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. […]

While I was an analyst at Gartner, I co-developed the concept of “web-scale IT” based upon what I had learned from researching as well as talking to individuals working at several of the industry-leading FANG (Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google) companies.  At the time, I envisioned web-scale as the next step in DevOps evolution as […]

Dan Tsafrir, a Scholar-in-Residence at the VMware Research Group won the EuroSys Jochen Liedtke Young Researcher Award, at the EuroSys 2018 conference in Porto, Portugal on Wednesday, April 25th, 2018. EuroSys, now in its 13th year, is a premier forum for discussing various issues of systems software research and development, with a strong focus on […]