​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 […]

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. […]

This year marked VMware’s 13th flagship internal R&D conference, better known as RADIO (R&D Innovation Offsite). Sponsored by Ray O’Farrell, EVP and VMware’s CTO, and organized by VMware’s Office of the CTO (OCTO), the annual event brought together more than 1,400 of VMware’s best and brightest technologists from around the globe for an academic-like conference focusing on […]

A few months ago, Michael Gandy and Joel Leichnetz from the Xplorer Group presented a session at VMworld about AI at VMware. We thought it would be interesting to share with the larger community as Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become such a buzzword (and often over used). A brief history of AI AI is not […]

VMworld is VMware’s premier thought leadership and education destination for cloud infrastructure and digital workspace technology professionals. Over the five days of inspiring innovation there were:   20K+ total attendees heard expert insights and gained the tools to enable business success 200+ customer appearances on stage and in breakouts 64K+ Virtual Machines created 1 concert from […]

More than 100 of VMware’s most innovative minds flocked to this year’s Borathon, a two-plus day hacking and learning event held at VMware’s Palo Alto headquarters, last month. Borathon is one of many innovation programs at VMware where people get the opportunity to build upon their creative roots and work collaboratively on hacks, new features […]