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Pop Culture Tech podcast 2.5 explores remote work and where we all go from here. Featuring Zoom and Distribute Consulting

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Happy new year, 2022! It’s time to look deep into our enterprise-technology crystal ball to see what we might expect over the coming year. But first, some context: no psychic powers are required to predict that the trend towards a multi-cloud approach will continue. Multi-cloud gives the enterprise freedom to pursue a best-of-breed cloud strategy to accelerate business transformation and innovative app development. So, we’ll look through the lens of a multi-cloud environment as we consider VMware leaders’ 2022 predictions from cloud, security, apps, and anywhere workspace. I’ll share my own prediction near the end of this post, along with one from a customer.  

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Most companies have already identified solutions for application portability across clouds (although some environments are more conducive to app migration than others). Data portability, however, remains the big challenge — and data is the fuel that propels apps. Traditional storage systems cannot deliver a cloud-like experience. They are defined by fixed hardware boundaries that confine resources. This can result in trapped data, stranded capacity, limited scalability and elasticity, complex placement decisions, and high sunrise and sunset costs. The industry’s march towards the multi-cloud/zettabyte era will only exacerbate these limitations. In the next two years, we predict that we will see the emergence of a cloud-agnostic federated data fabric, which will enable organizations to mitigate data gravity as a key inhibitor to successfully operationalizing a multi-cloud architecture. 

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As organizations implement network segmentation to stop the spread of ransomware, attackers have begun to leverage trusted credentials to move freely throughout the network. With a valid set of credentials, attackers can accomplish much of their nefarious activity without raising a single alarm.  

Some of the stealthiest credential attacks use native, authorized tools like PowerShell to gain access by appearing as legitimate activity. Once an attacker can move laterally across an organization’s network, they have the “keys to the kingdom” and can access sensitive customer information and corporate proprietary data.  

Enter the double-extortion ransomware attack, in which an attacker quietly exfiltrates this sensitive information before encrypting a victim’s files and threatening to make sensitive data public. This ensures financial gain for cybercriminals who force organizations to not only pay to decrypt their files, but to prevent harmful data from being sold or publicly disclosed. 

While ransomware attacks like Kaseya and Colonial Pipeline made the nightly news this year, we think that threat actors will take this one step further in 2022 by using a double-extortion ransomware attack as a result of stolen credentials. 

The good news is that we can expect a cadre of tech companies, the open-source community, academia, cybersecurity institutions and government agencies around the world to unite to meet this challenge. We’ve done it before, and we will do it again.

We will see the emergence of tools that bring the Kubernetes (K8s) patterns to new domains —solving new problems and changing the intersection of development, security, and operations practices. K8s has proven to be successful for containerized infrastructure, but its embedded ideas have broader applicability. We will see an increasing number of systems (build systems, infrastructure management, and federated application-control planes) leverage the manifest-based model popularized by K8s. This will mean a transition to a manifest-based approach and will mark a shift from imperative DevSecOps practices to the consumption of intent-driven services that apply a declarative approach to management. This will lead to something of an inversion of IT — moving from systems that try to make sense of what is running and provide APIs to change what is running, to systems that consume manifests that represent intended state and then allow for reconciliation of actual state with intended state. This will allow them to tackle challenges in areas like AI/ML, stream-based processing, app integration and other areas without having to make significant 'full stack' investments in platforms. 

One of the major trends we predict in the end-user computing space is the broad adoption and general acceptance of password-less authentication — something we believe is a “must-have” moving forward. Most attacks can be avoided by using stronger methods of authentication. 

Password-less authentication is a type of multifactor authentication that replaces the user’s password with a different factor (typically a client-side certificate unlocked via biometrics). This would allow users to authenticate to corporate resources from a fingerprint or face scan throughout the course of a day, rather than having to remember a constantly rotating password or using an authenticator app. 

We see 2022 as the year where VPNs start to die off in huge numbers. During the course of the pandemic, companies realized that VPNs were one of their most vulnerable areas. They did not provide sufficient security for remote users who required broad access to the corporate network. Micro-perimeters, real-time security posture checks, and the wide availability of SASE offerings will be VPNs’ successors. 

Today’s multi-party enterprise workflows are fragmented and highly complex to maintain. This causes delays, increased costs and hinders innovation. Workflow data is often siloed within the enterprise — resulting in inefficient and costly steps to share and reconcile data across boundaries. This is where blockchain/digital ledger technology (DLT) enters the picture. While trendy cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) - which are also built on blockchain - capture memes and headlines, blockchain is quietly making waves in the enterprise driving real productivity. Blockchain’s real power lies in how it enables multiple parties to work together on a shared trustworthy source of data, fully and securely digitizing transactions. Maturing technologies, new delivery models, adoption of standards and the energy of an extensive and vibrant ecosystem are accelerating enterprise adoption. In 2022, we suspect that we’ll  see the value of enterprise blockchain becoming increasingly clear, as well as strong acceleration in production deployments across many industries (such as supply-chain use cases, for example), fundamentally changing the nature of doing business across organizational boundaries. In the financial-services industry, it is already meeting customers’ needs for high-frequency, complex business operations. We expect there will be an even broader enterprise blockchain adoption in 2022 and we’ll see major financial institutions more confident to deploy blockchain technology into production.  

A key area of focus for NKI will be applying AI and ML to cancer recognition through imaging and research models. It can support the automatic analysis of medical images for decision support of healthcare providers, as well as the analysis of cells to better understand the origin of cancer. 

To support researchers in conducting their work, we need a capable infrastructure for a wide variety of workloads. It must be a scalable and secure environment that supports data exchange with other institutions. We must work together to amplify our impact. Network virtualization, containerization, and sharing a single platform with workload isolation are all technologies we hope to leverage in the coming years. 

These new technological possibilities will allow researchers to work more flexibly and safely to help make our mission — a cure for every cancer — a reality in the near future.

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What do you think of the VMware leaders' predictions for 2022? Let us know and feel free to share your own predictions for the coming year.  

VMware leaders share their technology predictions for 2022 in cloud, security, apps, anywhere workspace, enterprise blockchain and more.

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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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Listen to Raghuram and Del Prete tackle digital resiliency, the workforce of the future, and the next big tech trends, like multi-cloud and edge.

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Raghuram: Hello, everyone. I'm <a href="https://news.vmware.com/author/raghu-raghuram" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Raghu Raghuram</a>, CEO of VMware. I'm here today with <a href="https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=PRF000086" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Crawford Del Prete</a>, who's the president of IDC. Thank you for being here today with me, Crawford, to discuss the changes we see. Clearly, the future we thought we knew has been disrupted and transformed in a big way.

Del Prete: Thanks so much for the opportunity to share some perspectives with you around this extraordinary period that we're operating in.

Raghuram: What I see these days, especially driven by the pandemic, but even regardless of the pandemic, is a more fundamental rethink of, “How do I turn my entire enterprise into a digital enterprise?”

Del Prete: And what we're seeing more and more is companies need to even stop thinking about digital as something separate. They need to think about a new way of doing business.

Raghuram: It is the way of doing business. And that's also causing, I would say, the next wave of both interesting business models and technology innovations as digital meets physical. This is why our business is so fascinating every day. The dimensions constantly keep changing. So, let's look out a few years. What would be the distinct themes that you think we'll be talking about?

Del Prete: A few things. I think we're going to be still talking about the cloud. But we're going to be talking about companies with a level of more cloud interoperability and companies working across clouds. The level of application interdependency only continues to increase.

You're going to put your apps in different cloud instances. So, it's the ability to manage applications across these clouds, manage your data across these clouds, manage multiple cloud instances. This is going to be something we're going to be spending a lot of time talking about. 

Raghuram: So app interdependency is a key theme. <a href="https://www.vmware.com/cloud-solutions/multi-cloud.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Multi-cloud</a> is a theme. And distributed data is a key theme. And another part is the distributed workforce, as well. So, where do you think we go from here with respect to distributed work?

Del Prete: I think that this idea of working from anywhere, this idea of being able to work in any instance is really very much the future. I think that work will be different, but it will also be oddly familiar in the future. I think what's really going to change here is the extent that we can apply automation to tasks that people aren't necessarily excited about doing. And the key here is to automate the mundane, and a future workforce needs to take on more sophisticated things. And I think we're going to be talking a lot about this in the future.

Raghuram: I think the combination of remote workforces and remote “everything” means that it's an explosion of concerns around <a href="https://www.vmware.com/security.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">security</a>, right? Where do you see that going?

Del Prete: Let's be very blunt about it. In security, the customer has been forced to be the systems integrator too much of the time. And when the customer is forced to be the systems integrator, they make mistakes, because they really don't understand it. And that complexity is exponentially growing with things like IoT and the distributed edge. So, I think there's a real opportunity for suppliers and integrators to come in and try to create a simplification layer in what's going to become a more and more distributed landscape. And frankly, we see this becoming more of a problem now than it was even a year ago.

Raghuram: The analogy that I use is that if you bought a car and whoever sold you the car said, “Hey, go find anti-lock brakes, alarm systems and theft devices. Go solve them for yourself.” So, that's really the state of where we are in the security business.

Del Prete: This is what people still think of today as something that only big companies can protect themselves from. But I think medium enterprises, government (and) education need to think much more broadly about their data protection strategy. Because your threat landscape is only going to become more complicated as you connect more people and more things.

Raghuram: Let's talk a few minutes about the edge. What do you see as you project out over the next five years?

Del Prete: The edge is exploding. We're seeing people invest in the edge at a very high rate. We think that 50% of new infrastructure that is deployed is deployed at the edge by 2023. You're going to see that this is how we move data closer to the point of decision. And I think what people aren't thinking about is how the edge, by definition, is going to need to be increasingly cloud agnostic.

We believe so much of the infrastructure that's going to be deployed over the next three years is going to have to be at the edge, because it's going to be required for competitiveness. And that's why the edge has to be agnostic. I mean, can you imagine a world where you have to dictate what cloud provider or what environment someone's working on if you want to deliver a service out to that edge? It has to be agnostic.

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In this CEO podcast, leaders from VMware and IDC tackle digital resiliency, distributed workforces and tech trends like multi-cloud and edge.

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At the onset of the 2020 pandemic, an  interconnected digital web helped power #ZoomLife’s meteoric rise into pop culture legend.  In this Pop Culture Tech episode, we talk about the culture and innovation powering our new world of work.

Not every work experience outside the office is perfect. Presenters still forget to unmute. Attendees leave mics on. Yet today’s employees are feeling pretty good about remote working.

In the recent <a></a><a href="https://vmware.com/go/virtualfloorplan" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Virtual Floorplan: New Rules for a New Era of Work study</a>, three-quarters (75%) of employees globally agreed moving to a distributed working environment has meant their performance—and not traditional metrics like time in the office—is being valued more by their employers.

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In the 1970s, a very small group of employees began the teleworking trend, primarily doing tasks from home. After Y2K, increasing access to mobile devices and cloud technologies catalyzed work from anywhere and the remote workforce emerged. Then came 2020 and the pandemic, accelerating the growth and acceptance of work from everywhere by decades.

Today, remote and hybrid working styles are commonplace. Employees want these flexible workstyles to continue. And this has leaders around the world strategizing about how to concurrently maximize flexibility and productivity.

“The term ‘remote work’ will cease to exist. Very soon, remote work will just be work, because it will be the majority, and it will be the standard,” said Laurel Farrer, founder and CEO of <a href="https://www.distributeconsulting.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Distribute Consulting</a>.

Historically, mid-level managers and people farther along on their career journeys objected most to remote working’s viability. The primary reasons: working away from the office was so different from co-located environments and they couldn’t imagine how it would effectively serve the business.

The pandemic eliminated all the resistance and doubt around the credibility of remote work, Farrer believes, because every manager of every business in every industry experienced remote work at the same time. “Leaders were able to experience it in their teams; to see their teams staying productive,” she said. “They now have the evidence they needed to prove the viability of remote work as an operational model.”

The pandemic also changed employees’ perception of work. It’s no longer somewhere people go.

“Work is something we do,” explained Harry Moseley, Global CIO of <a href="https://zoom.us/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Zoom</a>. The challenge for organizations now is “how do you bring people back to the office in a way that is inclusive, like what we’ve experienced…where we can collaborate safely.”

Zoom, the company dedicated to making video communications frictionless and secure, has ideas.

CEO Eric Yuan founded the company on five principles that drive innovation, Moseley said:

The overarching vision that Zoom is working really hard on today, is “how can we make the virtual experience as good, if not better than the in-person experience,” said Moseley.

New Zoom capabilities are a start. Smart Gallery, for example, leverages artificial intelligence to provide immersive views and more so people can continue to experience the nonverbal cues they’ve gotten to accustomed to having while working away from the office.

What the pandemic has taught leaders and employees is that “there’s now a way to do business better,” concluded Farrer. And that includes asking hard questions—about empathy, alignment and shared values—and supporting the answers with modern communications channels and technology.

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VMware Workspace ONE Recognized with the Highest Score in Current Offering Category

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), a leading innovator in enterprise software, today announced it has been positioned as a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Unified Endpoint Management, Q4 2021, which evaluated 11 unified endpoint management (UEM) vendors. The evaluated solution, <a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/workspace-one.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">VMware Workspace ONE</a>, was the top ranked solution in the current offering category and tied for the highest score in the strategy category.

According to the Forrester Wave report, “VMware continues to balance EX [employee experience], management, and security exceptionally well… In the past year, VMware has released multiple new market-leading capabilities, such as Digital Employee Experience Management (DEEM), Freestyle Orchestrator for low-code automation, and Anywhere Workspace, a remote work solution that combines endpoint management, security, virtualization, and SD-WAN into a single package.”

The report continues, “VMware supports a wide array of operating systems, delivers a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) experience, and has some unique integrations with human capital management (HCM) tools like Workday to enable day-zero onboarding for employees. Workspace ONE’s DEEM feature is one of the most advanced EUEM capabilities in this evaluation, and its endpoint management has some unique differentiators, such as Workspace ONE Assist for remote support… VMware is an excellent choice for large enterprises with heterogeneous computing needs, particularly in regulated or frontline-worker-oriented industries.”

Workspace ONE is one of the core technologies that comprise <a href="https://www.vmware.com/solutions/anywhere-workspace.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">VMware Anywhere Workspace</a>, an integrated solution that enables employees to work from anywhere with more secure, frictionless experiences. It brings together Workspace ONE with VMware Carbon Black Cloud and VMware SASE.

Workspace ONE UEM, part of the Workspace ONE platform, provides a comprehensive solution that enables companies to manage and better secure any device across all platforms. It incorporates modern device management, application management, and security that’s effective outside the corporate perimeter. It empowers IT to:

VMware continues to deliver on new innovations that make Workspace ONE the industry’s digital workspace platform of choice for IT and employees. Recent innovations added to the Workspace ONE platform, <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/euc/2021/10/vmworld-2021-anywhere-workspace-end-user-computing-keynote.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">announced at VMworld 2021</a>, include:

“Hybrid work is here, and it’s here to stay. With employees, including those at the frontline, accessing apps from the home, office and everywhere in between, IT teams are challenged to provide a great experience while providing rock solid security,” said Shankar Iyer, senior vice president and general manager, End User Computing, VMware. “We continue to bring industry-leading innovations to Workspace ONE to provide the broadest platform support, deepest management and security capabilities, and an expansive partner ecosystem. It’s this pace of innovation and ability to execute that, we believe, has earned us recognition from today’s leading analyst firms.”

To download “The Forrester Wave™: Unified Endpoint Management, Q4 2021” report, click <a href="https://www.vmware.com/learn/1165135_REG.html?cid=7012H000001lELc">here</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" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.vmware.com/company</a>.

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Rise in remote working requires new ways of monitoring performance and output but not simply through counting keystrokes and time at the desk

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), a leading innovator in enterprise software, today shared results of a global study that revealed the rise in employee performance and trust established in new hybrid working models could be under threat from an increase in the implementation of remote monitoring measures.

The study,<a> </a><a href="https://vmware.com/go/virtualfloorplan" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">“The Virtual Floorplan: New Rules for a New Era of Work,”</a> conducted by Vanson Bourne on behalf of VMware, found that 70 percent of companies surveyed have either already implemented or are planning to implement employee surveillance measures to monitor employee productivity since the shift to hybrid working. Among these organizations, the measures being taken include the monitoring of emails (44%), web browsing (41%) and collaboration tools (43%), as well as video surveillance (29%), attention tracking via webcams (28%) and keylogger software (26%). However, 39 percent of companies that have already implemented device monitoring, and 41 percent of companies who are currently in the process of doing so, are in fact seeing “drastically increased” or “increased” employee turnover.

The research findings suggest there is a delicate balance to be struck as businesses look for new ways to assess employee performance beyond presentism. From the employee perspective, three quarters (75%) agree that moving to a distributed working environment has meant that their performance – and not traditional metrics such as time spent in the office – is being valued more by their employers. And, 79 percent of employees agree that remote work technologies have enabled them to work more efficiently than before. 74% of organizations have had to develop new ways to measure employee productivity. Among these organizations, the new approach to monitoring productivity has been achieved through the use of performance-focused solutions including regular catch-ups with managers to discuss workloads (55%), assessing output and agreed deliverables (53%) and using new project management software (47%).

However, now that direct reports are not necessarily sitting a few cubicles away, employers are evolving new ways to monitor and quantify employee productivity. While approaching six in ten (59%) employees recognize their organization has had to develop new ways to monitor productivity as part of the move to hybrid working, transparency remains critical. A quarter of employees (24%) don’t know whether their organization has implemented device monitoring systems on their devices to monitor their productivity.

“Globally we are seeing organizations shift permanently to hybrid work models that don’t require knowledge workers to be office-based all the time. With this shift, employers should proceed with caution when replacing presentism with monitoring tools. Monitoring and performance are two very different things,” says Shankar Iyer, senior vice president and general manager, End-User Computing, VMware. “Digital workspace tools enable people to work from anywhere and our research shows employees are feeling more valued and trusted. A lack of transparency and measurement by ‘stealth and numbers’, can quickly erode employee faith and lead to talent heading for the door, in a highly competitive and challenging skills market.”

Employee surveillance is one of many topics touched on in <a href="https://vmware.com/go/virtualfloorplan" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Virtual Floorplan: New Rules for a New Era of Work</a>. Other key findings include:

An executive summary of the study can be downloaded <a href="https://vmware.com/go/virtualfloorplan" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">here</a>.

VMware commissioned a survey, undertaken by an independent research organization, Vanson Bourne, in July and August 2021. 7,600 respondents were surveyed globally, consisting of HR, IT and business decision makers as well as employees across IT, Manufacturing, engineering and production, Financial services, Business and professional services, Retail and wholesale, Energy, oil/gas and utilities, Distribution and transport, Public healthcare, Construction and property, Public Education, Telecommunications, Consumer services, Local government, Central government, Media leisure and entertainment, Private education, Private healthcare, Hospitality and others. All organizations surveyed have 500 or more employees globally. The countries surveyed include UK, Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands, Russia, Poland, Norway, Sweden, Spain, UAE, Saudi Arabia, U.S., Canada, Japan, Australia, India, China, Singapore and South Korea. 

VMware today shared results of its global study, “The Virtual Floorplan: New Rules for a New Era of Work." Learn more:

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Collaboration to Extend Corporate Network Performance and Security Capabilities to the Home Office

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Today VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) announced it will collaborate with eero, an Amazon company, on work-from-home capabilities that will boost remote network connectivity while extending critical security services to devices connecting to an at-home corporate network. Designed for work-from-home employees in the U.S. and delivered by strategic channel partners, the collaboration is designed to pair eero 6 series mesh Wi-Fi systems with VMware SASE Work from Home solution. In addition, as part of this agreement, VMware is announcing eero is a preferred Wi-Fi provider.

“We ask a lot of our home Wi-Fi these days. At any given moment it may be supporting multiple data-intensive tasks: from joining a work video-conference call, to streaming and gaming in 4K, to supporting an online learning environment, and more. When your network is stretched too thin, your work-from-home performance can suffer,” said Sean Harris, vice president of sales and marketing, eero. “Through this collaboration with VMware, we’re able to offer fast, reliable, and more secure Wi-Fi for remote workers.”

Deploying VMware and eero solutions together will enable IT teams to extend a better at home Wi-Fi experience for their employees, working alongside VMware’s solution to deliver cloud networking and cloud security services. Channel partners will be able to offer customers a solution that brings together:

eero 6 series mesh Wi-Fi systems featuring Wi-Fi 6: Employees need not be limited to working from one location in the home. eero 6 series mesh Wi-Fi systems feature Wi-Fi 6, delivering fast speeds and solid coverage for simultaneous device usage throughout the home so employees will be able to say goodbye to dead spots in the home and enjoy strong app performance. Employers will have the option to offer eero Pro 6, a tri-band, high-performance mesh Wi-Fi 6 router designed for homes with Gigabit internet connections, or eero 6, a dual-band mesh Wi-Fi 6 router designed for homes with internet connections up to 500 Mbps.

With eero Secure, employees will receive an added layer of security for their home Wi-Fi, including parental controls for safe search, content filters, advanced security preventing access to sites flagged as malicious, ad blocking to protect their privacy and speed up their browsing experience, and now data usage insights to better manage time online.

VMware SASE is a cloud-hosted solution that will help enable more secure, reliable, and efficient connectivity between user traffic from the eero Wi-Fi network in the home to the applications in public cloud, SaaS cloud and on-premises data centers. VMware SASE brings dynamic remediation capabilities when broadband networks experience packet loss, latency, and jitter. The solution recognizes over 3,000 apps automatically, and intelligently prioritizes business-critical application traffic, providing a better user experience. The solution handles latency-sensitive, real-time traffic like audio, video, VDI and IoT, providing a low-latency optimal path using a global network of SASE Points of Presence (PoPs) close to the eero Wi-Fi users. These PoPs are strategically placed at the doorstep of major SaaS and IaaS providers to offer under 15 milliseconds of latency between users and their applications in the majority of deployments.

For IT teams, VMware SASE helps deliver operational simplicity leveraging the centralized Orchestrator to drive networking and security policies. IT can configure these policies and push them to all the remote sites powered by eero Wi-Fi systems. In addition, VMware SASE uses AIOps to give IT teams the visibility they need to determine the actual user experience when users access cloud applications. The solution compares performance benchmarks between different sites and identifies opportunities for improvement. The solution is not limited to simply identifying and analyzing issues, it also helps remediate these issues proactively with a path to self-healing.

Craig Connors, vice president and CTO, Service Provider and Edge, VMware, added, “This collaboration brings together two work-from-home technology leaders. We share a common vision to have technology be an enabler of a great remote work experience rather than an obstacle. Our technologies have played a critical role in empowering remote workers everywhere and we look forward to bringing our capabilities together to deliver a differentiated mesh Wi-Fi solution to our customers.”

To learn more about the partnership between VMware and eero, visit <a href="https://sase.vmware.com/partners/eero" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://sase.vmware.com/partners/eero</a>.

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Angela Leaf, VMware Global Communications, Phone: +1 860 480 3367, <a href="mailto:aleaf@vmware.com">aleaf@vmware.com</a>

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Introducing VMware Cross-Cloud Services to Deliver Freedom, Flexibility and Security for Customers Across Any Cloud

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- VMworld 2021 -- At VMworld 2021, VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) announced its strategy to help customers navigate the multi-cloud era with the launch of VMware Cross-Cloud services. This group of integrated services will help deliver a faster and smarter path to cloud for digital businesses, providing customers with the ability to build, run and better secure apps across any cloud with freedom and flexibility.  

Today, the average organization is running roughly 500 apps to drive their business,1 and those apps are distributed across clouds. Seventy-five percent of VMware customers are relying on two or more public clouds, and 40% are using three or more.2 This multi-cloud approach increases app velocity and innovation and allows organizations to be much more agile and resilient. However, a multi-cloud environment is far more diverse, complex and distributed than anything organizations have managed in the past. This complexity often forces trade-offs between moving fast and managing risk, resulting in slower execution while increasing costs. VMware's strategy is built to help customers eliminate the tough choices and challenges by giving them a powerful combination of freedom and control in their multi-cloud business.

“Multi-cloud is the digital business model for the next 20 years, as entire industries reinvent themselves,” said Raghu Raghuram, chief executive officer, VMware. “It’s no longer about a ‘cloud first’ approach—it’s about being ‘cloud smart’. Organizations should have the freedom to choose the ’right’ cloud, based on their strategic business goals. With our cloud-agnostic approach, we are uniquely positioned to meet our customers where they are and take them where they want to go. We give every organization the power to accelerate their innovation and control their own destiny in the multi-cloud era.”

“During the past year, organizations fully embraced digital transformation as they were forced to respond to many dramatic changes, accelerating their innovation timelines at record paces,” said Richard Villars, group vice president, IDC. “Organizations rely heavily on cloud technologies to evolve and scale as they pivot to competing in a digital-first economy. VMware’s multi-cloud-focused strategy puts it in a strong position to help enterprises take full advantage of multiple clouds and their resources in their own data centers to improve resiliency and the trusted use of technology for delivery of better experiences and business outcomes.”

VMware Cross-Cloud Services for All Apps

To help customers navigate the multi-cloud era, VMware Cross-Cloud services will deliver three key advantages: an accelerated journey to the cloud, cost efficiency, flexibility and control across any cloud. VMware Cross-Cloud services expands the capabilities of VMware’s product portfolio for a multi-cloud world and will allow customers to pick and choose the services needed on the desired cloud to meet evolving business demands. VMware Cross-Cloud services is comprised of five core building blocks:

At VMworld 2021, VMware is also announcing a variety of new innovations that span VMware Cross-Cloud services, including:

Customers Accelerate Multi-Cloud Journeys with VMware

SGB-SMIT group is the number one medium-sized manufacturer of transformers for data centers in Europe. “A multi-cloud environment is the basis of our virtual company. We are regularly introducing new cloud-based apps, to disconnect from the old way of working,” said Salvatore Cassara, chief information officer, SGB-SMIT Group. “To do this, we need the flexibility to scale quickly and move workloads between cloud providers without restrictions. VMware brings together our different cloud elements and really allows us to reinvent how we collaborate, and ultimately enable innovation throughout the company.”

Western Union is a world leader in cross-border business payments. “Over the past year, we have focused on innovating to truly rally around our customers and deliver the best experience,” said Sada Iyer, head of infrastructure, Western Union. “Like many financial organizations, part of our technology modernization journey is moving to the cloud. With VMware, we have the flexible multi-cloud model required for the digital age as we look to accelerate innovation across our global platform.”

VMware Strategy and Innovations Designed to Fuel Growth for Partners in Services and Cloud

VMware <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/partner/2021/10/partner-announcements-vmworld21.html">announced</a> several new partner program innovations aligned to its customer first, partner-led strategy, including VMware Cloud Universal enabled for reseller partners, and VMware Success 360, which allows partners with master services competencies (MSCs) to, for the first time, offer their own customer success services for all the stages of the customer journey with VMware solutions. In addition, new and refreshed VMware Customer Lifecycle Incentives are designed to fuel partner growth in services and cloud.

For the latest news on how VMware is delivering a smarter path to cloud for digital businesses, visit the <a href="https://news.vmware.com/vmworld-2021-media-kit">VMworld 2021 media kit</a>.

VMworld 2021 is the world’s premier cloud computing and digital infrastructure event. VMworld features 600+ unique sessions and labs, more than 75 sponsors, and several networking events to accelerate the journey to a software-defined business—from mobile devices to the data center and the cloud. VMworld attendees will have unparalleled access to the knowledge and tools they need to master the new cloud landscape and transform their business. To learn more about VMworld, please visit: <a href="https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vmworld.com&esheet=52471361&newsitemid=20210804005382&lan=en-US&anchor=www.vmworld.com&index=10&md5=6bae07ad0e79fa107c34cb3656669e8d" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.vmworld.com</a>.

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Samantha Mayowa, VMware Global Communications, + 1 (781) 552-3062, <a href="mailto:smayowa@vmware.com">smayowa@vmware.com</a>

Samantha Mayowa, VMware Global Communications, + 1 (781) 552-3062, <a href="mailto:smayowa@vmware.com">smayowa@vmware.com</a>

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