What I've Been Reading 2017-09-10 (VMworld US 2017)

I try to read a few news sites and blogs each day to keep up with IT for my customers and colleagues.  I thought posting what I found to be the most educational articles each week might be helpful.  This past week, I mostly read deeply about the announcements at VMworld US to put the products announcements in some business context.  Here is my summary of that learning.  Enjoy.

• VMware Cloud on AWS
  • Business Value: Hybrid. Extend your hybrid cloud to AWS using the same VMware management, monitoring, security, and automation tools you are using today.
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• VMware Cloud Services (AppDefense, Cost Insight, Discovery, Network Insight, NSX Cloud, Wavefront)
  • Business Value:
    • AppDefense: Security. AppDefense gains a deep understanding of the intended state and behavior of the applications running on virtual machines and can detect and respond to unauthorized changes. 
    • Discovery: Cost and Compliance: An automated inventory service that improves multi-cloud visibility
    • Cost Insight: Cost. Understand aggregated multi-cloud costs and identify key cost drivers
    • Network Insight: Security & performance. Provides comprehensive network visibility and granular understanding of traffic flows to enable multi-cloud security planning and network troubleshooting
    • NSX Cloud:
    • Wavefront:
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    • AppDefense
    • Discovery/Cost Insight
    • Network Insight
    • NSX Cloud
    • Wavefront
• VMware Workspace One Intelligence
  • Business Value: User productivity. Provides three major areas of improvements that complement and extend the Workspace ONE platform: insights, planning and automation.
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• VMware Workspace One Mobile Workflows
  • Business Value: Productivity. Enables notifications and actions across multiple enterprise apps and backend systems.
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• VMware Integrated OpenStack
  • Business Value: DevOps. Give developers self-service OpenStack APIs and containers automated with VMware.
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• Pivotal Container Service
  • Business Value: Reliability. Operationalize Kubernetes on VMware for enterprise and service provider environments
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• VMware Function as a Service (FaaS)
  • Business Value: Speed, cost, scalability. Develop “serverless” apps with FaaS on containers on VMware.
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• VMware Pulse IOT Center
  • Business Value: Enterprise IoT. Enables OT and IT organizations to onboard, manage, monitor and secure their IoT use cases.
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• VMware LIOTA (Little IOT Agent)
  • Business Value: Secure IoT. A vendor-neutral open source software development kit (SDK) for building IoT applications
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