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Walking the Talk: Why Leaders Need to Live Their Words to Drive Big Change

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VMware Named a Leader in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for SD-WAN 

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VMware ranked #1 in Worldwide IT Automation and Configuration Management for Fifth Consecutive Year by Global Analyst Firm

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At VMware, we believe everyone has something unique to contribute to our society. Our culture of service influences the way we interact with others — inside and outside of work — fostering empathy and building connections. We are all Citizen Philanthropists, empowered to support what is most meaningful to us through VMware Foundation programs.

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This month we checked in with Paulina Kostrzewska, Privacy Operations Senior Manager in Staines, to see what VMware’s Culture of Service means to her and to learn more about her recent Service Learning experiences:

Paulina: I joined VMware in January 2020, so I have been here for almost three years now. I learned about the VMware Foundation and the Service Learning program on my first day, as they were introduced to me during our New Employee Experience. Immediately, I saw the strong emphasis VMware puts on service, and how each of us can contribute to society in our own way.

During my onboarding, I heard about the <a href="https://mhfaengland.org/">Mental Health First Aiders</a> program in the U.K. and how VMware and Joe Baguley, our CTO in EMEA, sponsor a dedicated team of First Aiders in EMEA. Because I have history of my own struggles with mental health—which I’m very open about—and I also value volunteering, I was immediately interested in how I could become a Mental Health First Aider.

I feel lucky because soon afterwards, there was a call for new Mental Health First Aiders. We don’t often have calls for Mental Health First Aiders—yet, within my first few months at VMware, I got the opportunity. It seems it was meant to be.

I’m very open about what I’ve gone through because no one should ever need to go through that alone, whatever it’s precipitated by. I’m grateful to be part of a group of people who value mental health and are very mindful about how they speak to people inside and outside of work. This has given me a lot of humility and showed me that sometimes just genuinely asking a person, “How are you?” can open a discussion that they need in that moment.

Aside from Mental Health First Aider program, I participate in a variety of other opportunities through VMware, including the VMware Foundation’s Matching Gift program, and doing mock interviews with high school students preparing for interviews for jobs, internships, or further educational opportunities. In EMEA, our fantastic Legal team has engaged with an NGO organisation that helps kids regulate their citizenship status in the UK (<a href="https://supportkind.org/">Kids in Need of Defense</a>, KIND) and I couldn’t miss out on this opportunity as well. The spirit of giving grows deep within the Legal team, as together with other VMWare colleagues based in Staines, we joined the Thames Path Mighty Hike organised by Macmillan Cancer, and managed to fundraise over £1000 to support the cause.

I have never found this level of support and opportunity to participate in service in other companies I’ve worked for, and my friends are always amazed. For example, the Mental Health First Aider program took four days to complete, and my manager was absolutely supportive of me taking time off to focus on the qualification. For anyone who would like to contribute back to society, this is a gift.

I’ve always had an innate need to help people and to give back. Whether at work, with friends or in my community, I’ve always put emphasis on relationships and connections. The fact that VMware encourages us to go out and make a difference, and actually supports us through offering company-allocated time, well that’s something incredible! This has allowed me to bring my full self to work, with all the empathy and humanity that is part of who I am. For me, it’s about helping each of us recognize that we can have tough days and we don’t have to pretend that nothing has happened. To recognize that sometimes what people need is for someone to smile at them, or say, “Good job, tomorrow will be a better day.” This is what VMware helps us do here at the company and outside in our communities.

I will soon be spending a full day doing mock interviews with high school students. I’ve been preparing for this with other interviewers and the excitement we get from the organizer is absolutely palpable. I’m excited to spend time with the kids!

My motto has always been, “You can’t work from an empty cup.” Look after yourself because you can’t give back if you are feeling overwhelmed and not ready for having tough conversations. And I think everyone needs to keep this in mind. Make sure your cup is full, and then you have the capacity to help others.

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Learn more about the VMware Foundation and see Citizen Philanthropy in Action <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/careers/foundation">here</a>.

At VMware, we believe everyone has something unique to contribute to society. It's important that your cup is full so you can help others.

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In recent years, threat actors have adapted their tactics to focus more on specific operating systems that carry sensitive data, or where an attack can have the greatest effect.

On Thursday, Sept. 29, cybersecurity firm Mandiant announced a new, specialized variant of malware targeting vSphere. VMware prioritizes the security of its customers and has published a <a href="https://via.vmw.com/WuZ4jJ">blog with useful guidance</a>. The blog arms customers with ways they can address their configurations and processes to better protect environments from novel malware to begin with. The guidance also includes mitigation steps.

VMware and Mandiant coordinated on the announcement, and the investigation found no evidence that a VMware vulnerability was exploited. In most cases, finding malware is an indication that compromise has already occurred through operational security weaknesses such as unauthorized administrative credentials. Mandiant has named the malware artifacts VirtualPITA (ESXi & Linux), VirtualPIE (ESXi), and VirtualGATE (Windows).

Read the VMware blog to learn more: <a href="https://via.vmw.com/WuZ4jJ">Protecting vSphere from Specialized Malware</a>

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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.

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:

“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.

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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Change always starts the same way: with an intention. But between that intention and the outcome you’re after are countless tiny actions that will ultimately determine success or failure.

Bridging the gap between intention and action is hard enough when you’re an individual. The job gets exponentially harder when you want to change an organization that needs to get many individuals marching in the same direction.

For leaders to succeed in creating this kind of change, they need to do more than transform processes — they need to transform people. But nothing can derail that potential transformation faster than a disconnect between a leader’s words and actions.

We’ve all seen this play out in our careers at one time or another. A change initiative gets rolled out to much fanfare, with a leader rallying everyone to get on board with a new mindset or approach. But a few months in, you see that same leader not living the principles they asked of you.

It’s hard to understate the risks to an organization when leaders don’t walk the talk. It creates a legitimacy gap, one where employees don’t believe what they’re being told or don’t take it seriously. That legitimacy gap can lead to low morale, disengagement, and ultimately subpar performance.

Put simply: When you’re a leader, your team isn’t going to follow your words — they’re going to follow your actions. This is something I remind myself of almost daily in my role at VMware. One of my most important jobs is to hold myself accountable to my words and to what I’m asking of my team. I can’t ask them to do something that I’m not willing to do myself.

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What does accountability look like to me? First, I try not to make hollow commitments. If I’m going to bring something to my team, I’m going to be personally bought in 100 percent. Second, I strive to be clear about what good looks like. I think about the tiny behaviors that are going to indicate we’re heading in the right direction, and I make sure to do them myself and recognize others who are doing the same. Third, I try to be as transparent as possible about what we’re doing and the progress we’re making against our goals.

Let me give you an example I’m working through right now. For the past several years, VMware has been undergoing its own transformation from licensing software to providing SaaS — Software as a Service. It’s a big change, one that goes far beyond how our products get accessed, and it’s especially important for our work in Worldwide Cloud Sales. We’re actively building a customer-obsessed culture, one that’s more about our customer’s successes than our own.

As a leader who is fully bought into this vision and wants my team to be as well, I know how important it is that I be an active participant in creating change. So I’m intentional about asking questions that I know my team cares about and that are instrumental to fully walking the talk: Are we measuring performance around customer-oriented outcomes? Are we prioritizing the right work streams? Are we aligning incentives correctly?

I can’t always fully answer these questions myself. But I’m constantly asking them of myself and of my leadership peers — and I try to be as transparent as possible with my team about where we’re making progress and where we’re falling short.

This is how I think about walking the talk as a leader myself. But what if you’re someone who is working under a leader who isn’t walking the talk? I see two things that can happen. One: you can recognize the disconnect and allow it to make you cynical. Or two: you can recognize the disconnect and get busy walking the talk yourself.

Here’s the thing: Leadership isn’t something that gets bestowed upon you through a job title or a promotion. It’s something you can seize for yourself from any position inside an organization. That’s empowering — and it’s something every one of us can do to help create the change we want to see in our own lives, in our organizations, and in the world.

Nothing can derail potential transformation faster than a disconnect between a leader’s words and actions. They have to walk the talk.

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

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Many people still perceive climate change and ESG initiatives as areas that can only be addressed at a much higher level of influence, beyond the control of day to day jobs and efforts. However, If you take a closer look at how change is taking place over the years around ESG, the power of action no longer exclusively rests with large corporations and governments - it sits with people and communities. If working at VMware has taught me anything, it’s that we need to accelerate our ideas into action, choosing the role we want to play, tracking our progress, and making choices now to drive positive impact for the long term! 

Personally, having a daughter accelerated the need for me to actively do something that would help drive an impact. Being a part of VMware’s global technical account management team, I integrate a customer success program to ensure that our solutions, products and services are really helping businesses achieve the right outcomes, while providing valuable feedback to our engineering and product teams. In short: I’m a customer advocate looking for ways to help customers improve their businesses and, as such, I started exploring how I could use this position to make a difference. I’m very grateful to have opportunities like this platform to be able to voice my aspirations and dreams of a better future. 

Helping customers achieve sustainability goals

I joined VMware around eight years ago, and in 2020 I was very lucky to become a member of the Office of the CTO (OCTO). As a member of the OCTO and a sustainability ambassador at VMware, I gained the opportunity to understand different ways of how our VMware solutions can help customers with avoidance and reduction of their carbon footprint. Leveraging a bit of my previous experience as a TAM, I can provide customers with rich technical environmental analysis for optimisation and platform health, so I started working with amazing colleagues and partners to look at how their configuration data can also investigate and pinpoint areas for decarbonisation improvement. This is where the same type of telemetry can be used to measure, monitor and benchmark customer’s carbon footprint, extracting accurate business insights to help transform their environment and help them achieve carbon reduction goals. But this is only the first step. 

As more companies digitally transform, maintaining accountability towards sustainability targets is becoming more critical. As a whole, ESG and corporate sustainability are part of a very topical boardroom conversation in many large organisations, and we are already seeing green agendas driving enormous change in the ICT industry. There is endless potential for decarbonisation and continuous improvement due to the rich data available - companies just need to know where and how to find it. 

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Being a Sustainability Ambassador at VMware

At VMware, we hold <a href="https://news.vmware.com/company/vmwares-culture-built-epic2-values">the culture of EPIC2 values</a> very close to our hearts and strive to focus on Execution, Passion, Integrity, Customers, and Community in every facet of our job functions. We apply these as key principles to become a force for good, promoting change in our lives, in our customers and within our community. Putting into practice, initiatives like VMware’s <a href="https://news.vmware.com/anz/esg/vmwares-2022-esg-report-how-were-accelerating-into-action">yearly ESG report </a>help us keep in check with our progress and goals.

Other Sustainability Ambassadors that are part of the team come from various lines of business, but the core message prevails: to help everyone become more conscious about sustainability, and to help customers meet sustainability goals through services and solutions. 

Envisioning a sustainable future

It’s great to see that the next generation is very passionate about climate change. However, for solving a global problem like climate change, we need to see more collaboration and unified approach across countries, industries and geo-political leadership. It would be phenomenal if formal regulatory bodies from different countries and organisations created measures to help govern and ensure proper carbon tracking and reporting. It is unfortunately very deregulated at the moment, but with a global standard to work towards and reliable data, we could be in a better position to help progress worldwide standards and define frameworks for everyday consumption of carbon. 

We all live a highly consumer-driven lifestyle, so let’s imagine this future for our next generation: if we could check the carbon footprint of each commodity as an “energy star rating,” wouldn’t it help us envision the real cost of it and reevaluate our choices, pushing companies to also change how they make their products? I’m thrilled to see that some businesses are already taking steps in that direction, like some of the biggest banks, who help customers track their personal carbon emissions via their banking apps. Some of our large mining and resources customers in Australia have announced and are working towards significant targets such as 50% carbon reduction by 2030, expanding into their scope 1 and scope 2 carbon footprint contributions which could amount to a lot, given the industry output. We have a range of great customers taking a long-term view, where <a href="https://cloud.vmware.com/providers/zero-carbon" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">VMware and our Zero Carbon Committed</a> partners are actively collaborating and helping with their sustainability business outcomes.

So as you can tell, data and actionable business intelligence with green metrics are just one of the ways that technology can be used to build a better future. Now I pose the question back to you: how do you envision a sustainable future? 

Thinking of more ESG initiatives, I am also pleased to share that VMware’s 2022 ESG Report is now live. You can find out more about our initiatives and commitments <a href="https://news.vmware.com/anz/esg/vmwares-2022-esg-report-how-were-accelerating-into-action">here</a>.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1.      Accelerated Application Development

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

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

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

2.      Consistent Enterprise Infrastructure

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

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

3.      Frictionless End-User Experience

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

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

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

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

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

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

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VMware Once Again Positioned as a Leader in SD-WAN for Fifth Consecutive Year

PALO ALTO, Calif. – Sept. 15, 2022 – VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. as a Leader in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for SD-WAN. Gartner recognized VMware for its ability to execute and completeness of vision. Previously known as the Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAN Edge Infrastructure, this year’s report marks the fifth consecutive year that Gartner has recognized VMware as a Leader in SD-WAN.

Architected with the idea that the cloud is the network, VMware SD-WAN provides unparalleled reliability and simplicity in securely connecting users from the branch or home to cloud, SaaS, or traditional applications. These benefits stem in part from VMware and its partners investment in more than 150 points of presence worldwide that have high-speed, low-latency connections to major cloud and SaaS providers.

“VMware is honored to be recognized again by Gartner as a Leader in SD-WAN,” said Craig Connors, general manager, SASE, VMware. “We feel our extensive deployments of more than 600,000 branches across 18,000 customers have given us the ability to continually adapt to the evolving needs of SD-WAN customers. The unique insights gleaned from what enterprises need near- and long-term are a big reason why, we believe, we continue to be a leader in SD-WAN.”

VMware SD-WAN is a part of <a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/secure-access-service-edge-sase.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">VMware SASE</a>. By delivering cloud networking and cloud security services with VMware SASE, customers can achieve:

Gartner, Magic Quadrant for SD-WAN, By Jonathan Forest, Naresh Singh, Andrew Lerner, Karen Brown, 12 September 2022.

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This document was renamed from Magic Quadrant of WAN Edge Infrastructure to Magic Quadrant for SD-WAN in 2022.

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VMware announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. as a Leader in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for SD-WAN

VMware Named a Leader in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for SD-WAN

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PALO ALTO, Calif. September 14, 2022 – VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) today announced that leading analyst firm IDC ranked VMware No. 1 in the worldwide IT automation and configuration management (ITACM) software market for 2021. As the industry requirements for IT automation and configuration management software shift to optimize applications and infrastructure supporting digital and customer-facing applications in dynamic environments, VMware is committed to supporting customers through this transition.

“For the fifth year in a row, our customers have helped VMware top the list in Worldwide IT Automation and Configuration,” said Purnima Padmanabhan, senior vice president and general manager, Cloud Management, VMware. “VMware continues to invest in multi-cloud automation and management solutions that empower organizations to automate and refine the full lifecycle of cloud operations, and more easily navigate the opportunities and challenges of today’s rapidly changing market environment.”

Sustaining Leadership in IT Automation and Configuration Management

The IDC report, “Worldwide IT Automation and Configuration Management Software Market Shares, 2021: Economic Recovery Drives Growth,” (doc #US49218922, June 2022) analyzed revenue and growth rate for the total market in calendar 2021, as well as revenues, shares and growth rates of select leading vendors. According to the report, the market grew to $9.1 billion in calendar 2021, an 11.9% growth from calendar 2020.

The IDC report emphasizes VMware’s continued “focus on its management portfolio, spreading R&D investments across core management suites (vRealize Suite and vCloud Suite) that can enable a lower TCO for its franchise products across datacenter, desktop, networking, security, telecom, and storage products.” The report further states that in calendar 2021, “The move to add more SaaS delivery solution options across the Cloud Management Business Unit has also been well received by customers.”

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VMware announced that IDC ranked VMware No. 1 in the worldwide IT automation and configuration management (ITACM) software market for 2021.

For the fifth year in a row, our customers have helped VMware top the list in Worldwide IT Automation and Configuration. VMware continues to invest in multi-cloud automation and management solutions that empower organizations to automate and refine the full lifecycle of cloud operations, and more easily navigate the opportunities and challenges of today’s rapidly changing market environment.

5 Years and counting-VMware ranked #1 in Worldwide IT Automation and Configuration Management by IDC

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PALO ALTO, Calif. – VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) (the “Company”) today announced that it has reached a settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) to resolve a previously disclosed investigation related to the Company’s backlog disclosures in public filings for its 2019 and 2020 fiscal years, which ran from February 3, 2018 through January 31, 2020.

Under the terms of the settlement, the Company has agreed to pay a civil monetary penalty of $8 million without admitting or denying the SEC’s findings, which relate to the Company's disclosures.  The SEC’s findings do not include any findings that the Company failed to comply with generally accepted accounting principles. The SEC Staff has confirmed that it does not intend to recommend enforcement action against any current or former VMware officers or other member of management in connection with the investigation, and this settlement concludes the matter.

VMware believes this settlement is the right course of action for the Company and continues to be committed to operating at the highest level of integrity, including with respect to its public filings and communications with investors. 

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VMware Announces Settlement of Previously Disclosed Investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission

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

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

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

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