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LAS VEGAS – Mobile World Congress Las Vegas 2022 – September 29, 2022 – VMware today unveiled new product innovations and partnerships that will enable communications service providers (CSPs) to rapidly modernize their networks in a cost and energy efficient manner and accelerate 5G core, RAN and edge deployments and lifecycle management.

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CSPs are accelerating the pace of 5G and Open RAN deployments to meet the demands of consumers and enterprises as they increase their appetite for ultra-low latency  and high speed networks to support their digital transformation. This rapid pace of deployment introduces operational complexities from network lifecycle management to vendor interoperability along with network service assurance.

“Today’s CSPs find themselves in a unique position in the edge value chain, with the ability to act as principals and provide the most cost and energy efficient path to edge transformation,” said Sanjay Uppal, senior vice president and general manager, Service Provider and Edge, VMware. “At the same time, CSPs need to rapidly modernize their networks and deploy overlay services to monetize their investments. VMware’s flexibility and consistency in delivering a multi-cloud approach allows our CSP customers to meet this challenge head-on.”

Expanded VMware Telco Cloud Platform Ecosystem—Now Supporting 275+ VNFs and CNFs

<a href="https://telco.vmware.com/products/telco-cloud-platform.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">VMware Telco Cloud Platform</a> 2.5 with <a href="https://telco.vmware.com/products/telco-cloud-automation.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">VMware Telco Cloud Automation</a> 2.1 enables CSPs to expedite the innovation cycle to deliver new network services, reduce operational complexities for VNF and CNF onboarding, instantiation, and lifecycle management to achieve substantial TCO savings. The latest release of VMware Telco Cloud Platform adds the capability to:

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“The success of 5G rollouts hinges on the ability to disaggregate networks and roll out new services at a faster pace and larger scale,” said Ashok Khuntia, Mavenir’s President, Core Networks. “With Mavenir’s 5G Converged Packet Core certified through the VMware Ready for Telco Cloud program, we were able to quickly validate our CSAR package conformity as well as the steps for onboarding and lifecycle management of our network functions. As a result, VMware and Mavenir will enable CSPs to quickly onboard and deploy network functions resulting in time, money and integration savings.”

VMware Telco Cloud Automation 2.1 extends multi-cloud operations and automation capabilities with new support for AWS and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) enabling CSPs to provision CNFs directly on native Amazon EKS.

“DISH Wireless has already deployed thousands of edge nodes to build the world’s first hyper-distributed cloud, and it’s growing exponentially. Our 5G Open RAN network is the first application deployed and supported by VMware Telco Cloud Automation,” said Marc Rouanne, EVP and Chief Network Officer, DISH Wireless. “VMware Telco Cloud Automation enables DISH to automate deployment and management of physical and virtual infrastructure and applications, at scale. We, with the help of VMware, can now offer a new platform for developers to stretch the cloud to end devices and create a bridge between hyper-scale clouds.”

Extended Capabilities for Closed-Loop Operations of Large-Scale Moblie Networks

The latest release of <a href="https://telco.vmware.com/products/telco-cloud-service-assurance.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance</a> 2.0 enables new use cases for mobile service assurance, including CaaS, 4G and 5G mobile cores, network slicing, and RAN.

To streamline the testing and proof of concept (PoC) of this software, VMware has expanded its scope of work with customer DISH Wireless. DISH Wireless is testing VMware’s software to monitor its distributed-cloud infrastructure and collect metrics and logs to provide actionable insights and facilitate closed-loop automated provisioning and management.

“At DISH Wireless, data is the most valuable product generated by our wireless cloud. We are now trialing VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance to enhance our ability to collect data from the edge, anticipate issues, maintain high system reliability, and ultimately, expose great value to our enterprise development community,” said Brian Mengwasser, Vice President of MarketPlace & Apps Design, DISH Wireless.       

Enabling Rapid Deployment and Cost/Energy Savings for the Disaggregated RAN

<a href="https://telco.vmware.com/products/telco-cloud-platform-ran.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">VMware Telco Cloud Platform RAN™</a> 2.0 accelerates and simplifies deployments across distributed RAN sites with cloud-smart automation. This release enables improved performance, operability, and scale, helping accelerate adoption and time-to-launch.

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The partnership aims to attract high calibre talent to the world-class faculty and train the next generation of technology researchers and engineers

Sofia, Bulgaria, Sept. 7, 2022 – VMware Inc. (NYSE: VMW) today announced a relationship with the first Artificial Intelligence (AI) and computer science institute in Eastern Europe, the Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology (INSAIT), boosting world-class deep tech research in Sofia, Bulgaria, and the rest of Europe.

The VMware University Research Fund has committed to awarding a U.S. $1.5 million grant to attract top researchers and scientists to the faculty, in support of the 10-year plan signed by ETH Zurich, EPFL, and the Bulgarian government. This founding grant aims to establish and develop the INSAIT faculty, as well as attract Ph.D. & MSc students for research in in diverse areas of computer science and systems engineering, including AI, security, storage and networking.

Diana Stefanova, VMware VP of Regional Site Strategy says: “For VMware, this is an investment in new technologies research, consistent with our innovation strategy. It is also a unique opportunity to increase the pool of key talent in Central and Eastern Europe.”

In addition to the financial support, VMware's more than 1800 engineers in Bulgaria are uniquely positioned to help support the institute with hands-on experience in cloud, networking, computing, and security. The collaboration of renowned scientists with PhD and Masters students, supported by big tech capabilities, has the potential to lead to groundbreaking findings in critical areas, such as private trustworthy AI, programmable networks and the data economy.

Raghu Raghuram, CEO, VMware, commented: “There is an intrinsic link between innovation and talent. As an organization that has a culture of innovation, we have seen first-hand how important it is to invest and nurture great minds and ideas. This relationship with INSAIT is another example of our global commitment to developing tech talent. It is especially relevant to VMware in Bulgaria given our world-class R&D operations there, which we are keen to keep well supplied with the best minds in technology.”

The focus of the relationship is to invest in developing world-class talent. Establishing unique technological facilities helps contribute to new collaborative research, for the benefit of the entire technology ecosystem.

Prof. Martin Vechev, Chair of INSAIT Supervisory Board said: “As a global technological leader VMware understands the importance of investing in talent and promoting inclusive economic growth and recovery. Attracting and nurturing the top minds in turn helps with the democratization of science and solving some of the hardest challenges.”

For more than 15 years the VMware Academic Program has been supporting the advancement of academic research and teaching in universities and institutions in the United States and around the world. This extension of close collaboration with institutes such as INSAIT aims to increase the diversity of systems research people, ideas, and advances across the globe.

In this latest endeavour, VMware and INSAIT will continue to drive the program’s goals of attracting high-quality and diverse talent and creating state of the art educational programs. In this way, providing attractive career perspectives and globally competitive salaries in a flourishing industry encourages top young talent and improves local economic and social opportunities.

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Newest VMware Cloud on AWS innovations help lower the cost, improve the performance, and better protect enterprise workloads

Customers such as LOTTE, Quality Bicycle Products, and Schibsted benefit from these powerful solutions

SAN FRANCISCO – VMWARE EXPLORE 2022 (August 30, 2022) – This week at VMware Explore 2022, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), and VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) are showcasing the continued innovation and customer value the companies are delivering together. New capabilities in the jointly engineered VMware Cloud on AWS service and broad availability of VMware Cross-Cloud services on AWS Marketplace help customers accelerate moving VMware workloads to a more modern and secure infrastructure in AWS to support enterprise cloud transformation.

Whether it’s by choice or by compelling events like the COVID-19 pandemic, business leaders are looking for ways to speed up their digital transformation and thrive in this era of fast-moving disruption. That’s why VMware and AWS remain fully committed to meeting the needs of customers through the companies’ unique joint work.

“VMware Cloud on AWS continues to deliver compelling new capabilities that help customers move quickly and non-disruptively to the cloud with compatibility and operational consistency across their existing vSphere-based deployments,” said Mark Lohmeyer, senior vice president and general manager, cloud infrastructure business group at VMware. “And once workloads are running in VMware Cloud on AWS, the service can deliver significant ongoing savings by optimizing resource utilization while ensuring better workload availability, protecting against today’s complicated and dangerous lateral threats, and enabling the next-generation of modern applications. Together with AWS, we are accelerating our delivery of new innovations for the broadest range of enterprise workloads.”

“Customers want to accelerate cloud migrations with operational consistency and flexibility, reduce costs while scaling to meet global business demand, and modernize workloads and increase innovation with cloud-native services,” said Matt Garman, senior vice president, AWS sales and marketing at AWS. “Together with VMware, we are giving customers the fastest path to cloud migration and modernization for their enterprise vSphere workloads. We allow them to speed application innovation, simplify cloud operations, and further improve security by running on the AWS global infrastructure.”

New Capabilities Improve Flexibility, Performance and ROI

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Research shows VMware Cloud on AWS customers can achieve 46% faster cloud migration and 57% reduction in TCO(1). VMware Cloud on AWS brings VMware’s enterprise-class Software-Defined Data Center software to AWS bare metal infrastructure to run enterprise workloads more securely at scale, across both virtual machines and containers. The service features built-in Kubernetes and optimized access to 200+ native AWS services including data, analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to deliver a pragmatic approach to app modernization. Built-in VMware NSX security capabilities help stop advanced, persistent threats that can move laterally within and across cloud and data center environments. The latest advancements include:

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) I4i instances for I/O-intensive Workloads: Powered by 3rd generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors (Ice Lake), Amazon EC2 instances help deliver better workload support and delivery, lower TCO, and increased scalability and application performance. Compared to I3, the I4i instances provide nearly twice the number of physical cores, twice the memory, three times the storage capacity, and three times the network bandwidth. The I4i instances help minimize latency and maximize transactions per second (TPS) for certain workloads such as transactional and NoSQL databases that need fast access to datasets on local storage. Workloads such as real-time databases, data warehouses, and data analytics benefit from higher compute performance per TB of storage.

External, Flexible Cloud Storage Options: New external cloud storage options help customers optimize/lower the cost of cloud capacity, and flexibly scale and fine tune compute and storage independently as needs evolve, especially for data-demanding workloads such as databases, big data and analytics, EDA, and media processing.

Cost-Effective, Flexible Consumption Option: VMware Cloud Flex Compute represents a new cloud computing model that will help customers start faster with smaller units with VMware Cloud on AWS. Customers will be able to start running workloads in minutes using environments that are expected to be 97% smaller than the minimum required to support production workloads today. Customers will also be able to better meet the cost and performance requirements of enterprise applications by using smaller units containing vCPU, memory, storage, and network resources and adjusting as their capacity requirements change versus adding/removing full hosts. VMware Cloud Flex Compute is currently in preview.

Rapid Ransomware Recovery: VMware uniquely makes recovery from a ransomware attack faster, more predictable, and less prone to error with VMware Ransomware Recovery for VMware Cloud DR. This purpose-built ransomware recovery-as-a-service solution enables safe recovery designed to prevent re-infection of IT and line-of-business production workloads through its innovative use an isolated recovery environment on VMware Cloud on AWS. Guided recovery workflows allow customers to quickly identify recovery point candidates, validate restore points using embedded behavioral analysis, and recover data with minimal loss.

Continued Global Expansion: VMware Cloud on AWS is now available in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) region, bringing coverage of the service to 21 regions globally. This includes both AWS GovCloud (US West) and AWS GovCloud (US East) regions for which the service is FedRAMP Authorized to allow US government agencies and customers supporting the US government to migrate, manage, and operate sensitive workloads in the cloud.

Empowering Customers to Consume VMware Services in AWS Marketplace

VMware and AWS continue to make it easier for AWS customers to purchase and deploy VMware Cross-Cloud services to support AWS. Organizations can use their existing AWS EDP agreements to consume VMware Cross-Cloud Cloud services to modernize their mission-critical enterprise apps on AWS. Available services include VMware Cloud on AWS, VMware Tanzu, VMware Carbon Black, CloudHealth, and VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer (AVI Networks) with more to come.

Customers and Partners Globally Modernize with VMware Cloud on AWS

Lotte is one of the leading confectionery manufacturers in Japan. “With the help of VMware, AWS, and our DXC Technology, the foundations for our digital transformation are in place, and Lotte is ready for new challenges and growth,” said Mr. Hisaaki Ogata, Senior Manager of ICT Strategic Division, Lotte Corporation. “VMware Cloud on AWS proved to be a strategic platform that helped us move more than 4,000 Horizon VDI workloads to AWS and enabled us to manage through the pandemic with a smooth transition to remote work. Beyond enhancing employees’ work experience, the Lotte migration to the cloud has also allowed the company to build an infrastructure that can respond to business growth and new opportunities with flexibility.”

Quality Bicycle Products (QBP) is the largest distributor of bicycle parts and accessories in the bicycle industry. “Faced with 11 months to move our complete production environment out of our existing colocation facility, QBP turned to VMware Cloud on AWS and completed the entire migration in only three months,” said Joe Van Ert, systems architect, Quality Bicycle Products. “In doing so we unlocked the door to AWS and have achieved the best of both worlds. We gave our developers access to AWS tools that help them modernize the apps they are building and delivering while continuing to run our business on a proven VMware enterprise architecture. We are now free from having to manage hardware and do other mundane administrative tasks and can invest in more strategic IT projects that are helping to move our business forward.”

Schibsted is Scandinavia’s largest media group, recently expanding into online classified marketplaces and personal finance holdings. “To grow and achieve synergy across all our brands, VMware, AWS, and Kyndryl have helped us make a strategic shift to become a cloud native company,” said Ken Sivertsen, Cloud Infrastructure Architect, Schibsted Enterprise Technology. “We are now taking full advantage of the highly scalable VMware Cloud on AWS. The service has enabled us to modernize our infrastructure and operations while reducing costs by eliminating substantial portions of our aging on-prem environment. This includes replacing physical security applications with the built-in firewall capabilities VMware offers, which allowed us to move to a Zero Trust architecture.”

About Amazon Web Services

For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 84 Availability Zones within 26 geographic regions, with announced plans for 24 more Availability Zones and eight more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit .

Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Amazon strives to be Earth’s Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth’s Best Employer, and Earth’s Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit and follow <a href="https://twitter.com/amazonnews?s=20&t=p_L5xFgZwk--Ou6zYwAWcA">@AmazonNews</a>.

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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>.

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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

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

VMware Introduces VMware vSphere 8, VMware vSAN 8 and VMware Cloud Foundation+

VMware Edge Portfolio Delivers Edge Compute Stack 2, Adds Private Mobile Network

SAN FRANCISCO – VMware Explore US 2022 – Today at <a href="https://www.vmware.com/explore/us.html">VMware Explore 2022</a>, VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) unveiled cloud and edge infrastructure solutions featuring breakthrough innovations to help organizations better run, scale and secure the broadest range of enterprise workloads across private and public clouds and at the edge.

VMware research shows 580 million modern workloads are expected to run on diverse, distributed environments spanning public cloud, on-premises, edge, telco clouds and hosted clouds by 2024.(1) Businesses are aiming to match their diverse enterprise application portfolios to the most optimal environments based on technical, business or strategic needs and low total cost of ownership (TCO). This is driving businesses to embrace multiple public clouds while continuing to invest in their on-premises environments and deploy services at the edge.

“In highly distributed environments, customers need cloud and edge infrastructure that enables them to scale their operations with consistency, availability, and security—wherever their workloads are running—and at the lowest possible TCO,” said Mark Lohmeyer, senior vice president and general manager, Cloud Infrastructure Business Group, VMware. “With our multi-cloud and edge portfolio, VMware serves as the trusted foundation for customers seeking flexibility and choice to run their workloads where they’re best suited to run.”

Significant Advancements Across Core Platform for Private and Public Clouds

VMware today introduced <a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere.html">VMware vSphere 8</a> and <a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/vsan.html">VMware vSAN 8</a>—major new releases of VMware’s compute and storage solutions—helping customers run the broadest set of workloads in the environments of their choice. The innovations across these common building blocks for the private and public clouds and edge will help customers dramatically improve how they run, manage and secure their enterprise applications. The continued advancement of VMware Cloud further provides customers with consistent infrastructure with value-added capabilities.

Deploying and Operating Edge-Native Apps Across Multiple Clouds

Edge computing is the next evolution of the distributed digital enterprise with the fastest growing segment of workloads, with worldwide spending expected to be $176 billion in 2022 according to IDC.(5) VMware enables organizations to run, manage and better secure edge-native apps across multiple clouds at both near edge and far edge locations. At VMware Explore 2022, VMware is introducing new and enhanced edge solutions purpose-built for edge-native apps and their unique performance, autonomy and latency requirements, including:

VMware Cloud Foundation+, VMware vSphere 8, VMware vSAN 8 and VMware Edge Compute Stack 2 are all expected to be available by October 28, 2022 (the close of VMware’s Q3 FY23). VMware Private Mobile Network is expected to be available in beta in VMware’s Q3 FY23.

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">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">www.vmware.com/explore.html</a>.

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1) 580 million workloads expected to run on diverse, distributed environments by 2024 (VMware internal analysis, Oct. 2021)

2) VMware internal performance testing, August 2022

3) This capability is available in the vSphere+ offering, part of the vSphere 8 product family

4) VMware internal performance testing, August 2022

5) IDC, New IDC Spending Guide Forecasts Double-Digit Growth for Investments in Edge Computing, Doc #prUS48772522, Jan 2022

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At VMware Explore 2022, VMware unveiled cloud and edge infrastructure solutions featuring breakthrough innovations to help organizations better run, scale and secure the broadest range of enterprise workloads across private and public clouds and at the edge.

VMware Cloud and Edge Infrastructure Innovations Enable Breakthrough Efficiency, Flexibility and Performance Gains - VMware News &amp; Stories - EMEA

SAN FRANCISCO--VMware Explore 2022 (August 30, 2022) – The launch of VMware vSphere 8 (<a href="https://news.vmware.com/releases/vmware-explore-2022-cloud-edge-infrastructure">announcement</a>) ushers in a new era of computing with DPUs and delivers on VMware’s vision for <a href="https://news.vmware.com/releases/vmware-unveils-project-monterey-re-imagining-hybrid-cloud-architecture-to-support-next-generation-applications" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Project Monterey</a>. With the new VMware vSphere Distributed Services Engine capability, vSphere modernizes the cloud infrastructure into a distributed architecture enabled by DPUs. Customers will be able to achieve better infrastructure price-performance by providing more CPU resources to workloads and reducing operational overhead of DPU lifecycle management with integrated vSphere workflows. vSphere Distributed Services Engine helps meet the throughput and latency needs of modern distributed workloads by accelerating networking functions. Customers will also be able to boost infrastructure security by running infrastructure services on the DPU and isolating them from the workload domain. This has been a journey driven by our amazing set of ecosystem partners which have helped fuel this innovation and bring it to reality.

Hear what they have to say and read their news.

“Modern enterprise workloads are evolving to become more cloud-like and distributed across multiple systems,” said Forrest Norrod, senior vice president and general manager, Data Center Solutions Group, AMD. “VMware is helping customers deliver infrastructure services that support this evolution. With vSphere 8 integrated into systems running the fully programmable AMD Pensando DPUs and AMD EPYC™ CPUs, our mutual customers will have a highly performant, next-generation data center that is efficient and secure.”

<a href="https://www.amd.com/en/press-releases/2022-08-30-industry-leading-amd-pensando-dpus-enable-accelerated-data-centers-vmware" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Read AMD's announcement</a>

“Dell Technologies and VMware are collaborating to deliver cloud infrastructure advancements that support modern applications,” said Travis Vigil, senior vice president, portfolio and product management, Dell Technologies. Dell PowerEdge servers and Dell VxRail systems – the industry’s only jointly engineered HCI solution with VMware – running vSphere 8 with vSphere Distributed Services Engine are perfect examples of this innovation in action, offering customers greater application and networking performance.”

<a href="https://www.dell.com/en-us/dt/corporate/newsroom/announcements/detailpage.press-releases~usa~2022~08~08302022-dell-technologies-delivers-industry-first-innovations-with-vmware-to-power-multicloud-and-edge-solutions.htm#/filter-on/Country:en-us" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Read Dell Technologies’ announcement</a>

“Together with VMware and AMD Pensando, HPE continues to define the enterprise architecture of the next decade. The HPE ProLiant with vSphere Distributed Services Engine optimizes resources for data-intensive applications by relieving the CPU of networking services, all with zero-trust security and high-performance. The new integrated solution offers customers a simplified operational experience combining networking, security, storage, management, and lifecycle services to boost application performance and improve TCO.”

<a href="https://community.hpe.com/t5/Servers-Systems-The-Right/Next-generation-virtual-infrastructure-boosts-workloads/ba-p/7172767" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Read HPE’s announcement</a>

“Intel’s collaboration on VMware vSphere 8, the enterprise workload platform, brings the additional performance and security benefits of network accelerated cloud infrastructure to an extended community of enterprise customers,” said Patty Kummrow, Corporate Vice President and General Manager of Intel’s Ethernet Products Group. “As a participating vendor in the original launch of Project Monterey, Intel looks forward to announcing GA support for vSphere 8 with the Intel® Infrastructure Processing Unit (Intel® IPU) product line at a future time.”

“AI and zero-trust security are pushing the boundaries of computing and networking for enterprise data centers,” said Manuvir Das, head of Enterprise Computing at NVIDIA. “VMware vSphere 8 on NVIDIA BlueField DPUs will boost infrastructure security, offload infrastructure services and free computing resources — all to enable enterprises’ intelligence factories.”

<a href="https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-and-dell-technologies-deliver-new-data-center-solution-for-zero-trust-security-and-the-era-of-ai" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Read NVIDIA’s announcement</a>

“The volume and complexity of today’s workloads has resulted in higher demand for software-defined infrastructure services,” said Brian Connors, VP & GM Software and Business Development, Lenovo. “With vSphere 8, Lenovo TruScale customers will be able to modernize their cloud infrastructure into a distributed architecture that offloads infrastructure services to DPUs. This will help better meet the throughput, latency, and intrinsic security requirements of modern distributed workloads. And, it provides the foundation for our customers multi-cloud environments.”

<a href="https://news.lenovo.com/pressroom/press-releases/edge-to-cloud-capabilities-expanded-range-multi-cloud-infrastructure-solutions/." target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Read Lenovo's announcement</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="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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VMware vSphere 8 ushers in a new era of computing, modernizing the cloud infrastructure into a distributed architecture enabled by DPUs.

The launch of VMware vSphere 8 ushers in a new era of computing with DPUs and delivers on VMware’s vision for Project Monterey. With the new VMware vSphere Distributed Services Engine capability, vSphere modernizes the cloud infrastructure into a distributed architecture enabled by DPUs.

VMware partners deliver on the project of Project Monterey with vSphere 8 support

VMware Partner Ecosystem Supports Launch of VMware vSphere 8 - VMware News &amp; Stories - EMEA

VMware partners deliver on the project of Project Monterey

IBM will be first VMware partner to combine consulting expertise and new jointly engineered cloud solutions for clients running mission-critical workloads in VMware-based environments

SAN FRANCISCO – VMware Explore US 2022 (Aug. 30, 2022) – VMware Inc. (NYSE: VMW) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced at VMware Explore 2022 an expanded partnership to help global clients and partners modernize mission-critical workloads and expedite time-to-value in hybrid cloud environments. The expanded relationship includes IBM Consulting as a VMware GSI partner, the companies’ intent to deliver new jointly engineered IBM and VMware Cloud solutions, and joint development and go to market. Together, IBM and VMware are planning to help clients in regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare and public sector address the cost, complexity, and risk of migrating and modernizing mission-critical workloads in the cloud.

Companies, including those in regulated industries, are looking to modernize core business workloads to create better experiences for their clients and comply with industry regulations. Further, the current economic climate makes refactoring applications for cloud unrealistic for many organizations, driving increased emphasis on a more agile modernization strategy. The planned IBM and VMware offerings are intended to increase choice and flexibility for companies to execute their digital transformation strategies.

“In today’s market, organizations want to modernize and transform operations quickly. But modernization and innovation cannot come at the cost of security and trust built with clients,” said Howard Boville, Head of IBM Cloud Platform. “Together, IBM and VMware are supporting our mutual clients in regulated industries by offering something no two other companies are delivering– to more easily leverage hybrid cloud services securely -- wherever and however they wish to run them.”

“With IBM and VMware, our customers get a combination of innovation and consulting experience based on decades of close collaboration and experience in meeting the business challenges of thousands of customers around the world,” said Mark Lohmeyer, Senior Vice President and General Manager, cloud infrastructure business group, VMware. “This ongoing collaboration will enable us to better streamline the user experience for our mutual enterprise customers looking to run VMware mission critical workloads that require higher levels of security, resiliency and compliance support in financial services and regulated industries.”

Ecosystem partnerships such as the one between IBM and VMware are critical to helping some of the world’s most influential companies modernize their workloads with a focus on security and efficiency, while providing choice in how to deploy and manage them. Today's news builds on the companies’ longstanding relationship, having collaborated over the past 20 years to help clients realize their technology goals.

The companies’ expanded partnership includes:

To learn more about how IBM and VMware are enabling clients to modernize within hybrid environments, please visit: <a href="https://www.ibm.com/cloud/vmware">https://www.ibm.com/cloud/vmware</a>.

IBM is a leading global hybrid cloud and AI, and business services provider, helping clients in more than 175 countries capitalize on insights from their data, streamline business processes, reduce costs and gain the competitive edge in their industries. Nearly 3,800 government and corporate entities in critical infrastructure areas such as financial services, telecommunications and healthcare rely on IBM's hybrid cloud platform and Red Hat OpenShift to affect their digital transformations quickly, efficiently, and securely. IBM's breakthrough innovations in AI, quantum computing, industry-specific cloud solutions and business services deliver open and flexible options to our clients. All of this is backed by IBM's legendary commitment to trust, transparency, responsibility, inclusivity, and service. For more information, visit <a href="https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=3492407-1&h=881995832&u=https%3A%2F%2Fc212.net%2Fc%2Flink%2F%3Ft%3D0%26l%3Den%26o%3D3382707-1%26h%3D188029054%26u%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fc212.net%252Fc%252Flink%252F%253Ft%253D0%2526l%253Den%2526o%253D3154235-1%2526h%253D3195901305%2526u%253Dhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.ibm.com%25252F%2526a%253Dwww.ibm.com%26a%3Dwww.ibm.com&a=www.ibm.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.ibm.com</a>.

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IBM and VMware to help clients in regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare and public sector address the cost, complexity, and risk of migrating and modernizing mission-critical workloads in the cloud.

VMware and IBM announced an expanded partnership that includes IBM Consulting as a VMware GSI partner, the companies’ intent to deliver new jointly engineered IBM and VMware Cloud solutions, and joint development and go to market. Together, IBM and VMware are planning to help clients in regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare and public sector address the cost, complexity, and risk of migrating and modernizing mission-critical workloads in the cloud.

VMware and IBM Expand Global Partnership

VMware and IBM Give Clients New Ways to Modernize Hybrid Cloud Environments in Regulated Industries - VMware News &amp; Stories - EMEA

VMware and IBM announced an expanded partnership to help clients in regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare and public sector address the cost, complexity, and risk of migrating and modernizing mission-critical workloads in the cloud.

Mutual customers will have the choice to purchase Azure VMware Solution through the VMware Cloud Universal program

SAN FRANCISCO / VMware Explore 2022 (August 30, 2022) – VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) today extended its ongoing collaboration with Microsoft to help customers with an Azure-first strategy to modernize enterprise VMware vSphere workloads quickly and cost-effectively in Microsoft Azure. Customers will be able to purchase <a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/azure-vmware/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Azure VMware Solution</a> as part of <a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/cloud-universal.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">VMware Cloud Universal</a>, a flexible purchasing and consumption program for executing multi-cloud and digital transformation strategies.

“The availability of Azure VMware Solution through VMware Cloud Universal makes it easier for customers to adopt Azure VMware Solution as part of a multi-cloud strategy,” said Zia Yusuf, senior vice president, strategic ecosystem and industry solutions, VMware. “VMware Cloud Universal customers will gain greater flexibility to adopt Azure VMware Solution at their own pace to speed cloud migration, simplify ongoing operations, modernize applications faster and achieve better economics while benefitting from a single operating model across clouds.”

VMware Cloud Universal is ideal for customers committed to a hybrid cloud architecture; that have extended or variable cloud migration timelines; that have cloud bursting requirements; or desire an OPEX model for on-premises infrastructure. With VMware Cloud Universal, customers purchase credits for VMware’s multi-cloud infrastructure and management and apply these credits to deployments of Azure VMware Solution and other VMware Cross-Cloud services.

With Azure VMware Solution, customers benefit from the scale, performance, and innovation of Azure and the enterprise capabilities of VMware Cloud to run VMware vSphere workloads in the cloud. Azure VMware Solution enables customers to achieve higher availability and better security with a VMware Cloud environment built on industry-leading vSphere, vSAN, and NSX capabilities running natively on dedicated Azure infrastructure. Consistent VMware Cloud infrastructure and operations and the ability to use existing skillsets, tools, and training help reduce costs and simplify operations in the cloud. Built-in advanced networking and security help safeguard against modern, laterally moving threats. Customers can also accelerate app innovation and modernization by leveraging the rich set of developer solutions available in Azure, including VMware Tanzu.

“Digital transformation holds the promise of enabling new business models, improving customer experiences, and delivering better outcomes for organizations,” said Kathleen Mitford, corporate vice president, Azure Marketing, Microsoft Corp. “This promise is often held back by business and technical realities, talent shortages, or financial constraints. Azure VMware Solution offers a unique path to help enterprise customers overcome these challenges and sets itself apart to help these organizations modernize and better secure their vSphere workloads with a combined set of unique features and compelling economic benefits only Microsoft can deliver.”

Sentara Healthcare is an integrated, not-for-profit healthcare delivery system which serves over 900,000 members. “With Azure VMware Solution, we were able to meet an aggressive data center evacuation deadline,” said Matthew Douglas, Chief Enterprise Architect at Sentara Healthcare. “We now run in a more modern and secure environment, with the ability to use NSX micro-segmentation to apply consistent security policies across our environments. Sentara is also better positioned to simplify IT operations as we continue to experience further M&A. Being able to apply Azure credits helped us lower our overall TCO.”

Moving to Azure VMware Solution has the potential to yield significant financial benefits to customers. A Total Economic Impact(1) study commissioned by Microsoft and conducted by Forrester Consulting shows a composite organization found a projected ROI between 125% and 274% and projected TCO savings ranged from $3 million to more than $7 million over three years. Specifically, customers can lower overall costs for Microsoft applications running on vSphere. Customers benefit from free extended security updates for Windows Server and SQL Server 2008 and 2012, the ability to bring and use existing on-premises Windows Server and SQL Server licenses to the cloud with Azure Hybrid Benefit, and support for Microsoft 365 and Azure with Horizon® virtual desktop environments.

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>.

1-Source: a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Microsoft, “New Technology: The Projected Total Economic Impact™ Of Microsoft Azure VMware Solution”, October 2021 <a href="https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/docs/vmw-new-techtei-of-microsoft-avs.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/docs/vmw-new-techtei-of-microsoft-avs.pdf</a>

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Customers will be able to purchase Azure VMware Solution as part of VMware Cloud Universal

VMware and Microsoft are making it easier for customers to run enterprise workloads in Microsoft Azure. VMware Cloud Universal customers gain greater flexibility to adopt Azure VMware Solution to speed cloud migration, simplify ongoing operations, modernize applications faster and achieve better economics while benefitting from a single operating model across clouds.

VMware delivers greater multi-cloud flexibility, adds Azure VMware Solution to VMware Cloud Universal

VMware Extends Collaboration with Microsoft to Make it Easier for Customers to Run Enterprise Workloads in Microsoft Azure - VMware News &amp; Stories - EMEA

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