

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

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

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

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

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/

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Spencer Kimball, co-founder and CEO of Cockroach Labs, discusses building a next-generation distributed database that can efficiently use commodity hardware found in the cloud and scale rapidly. He emphasizes the importance of distributed databases for businesses operating across multiple regions with diverse databases to maintain continuity and protect information. Kimball also talks about the importance of consistent replication and how CockroachDB can help push the envelope for multi-region operations. He advises starting off at a company where there's a lot to learn.

In this episode, Claire-Louise McSherry, Managing Director at Russell Reynolds Associates, discusses the changes in recruitment and retention in the current work landscape. She explains how technology, culture, sustainability, and social impact have affected these changes, and emphasizes the need for diverse leadership teams and succession pipelines. Three takeaways include the demand for technology skills, the importance of having tech-savvy leaders, and the need to straddle legacy operations with new transformations. McSherry advises to build relationships and network to create opportunities, and highlights her experience in helping financial services companies find technology leaders.

The episode features Kevin McLoughlin, partner and co-founder at MTech Capital. McLoughlin discusses the importance of digital transformation in the insurance industry and how AI, machine learning, natural language processing, and cloud computing can be game changers. He believes that AI will transform the insurance industry, particularly in underwriting. He also talks about the similarities between the evolution of fintech and insurtech, and how insurance companies can leverage technology for digitalization. McLoughlin's best career advice is to pick a niche and go deep in it to make oneself invaluable to an employer. MTech Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in technology companies operating in the insurance industry.

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.

Ray O'Brien, COO at Quantexa, spoke about the "third industrial revolution," driven by cloud-based machine learning. Ray explained how this technology provides unlimited capacity to explore innovation, trials, and different projects that were not affordable in the past. He also discussed the importance of learning both technology and business sides to be the go-to person between them. Ray predicts that cloud providers will be regulated like utilities as the cloud becomes more integrated with AI and ML. His career advice is to gain a global view by experiencing different cultures, which can provide a lot of value in one's career. Ray is an international business leader, board member, independent director, and advisor with expertise in Data, Analytics, Technology, Risk and Finance. Bio: Ray O'Brien Chief Operation Officer at Quantexa Ray is Chief Operation Officer at Quantexa. He is known to inspire business growth through innovative thinking, strategy and a global perspective. Ray is an international business leader, board member, independent director, and advisor with a unique mix of expertise in Data, Analytics, Technology, Risk and Finance. Ray is a proven influencer who makes an impactful difference operating with Boards and C-Level decision makers. Ray graduated from University College Dublin in 1989 with a degree in mathematics and computer science. He joined Kleinwort Benson as an equities trading systems developer and in 1991 moved to Nomura, within futures and options trading. Two years later, he joined risk at Banque Paribas, before moving to the risk area at Deutsche Bank in 1997. In 2001 Ray left Deutsche Bank to form a risk management consultancy based in London and Germany that included among its customers: Royal Bank of Scotland, Deutsche Bank, Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse and HSBC. In 2004 Ray joined HSBC as a member of the executive committee for HTS Global Banking & Markets (HTS GB&M). Ray has managed a number of business areas within HTS GB&M, including Global Transaction Banking, Global Banking, Operations, Risk and Finance software and change delivery. Ray moved to the Global Risk function in 2012 and became the Global Risk COO and Global Head of Risk Analytics. In June 2021 Ray left HSBC and started the life of a Pluralist. --

EPISODE SUMMARY Hanna Helin is the Global Head of Technology Innovation at the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG). In this role she leads LSEG's Technology Innovation across their global Technology organization. Hanna has worked in a variety of technology and business leadership positions and is experienced in developing, leading and executing large technology and data initiatives. Hanna chatted with us about what is happening in the market around emerging technology. She explains how she is engaged in the global ecosystem through understanding cutting edge technologies, collaborating with venture capital to understand investment approach and focus areas, and engaging organizations in academic research. EPISODE NOTES 3 Takeaways: Be open minded in your work and development. This includes everything from how you work, where you work, and what you work on. Consider taking risks and exploring new experiences, while also taking advantage of utilizing new tools and technologies to aid your work. Leverage your expertise in different ways while also gaining exposure to different things. Use what you know to help propel you forward, build upon the knowledge you already have and expand it into other areas. Using your knowledge and skills in new and different areas could go a long way to benefit your career. Allow for automation. Seek out new opportunities where you can utilize technology to do some of the work for you. Innovative and emerging technologies can help solve industry challenges related to data management and analysis. -- Key Quotes: “When we looked at challenges for AI and machine learning, I think we still saw that there is an overall discussion about how do you actually connect the data, manage the data, and really also get access to the right kind of data to then add analytics on top of that.” “I think it is very important to make sure that whenever you create any kind of model, whether it's with or without AI, it should be done in a proper way. And, keeping the ethical aspect and diverse aspects in the core of it.” “I think what public cloud has been able to do is really to create this whole new ecosystem of different startup companies and new capabilities for the market.” -- Best Career Advice: Understand yourself, your business, and your customer. Open up your sights to new opportunities and technologies to help you achieve the highest level of knowledge, efficiency, and success. In doing that, also continue to use the expertise you have gained throughout the years and build upon that as you are exposed to different things. -- Bio: Hanna Helin Global Head of Technology Innovation, CTO Office at London Stock Exchange Group Hanna Helin has worked in a variety of technology and business leadership positions. She is experienced in developing, leading and executing large technology and data initiatives. In her current role as a Global Head of Technology Innovation, Hanna is leading LSEG's Technology Innovation across their global Technology organization including 13,000 people. She has a keen interest in innovation, new technologies and the FinTech industry. Hanna has two Master's degrees from ESCP Europe and University of Vaasa. She has lived in six different countries in Europe and Asia and is now based in New York City. -- For more information: https://www.lseg.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannahelin/ -- 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 traveler and EMEA Financial Services Industry Lead at VMware. You can find Brian on LinkedIn.

EPISODE SUMMARY Joel Neeb is the VP of Execution and Transformation at the office of the CEO at VMWare. We caught up with Joel recently and talked about what the financial industry can learn from tech companies and more specifically about revolutionary transformation. Why you should sell business outcomes rather than the product that gets you there, and how in just a few years time, the most successful organizations will be the ones whose teams are aligned culturally and operationally around customer success. EPISODE NOTES 3 Takeaways: The hardest (and most important thing) your company can do is invest in cultural and operational transformation. Don't sell your technology, sell business outcomes empowered by the right technology. The most successful companies we read about in five years will be the ones that best communicate a common vision, have the strategy to pursue that vision, and whose teams are aligned behind the scenes. Key Quotes: “Evolutionary change is iterative. It's making things a little bit better within the current paradigm. This is revolutionary change. We need to have constructive disruption.” - Joel “I don't believe whatsoever in innate talent, I believe a hundred percent in our ability to invest in ourselves, invest in our teams, and develop what we need to be successful.” - Joel “It's less about building better technology and this endless rat race against finding a new feature or something that's going to improve the technology or the product. And it's more about how does everything integrate and come together? How do I work cross-functionally across my organization, across the ecosystem to deliver outcomes?” - Joel -- Links Joel Neeb LinkedIn Joel Neeb Twitter Joel Neeb Instagram Joel Neeb Website -- 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.

EPISODE SUMMARY In this episode of Don't Break the Bank, we speak with Spiros Margaris. Spiros is a venture capitalist at Margaris Ventures, a futurist, keynote speaker, and board member. He's a senior advisor to and investor in several companies in the fintech, insurtech, cybersecurity, health care, and AI sectors. Spiros chatted with us about why embedded finance excites him, the future of banking, why both crypto and cash is here to stay, and how the metaverse will disrupt the financial world as we know it. EPISODE NOTES 3 Takeaways: The future of finance is in the hands of non-financial companies thanks to embedded finance. This enables companies to embrace FinTech solutions for their customers to sell more of their core product. As this is an added service, it can be priced competitively as the margin comes from the core product. It's up to legacy financial institutions to work out how to aid or compete. Crypto and Cash are both in our future. If you can handle the risk, try putting some of your money in crypto, but be prepared to lose it. Every new opportunity is a little bit scary, but don't let that put you off learning more about the metaverse. Key Quotes: “As the gold rush...now, we always look at history. Some people found gold, but very few. The ones who always made money are the ones who sold the shuffles. And I'm looking here at the metaverse, who's going to sell the shovels?” - Spiros “We said it here first. I think the game will shift that everyone will try to do everything, but It's easier for non-financial company to provide some financial solutions on top of your core business then for bank to provide something else.” - Spiros “I'm a huge fan of AI, but that doesn't mean I don't have to discuss trying to secure jobs, reskilling people, because at the end of the day, what's the point of all this technology if humans live worse?” - Spiros -- Links Margaris Ventures Spiros Margaris LinkedIn Spiros Margaris Twitter -- 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.

Welcome to our latest VMware CMTY Podcast episode, where we have a special guest - Karl Childs, Senior Certification Manager at VMware. Joining us as always are our host, Eric Nielsen, and our co-host, Matt Langguth. In this episode, we will be discussing the world of certification at VMware, with Karl sharing his valuable insights on the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities in this field. We will explore key topics, including the role of certification in advancing your career, the importance of keeping up with the latest technology, and how VMware certifications can help you achieve your goals. Karl will also share his thoughts on the new VMware certification programs, such as VCP-CO, VCP-VMC, VCP-DCV, and VCP-CMA, and how they differ from each other. We will also discuss the impact of the pandemic on certification training and how VMware has adapted to this new reality. Join us for an informative and engaging discussion on the world of certification at VMware, and learn how you can stay ahead of the curve in this dynamic field.

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's Renu Upadhyay sits down with workplace belonging expert Adam Smiley Poswolsky to discuss the trends and opportunities they are seeing when it comes to the future of the distributed workforce. Links mentioned: VMware Report: https://www.vmware.com/learn/1711263_REG.html VMware End-User Computing Blog: https://blogs.vmware.com/euc/ Adam Smiley Poswolsky: https://smileyposwolsky.com/

In this episode of Don't Break the Bank, we speak with Colin Bannister. Colin is VP of Solution Engineering for VMware EMEA and a big champion of VMware's Degree-Apprenticeship program. Colin talks to us about mentorship, learning on the job and how to find, cultivate and support new talent within the industry. EPISODE NOTES 3 Takeaways: An organization is more defined by the people that work there than the technology they create. Make sure employees know what their value is to an organization and encourage them to define their goals. Seek out mentors and offer mentorship. The education on both sides makes it possible to challenge old ways of thinking and discover new solutions. Key Quotes: "Having a clear career path and journey for everybody is important.” - Colin “Technology doesn't necessarily differentiate your company or your capability - your people do.” - Colin “I've gone off using this term soft skills because they're not soft at all. I call them human skills. What are the human skills that we have to develop to become even more effective in our roles?” - Colin -- Links Colin Bannister LinkedIn Colin Bannister Twitter Colin Bannister Blog -- 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.

In this episode of Don't Break the Bank, we talk to Josh Simons, Chief Technologist for High Performance Computing at VMware. Josh tells us about some of the things he's working on in HPC as it relates to financial services. We also explore where ML and AI are fit and are heading...and consider some of the ethical implications as our ability to harness data evolves. This is a great episode for anyone thinking about the types of data that could be used for Machine Learning and how this could be used in your organisation. EPISODE NOTES 3 Takeaways, beyond Data is NOT boring: The data that you throw away is the data that tomorrow you might be able to use. For instance, as part of a machine learning model that could bring true value to an organization. It's important for organizations to have explicit statements about their AI ethics. Federated learning has some magical capabilities, especially for financial services customers, when it comes to building predictive models without violating local laws on how data is stored or used because the data never leaves the premises. Key Quotes: "In some sense, we all need to be pack rats when it comes to our data.” - Josh “I think it's critically important for organizations to speak explicitly about data ethics with the people or organizations from which you are collecting data and be very clear with them, as well as with your employees, about what it is that you're willing to do and not do with that information.” - Josh “Data is where it all happens. That's the fuel that runs all the ML stuff...The issue is how do we get our hands around all that data, and how do we get it to the point where it is appropriate for building predictive models? Just because you have the data doesn't mean that the data has been cleaned, curated and de biased - so that it's actually in shape to be used for building models.” - Josh -- Links Josh Simons LinkedIn -- 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.

In this special VMworld episode of Don't Break the Bank, we talk with Jennifer Manry, Vice President of the Global Industries Group at VMware, and Tom Kellermann, Head of Cybersecurity Strategy at VMware. Jennifer and Tom discuss guarding against cybersecurity breaches and ways to create better and safer customer experiences as part of the drive of Digital Business Transformation. EPISODE NOTES 3 Takeaways: Nonpublic market information, like planned mergers and acquisitions and market strategies, are now being specifically targeted by cybercriminals as high value targets. Customers see cybersecurity as a competitive issue. They are increasingly investing in proactive security measures like DevSecOps and looking for greater collaboration with information security teams, operations teams and development teams to do security by design - to make it even more difficult for cyber exploits to happen. Promote your CISO to report directly to your CEO. They should have a separate security budget from the IT budget and should have veto authority over what the CIO does with regard to anything that would exacerbate the attack surface and allow for island hopping or destructive attacks to occur. Key Quotes: "When you want to get to true business and digital transformation, it's really inextricably linked to high-quality cyber protection, and the need for tight collaboration between all the teams that run these organizations is really critical.” - Jennifer "Cybercriminals are more likely to try and commandeer the digital transformation of the institution to use it against their constituency rather than just burglarize the institution as a whole. This shift is important because cybercriminals want to misuse the trust in the company, in the brand, to attack the company's constituency.” - Tom "Cyber teams need almost a blank check to keep pace with how frequent and fast the pace of change is with criminals and how sophisticated and differing their various approaches to exploits are.” - Jennifer “This is a dramatic governance issue in this sector when you have your CSO reporting to your CIO, because from an American football perspective, it's like having your defensive coordinator report to your offensive coordinator. It's upside down.” - Tom “This level of investment funding, the level of intensity of focus from the cyber teams, all the way up to the CEO, is likely going to be something permanent. And I think there are lots of investments that teams can do to outfit themselves better with the kinds of technology they need to be able to do behavioral analytics or threat hunting with. I don't see a time where cybercriminals are like, ‘ah, you got me. There's no money left in this.'” - Jennifer -- Links Jennifer Manry LinkedIn Tom Kellermann LinkedIn Tom Kellermann Twitter -- 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.

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 -- Links Sumit Dhawan LinkedIn Sumit Dhawan Twitter -- 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.

In this episode of Don't Break the Bank, we talk to Kit Colbert, VMware Cloud CTO about recent game changing innovations in the vSphere Hypervisor and how this helps in cloud architecture - portability, cost and even Kubernetes adoption. EPISODE NOTES 3 Takeaways: Technology changes are hard, but they're never quite as hard as the people, process and organizational changes that need to happen - the culture changes. The notion of agile portability is critical and getting progressively easier. When going through a digital transformation, it's really important to talk about it openly as a community - what's working, what's not, and to learn from it. Key Quotes: "I think VMware is on a journey. If we're successful, people will think very differently of us. They will not think of us as just a virtualization company. They'll think of us as a multi-cloud modern application...and that's a great opportunity.” - Kit “From a VMware standpoint, we're leveraging Kubernetes as a standard framework...and then building integrated functionality on top of that. So the end result for customers is that it's just a seamless experience. And yes, Kubernetes is there under the covers, and you can absolutely interact with it if you want to, but you also don't have to.” - Kit “That notion of culture change is extraordinarily difficult and will be by far the hardest part about any sort of transformation.” - Kit -- Links Kit Colbert LinkedIn Kit Colbert Twitter Kit Colbert Blog -- 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.

In this episode of Don't Break the Bank, we hear from leaders in tech and finance about what technology will be game changing for the industry over the next year. EPISODE NOTES 3 Takeaways: Security and especially cybersecurity is a scary reality across financial services. New technologies bring new risks and the bad guys only have to be successful once to make it worth their while. Listen to Tom and Chris for thought-provoking approaches. People should be seen as an investment, not a cost. To get the most from this investment, focus on getting the best from people by playing to their differences and strengths (or as René Carayol calls them, their Spikes) rather than trying to transform them to fit into a bell curve. You can find more about René on his website or on LinkedIn or check out his book Spike. AI is with us and will only get more immense and intense. We hope to focus more on this in the future. Until then, Louise Öström has recommended the book 21 Lessons for the 21st Century: Yuval Noah Harari and especially as an audiobook. Key Quotes: “Look for the things you excel at, and focus on those, rather than worrying about the areas where others could be better.” - Matthew "There is a need to invest in people in a way that makes them feel special, valued and not just a resource, a number or a row on a spreadsheet. You cannot change a conservative,stuffy, risk and control-based culture overnight, but it needs to change if financial services wants to regain its crown as the place where technical talent wishes to work.” - Matthew “There is no question that we are on the march to quantum, although we are a little way off from quantum supremacy, but crypto has to keep up and be steps ahead if we are to stay ahead of the bad guys.” - Matthew ---- 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.

EPISODE SUMMARY In this episode of Don't Break the Bank, we talk to Allison Krill, Chief Technology Officer for Deutsche Börse Group. Allison takes us through the considerations an Exchange makes when deciding where and how to host critical systems and services. EPISODE NOTES 3 Takeaways: For exchanges, geographical sovereignty is a big deal when it comes to cloud data service providers. Because exchanges support many different regulators, they need to think about where the data sits, who operates that platform and who has access to the data - even if it's encrypted. Security and data protection are important when considering a move to the cloud, but it's necessary to make the business case. When you look at cloud fit, you need to decide whether you retain what you have, rehost it, replatform it, refactor it or consolidate it with something else. Cost as a driver doesn't always necessarily stand on its own, and you can't get the business case if you're just looking at a lift and shift. So you really need to look at the broader value chain of what cloud gives you. Sometimes that means rearchitecting the platform to be cloud native to ensure that you're getting the benefits of those new and broader services. Key Quotes: “You need to operate in this combined ecosystem of legacy and new world, and make sure that you can bring those platforms together and operate them as one.” - Allison "With new technology adoption, you need to drive cultural change as much as technology change… That's for us where our Center of Excellence has really bridged that gap and understanding - it helps with challenging the status quo, getting people to think outside of their comfort zone." – Allison “You definitely won't get cost advantages if you're doing the same thing in the old way, but in a new world.” - Allison -- Links Allison Krill LinkedIn ---- 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.

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 -- Links Jennifer Manry LinkedIn Women Who Code -- 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.

Louise Öström is a Global Practice Builder, building and leading the Accenture VMware Business Group globally. In this episode of Don't Break the Bank, we talk to Louise about Accenture and VMware's hybrid cloud partnership. Louise takes us through the start-up of this collaborative business group, known as the AVBG, and explains what every company should consider when going to a cloud model. This is a really helpful episode for organizations thinking about a digital transformation but unsure about the first steps. EPISODE NOTES 3 Takeaways: Be very clear about why you want to go to a cloud model, and make sure you can get out when you want. The keys to success are attitude, belief and people. Hire people with diverse skill sets and actively encourage them to collaborate. If going to a cloud model is about cost savings, don't put old workloads into something fancy. Don't put the pigs in the ferrari. Key Quotes: "You can make a hundred PowerPoint slides, but the magic happens on the ground. And the magic happens when people work with people.” - Louise “The best advice I could give any company within the financial industry is to think about why you want to go to the cloud. What is it you want to achieve? Make sure you don't lock yourself in. Don't put all your eggs into one basket.” - Louise “Everyone in the banking finance industry globally is struggling with the same challenge. It's not just you. You might be right there in the darkness feeling overwhelmed or don't know where to start. They're all in the same situation. Seriously, you're not alone.” - Louise -- Links Louise Öström LinkedIn Louise Östrom Twitter -- 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.

James Forrester is Vice President Worldwide, Technical Leader of Cloud Sales at VMware. In this episode of Don't Break the Bank, we chat with James about the whys, the hows and the future of cloud technology. This is a fantastic episode for all of you wondering what a switch to a cloud model would look like for your organization. EPISODE NOTES 3 Takeaways: When moving an application to the cloud, focus on the velocity of the move and the ability to revert rather than doing a lot of the optimization work on paper beforehand. Move and then optimize. Try to consolidate layers of redundant regulation that may have built up within an application over time. It saves customers time and money. Make sure the IT teams are seen as the heroes of the cloud transformation process because the applications they support typically produce some of the most critical business data for organizations. Key Quotes: "I'm incredibly excited that the industry has turned around to the importance of technology. We see more and more CEOs declaring themselves to be technology companies even though they're in non-technology industries. I think right now is just a fantastic time to be in tech.” - James “I think what's so compelling about where we are now is that we can really make heroes out of enterprise IT because of the cloud.” - James “When there's an excessive focus on trying to simply recreate a data center environment in the cloud - lock, stock, and barrel - that can very quickly impact the economics of moving to cloud in the first place.” - James -- Links James Forrester LinkedIn -- 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.

Chris Wolf is Vice President, Advanced Technology Group, Office of the CTO at VMWare. In this episode of Don't Break the Bank, Chris goes into the architecture of taking an innovation from project to product. We hear about how to avoid the pitfalls of making things nobody wants and how to speed up the process from customer demand to final delivery. That plus some exciting new developments in the areas of machine learning and augmented and virtual reality. EPISODE NOTES Episode Notes 3 Takeaways: Before kicking off an innovation project, make sure the proposed product has a clear business purpose and route to market. There are two kinds of innovation; Incremental Innovation - make things we already have better; and Disruptive Innovation - to change the game with something new or reimagined. The pandemic has increased interest in augmented reality and virtual reality possibilities in the realm of training and on-site quality assurance. Key Quotes: "To us a project is not successful unless it is graduated and adopted into a product, period.” - Chris “We're not trying to innovate around a one-off to make just one customer happy. If we're going to put something in a product, we want to ensure that this is something that a lot of customers really want and care about.” - Chris “I think a lot of times with innovation the mistake that gets made is you just start running without having a clear line of sight to what the destination is and think you'll figure it out along the way. Sometimes you do and you're successful, but a lot of times you don't and you're building something that nobody necessarily wants or needs.” - Chris -- Links Chris Wolf LinkedIn Chris Wolf Twitter -- 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.

Chris Wolf is Vice President, Advanced Technology Group, Office of the CTO at VMWare. In this episode of Don't Break the Bank, Chris goes into the architecture of taking an innovation from project to product. We hear about how to avoid the pitfalls of making things nobody wants and how to speed up the process from customer demand to final delivery. That plus some exciting new developments in the areas of machine learning and augmented and virtual reality. EPISODE NOTES Episode Notes 3 Takeaways: Before kicking off an innovation project, make sure the proposed product has a clear business purpose and route to market. There are two kinds of innovation; Incremental Innovation - make things we already have better; and Disruptive Innovation - to change the game with something new or reimagined. The pandemic has increased interest in augmented reality and virtual reality possibilities in the realm of training and on-site quality assurance. Key Quotes: "To us a project is not successful unless it is graduated and adopted into a product, period.” - Chris “We're not trying to innovate around a one-off to make just one customer happy. If we're going to put something in a product, we want to ensure that this is something that a lot of customers really want and care about.” - Chris “I think a lot of times with innovation the mistake that gets made is you just start running without having a clear line of sight to what the destination is and think you'll figure it out along the way. Sometimes you do and you're successful, but a lot of times you don't and you're building something that nobody necessarily wants or needs.” - Chris -- Links Chris Wolf LinkedIn Chris Wolf Twitter -- 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/

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 -- Links Tom Kellermann LinkedIn Tom Kellermann Twitter Modern Bank Heists 4.0 Report Carbon Black Inc. The Howlers -- 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/

[Thimon de Jong](https://www.linkedin.com/in/thimon/?originalSubdomain=nl) is a keynote speaker and founder of the strategy foresight firm [Whetston](https://www.whetston.com/). Thimon walks us through his predictions for the future of office life, the fate of cash and his idea for a bank app that could be the next big thing. **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 [Thimon de Jong](https://www.linkedin.com/in/thimon/?originalSubdomain=nl) is a keynote speaker and founder of the strategy foresight firm [Whetston](https://www.whetston.com/). Thimon walks us through his predictions for the future of office life, the fate of cash and his idea for a bank app that could be the next big thing. **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/).

S2:E1 Multi-industry CIO [Bask Iyer](https://www.linkedin.com/in/baskiyer/) leads the Global Industry Solutions team for VMware. Bask tells us why every CIO needs to focus on operations before strategy, why nobody actually wants disruption, and how authenticity is key to creating a healthy workplace. **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 Multi-industry CIO [Bask Iyer](https://www.linkedin.com/in/baskiyer/) leads the Global Industry Solutions team for VMware. Bask tells us why every CIO needs to focus on operations before strategy, why nobody actually wants disruption, and how authenticity is key to creating a healthy workplace. **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/).

S1:E13 We started Don't Break The Bank to ask and answer the questions that we didn't know we had when we worked in banking. With a year of shows behind us, Brian and I look back at some of our top episodes, consider what we've learnt from our guests, and attempt to suggest what 2021 might bring. EPISODE NOTES We started Don't Break The Bank to ask and answer the questions that we didn't know we had when we worked in banking. With a year of shows behind us, Brian and I look back at some of our top episodes, consider what we've learnt from our guests, and attempt to suggest what 2021 might bring.

S1:E12 In this episode, Matthew and Brian are joined by VMware Vice Presidents of Blockchain, Tanya Shastri and Brendon Howe. Together, they explore the current state of Blockchain, why VMware has a Blockchain team, and the merits of an Enterprise Blockchain platform. **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 In this episode, Matthew and Brian are joined by VMware Vice Presidents of Blockchain, Tanya Shastri and Brendon Howe. Together, they explore the current state of Blockchain, why VMware has a Blockchain team, and the merits of an Enterprise Blockchain platform. **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/).

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/).

It doesn't matter what bank you work for, or where you are in the world, there's one thing that units all IT decision-makers at banks - cyber security. In this episode, Matthew chats to Scott McKinnon, Business Solutions Architect at VMware, about how the threats banks face are changing, what that means for the security they put in place, and the implications if they get it wrong. **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). EPISODE NOTES It doesn't matter what bank you work for, or where you are in the world, there's one thing that units all IT decision-makers at banks - cyber security. In this episode, Matthew chats to Scott McKinnon, Business Solutions Architect at VMware, about how the threats banks face are changing, what that means for the security they put in place, and the implications if they get it wrong. **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).

Recorded on March 24 2020, Matthew O'Neill, Brian Hayes and Rory Choudhuri discuss business continuity during a global pandemic and the challenges financial services organisations face when undertaking this radical shift to remote working. **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 Recorded on March 24 2020, Matthew O'Neill, Brian Hayes and Rory Choudhuri discuss business continuity during a global pandemic and the challenges financial services organisations face when undertaking this radical shift to remote working. **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/).

In this episode, VMware Director of Observability Services Jois Raghavendra B P and VMware Sr. Manager of Observability and Tools Ravishankar Rao reveal how VMware IT monitors its applications in the multi-cloud, the importance of observability in the VMware SaaS transformation journey, challenges faced while adding observability to the multi-cloud and the best practices for observability in the multi-cloud. This is the 10th of 15 episodes 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.

Jody R. Westby, CEO of Global Cyber Risk, joins Karen Worstell on "Ask the Howlers" to discuss what is driving cybersecurity governance and how companies need to be thinking about risk.

In this episode we talk to Jon Palmer, Director of Datacenter Solutions Engineering. Jon talks about their VMware Cloud on AWS JumpStart program, which allows customer to get their workloads into the Cloud as fast as possible; up to 22 months faster than moving applications to the hyperscalers, based on VMware Cloud Economics data. Jon also talks about trends he sees in his customer base, hybrid cloud computing, and how SHI can help you with VMware on any of the hyperscalers, like AVS, Google Cloud VMware Engine, and more. Information mentioned in the Podcast: 1. SHI's VMware Site: https://www.shi.com/brands/vmware 2. SHI podcasts: http://shi.com/podcast 3. Email: vmware@shi.com 4. Cloud Economics Case Studies: https://bit.ly/ce-case-studies-23 5. ESG report on 57% of Apps Already Migrated to the web. https://bit.ly/ce-esg-2022

Community EU Round Table for 2023 Expectations w/Gareth Edwards, Aleksandra Todorovska, Lino Telera & Wouter Kursteen

In this episode, catch VMware Sr. Director of Engineering SaaS Commerce Arjun Basu and Technical Architect Parthiban Srinivasan talking about the business benefits of moving SaaS workloads to VMware Cloud on AWS, including design considerations before migration, the challenges VMware IT faced, the future of SaaS workloads, and more. This is the ninth episode of the VMware Runs on VMware podcast series on digital transformation.

In this episode, we talk with VMware Cloud on AWS product manager Frances Wong about her recent blog on automating and improving VMware Cloud Migrations. In the blog, she points out some key elements that most folks forget when the map out a migration to the cloud. She'll also mention some tools you can use to -make your migration smoother. She'll close with a discussion of how she recently worked on bringing VMware's Hands On Labs to many of the most popular hyperscaler clouds at VMware Explore. Frances' Blog: https://virtually2cents.com/automating-vm-migration-and-their-firewall-rules-to-vmc/ vRNI Fling: https://flings.vmware.com/vrealize-network-insight-toolkit Hands on Labs: https://hol.vmware.com/

As organizations embrace cloud, they are beginning to turn a new chapter in the era of multi-cloud. Multi-cloud has quickly become the dominant deployment model. According to a 451 Research study, 75% of all enterprises have multi-cloud footprints (1). Many enterprises choose to run mission critical workloads on-premises to take advantage of data locality, predictable workload performance and low network latency. As larger masses of data accumulate in the enterprise, they tend to attract more local services and applications to minimize latency, increase throughput, and maximize workload performance. On this episode, our host Himanshu Singh, Director vSphere Product Marketing at VMware; will walk us through: - How Consumption model preferences are evolving; - Demand for infrastructure services is increasing; - Security threats to Data Center traffic are rising; - Traditional approaches to meet the needs of next-gen infrastructure do not work. Thank you Himanshu for Introducing us introduce us to the new VMware vSphere 8 Learn more: https://bit.ly/3UdTiGa

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.

This is the eighth episode of The VMware Runs on VMware podcast series about Digital Transformation, where we speak with highlight VMware IT thought leaders and their insights on how we achieve digital transformation at VMware. This eighth episode of 15 will address a topic that is not usually a part of the design conversations—disaster recovery (DR) and how VMware IT handles DR scenarios. Join Senior Director of IT Application Operations Varinder Kumar and Senior Manager for Disaster Recovery Lalit Parashari for this conversation.