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2022 Customer Achievement Awards: 7 Heroes and Innovators

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Double-click into the concept of “cloud smart.” Take a closer look at the architectural evolution, from single-cloud to cross-cloud services.

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In today’s rapid pace of change, businesses that adapt quickly have a huge advantage. In multi-cloud environments, businesses gain agility for profound reinvention.

There’s freedom of choice as business needs and technologies change. There’s flexibility to quickly move things around and scale up or down. There’s access to leading-edge technology from cloud providers.

There are also new problems to solve in a multi-workload, multi-cloud and multi-workspace environment. IT leaders must learn and oversee different cloud operating models and tools and avoid common pitfalls: Are IT teams working in silos? Are there gaps in security? What about outdated infrastructure and monolithic applications? How does it all fit together?

It’s a phase of cloud adoption referred to as “<a href="https://news.vmware.com/vmware-explore/from-cloud-chaos-to-cloud-smart">cloud chaos</a>.” Despite all its potential, multi-cloud complexity can actually slow down innovation and inhibit new revenue growth and profit. But there are antidotes!

“What we realize is that it's fundamentally an architecture issue — that we need to move away from relying solely on single-cloud services and embracing what we call cross-cloud services,” said Kit Colbert, chief technology officer for VMware, at VMware Explore.

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“’Cross-cloud services means that we move those capabilities up, so now we can have the same networking, security and solution, for example, across multiple clouds, including private and edge,” said Amanda Blevins, vice president and chief technology officer for VMware Americas.

“And by embracing these technologies,” Colbert continued, “we can get you to ‘cloud smart.’”

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Cloud smart, explained by VMware CEO Raghu Raghuram, is the next stage of cloud adoption. Multi-cloud strategies in this phase are mature and sophisticated, and as a result, organizations see the bottom-line benefits of cloud.

Below, look at key <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3vKenLkmvI">cloud-smart strategies Raghuram outlined</a> and how cross-cloud services support each approach.

1.      Accelerated Application Development

Cloud-smart organizations are getting better and faster at building and operating cloud-native apps. There are three key areas ripe for innovation:

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Cross-cloud <a href="https://news.vmware.com/releases/vmware-explore-2022-tanzu-cloud-native-apps">app platform</a> services are a holistic, empowering solution for developers and platform operators alike. It’s a self-service experience. There’s automation and end-to-end security for the entire app development process. There’s greater visibility into the software supply chain. There’s a foundation for building and operating a modern container infrastructure at scale across any Kubernetes and any cloud.

Meanwhile, IT has “near real-time data, cost, automation, and operations all under one roof” using unified <a href="https://news.vmware.com/releases/vmware-explore-2022-multi-cloud-management">multi-cloud management</a> services. “Those insights that we need to operate efficiently and effectively going forward — this is where it's at,” said Carter.

2.      Consistent Enterprise Infrastructure

As enterprises transform and run workloads across clouds and at the edge, “there are some challenges here, as well,” Blevins said. “We want to make sure that we can meet our enterprise application requirements. We might want to do data center extension or cloud migration, and of course, we need to be able to recover from disasters like ransomware.”

<a href="https://news.vmware.com/releases/vmware-explore-2022-cloud-edge-infrastructure">Cross-cloud infrastructure</a> and <a href="https://news.vmware.com/releases/vmware-explore-2022-networking-security-multi-cloud">networking and security</a> services are a great start to a cloud-smart approach here. “It’s all about that consistent enterprise infrastructure for resiliency, performance and scalability — ubiquitously located across on-prem, all the major public clouds and out to the edge,” said Dave Morera, senior technical marketing architect for VMware. “You can uniquely protect your applications by stopping lateral movement of attacks. You can rapidly migrate and modernize your applications.”

3.      Frictionless End-User Experience

Now, all these apps built must be accessible and secure for a hybrid, distributed workforce. “We don't want to have a poor user experience,” said Blevins. “We don't want to have fragmented security. We want to make this easy on our operational teams.”

Cloud-smart organizations use cross-cloud <a href="https://news.vmware.com/releases/vmware-explore-2022-anywhere-workspace">anywhere workspace</a> services. “It enables all employees seamless and secure access to any app on any device from anywhere,” said Teresa Chen, product marketing director of digital workspace solutions for VMware.

With the anywhere workspace, IT can automate processes like onboarding devices, managing app entitlements and updating firmware. They can resolve issues faster using intelligence and machine learning. “This is a clear testament of the efficiency and simplicity it brings to IT,” said Chen.

Apps are at the center of what organizations do. Multi-cloud environments are the reality where it all happens: where companies create, deploy, operate, secure and access applications.

Everyone’s in this multi-cloud universe together: DevOps, DevSecOps, security professionals, platform operators, cloud architects and executives. And it’s together, that cloud-smart companies will make the cloud work the way it should — with more options and less complexity, more choice and no compromise.

<a href="https://news.vmware.com/vmware-explore/from-cloud-chaos-to-cloud-smart">Chart the journey now from cloud chaos to cloud smart</a>, and learn what the journey looked like for <a href="https://news.vmware.com/vmware-explore/becoming-cloud-smart-learn-from-cvs">one cloud-smart company</a>.

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VMware's Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives were front and center at VMWare Explore 2022 as more than 10,000 VMware customers and partners converged in San Francisco to learn about the latest multi-cloud innovations and solutions. As attendees engaged with new technologies, they also learned how ESG topics such as sustainability and equitable workforces are driving more value than ever before in today’s digital business. 

Throughout the three day program, VMware executives, partners and customers demonstrated how VMware puts ESG into action, and they shined a spotlight on the uniqueness of the company's ecosystem and its role in running the world’s critical IT infrastructure.  

VMware CEO Raghu Raghuram's opening keynote highlighted VMware’s <a href="https://cloud.vmware.com/providers/zero-carbon">Zero Carbon Committed</a> initiative, a collaborative effort that taps the enormous potential of VMware’s public cloud partner ecosystem. VMware's groundbreaking program advances sustainability across the industry by promoting public cloud providers who are committed to achieving 100 percent renewable energy-powered data centers by 2030, and by connecting them with VMware customers who have net zero goals.

VMware Explore 2022 guests also enjoyed numerous breakout sessions and workshops focused on ESG, including:

ESG is top of mind across the VMware ecosystem and the industry. As customers dive further into their multi-cloud strategies, they can expect to see more innovations that add value by enabling both ESG and business goals.

Did you miss VMware Explore this year? You can still view the above sessions on demand, along with many more, by visiting the <a href="https://www.vmware.com/explore/us.html">VMware Explore 2022 webpage</a>. For a complete list of ESG-related sessions at VMware Explore 2022, check out the <a href="https://myevents.vmware.com/widget/vmware/explore2022us/1657224332783001DHkw">ESG Playlist</a>.

How ESG topics like sustainability and equitable workforces are driving real in today's digital businesses.

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We’re proud to present seven companies with our 2022 Customer Achievement Awards at VMware Explore. This year, our awards committee looked at nominees in two categories: heroes and innovators.

Heroes take the lead on new technologies and act for the greater good, even in the face of challenging circumstances. They include:

Innovators use the VMware ecosystem and technology to give customers and employees greater value and benefits. They include:

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<a href="https://tanzu.vmware.com/customers/garmin">Garmin</a> is well known for GPS navigation and wearable technology. Like the customers they serve, Garmin believes “every day is an opportunity to innovate and a chance to beat yesterday.” To deliver the best customer experiences, this hero adopted the VMware Tanzu Application Platform.

With this transformative solution, toilsome tasks are automated away, and developers focus more on creating business value. Most importantly, software is released into production daily (often multiple times per day) instead of monthly.

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Massachusetts Consortium for Innovative Education, Hero for Good

Academic achievements often depend on the results of standardized tests, which can be biased and narrow-minded. Schools that receive low scores may face reduced funding or even closure. To change this, <a href="https://www.vmware.com/company/customers/index/fullpage.html?path=2022/measuring-school-quality-beyond-standardized-test-results">Massachusetts Consortium for Innovative Education Assessment</a> (MCIEA) developed a framework for a more comprehensive, accurate and equitable view of student and school performance.

With VMware Tanzu Labs, this hero built a user-friendly dashboard that visualizes the data and makes it actionable for partners. This easily accessible information better positions schools to receive the resources necessary to set up students for academic success.

<a href="https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/albertsons-cloud-journey-to-better-serve-customers">Albertsons</a> weathered changing shopping habits during and after a pandemic by scaling their e-commerce offerings. The U.S. grocer bet early on VMware Tanzu Application Service (TAS) to modernize and quickly pivot.

The company scaled workloads, accelerated the software path to production and transformed the overall developer experience. The result: more engaged customers and stellar revenue growth. 

Peel Regional Police, Anywhere Workspace Innovator

As policing changes, modern police services must be more transparent, accountable and grounded in the communities they serve. So the <a href="https://www.vmware.com/company/customers/index/fullpage.html?path=2021/creating-autonomous-transparent-policing-with-cloud-first-technology">Peel Regional Police (PRP)</a> in Ontario, Canada decided to equip officers with iPhones and body-worn cameras.

With VMware Workspace ONE, PRP rolled out 2,000 iPhones to officers in less than eight weeks. In addition to in-car computers and police radios, officers now have secure smartphones in their hands when they are on bike or on foot. The body camera system, managed through Workspace ONE, improves accountability and aids in the gathering of digital evidence. Officers of this innovative police force are more present and engaged with the community, continuing to shift public perceptions.

As a customer experience company, <a href="https://www.vmware.com/company/customers/index/fullpage.html?path=2021/on-premise-data-center-migration-with-google-cloud-vmware-engine">LIQ</a> is more than familiar with the value of data and the importance of privacy. The Brazilian company must meet strict security and compliance requirements at every step of the customer journey — while fending off increasing ransomware attacks.

Using VMware Carbon Black, LIQ continually monitors, identifies and neutralizes emerging threats and suspicious behavior. In just one month, Carbon Black issued thousands of alerts, blocked more than 28,000 known instances of malware and identified 420 critical endpoint vulnerabilities. LIQ continues to innovate its approach to simple, scalable and flexible networking and security with VMware solutions.

S&P Global, Cloud Transformation Innovator

Governments and businesses rely on S&P Global’s business intelligence to make important, well-informed decisions. Fast and efficient access to accurate, reliable data is critical to the business.

This innovator transformed their data processing and storage with a multi-cloud solution from VMware. With the flexibility of the cloud, S&P Global saves millions on data center capital and operating expenditures and improves governance over its environment.

CVS Health wants to help make healthcare accessible and affordable. Apps are one way they help people conveniently navigate the U.S. healthcare system — and their personal healthcare.

To give their developers an edge, the U.S. healthcare leader shifted to a cloud-first model and adopted a cloud-native application platform. Time to deploy apps shortened from weeks to hours. Developers new to Kubernetes have a minimal learning curve. And teams work closely together, and with other lines of business, to create solutions to their collective business goals.

We thank all these heroes and innovators for their bold industry leadership and innovation! For more breaking technology news, visit the <a href="https://news.vmware.com/vmware-explore-2022-media-kit" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">VMware Explore 2022 Media Kit</a> now and follow #VMwareExplore on social media.

We’re proud to present seven companies with our 2022 Customer Achievement Awards at VMware Explore. Meet the heroes and innovators.

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A key theme at this year’s <a href="https://www.vmware.com/explore/us.html?src=ps_62842e3f6213d&cid=7012H000001Kc4GQAS&gclid=Cj0KCQjw0oyYBhDGARIsAMZEuMsQL4ByQrq95bAvH0wOkgNWohwKGYtHprr3NQJkWslYoMERZh90FVgaAnf8EALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds">VMware Explore 2022</a> focused on how organizations navigate the challenges of moving from “cloud chaos” to “cloud smart.” With a cloud smart approach to building multi-cloud architectures, enterprises have the freedom to select the right cloud for the right app<a>. </a>(VMware CEO Raghu Raghuram shared additional perspective on <a href="https://news.vmware.com/vmware-explore/from-cloud-chaos-to-cloud-smart">cloud smart</a><a>.)</a>

During this year’s General Session, we discussed this journey in detail with one leading organization and VMware customer – <a href="https://www.cvshealth.com/news-and-insights/articles/health-care-from-the-heart">CVS Health, one of America’s most innovative health solutions companies</a> with more than 9,600 pharmacy locations nationwide and over 300,000 employees. 85% of Americans live within 10 miles of a CVS pharmacy location, with 4.8 million consumers visiting a location daily, and 45 million unique digital consumers further expanding its online reach.

I was honored to be joined on stage at VMware Explore by Roshan Navagamuwa, Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer of CVS Health, to learn more about how CVS Health leverages a “technology forward” cloud-smart strategy.

During one of the most uncertain periods in recently history, <a href="https://www.cvshealth.com/news-and-insights/articles/our-covid-19-response#:~:text=As%20a%20leading%20health%20solutions,administration%20to%20millions%20of%20people.">CVS Health played an instrumental role in responding to the challenges of COVID-19.</a> Since the pandemic began, it has administered more than 50 million vaccines and more than 32 million COVID-19 tests. The company continues to embrace innovation in order to meet the health needs of customers, including increasing mental and virtual health services.

Begin with a focus on organizational goals.

As Roshan put it, “We started with our imperatives as a health care business, which are to drive improved outcomes, lower costs, higher levels of engagement, and broader access to high quality care. Our initial focus was making the consumer experience easier and more convenient, leveraging smarter and more efficient technology.” He stressed the importance of enabling colleagues across CVS Health with the tools and capabilities they need to keep customer promises in a dynamic and fast-paced environment. Underpinning these consumer and colleague capabilities are cloud-based platforms and automated processes.

The journey to cloud smart requires taming complexity.

CVS Health’s cloud journey initially began with its digital and analytics team, expanding over time to include its broader community of application developers. Use cases grew quickly from scale-scale opportunities to products and experiences that are now core to the business.

In early stages of the cloud journey, teams worked with speed and loose coordination in a federated governance model. A few years ago, however, Roshan described reaching an inflection point with large independent implementations within each cloud provider that led to increased cost and complexity.

Roshan’s team took a step back and reset to a more enterprise-optimized approach by consolidating into one team managing an integrated hybrid multi-cloud service and centralized controls and governance. Today, CVS Health leverages a more cohesive hybrid multi-cloud operating model focused on its priorities of ensuring reliable, secure operation with financial control and accountability; an increasingly better developer experience; and reusable products that are easier to integrate.

All of these capabilities ultimately enable business value with the agility needed to deliver on CVS Health’s mission; an example can be seen in their ability to quickly build and integrate health equity analytics into its COVID-19 response, distributing millions of vaccines to underserved populations.

Break down silos as technology teams continue to converge in function.

Roshan and I also discussed the trend of convergence among technology teams. I know from my own conversation with many customers and CIOs that a common challenge has been organizations keeping cloud teams in their own silos. Many “cloud first” enterprises have set up a variety of siloed teams – public cloud operations, platform engineering, and private cloud teams. While the formation of these teams has helped organizations cultivate specialized skill sets, it has also often created complexity, confusion, and chaos.

Roshan shared how CVS Health tackled this challenge, converging multiple teams into a more cohesive cloud services team. This helped streamline a number of burdensome processes, optimize workloads, and drive more automation – ultimately shortening the journey from idea to working software. This was also true of the team’s approach to strengthening the colleague experience. “We converged disparate teams that delivered and supported colleague technology into one team, focused on colleague experience,” Roshan said. “We were intentional about the technology choices best suited to support a mobile workforce and our retail team members – especially our front-line health care workers like pharmacists and nurse practitioners.” As he shared with us, streamlining the colleague experience has allowed their focus to be centered on patients rather than burdensome manual processes.

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The promise of multi-cloud is enabling organizations to focus their time, energy, and resources on innovations that improve customer experience and accelerate growth. I was inspired to hear from Roshan how embracing the potential of cloud smart has helped to enable CVS Health’s impact in delivering consumer-centric health care.

Learn more about our <a href="https://news.vmware.com/vmware-explore-2022-media-kit" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">latest innovations announced at VMware Explore.</a>

With a cloud smart approach to building multi-cloud architectures, enterprises have the freedom to select the right cloud for the right app.

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As President of VMware, Sumit Dhawan leads the company’s go-to-market functions including WW Sales, Strategic Corporate Alliances, Customer Experience and Success (CXS), Global Industries, Marketing, and Communications. With over 25 years of experience in the tech industry, Sumit is a seasoned executive with a proven track record of building and running market-leading businesses. He is a strong advocate for delivering an exceptional experience to customers and partners, and for supporting diverse teams, inclusive cultures and equitable environments that encourage the best in everyone. &nbsp; Sumit previously served as VMware’s Chief Customer Experience Officer, managing global teams responsible for professional services, technical support and customer success. Prior to that, he was Chief Executive Officer of Instart, a startup delivering innovations in web application performance and security services. &nbsp; Before leading Instart, Sumit served as the general manager of VMware’s End-User Computing business, establishing the company’s leadership in mobile and unified endpoint management and desktop virtualization. He has also held a number of executive roles at Citrix spanning the engineering, product development, marketing, and general management functions. &nbsp; Sumit holds an MBA from the Warrington College of Business at the University of Florida, an MS in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota, and a BS in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT).

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Innovations Across Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, Digital Employee Experience, Unified Endpoint Management and Workspace Security Offerings Help IT Do More with Less

SAN FRANCISCO – VMware Explore US 2022 – A majority of companies have implemented or plan to implement a hybrid work model moving forward.(1) However, supporting a hybrid work model creates new speed bumps for IT. VMware today outlined how autonomous workspaces powered by data science will ease this burden. It also unveiled innovations across its Anywhere Workspace platform that will inject automation into organizations’ end-user computing environments, enabling IT teams to do more with less.

“The reality of hybrid work is each employee, and each device is a front door into the organization and its resources. IT must not only make that front door secure, but also welcoming as employees access apps from anywhere. The only way IT teams will be able to support hybrid work is by implementing simplified, unified, and automated processes,” said Shankar Iyer, senior vice president and general manager, End-User Computing, VMware. “Autonomous Workspaces represent the next evolution of managing digital workspaces, and VMware is once again pioneering the path forward for organizations.” 

Journey to Autonomous Workspaces

According to Gartner®, “By 2027, unified endpoint management and digital employee experience tools will converge to drive autonomous endpoint management, reducing human effort by at least 40%.”(2)  At VMware Explore 2022 US, <a href="https://event.vmware.com/flow/vmware/explore2022us/content/page/catalog?tab.contentcatalogtabs=1627421929827001vRXW&search=tolbert" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">VMware will outline the journey of digital workspace</a> from being manual and task-centric to an outcomes-driven autonomous workspace. The future of hybrid work will drive an evolution of the digital workspace – one that injects data science and proactive automations across endpoint management, security and end-user experience. This will enable a context-aware autonomous workspace that delivers a few primary outcomes:

Innovations Across Anywhere Workspace

<a href="https://www.vmware.com/solutions/anywhere-workspace.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">VMware Anywhere Workspace</a> will include all tools needed to deliver autonomous workspaces.

Today at VMware Explore, VMware unveiled how it is advancing self-configuring, self-healing and self-securing outcomes across four key technology areas that are delivered by the Anywhere Workspace platform: 

Hybrid work is driving demand for multi-cloud VDI. VMware is introducing a next generation of VMware Horizon Cloud that will enable multi-cloud agility and flexibility. This new release represents a major update to Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure that can dramatically simplify the infrastructure that needs to be deployed inside customer environments, reducing infrastructure costs in some cases by over 70% while increasing scalability and reliability of VMware’s DaaS platform.(3)

The new “Thin Edge” infrastructure continues to leverage the Horizon Control plane–a VMware-managed service that includes hybrid support and features like app management, universal brokering, image management, monitoring, and more. Plus, this next-gen Horizon Cloud is API-driven, so customers, partners, and ISVs will be able to build tools, services, and automations. Customers with Horizon subscription licenses are entitled to the new and improved Horizon Cloud at no additional charge.  

VMware will also introduce VMware Horizon Managed Desktop – a flexible, cloud-hosted service that delivers fully-managed virtual desktops and apps with choice of deployment options: on-premises, hybrid or public cloud. This will better enable secure access for a distributed workforce for wherever work takes them. The solution relieves IT teams from time-consuming operations, provides cost-management with predictable OpEx spending, speeds deployments for faster time to value, and rapidly scales to meet changing workforce demands.      

Additionally, Google and VMware are collaborating to bring access to any app on any device for the hybrid workforce. Organizations will be able to use hundreds of certified endpoints to connect to Horizon virtual desktops and apps. And now, with Google Chromebook as a validated endpoint, industries like healthcare can benefit from delivering a great user experience for more secure access to corporate resources. 

“We rely on VMware Horizon to support access to corporate resources for our employees,” said Yehoshua Israel, IT director, Aperion Care, Inc. “In conversation with the Google product team, we learned that ChromeOS is a good fit to connect to Horizon for our environment, and our time from unboxing to ready for deployment is about three minutes. Using a managed guest session, the ChromeOS system is simple to use, locked down, HIPAA-compliant, and inexpensive. The transition from Windows-based laptops to Chromebooks with Horizon has been seamless.” 

Digital Employee Experience

VMware is broadening the coverage of its Digital Employee Experience solutions beyond Workspace ONE UEM managed devices to now include VMware Horizon and third-party managed and unmanaged devices. This will result in increased support of remote, hybrid and frontline personas. 

And, to support the rising number of devices used by frontline employees, VMware is introducing a Digital Employee Experience Management (DEEM) solutions pack for customers with frontline deployments. These out-of-the box dashboards span ROI, shared-device usage, device loss, critical application performance, and more, to measure and improve mission-critical deployments. 

Finally, VMware Workspace ONE is introducing Intelligence Guided Root Cause Analysis capabilities. With the increase in hybrid work, organizations have struggled to scale the helpdesk to support more devices, apps, and networks. With this new feature, machine learning algorithms will help IT correlate all the relevant data points to recommend possible causes with probability assigned; enabling IT to solve issues more quickly, create automations to prevent other users from experiencing the issue, and restore productivity for impacted employees.  

Unified Endpoint Management (UEM)

VMware continues to roll out advanced UEM capabilities now supporting multi-platform automation and orchestration with the expansion of Workspace ONE Freestyle Orchestrator to mobile devices and third-party apps. Freestyle Orchestrator – a modern, no-/low-code automation framework in UEM – provides support for Windows and Mac desktop operating systems. Since its launch, the tool has seen a significant adoption with more than 26 million automation runs that are designed to help IT teams eliminate complex and manual configurations tasks. Freestyle Orchestrator continues to offer administrators the flexibility to create these automation workflows to fit specific process requirements for their organization, and now with the extended platform support, expected to further increase IT efficiency and productivity.  

VMware is also driving innovation by adding platform breadth of support and depth of management in <a href="https://news.vmware.com/releases/vmware-gartner-magic-quadrant-2022" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">its industry-recognized UEM solution</a>. Additional UEM enhancements now include availability of multi-user mode for Windows OS – a use case that has seen significant adoption in both frontline shared use and in-office device loaner or hoteling scenarios as employees return to work. VMware is also announcing availability in this quarter of a distribution-agnostic Linux endpoint solution, XR Hub for AR/VR devices; and Tech Previews of its next-gen Windows Update management, support for new Chrome OS APIs for Education, work profile on Android AMAPI, and a dynamic, data-driven UI for iOS and Windows day-1 new policy support.

Earlier this year, VMware announced a key innovation in the form of Workspace ONE Mobile Threat Defense [<a href="https://news.vmware.com/releases/anywhere-workspace-security" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">read press release</a>]. Today’s mobile threat landscape is diverse, and mobile workstyles call for specialized protection from phishing and application, device, and rogue network originated threats. VMware Workspace ONE Mobile Threat Defense, an add-on to the Workspace ONE UEM platform, takes mobile protection to the next level. Specifically, the solution addresses application-based threats, Web and content vulnerabilities, Zero-day threats and device vulnerabilities, and more.

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VMware Cross-Cloud™ services Helps Customers Navigate the Multi-Cloud Era

At VMware Explore 2022, VMware is unveiling new and enhanced offerings for VMware Cross-Cloud services to help customers navigate the multi-cloud era with freedom, flexibility and security. VMware Cross-Cloud services is a portfolio of cloud services that deliver a unified and simplified way to build, operate, access, and better secure any application on any cloud from any device. VMware Cross-Cloud service pillars include 1) App Platform 2) Cloud Management 3) Cloud & Edge Infrastructure 4) Security & Networking, and 5) Anywhere Workspace. For the latest news and more on how VMware is delivering a faster and smarter path to cloud for digital businesses, visit the <a href="https://news.vmware.com/vmware-explore-2022-media-kit" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">VMware Explore 2022 media kit</a>.

VMware Explore is an evolution of the company's flagship conference, VMworld. VMware Explore aims to be the industry’s go-to-event for all things multi-cloud. This year, it will feature industry-led solution and technical sessions, an extensive ecosystem of 90% of the top cloud partners, a thriving marketplace of multi-cloud ISVs and several networking events. To learn more about VMware Explore, please visit: <a href="http://www.vmware.com/explore.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.vmware.com/explore.html</a>.

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VMware today outlined how autonomous workspaces powered by data science will ease this burden. It also unveiled innovations across its Anywhere Workspace platform that will inject automation into organizations’ end-user computing environments, enabling IT teams to do more with less. 

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VMware delivers compelling Kubernetes developer experience and provides comprehensive management with enhancements across VMware Tanzu app modernization portfolio

SAN FRANCISCO – VMware Explore US 2022 – Enterprises are under increasing pressure to digitize their businesses by modernizing app development and IT operations, as traditional approaches simply cannot deliver the competitive advantages or rapid innovation that businesses need today. Developers and IT teams must adapt to the cloud-native app development reality because, in a world where organizations are defined by the digital services they can deliver, modern applications aren’t just the backbone of digital transformation, they’re the currency of this digital economy. Today at VMware Explore 2022, VMware (NYSE: VMW) is introducing advances to its VMware Tanzu portfolio - Tanzu Application Platform and Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations - that unlock developer productivity, deliver end-to-end security from build to production, and enable secure multi-cloud operations at scale, regardless of where they are in their Kubernetes journey.

“Companies face pressure to optimize their application development and delivery efforts for speed, resilience, and security as they move to become a true digital enterprise. Platform teams must focus on delivering a great developer experience and path to production to speed velocity, while also providing a solution for deploying and running apps more securely, reliably, and at scale on any and many clouds,” said Ajay Patel, senior vice president and general manager, Modern Apps & Management Business Group, VMware. “Whether our customers are starting from the data center with existing apps or new apps built in the cloud, VMware Tanzu meets them where they are so they can get their apps to production faster. For those just starting their Kubernetes journey, vSphere with Tanzu Kubernetes Grid helps you get a developer ready platform. For those who have already started with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) or any Kubernetes distribution, they can use Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations and Tanzu Application Platform for scaling your operator and developer experience.” 

How Customers Are Benefitting from VMware Tanzu  VMware Tanzu is now being adopted by customers across the cloud, edge, and data centers, as they are looking for consistent Kubernetes development, delivery, and management of their highly distributed environments.

“Tanzu Application Platform gives us the flexibility to leverage new tools from a broad ecosystem of native cloud services, while still allowing us to gain value from our existing investments—all within a single, secure, modular platform,” says Ganesh Venkataraman, Chief Technology Officer, Digital Transformation at Fiserv. “It enables us to focus on delivering customer value without worrying about application dependencies or changing code to deliver on our multi-cloud strategy and application portability requirements. This keeps our teams agile and lets us quickly adapt to customer needs. We're just scratching the surface with Tanzu Application Platform and look forward to adopting Application Accelerator and customizing our secure software supply chain as our needs evolve." 

VMware’s State of Kubernetes report 1 found that 65% of organizations already run Kubernetes in production, and 48% expect to dramatically expand their adoption over the next year.  VMware <a href="https://tanzu.vmware.com/kubernetes-operations" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations</a> is the foundation for building and operating a modern container infrastructure at scale across any Kubernetes and any cloud. According to new data commissioned by Enterprise Strategy Group2, Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations delivers 70-80% less administrative cost across all Kubernetes operations, 58% reduction in response time, and three to five times faster time to value for our customers, simplifying and better securing Kubernetes operations for modern applications.

VMware Tanzu® for Kubernetes Operations Adds Capabilities to Help Streamline and Secure Kubernetes Deployments at Scale across Clouds  VMware continues to meet customers wherever they are in their journey of adopting Kubernetes infrastructure - whether a single team, a single cloud, or operating enterprise-wide in multi-cloud - they are relying on VMware Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations to establish the right foundation and set up an environment for the complete development to production lifecycle. At VMware Explore 2022, VMware is <a href="https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/vmware-tanzu-for-kubernetes-operations-updates-vmware-explore" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">announcing updates to key components in Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations</a> - VMware Tanzu® Mission Control™, VMware Aria Operations for Apps (formerly VMware Tanzu® Observability™ by Wavefront), and VMware Tanzu® Kubernetes Grid™ - to simplify Kubernetes delivery, management, and reliability.

VMware Tanzu Mission Control Expands Multi-cluster and Multi-cloud Kubernetes Management Capabilities  As part of VMware’s continued commitment to supporting customers at every stage of their Kubernetes infrastructure maturity, VMware <a href="https://tanzu.vmware.com/mission-control" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Tanzu Mission Control</a> is announcing several new features that extend and optimize multi-cloud, multi-cluster Kubernetes management capabilities:

Introducing Unified Observability by VMware Aria Operations for Applications  As enterprises modernize their existing application portfolio and build new cloud-native applications, the need for application and Kubernetes log management at scale will continue to grow. VMware’s new Unified Observability Platform by VMware Aria Operations for Applications, formerly VMware Tanzu Observability, provides simplified full-stack visibility with great user-experience, and predictable pricing for multi-cloud environments. The new Unified Observability platform amplifies existing capabilities with the addition of log management to deliver contextual data across traces, metrics, and logs enabling more actionable insights and reducing MTTR (mean-time-to-resolution) at a massive scale. The platform unifies data, insights, and actions across IT, and offers customized and out-of-the-box dashboards for applications, with more than 250 vendor integrations to start capturing real-time data from any stack in minutes, eliminating data silos, war rooms, and alert fatigue.

VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 2.0 Streamlines Kubernetes and Application lifecycle management  With containers being deployed increasingly on-premises, in public cloud, and at the edge, it is essential for standardization of Kubernetes across these environments. VMware<a href="https://tanzu.vmware.com/kubernetes-grid" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> Tanzu Kubernetes Grid</a> is engineered to simplify installation and Day 2 operations by packaging together key open-source technologies and automation tooling to help teams get up and running quickly. VMware is introducing Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 2.0, designed to help IT teams and developers with a streamlined experience for managing and provisioning the lifecycle of Kubernetes clusters<a href="https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/vmware-tanzu-kubernetes-grid-2-0" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">. New capabilities</a> add flexibility and control for cluster creation with Cluster Class, open-source API alignment, application lifecycle management capabilities, and Carvel-based tooling. It is tightly integrated with and embedded in vSphere 8, allowing customers to transform their existing compute infrastructure into an enterprise-ready Kubernetes environment across clouds. Tanzu Kubernetes Grid now also supports smaller cluster sizes of a single control node and a single worker node, available in VMware Edge Compute Stack 2.0, bringing simplicity and scale to the Enterprise Edge.

VMware Tanzu® Application Platform™ Adds Capabilities to Improve Developer Productivity and Simplify DevSecOps  VMware customers with a cloud-native applications strategy are looking to VMware Tanzu Application Platform as a value stream platform to manage complexity in building, configuring, connecting, and deploying new apps with a secure path to production. VMware <a href="https://tanzu.vmware.com/application-platform" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Tanzu Application Platform</a> is designed to unlock developer productivity by providing Application Accelerators and a pre-paved path to production with all the needed components preconfigured for developer teams to build and deploy software quickly and securely. At VMware Explore 2022, VMware is pre-announcing new capabilities in the Tanzu Application Platform that further enhance developer and application operator experiences for any Kubernetes environment, increase supply chain security, and offer additional ecosystem integrations.

VMware Cross-Cloud™ services Helps Customers Navigate the Multi-Cloud Era   At VMware Explore 2022, VMware is unveiling new and enhanced offerings for VMware Cross-Cloud services to help customers navigate the multi-cloud era with freedom, flexibility and security. VMware Cross-Cloud services is a portfolio of cloud services that deliver a unified and simplified way to build, operate, access, and secure any application on any cloud from any device. VMware Cross-Cloud service pillars include 1) App Platform 2) Cloud Management 3) Cloud & Edge Infrastructure 4) Security & Networking, and 5) Anywhere Workspace. For the latest news and more on how VMware is delivering a faster and smarter path to cloud for digital businesses, visit the <a href="https://news.vmware.com/vmware-explore-2022-media-kit" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">VMware Explore 2022 media kit</a>.

About VMware Explore  VMware Explore is an evolution of the company's flagship conference, VMworld. VMware Explore aims to be the industry’s go-to-event for all things multi-cloud. This year, it will feature industry-led solution and technical sessions, an extensive ecosystem of 90% of the top cloud partners, a thriving marketplace of multi-cloud ISVs and several networking events. To learn more about VMware Explore, please visit: <a href="http://www.vmware.com/explore.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.vmware.com/explore.html</a>.

About VMware   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="https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vmware.com%2Fcompany&esheet=52787028&newsitemid=20220721005271&lan=en-US&anchor=www.vmware.com%2Fcompany&index=9&md5=8afe7ba2d36912953923dda1bf1573ca" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.vmware.com/company</a>.

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Today at VMware Explore 2022, VMware is introducing advances to its VMware Tanzu portfolio - Tanzu Application Platform and Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations - that unlock developer productivity, deliver end-to-end security from build to production, and enable secure multi-cloud operations at scale, regardless of where they are in their Kubernetes journey.

VMware Tanzu Supercharges Portfolio to Help Customers Build, Run, and Manage Cloud-Native Apps

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VMware Tanzu® Supercharges Portfolio to Help Customers Build, Run, and Manage Cloud-Native Apps - VMware News and Stories

VMware unveils new and enhanced portfolio offerings, Cross-Cloud services and significant partner announcements at VMware Explore to deliver a faster and smarter path to cloud for digital businesses

SAN FRANCISCO – VMware Explore 2022 US - Today at <a href="https://www.vmware.com/explore/us.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">VMware Explore 2022</a>, VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) unveiled innovations, new offerings, services and expanded partnerships that further its commitment to help customers navigate and thrive in today’s multi-cloud world. As customers continue to evolve and digitize their businesses to innovate faster and better serve their own customers, VMware and its partner ecosystem are enabling businesses to select the right cloud for the right app.

“Whether you’re a challenger born in the cloud or an established player, the ultimate destination for customers is a multi-cloud environment that empowers teams to accelerate their digital innovation,” said Raghu Raghuram, CEO, VMware. “At VMware Explore, VMware and our partners are advancing our technology offerings to help customers gain advantages from a cloud-smart approach.”

<a href="https://news.vmware.com/vmware-explore/from-cloud-chaos-to-cloud-smart">Read Raghu Raghuram’s from Cloud Chaos to Cloud Smart blog post</a>

Many of these new capabilities are built on the <a href="https://www.vmware.com/cross-cloud-services.html">VMware Cross-Cloud™ services</a> the company <a href="https://news.vmware.com/releases/vmworld-2021-cross-cloud-services">introduced at VMworld 2021</a> and are designed to give organizations the strategic advantages of a cloud-smart approach. As organizations increase the number of clouds they support to accelerate their business goals, they experience an increase in operational complexity. VMware Cross-Cloud services deliver a unified and simplified way to build, operate, access, and better secure any application, on any cloud, from any device—across app platform, cloud management, cloud and edge infrastructure, networking and advanced security, and anywhere workspace.

Accelerate Enterprise Cloud Transformation

<a href="https://news.vmware.com/releases/vmware-explore-2022-cloud-edge-infrastructure">VMware is introducing cloud and edge infrastructure solutions</a> that help businesses accelerate their enterprise cloud transformation and enable customers to better run, scale and secure enterprise workloads across private and public clouds and at the edge. VMware and its public cloud partners also continue to help customers migrate and run those workloads in the public cloud of their choice. Additionally, <a href="https://news.vmware.com/releases/vmware-explore-2022-networking-security-multi-cloud">VMware unveiled networking and security innovations</a> to help customers further embrace the cloud operating model. Highlights include:

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