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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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Rising Cloud Costs: The Achilles Heel of App Innovation - VMware News &amp; Stories - ANZ

Rising Cloud Costs: The Achilles Heel of App Innovation

Hummingbird Solutions was looking for infrastructure to expand its offer to help it win new business. The VMware Sovereign Cloud partner AUCloud had the answer.

Hummingbird Solutions delivers speed and security to win new government business

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With large amounts of sensitive data now hosted in the cloud, sovereignty is becoming an increasingly powerful influence over any cloud strategy.

With large amounts of sensitive data now hosted in the cloud, sovereignty is becoming an increasingly powerful influence over an organisation’s future cloud strategy.

Data Sovereignty: Why It Has a Powerful Influence on Your Future Cloud Strategy 

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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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The majority of businesses in Europe and META see cloud sovereignty as key to taking back control over data and boosting competitiveness & resilience.

Laurent Allard, Head of Sovereign Cloud, VMware, argues that the majority of businesses in Europe and META see cloud sovereignty as key to taking back control over data and boosting competitiveness & resilience.

Why Sovereign Cloud Should Be About Choice and Control

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With digital transformation accelerating globally, almost half of organisations (44%) are still trying to figure out how to get started with cloud-native apps.1 At Discovery, a financial services company based in South Africa, developers are asking more of the IT organisation. Modern Apps managed by modern cloud management solutions are helping IT step up. “Things […]

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How Discovery Empowers Platform Teams with Multi-Cloud Management

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

SYDNEY, Australia — VMware, Inc., (NYSE:VMW) this week announced new capabilities that deliver strong lateral security across multi-cloud environments so customers can better see and stop more threats. VMware Contexa, a threat intelligence cloud powering VMware’s suite of security solutions, finds that cybercriminals make only 2-3 lateral moves to reach their target. 1 Preventing lateral […]

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VMware Unveils New Security Capabilities to Help See and Stop More Threats

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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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.

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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 VMware Office of the CTO blog. Colbert holds a bachelor’s of science in computer science from Brown University.

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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.

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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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