Before VMworld 2015 began at the Moscone Centre in San Francisco, VMware executives shared what they believe are today’s top CIO priorities: 1) Bridge the physical and virtual worlds. 2) Be software-defined. 3) Have an agile cloud platform. 4) Embrace business mobility. Read more: http://www.itworldcanada.com/slideshow/vmworld-2015-keynotes-recapped-in-pictures#ixzz3zrkifTDz or visit http://www.itworldcanada.com for more Canadian IT News

1. VMworld 2015 keynotes
recapped in pictures

2. • Before VMworld 2015 began at the
Moscone Centre in San Francisco,
VMware executives shared what they
believe are today’s top CIO priorities:
1) Bridge the physical and virtual
worlds. 2) Be software-defined. 3)
Have an agile cloud platform. 4)
Embrace business mobility.

3. • Carl Eschenbach, president of
VMware opened the first day
keynote by outlining the vendor as a
platform company for the
datacenter. “We believe at VMware
the best way to deliver freedom,
flexibility, and choice is through a
one-cloud, any platform, any device
architecture,” he said.

4. • The first on-stage guest was Mike Benson,
CIO of DirecTV, a VMware customer. He
spoke about how the satellite TV service is
facing tough challenges from over-the-top
services like Netflix. He described the
benefits of using a software-defined
datacenter to deliver good performance
when his service sees large bursts in usage
– like during a pay-per-view boxing bout.

5. • Bill Fathers, vice-president and general
manager of cloud services at VMware,
positioned VMware as a hybrid cloud
champion that can help its customers
extend their entire network
infrastructure into the cloud. “It
represents a way to solve some of the
toughest challenges you’re facing today.”

6. • Bolstering the model of hybrid cloud was
continued by Raghu Raghuram,
executive vice-president and general
manager of VMware’s SDDC division.
“It’s clearly not sufficient to just build a
private cloud. It’s clearly not sufficient to
build a public cloud. You need both, but
you need more,” he said.

7. • It was Yanbing Li, vice-president and
general manager of storage and
availability, who gave VMware’s hybrid
cloud vision form by describing the
components needed to create the
software-defined data centre from the
ground up. She detailed the VMware
stack that composes its hybrid unified
cloud architecture.

8. • Duo Ray O’Farrell and Kit Colbert, who
both hold the title of chief technology
officer (Ray is also the chief development
officer, Kit vice-president of cloud-native
apps) introduced VMware’s new approach
with containers and its new Photon
platform that gives developers flexibility to
create containers on VMs and maintains
management capability for IT.

9. • The concept of containerized apps
running in a hybrid cloud was also
delivered in a slightly different tone by
videos that preceded both keynotes.
They featured some sort of half-man,
half-cloud school headmaster that
welcomed apps to his academy, where
they’d excel.

10. • Though rivals in the virtualization space
for a long time, VMware and Microsoft
put their hypervisor battle aside to
partner on Windows 10 for the
enterprise. Jim Alcove, corporate vice-
president of Windows enterprise and
security at Microsoft appeared to say
“It’s our goal to make Windows the most
easily managed device on the market.”

11. • Security was a theme throughout the
keynotes, and Tom Corn, senior vice-
president of security at VMware
summed it up. “The challenge in the
coming decade is how do we create
trusted services on infrastructure
that we don’t even trust?” he said.
VMware is working on encryption
that works well with security
controls.

12. • Pat Gelsinger, CEO of VMware finished
the day two keynote with an inspiring
call to those who may sometimes feel
they are toiling away in IT departments
to keep the lights on. “As a tech
expert, this is your day,” he said. “Be
the innovators and the entrepreneur
for your business.” IT News