Sanjay Poonen @spoonen is introduced
Sanjay wants to discuss the world going
digital. For example Sanjay talks about his kid’s education being transformed
through after-hours learning like https://www.khanacademy.org/ @khanacademy.
Three years ago the end user computing industry was a small part of VMware's
business and now it is a huge part of their portfolio.
If we think about the Apps today, there is
approx. 50% of the world that is still client-server today. In addition some
are web and the others are truly Mobile apps. We have brought this world
together in Workspace One. This allows you to marry consumer simplicity with
enterprise security.
Sanjay will cover how apps and identity
work together as well as desktop and mobile and the underlying security
principals. Sanjay transitions to a live demo of Workspace One. Research has
shown that users pull their phone out of their pocket 90 times a day for
approx. 100 seconds at a time. End User solutions have to provide value under
those conditions.
The first thing that is show is single
sign-on "SSO" providing simple access to all your business
applications. Client-server, web and mobile apps are shown is a single pain of
glass, In addition through the integration of boxer (the email application that
was acquired by VMware). Integration is shown with AirWatch providing security
across different storage repositories such as Google drive. In addition a swipe
approval component was built into Workspace One. The integration of Horizon is
shown by accessing a desktop through Workspace One.
Sanjay introduces Stephanie Buscemi
@sbuscemi the Executive Vice President of Saleforce. Stephanie talks about the
partnership with VMware and Saleforce One. Stephanie shows Salesforce wave and
the ability to see how sales are doing over the quarter is, look at
opportunities along with the opportunity data. In addition all the deal
dynamics are available to move the deal forward on your mobile device. The SSO
for Saleforce One is all provided through Workspace One.
Sanjay mentions that through the VMworld
App you get a free license for VMware Workstation or Fusion. The VMware Horizon
team has been innovating like crazy. Sanjay mentions the IBM Softlayer
agreement enabling them to bring Desktop as a Service "DaaS" to more
customers. According to IDC Horizon leads the market. AirWatch also leads both
the IDC and Gartner magic quadrants.
VMware is building out an entire IoT
platform that is on display on the show floor. Sanjay transitions to Windows 10
and Workspace One integration. Sanjay shows a demo where a user tries to copy
sensitive data from O365 and pasting to twitter. Through Secure Conditional
Access the cut and paste is prevented. Now conditional access is shown through
the perspective of a user attempting to open data on a spreadsheet on a Horizon
desktop. Through the application of NSX security policies the ability to access
that data is removed demonstrating micro-segmentation.
VMware Tanium TrustPoint ( http://www.vmware.com/radius/introducing-vmware-trustpoint-powered-tanium/ )
is demo'd onstage which enables human like queries to see live data in the
environment. For example the demo looks for a specific MD5 hash running. The
interface brings up every process in the environment that is running the hash.
TrustPoint Trace is demo'd which provides deep analytics for what is happening
in the environment on the endpoint. You can then look for anything malicious
and see if it is running across the environment. Most organizations would take
weeks to provide this information while VMware Tanium Trustpoint is doing it in
seconds.
Ray O'Farrell @ray_ofarrell the CTO of
VMware is introduced. Ray talks about Cloud-Native applications which is a
fundamental shift in management frameworks. With a container strategy it is
often confusing to understand who you are serving; developers, operations or
the end users? The truth is that with Cloud-Native applications, it is all of
them.
Kit Colbert @kitcolbert the CTO of the
Cloud Platform Business Unit is introduced. Container usage is moving from the
early adopters to the enterprise. The speed of containers makes the value
evident for developers. From an IT perspective it is much more difficult to
manage. Really since VMware does this with VMs it is easy to extend this
approach to Containers. This is done through VMware Enterprise Container
Platforms.
vSphere Enterprise Containers are designed
for customers that are running a mix of containers and VMs. Within vSphere
there is a Docker compatible API. This was ok for the initial release but a Container
registry and a developer based portal was required. These have now been
integrated into vSphere Enterprise Containers. This is demo'd live onstage
along with the ability to enable certain developers and deploy the container
through the new portal. From a VM admin perspective all the containers are
shown as individual VMs.
The demo moves to the integration of the
Service Composer using NSX security groups being applied to containers. The
management of these containers are fully integrated to vRealize Operations
Manager. The demo works up the vRealize Suite showing integration of container
deployment through vRealize Automation. The Container management portal in
vSphere Enterprise Containers is also built into vRealize Automation.
Kit switches gears to the Photon Platform.
Photon Platform is geared towards the scaled-out enterprise container workload.
The demands for speed and elasticity in these types of platforms are very
complex problems to solve. The Photon Platform is open sourced like vSphere
Enterprise Containers; a commercial offering called VMware-Pivotal Cloud Native
Stack is also available. Kit reiterates that no matter where you are on the
adoption of containers VMware has a solution.
Rajiv Ramaswami the EVP/GM Networking and
Security is introduced. The average cost of a data breach is $4 million
dollars. With NSX micro-segmentation you can solve this problem by applying a
per app firewall through policy. Using NSX your security is always on.
Rajiv mentions that vRealize Network Insight
is free to run an assessment to understand the current security profile of your
organization. After an assessment, you need to install NSX. To simply the
creation of policies, an early tech-preview is shown of the Micro-segmentation
planner. The Micro-segmentation planner allows you to visualize and
automatically create Security Policy rules. Once they are created you can push
a button to apply these rules.
Yanbing Li @ybhighheels is introduced to
talk about Virtual SAN. Virtual SAN is directly implemented as part of vSphere.
It is Software Defined Storage. Since Virtual SAN launched they have grown to
5000 customers. VMware is adding 100 Virtual SAN customers a week. Virtual SAN
is now becoming mainstream. 40% of the fortune 1000 companies have deployed
Virtual SAN today. 64% of these customers are using Virtual SAN for business
critical workloads. Several service providers are also looking at Virtual SAN
such as IBM and OVH.com.
An early tech-preview is shown of Virtual
SAN capacity planning in which the analytics predict a performance problem is
coming, leveraging vRealize Automation a policy is applied which moves the
workloads to a 3rd party cloud (no info on how this was done under the covers,
maybe Virtual SAN stretched cluster..).
Ray finishes with VMware Cloud Foundation
which is a hyper-converged software platform for Private and Public Cloud.
VMware's vision recognizes that you will have to deal with a multi-cloud
environment with many types of applications from traditional, SaaS and cloud
native delivered to any device. Ray challenges the audience to learn the
cross cloud products, engage with VMware and be a leader in this new era.
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