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Force for Good

Reflecting on 2020 and Looking Ahead to 2021 with OCTO’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Efforts

Twenty-twenty was a remarkable year (to put it mildly) and both the Office of the CTO (OCTO) and VMware — like organizations everywhere — were...

Kate Wilkinson

February 11, 2021

Force for Good

An Innovation Path to a More Accessible World

sbyrnehaber

December 3, 2020

Co-innovation

New from ACE: Amazon S3 Backed Content Library

Nicolas Vibert

December 23, 2020

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Co-innovation

A Novel Approach to Helping Customers Fill Solution Gaps

Tom Scanlan

December 16, 2020

Co-innovation

IOctopus: A Highly Effective Solution for Non-Uniform DMA

Gerd Zellweger

February 1, 2021

Tech Deep Dives

Differential Datalog: A New Programming Language for Computing Changes

Mihai Budiu

January 14, 2021

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Co-innovation

Accelerating Machine Learning Inference on CPU with VMware vSphere and Neural Magic

Na Zhang

January 8, 2021

Force for Good

Expanding the Conversation through Office of the CTO’s Inclusive-Language Efforts

Kate Wilkinson

December 22, 2020

Force for Good

Hacking Global Sustainability

Nicola Peill-Moelter

December 21, 2020

Strategic Advisor

Ready for the ready position? Here’s how to get there.

Kit Colbert

December 16, 2020

Force for Good

VMware Announces the 2020 Systems Research Award Recipient

VMware Research Group

December 15, 2020

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Co-innovation

Virtualizing Low-Latency Trading Platforms with VMware vSphere

Josh Simons

December 11, 2020

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Co-innovation

Accelerating Off-roadmap Co-innovation in the Advanced Technology Group

Chris Wolf

December 2, 2020

Co-innovation

ThinEdge: An Edge Computing Hyperconverged Solution Architecture

OCTO Dell Technologies Solutions

November 20, 2020

Co-innovation

Introducing VMware Blockchain: The Enterprise-grade Blockchain Platform

VMware Blockchain

November 18, 2020

Co-innovation

Partnership in Action: Technology Leaders Address Challenges at Sustainability Ecosystem Connect, Hosted by VMware India

Shalini Singh

November 11, 2020

Strategic Advisor

Let the App Transformation Begin - Part III in the Counterintuitively Fastest Path to App Modernization Article Series

Kit Colbert

November 6, 2020

Tech Deep Dives

Blinder: A New Anonymous Communications Network

VMware Research Group

October 29, 2020

Force for Good

Making a Difference and Solving Global Challenges: Smart India’s Nationwide Hackathon

Vivek Gupta

October 21, 2020

Tech Deep Dives

Virtualized Environments for Decentralized Applications

VMware Blockchain

October 16, 2020

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Customer Voice

Tips for Virtualization Infrastructure Professional’s Career Success: VI Admin Skills Provide a Springboard to New Opportunities

Kit Colbert

October 15, 2020

Work Culture

Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month

Kate Wilkinson

October 8, 2020

Tech Deep Dives

VMworld 2020: 5 Areas Worth Digging Into Deeper

Kit Colbert

October 7, 2020

Tech Deep Dives

A Deeper Dive into Bitfusion Device Plugin for GPU Sharing on Kubernetes

Haining Henry Zhang

September 29, 2020

Tech Deep Dives

Behind the Scenes: Azure Arc Data Services on vSphere VMworld 2020 Keynote Demo

Amanda Blevins

September 29, 2020

Force for Good

Behind the Scenes of the Folding@home Demo at VMworld 2020 Keynote

Amanda Blevins

September 29, 2020

Force for Good

VMware’s Palo Alto Community Microgrid Proof of Concept Comes to Life

sustainability

September 29, 2020

Tech Deep Dives

A Deep Dive into the Tanzu Service Mesh Autoscaling VMworld 2020 Keynote Demo

Emad Benjamin

September 29, 2020

The Future of...

VMware Office of the CTO Co-innovation Projects at VMworld 2020

Chris Wolf

September 25, 2020

The Future of...

VMware Blockchain at VMworld 2020

VMware Blockchain

September 24, 2020

The Future of...

A New Way of Thinking: The Origins of the VMware OCTO Cloud Architecture Team

Emad Benjamin

September 23, 2020

The Future of...

Your Guide to AI/ML Content at VMworld 2020

Josh Simons

September 22, 2020

The Future of...

Introducing the New Professional Development Track at VMworld 2020

Amanda Blevins

September 21, 2020

The Future of...

Vision & Innovation at VMworld 2020

Greg Lavender

September 18, 2020

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Co-innovation

Design Considerations for VCF Remote Clusters

Shree Das

September 15, 2020

The Future of...

How Better Models Shaped The Internet

Bruce Davie

September 7, 2020

Strategic Advisor

Your Guide to Deploying AR/VR in the Enterprise - Part 1

Matt Coppinger

September 1, 2020

Force for Good

VMware and the National Science Foundation Collaborate on the Next Generation of Sustainable Digital Infrastructure

sustainability

August 31, 2020

Strategic Advisor

Racing to a Future That’s Still Emerging – The CTO View of Financial Services with Greg Lavender

Matthew O'Neill

August 26, 2020

News and Awards

Continuing our Relentless Focus on LBQT Equality

Like every group within VMware, OCTO is passionate about diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). That's why we are so proud to announce that VMware has achieved 100% on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 2021 Corporate Equality Index (CEI) and named one of the “Best Places to Work for LGBTQ Equality,” for the fourth consecutive year.

Read more about this incredible honor and check out a selection of our blog posts about DEI.

VMware Blockchain Recognized by Forbes

We are excited to share the news that VMware Blockchain has been named to this year’s Forbes Blockchain 50 2021 list. We announced the initial availability of our Enterprise-grade Blockchain Platform in November, 2020.

Read more about this distinction, another example of OCTO's innovation.

Making the Environment Top Priority

VMware is committed to being a role model in the technology community, putting sustainability at the top of our agenda. We achieved carbon neutrality in 2018 and continue to set higher goals for ourselves in this area.

Our efforts have not gone unnoticed: we've earned a spot on CDP’s Climate A List for leadership in environmental transparency — a key milestone in effective climate action and one of our 2030 goals.

Additionally, VMware has been acknowledged by the 2020 Carbon Clean 200™, which ranks publicly traded companies based on their green energy revenues.

Read more about this global recognition.