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Digitisation has the potential to greatly improve access to many government services. But how can we ensure that some citizens are not left behind?

Achieving Equity in Digital Government Services

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Some things are familiar, others a surprise. But there is no doubt that Asia-Pacific is embracing digital like few other regions.

Business in Asia-Pacific: A Year of Learning and Adapting

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The digital skills gap is putting technology companies under significant pressure. Fortunately, this can be alleviated by creating new opportunities for upskilling and training.

Plugging the Burgeoning Technology Skills Gap

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VMware leaders talk to the Futurum Tech Webcast about the challenges of multi-cloud that surprise many companies.

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3 Hard Truths About the Multi-Cloud Journey

If there’s one word that has defined VMware since its founding 25 years ago, it’s innovation. As a startup, we burst onto the scene with groundbreaking virtualization solutions. As a global name, we went on to provide ubiquitous cloud infrastructure and have been leading the way in the multi-cloud era and beyond with the same […]

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At RADIO 2023, the Future We Make Is Closer Than Ever

During RSA Conference 2023, VMware was recognized as a Cybersecurity Innovator by Cyber Defense Magazine in its 11th Annual Global InfoSec Awards.

VMware Wins Five Global Infosec Awards at RSA Conference 2023

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VMware celebrated the 25th anniversary of its founding in February this year. Marking the occasion, our CEO, Raghu Raghuram, remarked, “Our 25-year history proves that we can execute anything we set our minds to.” This truth is borne out every day at VMware as we build on our DEI momentum and work towards ensuring inclusion […]

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VMware’s 2023 DEI Report: How We’re Building on the Momentum

Earth Month is an opportunity to reflect on the impact we’re having on the world, to look at where we are on the journey to establishing a sustainable approach to doing business and where we can partner for better environmental outcomes. In some cases, technology can create challenges in reducing carbon emissions – such as […]

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Intrinsically Evergreen: Making multi-cloud more sustainable

Nicola Acutt shares how we can start defining “enough”—and make a positive environmental impact for our shared future.

On Earth Day, What is ‘Enough’?

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Leading communications service providers (CSPs) are increasingly working at the cutting-edge of environmental sustainability. And it’s a good thing too—Information and Communications Technology (ICT) currently accounts for up to 10% of the world’s energy usage. With denser and more sophisticated 5G networks on the horizon, telecom networks could become an even bigger source of energy consumption and carbon emissions. Fortunately, the world’s leading CSPs are taking steps to improve efficiency and reduce emissions across their networks. And VMware is playing a major role in helping them do MORE with LESS.

VMware Helps Telcos Create a More Sustainable Future

New VMware Cross-Cloud managed services will make it easier for customers to adopt, manage, and better secure multi-cloud environments.

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VMware Accelerates and Simplifies Partner-Led Managed Services for the Multi-Cloud Era

VMware announced 30+ winners of the 2023 VMware Partner Achievement Awards. This year’s worldwide winners are Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Wipro Limited, and Atos.

VMware today announced the worldwide and regional winners of the 2023 VMware Partner Achievement Awards. This year’s worldwide winners are Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Wipro Limited, and Atos. VMware is recognizing more than 30 ecosystem partners for their performance and impact over the past year in delivering demonstrable customer outcomes and societal impact.

HPE, Wipro Limited and Atos win 2023 VMware Partner Achievement Awards (worldwide)

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VMware Recognises 2023 Partner Achievement Award Winners

Connection is the new currency of technology partnerships and central to the evolution of VMware Partner Connect.

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Kit Colbert joined VMware in September 2003 (following an internship in 2002) and currently serves as senior vice president and chief technology officer. He is responsible for ensuring VMware’s long term technology leadership through research and innovation programs, with the primary goal of positively impacting and shaping the future of VMware, its ecosystem, and its customers. As CTO, Colbert’s will shape the technical vision for the company, and the transformation to a cloud and subscription-centric R&amp;D organization. His oversight includes advancing research and development efforts, overseeing the VMware Engineering Services team, the Design/UX team and the company’s ESG commitments.

Prior to September 2021, Colbert served in multiple roles, including VMware’s Cloud CTO, General Manager of VMware’s Cloud-Native Apps business, CTO for VMware’s End-User Computing Business, and as the lead architect for the VMware vRealize Operations Suite. Colbert joined VMware as the technical lead behind the creation, development and delivery of the vMotion and Storage vMotion features in VMware vSphere.

Colbert is a recognized thought-leader on application modernization and multi-cloud trends. He speaks regularly at industry conferences and serves as the multi-cloud voice for the <a href="https://octo.vmware.com/author/kit_colbert/">VMware Office of the CTO blog</a>.

Colbert holds a bachelor’s of science in computer science from Brown University.

Kit Colbert

Kit Colbert joined VMware in September 2003 (following an internship in 2002) and currently serves as senior vice president and chief technology officer. He is responsible for ensuring VMware’s long term technology leadership through research and innovation programs, with the primary goal of positively impacting and shaping the future of VMware, its ecosystem, and its customers. As CTO, Colbert’s will shape the technical vision for the company, and the transformation to a cloud and subscription-centric R&amp;D organization. His oversight includes advancing research and development efforts, overseeing the VMware Engineering Services team, the Design/UX team and the company’s ESG commitments. Prior to September 2021, Colbert served in multiple roles, including VMware’s Cloud CTO, General Manager of VMware’s Cloud-Native Apps business, CTO for VMware’s End-User Computing Business, and as the lead architect for the VMware vRealize Operations Suite. Colbert joined VMware as the technical lead behind the creation, development and delivery of the vMotion and Storage vMotion features in VMware vSphere. Colbert is a recognized thought-leader on application modernization and multi-cloud trends. He speaks regularly at industry conferences and serves as the multi-cloud voice for the VMware Office of the CTO blog. Colbert holds a bachelor’s of science in computer science from Brown University.

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Inspired by what could be, driven by curiosity and challenge, Olga is the Director of VMware’s Australia &amp; New Zealand Partner Business. Since joining VMware over 11 years ago, Olga has demonstrated her talents and skills in various roles and markets. Now, as VMware’s Partner Business Director, Olga has created an entirely new team within the partner-facing part of the business. 
 
As part of her ongoing efforts to promote positive change and champion DE&amp;I and ESG initiatives wider industry, Olga is the Culture Chair for the global Women@VMware initiative and was the founder of the Sustainability Ambassadors team at VMware in A/NZ.

Olga Specjalska

Inspired by what could be, driven by curiosity and challenge, Olga is the Director of VMware’s Australia &amp; New Zealand Partner Business. Since joining VMware over 11 years ago, Olga has demonstrated her talents and skills in various roles and markets. Now, as VMware’s Partner Business Director, Olga has created an entirely new team within the partner-facing part of the business.    As part of her ongoing efforts to promote positive change and champion DE&amp;I and ESG initiatives wider industry, Olga is the Culture Chair for the global Women@VMware initiative and was the founder of the Sustainability Ambassadors team at VMware in A/NZ.

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Sylvain Cazard is the senior vice president and general manager for VMware's business in Asia Pacific and Japan. In this role, Cazard is responsible for VMware's sales, business strategy and services across the region. He is adept in executing go-to-market strategy across a multi-product and multi-cloud platform supporting digital transformation of enterprises and believes that a customer centric behavior is critical for an organization’s growth.

Prior to this, Cazard was vice president for Central EMEA, responsible for driving business growth, sales and operations across Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Russia/CIS countries, Israel and Eastern Europe. Previously, he successfully led VMware’s software-defined data center business (SDDC), following three years as country manager, France and several years managing global accounts.

With more than 20 years’ hi-tech experience in Europe, Cazard started his career with SAP Business Objects in Europe, progressing through various management and sales positions in France and also as regional manager, Iberia.

Cazard graduated from the École Centrale with a degree in engineering, mechanics and computer science. He also holds an executive MBA in general management from Stanford University.

Sylvain Cazard

Sylvain Cazard is the senior vice president and general manager for VMware&#8217;s business in Asia Pacific and Japan. In this role, Cazard is responsible for VMware&#8217;s sales, business strategy and services across the region. He is adept in executing go-to-market strategy across a multi-product and multi-cloud platform supporting digital transformation of enterprises and believes that a customer centric behavior is critical for an organization’s growth. Prior to this, Cazard was vice president for Central EMEA, responsible for driving business growth, sales and operations across Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Russia/CIS countries, Israel and Eastern Europe. Previously, he successfully led VMware’s software-defined data center business (SDDC), following three years as country manager, France and several years managing global accounts. With more than 20 years’ hi-tech experience in Europe, Cazard started his career with SAP Business Objects in Europe, progressing through various management and sales positions in France and also as regional manager, Iberia. Cazard graduated from the École Centrale with a degree in engineering, mechanics and computer science. He also holds an executive MBA in general management from Stanford University.

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Uma Thana Balasingam is Vice President, Partner &amp; Commercial Sales for VMware in Asia Pacific &amp; Japan

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