​To celebrate our 20 years, the Office of the CTO (OCTO) is showcasing 20 extraordinary years of transforming unthinkable ideas into reality at VMworld 2018 US. We are celebrating our past and present with our patents (#2 most powerful patent portfolio in Computer Software by IEEE), artifacts (VMware 1.0 box, DISCO award, and more), a […]

By Michael DiPetrillo, Senior Director, Blockchain, VMware Yesterday, on the main stage at VMworld 2018, VMware CTO Ray O’Farrell unveiled a new open source project: Project Concord. Project Concord is a highly scalable energy-efficient engine for decentralized trust infrastructures, digital consensus and contract execution. The project features scalable byzantine fault tolerant (BFT) technology, which is […]

The Next-Gen Trends: Office of The CTO is a track you don’t want to miss at this year’s VMworld USA conference, taking place Aug. 26-30 at the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Convention Center in Las Vegas, NV. VMware’s Office of the CTO is dedicated to looking over the horizon – exploring and identifying disruptive technology trends […]

Author: Peter Bjork – Principal System Engineer (@thepeb) | Office of the CTO, Global Field Reviewers: Cameron Haight – Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, Americas and Hadar Freehling – Staff Systems Engineer Ever since I read the Google’s BeyondCorp white papers many years ago, I’ve been thinking a lot about application protection, user experience, ease […]

I recently passed the one-year mark of my tenure as CTO for the Asia Pacific region. I marked the occasion by taking off for a 6-day hike of the Overland Track in Tasmania, one of the must-do wilderness experiences in the world. Right after that, I jumped back into full swing at work to keynote […]

VMware Flings took off with a bang this year when four Flings made it into products by March. These Flings were popular as soon as they were released, and with enthusiastic customer feedback, it didn’t take long for VMware to integrate the functionality into our products. Fling functionality in vSphere 6.7 The functionality of ESXi […]

Last week Earth Day was honored with an amazingly successful Borathon event at our Palo Alto campus that focused on sustainability as the theme for the event. We enhanced our well-loved hacks so we may continue to grow our community, partner closely with our Fellow and Principal Engineers and present our hackers with new challenges. […]