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<a id="_msocom_1"></a>Corporate social responsibility as a nice-to-have is a relic of yesterday—whereas today, driving innovation through Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) can be a crucial competitive advantage for companies around the globe. This is especially true as we navigate complex, interconnected and global issues such as climate change, inequity and cybersecurity.

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VMware is proud to have had a positive environmental impact over the years through the inherent energy efficiency of our products and solutions. We recognized that we could amplify our impact even further by baking ESG into our organization and culture. That’s why we created a framework that clearly outlines our ESG strategy and goals with progress that we can measure. We call this our 2030 Agenda. 

We know that we have a long way to go to realize VMware’s vision to build a more sustainable, equitable and secure digital future for all. However, the last year showed that we are well positioned to accelerate this critical work in the coming years.  Our latest <a href="https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/docs/vmware-esg-report-2022.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">ESG Report</a> shares customer stories and actions taken on our 30 cross-functional goals embedded within the 2030 Agenda.

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Here are a few of the highlights from the past year demonstrating our progress:   

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We invite you to learn more about our <a href="http://www.vmware.com/company/esg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">2030 Agenda</a> and join us as we accelerate from strategy to action to drive outcomes of sustainability, equity and trust.

We’ll also be talking about ESG and sustainable product innovations next month at <a href="https://www.vmware.com/explore/us.html?src=so_6261c4a372891&cid=7012H000001KawBQAS" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">VMware Explore</a>. Learn more and <a href="https://event.vmware.com/flow/vmware/explore2022us/reg/form/contactInfo" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">register</a> today.

Our 2022 ESG Report shows how VMware is accelerating into action by integrating sustainability, equity and trust into the core of our business. 

Our new ESG Report tells the story of how we’re integrating sustainability, equity and trust into the core of our business.

VMware’s 2022 ESG Report: How We’re Accelerating into Action

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We're excited to announce our 2022 #ESG Report, highlighting our commitment toward creating a sustainable, equitable and secure future for all—and how we’re helping customers achieve those same goals. #VMware2030

Company Also Receives Highest Product Scores in all Four Use Cases in 2022 Gartner® Critical Capabilities for Unified Endpoint Management Tools Report

PALO ALTO, Calif. – August 16, 2022 – VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. as a Leader in the 2022 Magic Quadrant for Unified Endpoint Management (UEM). This is the fifth consecutive year Workspace ONE – a core technology supporting unified endpoint management requirements that is part of VMware’s Anywhere Workspace - has been named a Leader in the Gartner  Magic Quadrant for unified endpoint management.

In addition, VMware received the highest product scores in the 2022 Gartner Critical Capabilities for Unified Endpoint Management Tools report across all four defined Use Cases – Security-Centric Management, Remote Worker, Modern Windows Management, and Non-Standard PC.

“Today’s workforce faces key challenges like fragmented security, operational complexity and subpar experiences,” said Shankar Iyer, senior vice president and general manager, End-User Computing, VMware. “In our view, this recognition validates our mission to enable employees to work from anywhere more securely and without friction, while supporting our customers’ most pressing priorities including workplace modernization, zero trust security, a great digital employee experience and profound time and cost savings.”

About VMware Anywhere Workspace and Workspace ONE

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<a href="https://www.vmware.com/solutions/anywhere-workspace.html">VMware Anywhere Workspace</a> is an integrated platform that enables employees to work from anywhere with more secure and frictionless experiences. It brings together all the necessary solutions into a single experience for IT and employees, including Unified End-point Management with Workspace ONE UEM, desktop as a service (DaaS) with Horizon, Digital Employee Experience (DEX), and Workspace Security.

Workspace ONE UEM provides a comprehensive solution that enables companies to manage and better secure any device across all platforms. This UEM platform gives IT teams control over the highly diversified device deployments found in so many organizations today, while ensuring enterprise security at every level. Standout features include:

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VMware has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. as a Leader in the 2022 Magic Quadrant for Unified Endpoint Management (UEM)

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There is something uniquely powerful about a time of change, both as individuals navigating our own life journeys and as groups working toward common company goals. These periods of change give us moments of opportunity: the opportunity to take stock in where we have been, the opportunity to thoughtfully reconsider our goals, and the opportunity to renew our resolve in achieving those goals. Change gives you permission to … change. And embracing that change with intention is how we unlock the potential of the moment.

Joining VMware as the Chief Open Source Officer is not unlike that moment for me. This opportunity is a time to take stock and set a course for the future. To change. Only one month into my new role and I can already see the immense potential and the incredible body of work that VMware open source community leaders and contributors have built. It’s impressive, without a doubt. But there’s always more work to be done. As I have been telling our team: Be proud of what you have achieved but never be satisfied.

As I made this transition into VMware, I reflected on how my career has led me here. I used to consider it a bit of a winding path, filled with serendipitous moments that opened the door to my next challenge. What I found upon reflection this time around is how important it has been for me to act with intention at each step of the journey.

I started my career as a developer at a professional services company. At that job, I expanded my experience with each new assignment, shifting between clients with different industry needs, technology stacks and personalities, and each client expecting me to play a different role. I learned to embrace change, to quickly orient myself to each new environment, and to focus on setting the right goals that would move the client forward with intention. It is these lessons that have underpinned my growth at every step of the way.

Open source also played a key role in my career. As many technologists do, I started as a user of open source well before I became a contributor. I still remember the many hours it took to get Linux installed from a stack of 5 1/2-inch floppy disks when I was still in school. It wasn’t until later in life that I started to contribute to open source communities. The driving motivation for taking that step was to ensure the diversification of a project beyond the vendor that first produced the project. It was an investment decision to manage risk, really. An investment of my time, of my teammates’ time, and of dollars to support the community. We achieved the goal, but perhaps more importantly, it gave me a new perspective on the power of collaborative development in open source communities.

Collaboration in open source projects makes you part of a community. These communities drive the growth of new innovations, from idea to implementation. Ecosystems form around successful projects, moving the entire industry forward. Early adopters inspire further development by acts as simple as acknowledging the work of the maintainers. While open source has been a part of the technological landscape for many years now, we have reached new heights of importance and impact. Everywhere we look, open source technologies have shaped our world. This is especially true in the world of enterprise technology.

So, what does the future hold for VMware and open source? A continued investment. A continuation of community collaboration all based on what I call “intentional engagement.” Engaging authentically and sustainably in open source demands that you start with a plan: know why you’re engaging and your desired outcomes. It also demands that you are intentional about what projects you rely on. While we will continue to actively encourage and support upstream contributions by our entire VMware engineering community, we also want to be sure that our larger-scale engagements are aimed directly at helping our customers be more competitive and innovative.

I’ll be speaking at <a href="https://www.vmware.com/explore/us/attend/about.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">VMware Explore</a> at the end of this month about VMware’s strategy and approach to open source. Join me for a lively conversation and take part in the many other <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/opensource/2022/07/28/vmware-explore-open-source-sessions/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">open source sessions</a> while you’re there. I look forward to meeting you and the rest of the VMware Explore open source community in San Francisco. See you there!

Joining VMware as the Chief Open Source Officer is a time to take stock and set a course for the future and to change.

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Chip Childers is the Vice President &amp; Chief Open Source Officer for VMware, where he leads the company's open source compliance, strategy and innovation efforts. Chip brings more than 20 years of experience in enterprise infrastructure and cloud computing. Most recently, he was at Puppet Labs where he served as Chief Architect and led their innovation program, incubated multiple new products, and aligned their open source strategy to evolving business needs. Previously, Chip co-founded the Cloud Foundry Foundation and served as its Chief Technology Officer and Executive Director. Prior roles include product strategy and engineering leadership positions at an early stage startup, global service provider and digital agency. He holds a patent in the infrastructure automation space. He is also a member and past officer of the Apache Software Foundation.

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You’ve probably read some less-than-flattering headlines about environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives in recent months. ESG has been called everything from a “scam” and a “loser” to another example of “woke capitalism.” One thing is for sure: the heat of the spotlight has landed on ESG.

With this heat comes a few questions. How much should we worry about the scrutiny being heaped on ESG? And what, if anything, should we do about it?

On the first question, I’ll answer it plainly: I’m not worried, and I’m also not surprised. ESG is no passing fad. In fact, ESG investing is on track to exceed $50 trillion by 2025<a href="#_ftn1" id="_ftnref1">[1]</a>—serious money that would represent more than a third of all projected global assets under management. It was only a matter of time before those who benefit from the status quo started pushing back.

The second question is more complex. While some critics are clearly leveraging this issue for political purposes, others are raising valid points about the dangers of greenwashing and how ESG performance vs. impact are ultimately measured. This is where we have important work to do to ensure ESG drives value for all stakeholders.

The fact is, ESG has come of age in a bit of a “Wild West” environment<a href="#_ftn2" id="_ftnref2">[2]</a>. Demand for sustainable, socially conscious investments skyrocketed overnight, with many organizations eager to jump on the bandwagon. But without regulatory guidance or standards in place, pretty much anything could be labeled as ESG. That ambiguity created the situation we find ourselves in now: a mess of conflicting rankings and standards that makes it hard to differentiate those who are doing the work from those who are talking a good game.

Thankfully, this ambiguity should start resolving soon. The desire for better standardization is strong, with VMware recently joining more than 80 other companies in calling for global alignment on sustainability reporting<a href="#_ftn3" id="_ftnref3">[3]</a>. And with regulators from the United States and European Union poised to act in this space, I expect a consensus around ESG disclosures and standards to emerge within the next year or so.

But reporting standardization is only part of the puzzle that we still need to solve. It is not enough. For ESG to truly fulfill its potential, it also needs to create real-world impact. To me operationalizing a fully integrated ESG strategy that is focused on outcomes is the holy grail.

This issue was top of mind for the CEOS, board directors, investors and practitioners who gathered at the <a href="https://www.aspeninstitute.org/programs/business-and-society-program/esg-summit/">Aspen ESG Summit</a> last month. I was there to help lead the dialogue on building a corporate culture that’s fully fluent in ESG principles—and one of the key points I made was that there’s a big difference between expertise and fluency.

Many companies are currently building out their ESG expertise—hiring dedicated specialists, researching industry best practices, collecting and reporting data. But fluency requires something more.

Fluency happens when a company’s board, leadership team, and workforce are aligned around and share responsibility for creating ESG outcomes. It happens when an organization’s values, business model and ESG principles are one and the same. Put simply, it happens when ESG ceases to exist because it’s been naturally absorbed into a company’s culture and operations.

Achieving fluency is a journey, one we’re still only at the beginning of. But it is essential to delivering on the promise of ESG and creating the measurable impacts that will move us close to a more sustainable, equitable and resilient world.

As ESG comes off the sidelines and becomes more central to business operations around the world, it will continue to attract more scrutiny and criticism. These are growing pains in an emerging reality. But this isn’t a sign of weakness—it’s a sign of success. By focusing on transparent standards and real-world impact, we can achieve our ultimate goal: rendering ESG obsolete because it has become just the way business gets done.

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<a href="#_ftnref1" id="_ftn1">[1]</a> Bloomberg, “ESG Assets Rising to $50 Trillion Will Reshape $140.5 Trillion of Global AUM by 2025, Finds Bloomberg Intelligence,” July 2021.

<a href="#_ftnref2" id="_ftn2">[2]</a> SDxCentral, “VMware VP: ESG Confronts Regulatory ‘Wild West’,” October 2021.

<a href="#_ftnref3" id="_ftn3">[3]</a> A4S, “Business and Finance Community Respond to the Proposed IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards,” July 2022.

As ESG becomes more central to business operations, it will continue to attract more scrutiny and criticism. But this is a sign of success.

As ESG becomes more central to business operations, it attract more scrutiny and criticism. But this is a sign of success.

ESG is Having Growing Pains. Here’s What Comes Next.

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You’ve been at VMware for almost two years as the Chief Digital Transformation Officer and are now Chief Operating Officer. What does this mean for you and your team?

We are still the same team - laser-focused on improving the experiences of our customers, partners, and colleagues. What this change really represents for our team is how critically important Operations is in driving VMware’s growth and success.

One of the many great things about VMware is our ability to evolve. As we shift our business model to as-a-service, a company’s operations become increasingly visible to our customers. At the same time their expectations about the ease of business have skyrocketed. They want flexibility, speed and agility, and Operations is how you deliver that. Put simply, the back-office has become the front-office. Almost overnight, Operations became a strategic, customer-facing, and revenue driving function.

It’s interesting to think of the “back-office becoming the front-office.” What’s something else you wish more people knew about Operations?

Operations is so much more than a cost-center. You hear a lot about “Product-Led Growth” out there in the industry — the idea that products can be so good that they sell themselves. While that’s important, it only takes you so far. Our customers are complex and solving some of the hardest problems in the world. They need the best products and services, and an experience that only comes with elite Operations.

In other words, <a href="https://news.vmware.com/leadership/the-new-frontier-operations-led-growth">"Operations-Led Growth"</a> is a real thing, and not enough people think about it this way. As competition heightens, the companies that think like this will rise to the top. It is a huge source of customer value – not an afterthought or merely an efficiency play.

You have a different background than many leaders we meet in tech: from Navy SEAL Commander to Director at the National Security Council for Presidents Bush and Obama, to hedge fund COO, to strategic operations leader at a global technology services company. How does this influence the way you lead at VMware?

Great question. My first reaction is that I don’t think of this company — or the world — as divided into leaders and followers. Everyone at VMware is a leader. We’re all leaders and followers — and the key is to know when to be which. That one insight has informed everything I’ve done over my career.

Another observation that’s important to keep in mind is that top organizations are all doing essentially the same thing: solving really hard problems in unpredictable environments. So, what do you do? You build a world-class team and teach them how to think, not what to think, so that they’re ready to pivot.

It’s no longer enough to have a great strategy and plan at the top and simply rely on others to execute. You need the operational rigor to make fast decisions – across silos – so you can adapt when things inevitably change.  

Thank you! Before we let you go, how about a get-to-know-you-speed-round?

Favorite movie?

New skill you’d like to learn?

360 shuvit on the wakeboard (look it up!).

Favorite family tradition?

Saying grace before dinner to appreciate what we have, and ask for others to be provided for as we have.

Bucket-list travel destination?

To visit a peaceful Afghanistan and Iraq.

Favorite thing about your spouse?

Incredible sense of humor - often deservedly at my expense.

Meet VMware's new Chief Operating Officer Mike Hayes and learn how important Operations has become in driving our growth and success.

Meet VMware's new Chief Operating Officer Mike Hayes and learn how important Operations is in driving our growth and success.

Meet VMware’s New Chief Operating Officer, Mike Hayes

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Meet VMware's new Chief Operating Officer Mike Hayes and learn how Operations has become a strategic, customer-facing and revenue-driving function.

I originally signed up for a half marathon. The 13.1-mile distance felt manageable, unlike the massive effort I imagined a full marathon would require. There was just one problem: I’ve never been good at doing things halfway.

With the idea of the big race nagging at me, I decided to push my training — week by week, my runs getting longer and more frequent. Before I knew it, I felt confident enough to take on the full 26.2 miles—something that only a few months before felt impossible.

What does running a marathon have to do with business? More than you think — especially when you’re in the <a href="https://news.vmware.com/tech-innovation/terror-thrill-transformational-change" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">business of transformation</a>.

I spend a lot of time talking with VMware’s customers. Just about all of them tell me the same thing: Their company’s future success depends on having a resilient, nimble digital foundation. They’re looking for platforms and tools that can thrive amid uncertainty and flex to meet evolving demands.

Now, my team and I know most of these needs can be met by embracing multi-cloud solutions, which have customer choice and flexibility baked into their architecture. But we also know the process of implementing multi-cloud comes with its own complexity. It’s a major commitment, one that requires time, skills, and resources over the long-term. In the face of that marathon, the lure of half-measures can be strong.

In this environment, my team’s job becomes two-fold: creating a vision for the future that is compelling enough to inspire action, while also charting a realistic path to get there that feels manageable. How do we do it? The same way I eventually ran my marathon.

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Learn to Love the Process

As soon as I signed up for my race, I knew I needed to make a plan. Training isn’t something you can procrastinate on. It requires consistent effort over the long-term. So, I started mapping out what the next few months would look like: the weekly mileage I would need to hit, the time it would take, the days I would run.

Broken up into smaller pieces, the impossible starts to become possible. That’s why creating a process is so important to the success of any digital transformation. When my team starts working with a customer, we spend a lot of time upfront thinking about the business outcomes they’re trying to achieve and the most efficient way of getting there. We’re also constantly looking for ways to improve our own processes so that it’s easy for our clients to onboard, find information and best practices, and get value from our services as soon as possible.

Focus on Short-term Wins

Training for a marathon is a marathon in itself — one that can feel overwhelming when you’re just starting out. That’s why I didn’t think about running 26.2 miles at first. Instead, I focused on hitting better times in my hill and speed work. I pushed to run one mile faster than the week before.

Small wins have a way of boosting your confidence and keeping you motivated over the long-term. That’s why my team and I often work with our customers to identify what workloads make the most sense to move to the cloud and in what order. By executing on specific use cases that create big value early on, we can build momentum for the larger-scale transformation we’re working towards. These customer wins also have the added benefit of keeping our own team motivated because we can see just how much our work moves the needle.

When I think back to my marathon training, one factor above all others contributed to my success: I wasn’t doing it alone. I was part of a running club that helped me keep showing up, even on the bad days. I once took a bad fall during one of my long runs, and I probably would have packed it in for the day if I’d been on my own. But my team was with me, and they inspired me to keep going. I ended up running another 10 miles.

When you’re surrounded by people you trust, just about anything is possible. I remind my team about this all the time. We’re there to be partners to our customers in their digital transformation journeys, as well as partners for each other as we do it. This is especially important when the unexpected occurs. Setbacks are inevitable when you’re trying to do big things. But they don’t have to derail progress toward bigger goals — a fact that’s a lot easier to focus on when you’re surrounded by a team that’s as invested in your success as you are.

When the day finally came and I completed my marathon, it was exhilarating. I couldn’t believe what I had achieved and how far I’d come. That’s the feeling I wish for every one of VMware’s customers when they work with us to. And my team and I are committed to delivering it.

Setbacks don’t have to derail progress — a fact that’s easier to focus on when you’re surrounded by a team that’s as invested in your success as you are.

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Paula Hodgins currently serves as Senior Vice President, WW Cloud Sales, at VMware. As the leader of the worldwide Cloud Sales Team, she and her team work across the sales and partner organizations to sell the entire VMware Cloud Portfolio, drive time-to-value for both enterprise and commercial customers and lead VMware’s evolution to become a Multi-Cloud leader. In February 2021, Hodgins joined VMware as Senior Vice President, Worldwide Global Accounts and Telco Sales. In that role, she successfully led a team of trusted advisors focused on driving value and leading transformation for VMware and its largest and most strategic global customers. Prior to joining VMware in 2021, Hodgins was President of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Canada. As the top executive in Canada, she ran all customer segments and supported some of Canada’s largest companies and government agencies through their digital transformation journeys. Hodgins also spent 13 years at Microsoft, where she held multiple leadership positions working across global, US and Canadian subsidiaries. Most recently, Paula led Azure sales in the enterprise customer segment at Microsoft Canada, moving some of the country’s largest companies to public cloud for the first time. Hodgins holds an Honors Bachelor of Arts degree in Media and Communications from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. She resides in Toronto, Ontario, Canada with her husband, Gary, and two children, Dylan and Danielle.

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Companies expand efforts to help enterprises accelerate cloud and app transformation

NOIDA, India and PALO ALTO, Calif., July 27, 2022 – HCL Technologies (HCL), a leading global technology company, and VMware, Inc (NYSE: VMW) announced the launch of HCL’s dedicated VMware business unit to help enterprises unlock the untapped value of multi-cloud and app modernization. The new unit combines the power of HCL’s <a href="https://www.hcltech.com/CloudSmart" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CloudSMART Framework</a> with VMware Cross-Cloud services to help enterprises accelerate cloud transformation, scale cloud-native platform operations and empower hybrid workforces.

HCL’s new VMware business unit is part of its Strategic Alliance Partner Ecosystem, which leverages the CloudSMART Framework to provide multi-cloud and app modernization solutions. HCL will help enterprises pursue the path of digital dominance by aligning transformation with overall business objectives while remaining agile through cloud freedom and enterprise control enabled by VMware product and service offerings. 

“We are in a macroeconomic environment where ecosystems must collaborate to provide innovative and effective solutions that the industry requires,” said Anand Swamy, Senior Vice President, Head of Tech OEM Ecosystems, HCL Technologies. “Our new VMware business unit leverages the HCL and VMware synergies to incubate, construct and architect innovative, customized cloud implementation strategies with our CloudSMART approach as the baseline.”

“Today, we are witnessing the unstoppable forces of digital transformation in almost every industry, and VMware is providing the trusted foundation to accelerate customers’ innovation,” said Zia Yusuf, Senior Vice President, Strategic Ecosystem and Industry Solutions, VMware. “With HCL, we are helping our mutual customers by providing the smartest path to app, cloud and edge modernization and a more secure, frictionless experience for the distributed workforce. VMware preserves customer choice and protects against lock-in through multi-cloud services that offer businesses the freedom and flexibility they need to build the future.”

Over the past 14 years, HCL and VMware have driven successful client outcomes with services and solutions built for the modern enterprise. HCL has more than 8,000 professionals trained on VMware technologies, manages three VMware centers of excellence and has created four cloud-native labs. These dedicated environments and resources help customers accelerate the deployment of VMware solutions and allow enterprises to experience next-generation VMware technologies. Recently, HCL won the VMware 2022 Partner Value Award for delivering business growth through VMware solutions and providing customers with high-value results and support. VMware and HCL Technologies also <a href="https://news.vmware.com/releases/vmware-and-hcl-in-telco" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">recently announced efforts</a> to deliver Telco transformation powered by vRAN, ORAN & 5G.

HCL Technologies has a broad focus across the key themes of digital, engineering and cloud. The organization offers its services and products through three business units: IT and Business Services (ITBS), Engineering and R&D Services (ERS) and Products & Platforms (P&P). ITBS enables global enterprises to transform their businesses through offerings in the areas of applications, infrastructure, digital process operations and next generational digital transformation solutions. ERS offers engineering services and solutions in all aspects of product development and platform engineering. P&P provides modernized software products to global clients for their technology and industry specific requirements. Through its cutting-edge co-innovation labs, global delivery capabilities and broad global network, HCL delivers holistic services in various industry verticals, categorized as Financial Services, Manufacturing, Technology & Services, Telecom & Media, Retail & CPG, Life Sciences & Healthcare and Public Services. 

As a leading global technology company, HCL takes pride in its diversity, social responsibility, sustainability, and education initiatives. For the 12 months ended June 30, 2022, HCL had consolidated revenue of US$ 11.79 billion. Its nearly 211,000 ideapreneurs operate out of 52 countries. For more information, visit <a href="http://www.hcltech.com">www.hcltech.com</a>

For more information, visit <a href="http://www.hcltech.com/">www.hcltech.com</a>

VMware is a leading provider of multi-cloud services for all apps, enabling digital innovation with enterprise control. As a trusted foundation to accelerate innovation, VMware software gives businesses the flexibility and choice they need to build the future. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, VMware is committed to building a better future through the company’s 2030 Agenda. For more information, please visit <a href="http://www.vmware.com/company">www.vmware.com/company</a>.

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HCL Technologies Teams with VMware to Launch a New Dedicated VMware Business Unit

July 26 marks the 32nd anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ― an important civil rights law that works to ensure all people with disabilities have the same rights and opportunities as everyone else. At VMware, we believe that technology plays a critical role in building a digital future that is equitable, accessible and inclusive.

For putting this commitment into action, VMware received a top score on the 2022 Disability Equality Index® (DEI) and has been recognized as a “Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion” by Disability:IN. Of 415 participants, 335 companies scored 80 or above, with VMware earning a score of 100.

The Disability Equality Index® (DEI) is the world’s most comprehensive benchmarking tool for the Fortune 1000 and Am Law 200 to measure disability workplace inclusion against competitors. Now in its eighth year, the DEI exists to help businesses make a positive impact on the unemployment and underemployment of people with disabilities.

“We’re proud to be recognized for VMware’s commitment in action to create a welcoming, inclusive workplace for employees of all abilities,” said Rachel Hodgson, Global POD Leader of the Disability@VMware Power of Difference (POD) community. “We also realize that we’re still a long way from true representation, and we’re continuing to do more work to make VMware a great place to work for all, including those with disabilities. We understand creating a more inclusive workplace – and encouraging others to do the same – requires sustained effort and greater integration of accessibility into our products, services and culture.”

“Disability inclusion is a rapidly expanding aspect of corporate culture, and it’s gratifying to partner with 415 companies on the 2022 Disability Equality Index,” said Jill Houghton, President and CEO of Disability:IN. “These top-scoring companies not only excel in disability inclusion, but many are also adopting emerging trends and pioneering measures that can move the disability agenda from accommodation to inclusion and ultimately, genuine belonging."

The DEI is a joint initiative between Disability:IN and the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD) and is acknowledged today as the most robust disability-inclusion assessment tool in business. It measures Culture & Leadership; Enterprise-Wide Access; Employment Practices (Benefits, Recruitment, Employment, Education, Retention & Advancement, Accommodations); Community Engagement; Supplier Diversity; Non-U.S. Operations (Non-Weighted).

VMware is striving to create a welcoming and inclusive workplace for employees of all abilities. Our goal is to foster a culture where everyone feels empowered by their unique talents and to work towards advancing VMware’s dialogue and progress on disability inclusion, accommodation strategies as well as physical and technological accessibility.

VMware believes that technology will play a critical role in building an equitable, accessible, and inclusive digital future for all. Our CEO, Raghu Raghuram, has committed to building disability inclusion into VMware’s leadership agenda as we join the <a></a><a href="https://www.thevaluable500.com/member/vmware">Valuable 500</a>. We are now part of a global business collective that is igniting systemic change and unlocking the business, social and economic value of more than 1 billion people with disabilities around the world.

Through our 2030 Agenda, VMware is building a more sustainable, equitable and secure future for all by embedding Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) into everything we do, throughout our technology strategy, business model and culture.  As part of this agenda, we are redefining the workplace of the future through initiatives that include our DEI efforts. Learn more about <a href="https://www.vmware.com/company/diversity.html">DEI</a> and <a href="https://www.vmware.com/company/esg.html">ESG</a> at VMware.

VMware received a top score on the 2022 Disability Equality Index and has been recognized as a Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion.

We're proud to be named a Disability Equality Index Best Place To Work for Disability Inclusion.

VMware Earns Top Score on Disability:IN’s 2022 Disability Equality Index

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#ThanksToTheADA for advocating people with disabilities have the same rights & opportunities as everyone else. Committed to #DisabilityInclusion, VMware is honored to receive a top score on @DisabilityIN @AAPD’s Disability Equality Index. #VMware2030

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