By Sonali Desai, Product Marketing Manager Data center extension enables VMware Cloud on AWS users to extend on-premises infrastructure to the cloud to meet fluctuating capacity requirements. Learn about common challenges and how to overcome them in the final instalment of our three-part series. In the first blog of this series, we introduced VMware Cloud on AWS […]
There are currently 32 armed conflicts worldwide and the number of natural disasters is increasing rather than decreasing. Millions of people are affected by these conflicts and crises. One of the most important tasks of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is therefore to bring them the aid they urgently need. Besides that, […]
Female professionals and executives are in high demand everywhere, not just in IT companies. VMware has therefore committed itself to greater diversity as part of its Equal Opportunity Initiative and is actively recruiting women in specialist and executive positions as part of its “Power of Difference” Program. Women are still a minority in the world […]
Disruption has been the buzzword over the past few years. Markets upended, established orders thrown into chaos, industry titans laid low. Usually, the apparent catalysts for this disorder are start-ups; digital natives unshackled by legacy systems and empowered by technology. Yet this disruption narrative might be changing – where once new entrants were the ones […]
Everywhere we look, organisations are touting their ability to innovate, to generate cutting edge ideas, to change the game. They’re doing it to stay ahead of the competition which, thanks to digitisation, has changed beyond all recognition. However, if everyone is innovating, is anyone doing anything new? In other words, in the rush to innovate, […]
Electric drives, the sharing economy, connected cars and autonomous driving: In the face of these trends, the automotive industry has no choice but to change course. Porsche Informatik – the Porsche Holding software control center – is pivotal to these dynamic developments. Ground-breaking solutions for the future of mobility can be built only on the […]
We talk about innovation so much there’s a danger the term becomes devalued. Everywhere we look, we hear about the need to be innovative. Innovation changes the world, innovation drives us forward, innovation got us out of the cave. Actually, it’s completely wrong. Being able to come up with ideas hasn’t done anything. What got […]
It’s safe to say, the nature of applications has fundamentally changed. In the past, apps never left the data center. Now, they are widely distributed across several virtual servers, containers, and physical servers. As a result of this, traditional perimeter security strategies are now ineffective. Why? Because apps and data need security that follows them […]
Innovation is the name of the game right now. Organisations that don’t innovate risk becoming obsolete – just look at the household names that have lost their place at the top of the tree (like Nokia), or disappeared from view completely (such as Kodak). What’s interesting is that many of these once market leaders never […]
Businesses are facing considerable IT challenges as they embark on their digital transformation journey. We hear from our customers that they are faced with business requirements to manage risks, lower TCO, accelerate time to market to meet the ever-increasing demands for faster innovation. To tackle these challenges and get on the path to success, businesses […]
By Louise Öström, Vice President of Cloud EMEA Enabling farmers to make more money from their crops; supporting hospitals to provide healthcare to vast, mountainous regions; opening access to teaching, irrespective of location; and helping provide surgical facilities to remote communities. All examples of how technology, and more specifically cloud, can improve people’s lives. I’ve […]
By Louise Öström, Vice President of Cloud EMEA Introduction Over the last couple of months, I’ve been talking about using technology, and more specifically cloud computing, for good. From farmers in Kenya to disaster relief and increasing the reach of education, irrespective of location, technology is being deployed as part of efforts to help those […]