Office of the CTO Blog

Force for Good

Hacking Global Sustainability

Nicola Peill-Moelter

December 21, 2020

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Co-innovation

A Novel Approach to Helping Customers Fill Solution Gaps

Tom Scanlan

December 16, 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

Shot of Asian IT Specialist Using Laptop in Data Center Full of Rack Servers. Concept of High Speed Internet with Blue Neon Visualization Projection of Binary Data Transfer

Co-innovation

Virtualizing Low-Latency Trading Platforms with VMware vSphere

Josh Simons

December 11, 2020

Force for Good

An Innovation Path to a More Accessible World

Sheri Byrne-Haber

December 3, 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 Group

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 Group

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

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

Amanda Blevins

September 29, 2020

Tech Deep Dives

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

Haining Henry Zhang

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 Group

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 Group

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 (Alumnus)

September 18, 2020

Binary Data Stream Background. Transfer Of Information, Cloud Computing And Big Data Concept

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 Group

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

Work Culture

Barriers of Innovation: A Reminder on Women’s Equality Day

Kate Wilkinson

August 26, 2020

Co-innovation

RADIO 2020: How to Create Meaningful Engagement in a Virtual World

OCTO Innovation Programs

August 21, 2020

The Future of...

Declarative Cluster Management — A Faster, Simpler Way to Manage Data Center Systems

VMware Research Group

August 14, 2020

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The Future of...

The Enterprise Blockchain Spectrum: Private, Permissioned, and Private to Permissioned

VMware Blockchain Group

August 12, 2020

Office of the CTO News

How to harness the current digital transformation

JUNE 30, 2021 — According to IDC (International Data Corporation), by the year 2022, 60% of global GDP will be digitized. Growth, it says, in every industry will be driven by digitally-enhanced offerings, operations and relationships. Successful companies in a digitized world, the report suggests, will be those with innovative digital transformation plans embedded in their business strategy.” ...READ MORE

VMware and the National Science Foundation Announce Academic Awards for Public Research in Sustainable Digital Infrastructure

MAY 20, 2021 — VMware, in collaboration with the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), announced funding awards for the new research program “NSF-VMware Partnership on Next Generation of Sustainable Digital Infrastructure (NG-SDI).” ...READ MORE

Get Ready for Spring Flings!

APRIL 9, 2021 — Flings are experimental tools or scripts that are developed by VMware's internal community and released externally for use by VMware's ecosystem. Flings are free to download and allow you to quickly provide feedback on your experience to the Fling developers. Here's what's new with the Flings program. ...READ MORE

Seven Principles to Nurture Innovation

MARCH 29, 2021 — One of VMware CTO Greg Lavender’s beliefs is that innovation does not come from a culture of consensus. In fact, it arises from an inherent tension between opposite points of view. When nurtured in a respectful way, this approach usually leads to superior solutions, he explains in a recent blog about the seven principles that have inspired him in his quest to create a culture of perpetual innovation....READ MORE

VMware’s Social Impact on Behind the Impact Podcast

MARCH 30, 2021 — Meriem Bekka, Sr. Manager of Social Impact at VMware, was recently interviewed on the “Behind the Impact” podcast to share about VMware’s social-impact programs. She discusses her background and journey to social impact, how VMware’s social impact has evolved over time, VMware’s commitment to nonprofit digital transformation, and unique Citizen Philanthropy approach, as well as the ways that these programs have been impacted by the global pandemic. Listen to the episode on Spotify or Apple Podcasts ....READ MORE

Resources and White Papers

White Paper: "Ransomware: Defense in Depth with VMware"

APRIL 8, 2021 — With offerings such as ransomware as a service, it is easier to sabotage an organization by encrypting their systems and data, and deleting or encrypting the organization’s backups to negate an established recovery strategy.

In this white paper, VMware documents solutions by incorporating the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) controls specific to protect, detect and respond functions contained in the NIST Cybersecurity Framework. ...READ MORE OR DOWNLOAD NOW.