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In this episode of the VMblog Expert Video Interview Series, we spoke with John Egan, the co-founder and CEO of Kintaba, where we talk about the incident management space and a new offering called Human Centric Heatmaps. Quick background. Kintaba is a modern incident management platform that lets companies and teams implement best-practice incident response processes without the overhead, creating a seamless workflow for more effectively responding to major outages. Easy to get started, takes less than 2 minutes, and the first 5 users are free! Watch this video interview as we discuss the incident management space and how it is growing and evolving. Teams are using tools like Slack and email to try and coordinate, but does that approach work? What about when big problems arise? And Egan provides his take on what's happening with traditional incident metrics like MTTR. Kintaba has introduced the addition of Human Centric Heatmaps which showcase when incidents are most frequent and which employees are spending the most time actively responding to them. By having these people metrics alongside existing incident metrics, such as total incident count and Mean-Time-to-Resolution, leaders can glean deeper insights into the health and well-being of their organization within the context of incident response and resilience. Human-Centric Heatmaps are designed to highlight people-centric metrics such as what times of day are most problems occuring, are they within business hours, and is there a healthy distribution of responders. By having a bird’s-eye view across the entire company, it’s easy to identify if the burden of firefighting and incident response is being placed too heavily on one person’s shoulders. Only by having these kinds of people metrics alongside incident metrics can a true picture of the health and well-being of the organization be accurately represented. Find out more about Kintaba: https://www.kintaba.com Don't forget to watch, read and follow VMblog: Website: https://vmblog.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/vmblog LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vmblog Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VMblogcom/ Jump straight in: ↪️ 0:00 - Intro 0:24 - Introducing John Egan, CEO of Kintaba 0:38 - Background on Kintaba 01:10 - Discussion on Incident Management 04:38 - Incident Tools - What's Being Used 07:34 - Human Centric Heatmaps 11:30 - Focus on Incident Metrics - MTTR 15:45 - Wrap up

Are you interested in learning more about the end user computing industry? Do you have problems and challenges in your organization and need solutions? Maybe you're just looking to better understand which vendors and technologies are out there and available to you. VMblog's Mega Series is the perfect series for you! As part of the Mega Series, you'll hear from a number of industry experts and leaders across multiple topics to help you make important decisions within your own organization. In this episode, VMblog is joined by a long time End User Computing expert, Andrew Miller, co-founder and CEO of Cameyo. Watch and learn as he provides a quick overview on Cameyo, and explores the who, what, why of end user computing. i.e. Is VDI dead? And how has the cloud reshaped EUC? Find out how Cameyo differentiates itself in the EUC market from its competitors and why you might prefer their solutions to others. What specific problems do they solve? And how do they enable a shift to remote and hybrid work? And watch as Miller explores the Cameyo solution in a quick demo to wrap things up so you can see it for yourself. Learn more about Cameyo at their Website: https://www.cameyo.com Read the VMblog 2021 Mega Series Q&A with Cameyo: https://vmblog.com/archive/2021/10/26/vmblog-2021-mega-series-q-a-cameyo-industry-expert-weighs-in-on-end-user-computing-and-virtual-application-delivery.aspx#.YYAoeBxOmGg Don't forget to watch, read and follow VMblog: Website: https://vmblog.com​ 2021 Mega Series: https://events.vmblog.com/mega-series-2021.html Twitter: https://twitter.com/vmblog​ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vmblog​ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VMblogcom/ Jump straight in: ↪️ 0:00​ - Intro 0:24​ - Introducing Andrew Miller of Cameyo 0:42 - Background look at Cameyo 2:16 - Is this the year of VDI? Or is it dead? 5:56​ - How has the cloud reshaped EUC? 8:03 - Where does Cameyo fit within EUC market? 11:03 - Specific problems solved by Cameyo 12:14 - Cameyo differentiators 13:54 - Providing a shift to remote and hybrid work 14:41 - Demo 23:51 - Wrap up

In this episode of the VMblog Expert Video Interview Series, we spoke with Julie Gunderson, Sr. Reliability Advocate at Gremlin, where we talk about Chaos Engineering and a new certification program. Quick background. Gremlin is the world's first hosted Chaos Engineering service with a mission to help build a more reliable internet. It turns failure into resilience by offering engineers tooling to safely experiment on complex systems, in order to identify weaknesses before they impact customers and cause revenue loss. Watch this video interview as we discuss Chaos Engineering. Gunderson explains more about the company, her previous experience with chaos engineering while at PagerDuty, and then dives in deep into monitoring, observability, incident response and chaos engineering. It's a lot to take in, but she explains how a company can improve their reliability. Listen in as we discuss Kubernetes and Microservices, making Chaos Engineering even more important. And finally, we wrap things up with an important discussion around Gremlin's new certification program. Learn how to do Chaos Engineering safely and securely, and learn more about their certification program. Find out more about Gremlin: https://www.gremlin.com Gremlin Certification Program: https://www.gremlin.com/certification/ Don't forget to watch, read and follow VMblog: Website: https://vmblog.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/vmblog LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vmblog Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VMblogcom/ Jump straight in: ↪️ 0:00 - Intro 0:24 - Introducing Julie Gunderson, Gremlin 0:42 - Background on Gremlin 01:17 - Chaos Engineering 03:00 - Discuss Improving Reliability 06:41 - Kubernetes and microservices, Chaos Engineering even more important 08:02 - Gremlin's New Certification Program 11:13 - Wrap up

Are you interested in learning more about the #endusercomputing (#EUC) industry? What about better understanding the challenges and benefits of #WorkingfromAnywhere? Do you have problems and challenges in your organization and need solutions? Maybe you're just looking to better understand which vendors and technologies are out there and available to you. VMblog's Mega Series is the perfect series for you! As part of the Mega Series, over the next few months, you'll hear from a number of industry experts and leaders across multiple topics to help you make important decisions within your own organization. In this episode, VMblog is joined by industry expert, Nabeel Youakim, Chief Development Officer at Tehama. Watch and learn as Youakim provides a deep dive look into the topics of End User Computing and Work From Anywhere, and how his company, Tehama, approaches both. Kicking things off, watch and listen as Youakim gives a quick background and explanation on Tehama. And find out how Tehama defines the end user computing (EUC) space, and where his company fits within the broader EUC ecosystem. Youakim also gives a fantastic explanation of how Tehama differs from its competitors in the space, and explains why an organization would select Tehama versus another solution in the market. And then he continues by providing some of the key benefits for organizations that choose to engage with Tehama. Youakim has been in this industry for quite some time, and he provides years of experience and practical knowledge across a number of subjects. He explains how the move to the cloud has impacted the EUC space and the ways in which EUC has evolved more recently. He also discusses some of the key challenges businesses currently face as we move into the work-from-anywhere era, and how Tehama is solving for those challenges. And finally, he offers a number of key take-aways that businesses should be mindful of moving forward as they plan and provision their EUC infrastructures. Learn more about Tehama at their Website: https://tehama.io/ Don't forget to watch, read and follow VMblog: Website: https://vmblog.com​ 2021 Mega Series: https://events.vmblog.com/mega-series-2021.html Twitter: https://twitter.com/vmblog​ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vmblog​ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VMblogcom/ Jump straight in: ↪️ 0:00​ - Intro 0:23 - Introducing Nabeel Youakim of Tehama 0:57 - Background and overview of Tehama 1:34 - Defining the end user computing (EUC) space 2:42 - Differentiation from competitors 3:38​ - Key benefits for choosing to engage with Tehama 4:47 - Cloud impact on End User Computing 7:10 - Key challenges businesses face with move to work-from-anywhere 9:05 - Key take-aways moving forward 10:35 - Final thoughts about Tehama 13:52 - Where to go to learn more 16:38 - Wrap up

Are you interested in learning more about the #endusercomputing (#EUC) industry? What about better understanding the challenges and benefits of #WorkingfromAnywhere? Do you have problems and challenges in your organization and need solutions? Maybe you're just looking to better understand which vendors and technologies are out there and available to you. VMblog's Mega Series is the perfect series for you! As part of the Mega Series, over the next few months, you'll hear from a number of industry experts and leaders across multiple topics to help you make important decisions within your own organization. In this episode, VMblog is joined by industry expert, Allen Furmanski, Principal Product Marketing Manager, Applications & Desktops Group at Citrix. Watch and learn as Furmanski provides a deep dive look into the topic of Work From Anywhere and how his company, Citrix, approaches it. As part of the discussion, Furmanski kicks things off by exploring and describing Citrix's vision for Work From Anywhere. At Citrix, work is not a place, it's what you do, what you're able to accomplish. And Work From Anywhere is about empowering employees to do their best work regardless of circumstance with a great user experience and a strong security posture. During this discussion, you'll also better understand Citrix's approach to Cloud in the context of Work From Anywhere and corporate IT imperatives. Furmanski talks about hybrid cloud and multi-cloud, and then dives into fueling productivity with Desktop as a Service (DaaS) and VDI environments, and ends with a discussion around security. Find out more about Citrix DaaS and VDI, what their offering consists of as well as their broader workspace offerings. And as part of that discussion, Furmanski also walks us through two different demos: one on Citrix DaaS and the other on Citrix Workspace. And then, stick around after the demo, as Furmanski moves on from the current state of Work From Anywhere to his take on the future of where things might be headed. Learn more about Citrix at their Website: https://www.citrix.com Read the VMblog 2021 Mega Series Q&A with Adam Lotz of Citrix exploring Work From Anywhere: https://vmblog.com/archive/2021/09/28/vmblog-2021-mega-series-q-a-citrix-explores-and-educates-on-work-from-anywhere.aspx#.YVyquH1Onho Don't forget to watch, read and follow VMblog: Website: https://vmblog.com​ 2021 Mega Series: https://events.vmblog.com/mega-series-2021.html Twitter: https://twitter.com/vmblog​ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vmblog​ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VMblogcom/ Jump straight in: ↪️ 0:00​ - Intro 0:24 - Introducing Allen Furmanski of Citrix 0:40 - What’s Citrix’s vision for "work from anywhere?" 3:45 - Citrix’s approach to cloud in the context of "work from anywhere" and corporate IT imperatives 7:43​ - User Experience - DaaS, VDI, HDX and ICA 9:53 - Security and Compliance 11:06 - Ecosystem and Citrix Ready Program 11:48 - Citrix DaaS, VDI and Workspace 13:31 - Citrix Cloud Services 15:05 - Citrix DaaS Admin Demo 18:17 - Citrix Workspace User Demo 20:37 - Vision for the future of "work from anywhere." 25:18 - Wrap up

Are you interested in learning more about topics like #datamanagement and #dataprotection? Here's your chance to do just that. The VMblog Mega Series is the perfect series for you! As part of the Mega Series, over the next few months, you'll hear from a number of industry experts and leaders across multiple topics to help you make important decisions within your own organization. In this episode, VMblog is joined by industry expert, Orest Lesyuk, solutions engineer at StarWind Software. Watch and learn as he provides a quick overview on StarWind, and then dives deep into the subject matter of data protection and data management. Listen in to gain a better understanding of the things that companies should be looking for in a modern data protection solution. Learn how a company can recover from #ransomware and why a good data protection platform is key. And find out what capabilities are important for a company to look for and require when picking a disaster recovery solution for their organization. Lesyuk explains how his company's technology helps facilitate customer resiliency. And he offers a number of key examples on how StarWind's offerings are unique and differentiated in the market. Learn more by watching a quick demo in action, showcasing the StarWind solution. Read about StarWind at their Website: https://www.starwindsoftware.com/ Gain more knowledge at the StarWind blog: https://www.starwindsoftware.com/blog/ Read the Mega Series Q&A on data management and data protection: https://vmblog.com/archive/2021/07/20/vmblog-2021-mega-series-q-a-starwind-explores-and-educates-on-data-management-and-data-protection.aspx#.YQQzskBOnho Don't forget to watch, read and follow VMblog: Website: https://vmblog.com​ 2021 Mega Series: https://events.vmblog.com/mega-series-2021.html Twitter: https://twitter.com/vmblog​ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vmblog​ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VMblogcom/ Jump straight in: ↪️ 0:00​ - Intro 0:24​ - Introducing Orest Lesyuk of StarWind 0:42 - Background look at StarWind 1:45 - What to Look for in a Modern Data Protection Solution 3:53​ - How to Recover from Ransomware 5:43 - Requirements for Picking a Disaster Recovery Solution 8:22 - StarWind Facilitates Customer Resiliency 9:40 - How is StarWind Unique or Differentiated? 11:38 - Common Use Cases 13:06 - Demo of StarWind 18:18 - Wrap up

Are you interested in better understanding the challenges and benefits of #WorkingfromAnywhere? Does your organization struggle with #remotework and #workfromhome, and are you looking for solutions? Maybe you're just looking to better understand which vendors and technologies are out there and available to you. VMblog's Mega Series is the perfect series for you! As part of the Mega Series, over the next few months, you'll hear from a number of industry experts and leaders across multiple topics to help you with important decisions within your own organization. In this episode, VMblog is joined by an industry veteran and expert, Chuck Brady, who is the Vice President at Liquit. Watch and learn as he provides a quick overview on Liquit, and then explores the who, what, why of working from anywhere. Find out more about the differences between work from home and work from anywhere. And hear what companies should be doing today to better prepare for remote work as things continue to shift. Chuck also explores what specific problems in the world of remote work are being solved by his solutions at Liquit. And he'll also dive into some of the company's differentiators and explain why a company might choose his solution to help augment what they already have in place. Hear how Liquit makes it easier for end-users to access their applications, no matter where they are located. Learn more about Liquit at their Website: https://www.liquit.com/ Read the VMblog 2021 Mega Series Q&A with Liquit exploring Work From Anywhere: https://vmblog.com/archive/2021/07/01/vmblog-2021-mega-series-q-a-liquit-explores-and-educates-on-work-from-anywhere.aspx#.YO3Y30xOnho Don't forget to watch, read and follow VMblog: Website: https://vmblog.com​ 2021 Mega Series: https://events.vmblog.com/mega-series-2021.html Twitter: https://twitter.com/vmblog​ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vmblog​ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VMblogcom/ Jump straight in: ↪️ 0:00​ - Intro 0:24​ - Introducing Chuck Brady of Liquit 0:49 - Background look at Liquit 2:06 - Work From Home vs. Work From Anywhere 4:28​ - Preparing for Remote Work 8:07 - Solving Specific Remote Work Problems 10:08 - Liquit Differentiators 14:26 - The Future of Work 17:18 - Supporting Hybrid IT Environments 18:41 - Helping End Users Access Applications Remotely 21:19 - Wrap up

Are you interested in learning more about topics like virtualization and cloud computing? Here's your chance to do just that. The VMblog Mega Series is the perfect series for you! As part of the Mega Series, over the next few months, you'll hear from a number of industry experts and leaders across multiple topics to help you make important decisions within your own organization. In this episode, VMblog is joined by industry expert, Orest Lesyuk, solutions engineer at StarWind Software. Watch and learn as he provides a quick overview on StarWind, and explores the who, what, why of virtualization and cloud computing. Listen in to learn about the affect the pandemic had on the virtualization and cloud market. Find out if on-site infrastructure is more safe and secure than the cloud. And what are the benefits and advantages to either keeping your virtualization environments on-premises in the data center versus migrating things over to the cloud. Lesyuk also provides his stance on the public vs. private cloud debate and the benefits of selecting one over the other. And based on his experience and expertise, he talks about high availability in the public cloud, and explores how he views the workload distribution between on-premises and cloud in the next couple of years. Watch the video for your opportunity to learn more about StarWind's solution. And of course, what better way to learn more than by seeing it in action, so stick around and watch as Lesyuk shows off a demo of their solution. Learn more about StarWind at their Website: https://www.starwindsoftware.com/ Gain more knowledge at the StarWind blog: https://www.starwindsoftware.com/blog/ Read the Mega Series Q&A on virtualization and cloud computing: https://vmblog.com/archive/2021/06/11/vmblog-2021-mega-series-q-a-starwind-explores-and-educates-on-virtualization-and-cloud-computing.aspx#.YOdY4ExOnho Don't forget to watch, read and follow VMblog: Website: https://vmblog.com​ 2021 Mega Series: https://events.vmblog.com/mega-series-2021.html Twitter: https://twitter.com/vmblog​ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vmblog​ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VMblogcom/ Jump straight in: ↪️ 0:00​ - Intro 0:24​ - Introducing Orest Lesyuk of StarWind 0:48 - Background look at StarWind 1:44 - Virtualization and Cloud Computing Market 2:57​ - Security - On-Premises VS. Cloud Computing 4:34 - Benefits - Staying Local or Migrating to the Cloud 6:59 - Public VS. Private Cloud 8:05 - High Availability in Public Cloud 9:47 - Workload Distribution in the Coming Years 11:13 - Demo of StarWind 15:24 - Wrap up

In this episode of the VMblog Expert Video Interview Series, we spoke with Simon Townsend, the Chief Marketing Officer at #IGEL, where we talk about the hardware and global #chipshortage that we're experiencing right now, which is also impacting the end user computing (#EUC) industry. Quick background. IGEL provides the next-gen edge OS for cloud workspaces. The company’s world-leading software products include IGEL OS, IGEL UD Pocket (UDP) and IGEL Universal Management Suite (UMS). These solutions comprise a more secure, manageable and cost-effective endpoint management and control platform across nearly any x86-64 device. Watch this video interview as we discuss the global chip shortage. We'll discuss how bad the situation is, if there is any end in sight, as well as the key factors that are continuing to drive these shortages. What should your company be doing right now given the current situation. Windows 11 was recently announced, what impact could that have on the shortage? We're discussing all of this, as well as key take-aways from the recent G7 Summit. Find out more about IGEL: https://www.igel.com IGEL's Community: https://www.igelcommunity.com/ Don't forget to watch, read and follow VMblog: Website: https://vmblog.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/vmblog LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vmblog Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VMblogcom/ Jump straight in: ↪️ 0:00 - Intro 0:25 - Introducing Simon Townsend, CMO, IGEL 0:47 - Current State of Hardware/Chip Shortages 03:48 - When will Chip Shortage End? 05:19 - Key Factors Driving Shortages 8:35 - Planning Hardware Refreshes? 12:52 - Impact of Windows 11 16:17 - Key Take-Aways G7 Summit 19:14 - Wrap up

Are you interested in learning more about #Kubernetes, #DevOps and #Containers? Do you have problems and challenges in your organization and need solutions? Maybe you're just looking to better understand which vendors and technologies are out there and available to you. VMblog's Mega Series is the perfect series for you! As part of the Mega Series, over the next few months, you'll hear from a number of industry experts and leaders across multiple topics to help you make important decisions within your own organization. In this episode, VMblog is joined by industry expert, Martez Reed, Director of Technical Marketing at Morpheus. Watch and learn as he provides a quick overview on Morpheus, and explores the who, what, why of Kubernetes, DevOps and Containers. What is Kubernetes and what are the drawbacks to container technology? What are the benefits and the coming trends? How might Kubernetes and container tools impact a company’s staffing and talent strategy? How should companies approach security? Find out how Morpheus and their solutions differentiate from competitors, and why a company might choose their offering over others in the industry. And stick around for a demo to see it in action for yourself. Learn more about Morpheus at their Website: https://morpheusdata.com/ Read the VMblog 2021 Mega Series Q&A with Morpheus to learn more: https://vmblog.com/archive/2021/06/15/vmblog-2021-mega-series-q-a-morpheus-data-explores-and-educates-on-kubernetes-and-containers.aspx#.YNY-m0xOnho Don't forget to watch, read and follow VMblog: Website: https://vmblog.com​ 2021 Mega Series: https://events.vmblog.com/mega-series-2021.html Twitter: https://twitter.com/vmblog​ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vmblog​ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VMblogcom/ Jump straight in: ↪️ 0:00​ - Intro 0:24​ - Introducing Martez Reed of Morpheus 0:42 - What is Kubernetes? 1:41 - Any drawbacks to containers? 2:53 - Impact of Kubernetes and container tools 5:10 - Morpheus in the Kubernetes space 6:26 - Current Kubernetes Trends 7:59 - How to approach security 9:26 - Morpheus differentiators 13:20 - What's ahead for Kubernetes? 15:17 - Demo of Morpheus 20:57 - Wrap up

In this episode of the VMblog Expert Video Interview Series, we spoke with Haseeb Budhani, the founder and CEO of Rafay, where we talk about the company, its technology, and their focus on enterprise-grade #Kubernetes management. Quick background. Rafay delivers cloud-native Kubernetes management solutions to corporations and managed services providers. The company’s flagship product, the Kubernetes Management Cloud is a SaaS-first platform that is used by IT Ops and #DevOps teams to deploy and operate Kubernetes with ease, while reducing the security & operational risks associated with running modern applications across clouds, data centers and the Edge. Watch this video interview to learn more as Budhani jumps right in and explains the primary tenets of an enterprise grade Kubernetes management platform. And goes into more detail about the key things technology leaders should know about Kubernetes management best practices in terms of security, operations and integrations with existing development & devops frameworks. We also get into futures and key trends on how things will evolve over the coming years. Find out more about Rafay: https://rafay.co Rafay Community: https://rafaycommunity.slack.com Don't forget to watch, read and follow VMblog: Website: https://vmblog.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/vmblog LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vmblog Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VMblogcom/ Jump straight in: ↪️ 0:00 - Intro 0:25 - Introducing Haseeb Budhani, the founder and CEO of Rafay 0:43 - Who is Rafay? Offerings and Benefits. 02:51 - What is Enterprise-grade Kubernetes Management? 05:40 - Rafay Use Cases 10:50 - Rafay Growth and Success 12:10 - Kubernetes management best practices 14:34 - Key Trends and Futures 17:27 - Product Demo 21:44 - Wrap up

Are you interested in learning more about the Storage industry? Here's your chance to do just that. The VMblog Mega Series is the perfect series for you! As part of the Mega Series, over the next few months, you'll hear from a number of industry experts and leaders across multiple topics to help you make important decisions within your own organization. In this episode, VMblog is joined by industry expert, Orest Lesyuk, solutions engineer at StarWind Software. Watch and learn as he provides a quick overview on StarWind, and explores the who, what, why of storage. With public cloud vendors offering inexpensive #storage, why should companies consider on-premises object storage? What are the current challenges driving strategic decisions about data storage? How have things changed in 2020 and 2021? What is the best fit for #hyperconverged and converged infrastructures and what does the future hold for both? Here's your opportunity to learn more about StarWind's solution. What specific problems does it solve? How do they differentiate? And of course, what better way to learn more than by seeing it in action, so stick around and watch as Lesyuk shows off a demo of their solution. Learn more about StarWind at their Website: https://www.starwindsoftware.com/ Gain more knowledge at the StarWind blog: https://www.starwindsoftware.com/blog/ Read the VMblog 2021 Mega Series Storage QA with StarWind: https://vmblog.com/archive/2021/06/17/vmblog-2021-mega-series-q-a-starwind-explores-and-educates-on-all-things-storage.aspx#.YNNw4kxOmGg Don't forget to watch, read and follow VMblog: Website: https://vmblog.com​ 2021 Mega Series: https://events.vmblog.com/mega-series-2021.html Twitter: https://twitter.com/vmblog​ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vmblog​ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VMblogcom/ Jump straight in: ↪️ 0:00​ - Intro 0:23​ - Introducing Orest Lesyuk of StarWind 0:41 - Background look at StarWind 1:51 - Public Cloud vs. On-Premises Storage 4:01​ - Challenges Driving Strategic Decisions about Data Storage 5:35 - How has Company/Technology Changed in 2020 and 2021? 8:04 - Problems being Solved by StarWind 10:52 - Best Fit for Hyperconverged and Converged Infrastructure 12:39 - Future of Hyperconverged and Converged Infrastructures 14:31 - Demo of StarWind 18:29 - Wrap up

Transitioning to hybrid and multi-cloud environments can be complex and costly if you lack detailed intelligence about how your holistic infrastructure is performing. It’s like driving a car blindfolded. Find out how mitigating IT risk starts with getting proactive, actionable information so your infrastructure stays up and humming. Whether your apps run on #VMware vSphere or span #AWS, Azure and #Kubernetes, IT teams need operational transparency and better visibility into performance, reliability and security compliance. Insights into what is happening both in the cloud and on site help you take early action to stabilize, optimize and secure everything. Watch VMblog and Aylin Sali, CTO and co founder of Runecast, unpack how multiple industries can optimize the underlying infrastructure for their applications to save time on troubleshooting issues and save money in upgrade planning. SCHEDULE A DEMO WITH RUNECAST! https://www.runecast.com/vmblog-cloud-reliability-security?utm_campaign=VMblog%2FWaters%20North%20America%20Q2%2F2021&utm_source=VMblog%20email&utm_medium=VMblog%20email%20blast Learn more at the Runecast website: https://www.runecast.com/ You can also get a free trial: https://portal.runecast.com/registration Don't forget to watch, read and follow VMblog: Website: https://vmblog.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/vmblog LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vmblog Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VMblogcom/ Jump straight in: ↪️ 0:00 - Intro 0:08 - Introducing Aylin Sali, CTO and co founder of Runecast 0:26 - Background on Sali and Runecast 1:22 - How Runecast has evolved over the years 3:52 - Problems and biggest pain points being solved by Runecast 06:00 - Customer success stories from deep sea to deep space 08:20 - Runecast Knowledge Base and AI 10:24 - Runecast Analyzer differentiators 13:41 - Meaning of "Runecast for Everything" and futures 17:04 - Demo of Runecast 29:23 - Wrap up

In this episode of the VMblog Expert Video Interview Series, we spoke with Ben Ofiri, CEO and Co-Founder of Komodor, where we talk about the company, its focus on #Kubernetes and #K8s native troubleshooting. Quick background. Komodor is a new company that helps track changes across your entire K8s stack, analyzing their ripple effect and providing you with the context you need to troubleshoot efficiently and independently. Watch this video interview to learn more as Ofiri jumps right in and explains the difference between troubleshooting and traditional monitoring and observability. Komodor is hyper-focused on Kubernetes, which has made it easier to manage and scale microservices. However, keeping track of so many moving parts is often challenging for Dev & Ops teams. Achieving clear observability for better monitoring and troubleshooting is key to improving the development process. Find out more about Komodor: https://komodor.com​ Don't forget to watch, read and follow VMblog: Website: https://vmblog.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/vmblog LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vmblog Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VMblogcom/ Jump straight in: ↪️ 0:00 - Intro 0:25 - Introducing Ben Ofiri, CEO and Co-Founder of Komodor 0:41 - Who is Komodor? 01:04 - Troubleshooting vs. traditional monitoring or observability 04:31 - Hyper-focus on Kubernetes while offering broad value 07:02 - Any competitors or other tools on the market? 10:07 - Wrap up

In this episode of the VMblog Expert Video Interview Series, we spoke with Barak Schoster, Chief Architect at Palo Alto Networks, where we talk about the Bridgecrew team that built and launched Yor (the same team behind the popular open source project, Checkov). Quick background. Bridgecrew, a company that bridged the gap between cloud security and developers, was acquired by Palo Alto Networks. Prior to the acquisition, Barak Schoster was the CTO and Co-Founder of the company. Bridgecrew was started because they saw there was a huge bottleneck in security engineering, in DevSecOps, and how engineers were running cloud infrastructure security. Watch this video interview to learn more as Schoster dives in and talks about the creation of a new open source project called Yor. Yor is an open-source tool that helps add informative and consistent tags across infrastructure-as-code frameworks such as Terraform, CloudFormation, and Serverless. Learn more about the different use cases of Yor and how it operates with Checkov. And find out what the team is up to next. Find out more about Bridgecrew: https://bridgecrew.io​ Visit the Yor Github page: https://github.com/bridgecrewio/yor Don't forget to watch, read and follow VMblog: Website: https://vmblog.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/vmblog LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vmblog Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VMblogcom/ Jump straight in: ↪️ 0:00 - Intro 0:25 - Introducing Barak Schoster, Chief Architect at Palo Alto Networks 0:51 - Overview of the new open source project, Yor 02:16 - Detailing Use Cases for Yor 04:23 - Commitment to Open Source 05:43 - Compatibility and Operation between Checkov and Yor 07:17 - What's next for the Bridgecrew team 08:21 - Wrap up

VMblog spoke with Rong Shen, VP and general manager of server product line at Inspur, as well as Ashish Nadkarni, Group Vice President, Infrastructure Systems, Platforms and Technologies Group within IDC's Worldwide Infrastructure Practice. Quick background. Inspur is a leading data center and cloud computing solutions provider, ranked among the world’s top 3 server vendors. Inspur’s cutting-edge hardware products and designs are widely delivered and deployed in major data centers around the globe, serving important technology arenas like open computing, cloud, AI and deep learning. Inspur works with customers to develop purpose-built, performance-optimized solutions that empower them to tackle different workloads, overcome real-world challenges, and grow their business. Watch this video interview to learn more as Rong Shen discusses his company's new M6 line of Inspur servers. He and Ashish Nadkarni also talk about accelerating #digitaltransformation across a range of industries and what challenges that brings to IT infrastructure. They also discuss what's driving adoption of new servers in the data center right now, and also provide a detailed look at the supply chain issues centered around GPUs, processors and components and how that's slowing things down. Want more? We also discuss #OpenComputing and what customers need to consider here, and then talk about their expectations for the next 3-5 years with regard to computing infrastructure. Find out more about Inspur at their website: https://www.inspursystems.com Don't forget to watch, read and follow VMblog: Website: https://vmblog.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/vmblog LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vmblog Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VMblogcom/ Jump straight in: ↪️ 0:00 - Intro 0:25 - Introducing Rong Shen of Inspur and Ashish Nadkarni of IDC 0:51 - Overview on Inspur 2:58 - Digital Transformation in 2020, Challenges to IT Infrastructure 9:16 - What's driving adoption of new servers in the data center 14:37 - What's new with the M6 line of Inspur servers 22:00 - Which use cases helped shape Inspur server 24:01 - Supply chain issues with GPUs, processors, components and demand 26:36 - Open Computing - considerations and choices 34:10 - Expectations for computing infrastructure futures 40:12 - Wrap up

Are you interested in learning more about the #endusercomputing (#EUC) industry? What about better understanding the challenges and benefits of #WorkingfromAnywhere? Do you have problems and challenges in your organization and need solutions? Maybe you're just looking to better understand which vendors and technologies are out there and available to you. VMblog's Mega Series is the perfect series for you! As part of the Mega Series, over the next few months, you'll hear from a number of industry experts and leaders across multiple topics to help you make important decisions within your own organization. In this episode, VMblog is joined by a long time End User Computing expert, Don Clemmer, Enterprise Sales Engineer at Parallels. Watch and learn as he provides a quick overview on Parallels, and explores the who, what, why of end user computing. What are the benefits? What are the coming trends? How did the pandemic affect the market, and what happens now that more organizations are working from home or working from anywhere? And how has the cloud reshaped EUC after being an on-premises focused market for so long. Find out how Parallels and their solutions help companies create secure remote work environments, and hear what makes Parallels RAS unique compared to other VDI or desktop virtualization solutions on the market. Stick around to the end and watch as Clemmer explores some of the latest features of Parallels RAS with a quick demo. Learn more about Parallels RAS at their Website: https://www.parallels.com/products/ras/remote-application-server/ Read the VMblog 2021 Mega Series Q&A with Parallels exploring Work From Anywhere: https://vmblog.com/archive/2021/05/05/vmblog-2021-mega-series-q-a-parallels-explores-and-educates-on-work-from-anywhere.aspx#.YJrBMaFOnho Don't forget to watch, read and follow VMblog: Website: https://vmblog.com​ 2021 Mega Series: https://events.vmblog.com/mega-series-2021.html Twitter: https://twitter.com/vmblog​ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vmblog​ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VMblogcom/ Jump straight in: ↪️ 0:00​ - Intro 0:25​ - Introducing Don Clemmer of Parallels 0:46 - Background look at Parallels 1:28 - EUC evolving in post-pandemic world 2:55​ - Parallels RAS creating secure remote work environments 3:55 - What's unique about Parallels RAS compared to other VDI solutions? 5:08 - What were the affects of the shift to remote work? 7:18 - How does Parallels enable a shift to remote work? 9:16 - Is this the year of VDI? Or is it dead? 11:51 - How has the cloud reshaped EUC? 14:24 - What does the future of EUC look like? 15:18 - Demo of Parallels 21:58 - Wrap up

Are you interested in learning more about the #virtualization and #cloudcomputing industry? Do you have problems and challenges in your organization and need solutions? Virtualization remains at the forefront of today's modern data center, but things are also extending into the cloud to enable true hybrid and multi-cloud environments. The "cloud" still means different things to different people in the IT world, so over the next few months, this VMblog Mega Series will continue to explore these topics with help from a number of industry experts and leaders who will share their knowledge to further educate the community at large. In this episode of the Mega Series, VMblog is joined by a long time industry expert of virtualization and cloud computing, Brad Parks, the CMO at Morpheus. Watch and learn as he provides a quick overview on Morpheus and what they've been up to since we last spoke at VMworld. Parks explains how his company and solution fits within the landscape, and details the challenges that his customers face when trying to modernize their automation processes. Come and learn about the trends impacting this market, and how the shift to containers has changed the dynamics of hybrid cloud automation. Find out how Morpheus differentiates itself from competitors, and why you might prefer their solutions to others. And watch as Parks explores some of their latest features in a quick demo. Learn more about Morpheus at their Website: https://morpheusdata.com/ Take Morpheus for a test drive: https://morpheusdata.com/demo Morpheus Developer Zone: https://developer.morpheusdata.com/ Don't forget to watch, read and follow VMblog: Website: https://vmblog.com​ 2021 Mega Series: https://events.vmblog.com/mega-series-2021.html Twitter: https://twitter.com/vmblog​ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vmblog​ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VMblogcom/ Jump straight in: ↪️ 0:00​ - Intro 0:25​ - Introducing Brad Parks of Morpheus 1:04 - Background look at Morpheus 3:15 - Landscape of things 5:00​ - Customer challenges 7:54 - Trends 10:20 - Shift to containers impacting hybrid cloud automation 13:01 - Morpheus differentiators 18:07 - Morpheus Demo 26:27 - Wrap up

Are you interested in learning more about the end user computing industry? Do you have problems and challenges in your organization and need solutions? Maybe you're just looking to better understand which vendors and technologies are out there and available to you. VMblog's Mega Series is the perfect series for you! As part of the Mega Series, over the next few months, you'll hear from a number of industry experts and leaders across multiple topics to help you make important decisions within your own organization. In this episode, VMblog is joined by a long time End User Computing expert, Jason E. Smith, VP of Product Marketing at Liquidware. Watch and learn as he provides a quick overview on Liquidware, and explores the who, what, why of end user computing. What are the benefits? What are the coming trends? How did the pandemic affect the market, and what happens now that more organizations are working from home or working from anywhere? How has the cloud reshaped EUC after being an on-premises focused market for so long. Find out how Liquidware differentiates itself in the EUC market from its competitors and why you might prefer their solutions to others. And watch as Smith explores some of the latest Liquidware features in a quick demo. Learn more about Liquidware at their Website: https://www.liquidware.com/ Read the VMblog 2021 Mega Series Q&A with Liquidware: https://vmblog.com/archive/2021/04/15/vmblog-2021-mega-series-q-a-liquidware-explores-and-educates-on-end-user-computing.aspx#.YIh3-6FOnho Don't forget to watch, read and follow VMblog: Website: https://vmblog.com​ 2021 Mega Series: https://events.vmblog.com/mega-series-2021.html Twitter: https://twitter.com/vmblog​ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vmblog​ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VMblogcom/ Jump straight in: ↪️ 0:00​ - Intro 0:25​ - Introducing Jason E. Smith of Liquidware 0:44 - Background look at Liquidware 3:44 - Defining End User Computing and exploring the benefits 6:15​ - End user computing trends 9:54 - How was EUC affected by Pandemic? And Work From Anywhere? 12:14 - Is this the year of VDI? Or is it dead? 14:46 - How has the cloud reshaped EUC? 16:43 - Liquidware differentiators 20:36 - What does the future hold for Liquidware and EUC? 22:17 - Liquidware Demo 25:13 - Wrap up

Ahead of Failover Conf (https://www.failoverconf.io) -- Gremlin's annual conference dedicated to reliability -- VMblog spoke with James Thigpen, Director of Engineering at Gremlin, the Chaos Engineering company founded by former Netflix and Amazon engineers. Quick background. Gremlin is the world’s first hosted Chaos Engineering service with a mission to help build a more reliable internet, and prevent costly and reputation-damaging outages. Its failure-as-a-service platform empowers engineers to build more resilient systems through safe experimentation. Watch this video interview to learn more as Thigpen discusses his move to Gremlin, and details some of the main challenges to people adopting Chaos Engineering more broadly. Gremlin has also made a major announcement around an update to its platform, treating services as a first class citizen. Thigpen double clicks and provides more details about what this means exactly and that can benefit engineering teams. Find out more about Gremlin at their website: https://www.gremlin.com Check out the Gremlin free plan here: https://www.gremlin.com/getstarted/ Don't forget to watch, read and follow VMblog: Website: https://vmblog.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/vmblog LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vmblog Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VMblogcom/ Jump straight in: ↪️ 0:00 - Intro 0:25 - Introducing James Thigpen, Director of Engineering at Gremlin 0:44 - Recently joined Gremin 1:31 - Why did you join? Were you doing Chaos Engineering while at Rover? 2:31 - Main challenges to adopting Chaos Engineering 4:31 - Major Gremlin Update - How does it benefit engineering teams? 6:36 - Service oriented view - does it make it easier for developers to do Chaos Engineering? 8:24 - Reliability testing - Developers vs. Ops 11:10 - Wrap up

In this episode of the VMblog Expert Video Interview Series, we spoke with Julian Chesterfield of Sunlight, a developer of virtualization technology for data-intensive applications. Quick background. Sunlight makes performance possible anywhere - from the cloud to the edge. Sunlight’s HCI stack makes applications like AI, Big Data, Analytics and Rendering run 3x faster compared to legacy virtualization, and because Sunlight has a tiny footprint - it’s perfect for the edge. Watch this video interview to learn more as Chesterfield kicks things off with a great explanation on Sunlight and their technology, and then provides a deeper dive into HCI and how hyperconvergence is different from the data center to the edge. Hear how Sunlight differs from and is unique when compared to VMware or Nutanix, especially when it comes to HCI at the edge. If you haven't been exposed to Sunlight Nexvisor yet, this is a great place to start. Find out more about Sunlight at their website: https://sunlight.io​ Download and demo the solution for yourself.​ Don't forget to watch, read and follow VMblog: Website: https://vmblog.com​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/vmblog​ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vmblog​ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VMblogcom/ Jump straight in: ↪️ 0:00​ - Intro 0:25​ - Introducing Julian Chesterfield, CEO, Sunlight 0:48​ - Background look at Sunlight 3:44 - Hyperconverged requirements. Difference between Data Center and Edge. 7:22​ - HCI Stacks at Edge - VMware and Nutanix 10:28​ - Learn about Sunlight Nexvisor 13:57 - Microservices at the Edge. Do we need HCI? 16:36 - Wrap up and how to get Nexvisor

In this episode of the VMblog Expert Video Interview Series, we spoke with Barak Schoster, CTO and Co-Founder of Bridgecrew, a developer-first #cloud #security company. Quick background. Bridgecrew's stated mission is to bridge the gap between cloud security and developers. It's undeniable that security is shifting left and becoming more automated, as it's being deployed more and more as code. And that means it will fall within the developer's purview. The company was started because they saw that there was a huge bottleneck in security engineering, in DevSecOps, and how engineers were running cloud infrastructure security. Watch this video interview to learn more as Schoster dives in and talks about the rise in DevSecOps, and explains the move to cloud and distributed environments and how that creates unique challenges. We also discuss in more detail the differences between cloud infrastructure security and application security and where they overlap. You'll also want to hear as Schoster talks about their VS Code extension that flags security concerns for developers right within their dev environment. Find out more about Bridgecrew at their website: https://bridgecrew.io​ Join Bridgecrew on Slack: https://slack.bridgecrew.io/​ Don't forget to watch, read and follow VMblog: Website: https://vmblog.com​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/vmblog​ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vmblog​ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VMblogcom/ Jump straight in: ↪️ 0:00​ - Intro 0:25​ - Introducing Barak Schoster, CTO at Bridgecrew 1:52​ - The Rise in DevSecOps 3:15​ - Cloud Security, Moving to Cloud, Unique Challenges 5:26​ - Cloud Infrastructure Security vs. Application Security 7:22​ - New VS Code extension flags security for developers 10:08 - Wrap up, next steps

In this episode of the VMblog Expert Video Interview Series, we spoke with Ben Sigelman, the CEO and co-founder of Lightstep, creators of one of the leading Observability tools for understanding microservices and serverless architectures. Quick background. Lightstep delivers confidence at scale for those who develop, operate and rely on today’s powerful software applications. Its products leverage distributed tracing technology – initially developed by a Lightstep co-founder at Google – to offer best-of-breed observability to organizations adopting microservices or serverless at scale. Watch this video interview to learn more as Sigelman explains the differences between monitoring and observability and how these tools breakdown. He also discusses the OpenTelemetry project, and how Lightstep makes use of it rather than proprietary agents to collect data. The company has also been working on something new, Change Intelligence, and Sigelman explains it and what makes it possible. Finally, we wrap up with a discussion around AIOps and how Change Intelligence benefits developers, SREs and other engineers. Find out more about Lightstep at their website: https://lightstep.com You can also give it a try in this sandbox environment: https://lightstep.com/sandbox Or get started with a community account: https://app.lightstep.com/signup/developer Don't forget to watch, read and follow VMblog: Website: https://vmblog.com Download a host of Whitepapers: https://vmblog.com/whitepapers.aspx Twitter: https://twitter.com/vmblog LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vmblog Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VMblogcom/ Jump straight in: ↪️ 0:00​ - Intro 0:48​ - Ben Sigelman explains differences between monitoring and observability. 3:09 - Expectation that users will have a tool for monitoring and another for observability 4:33 - Lightstep doesn't use proprietary agents for data collection, but rather OpenTelemetry. 9:04​ - Introducing Change Intelligence. What is it and what makes it possible? 11:53 - Is this different from AIOps? 14:48​ - Wrap up

As part of our annual #predictions series for 2021, VMblog (https://vmblog.com) asked a number of different industry experts to share their thoughts about the new year. In episode 7, we hear from these experts: David Friend, Co-Founder and CEO of Wasabi; Rick Taylor, President and CEO, Stacey Sujeebun, Director, Marketing Communications, Glenn Mathis, VP and GM, Global Client Services, Kevin Kern, SVP, Digital Transformation, and Nick Pegley, SVP, Solutions & Services of Konica Minolta; Perparim Bislimi, Customer Success Engineer at Login VSI; Tejas Gadhia, Evangelist, Zoho; and Gregg Apirian, VP Customer Experience and George Clopp, CTO of Korbyt. Watch as these experts talk about their predictions and share their thoughts around the future of technology within the IT industry. [0:34] - Watch as David Friend, Co-Founder and CEO of Wasabi shares his predictions for 2021. It's clear that 2020 has acted as the catalyst for businesses to fully embrace the cloud. So, Friend also shares four trends that he predicts we will see come to the forefront of the cloud technology market in this article: https://vmblog.com/archive/2020/11/30/wasabi-2021-predictions-four-trends-driving-the-cloud-technology-market-in-2021.aspx#.YBQ85xZMHho [3:37] - Listen as Rick Taylor, Stacey Sujeebun, Glenn Mathis, Kevin Kern, and Nick Pegley of Konica Minolta explore a number of technology predictions, the intelligent connected workplace, devices, IT security, securing data and applications and more. [5:33] - Watch as Perparim Bislimi, Customer Success Engineer at Login VSI shares his predictions for 2021, talking about the rate of change in IT, working from anywhere, and more. Change is increasing, and automation the only way to deal with that. [8:42] - Explore 2021 predictions with Tejas Gadhia, Evangelist at Zoho. There are four clear ways in which new work conditions spurred on by the pandemic will influence how and what developers across skill-levels build. AI, privacy regulation, low-code adoption for business users, and serverless solution growth will all be key factors for DevOps in 2021. Read about his predictions here: https://vmblog.com/archive/2020/12/03/zoho-2021-predictions-low-code-privacy-ai-and-more-will-re-shape-software-development.aspx#.YBQ-_xZMHho [11:15] - Watch Gregg Apirian, VP Customer Experience and George Clopp, CTO of Korbyt share their predictions for 2021, as they discuss trends including targeting for internal communications. Most aren't doing this just yet. Jump straight in: ↪️ 0:00 - Intro 0:34 - David Friend, Co-Founder and CEO of Wasabi 3:37 - Rick Taylor, Stacey Sujeebun, Glenn Mathis, Kevin Kern, and Nick Pegley of Konica Minolta 5:33 - Perparim Bislimi, Customer Success Engineer at Login VSI 8:42 - Tejas Gadhia, Evangelist, Zoho 11:15 - Gregg Apirian, VP Customer Experience and George Clopp, CTO of Korbyt

In this episode of the VMblog Expert Video Interview Series, we spoke with Cole Potrocky, CTO and co-founder of Kintaba, the incident management platform built by ex-Facebook engineers. Quick background. Kintaba takes the work out of incident management discipline. Helping you quickly contact the right people, work the problem as a group, write your postmortem, schedule and track your reviews, and then store all your historical data in an easy to access data system. Watch this video interview to learn more as Potrocky provides details about his background and why he started the company. He discusses why organizing the response to major incidents has traditionally been the sole responsibility of technical talent and gives his thoughts as to why the entire organization should be involved in the response process. He also answers the question about "tooling overload." Why do users need yet another tool? And perhaps most importantly, in this conversation, he talks about a new offering from Kintaba, called Milestones. Listen as he explains what it is, how it works, and why it's important. Find out more about Kintaba at their website: https://www.kintaba.com Don't forget to watch, read and follow VMblog: Website: https://vmblog.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/vmblog LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vmblog Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VMblogcom/ Jump straight in: ↪️ 0:00 - Intro 0:39 - Cole Potrocky background and why started Kintaba 2:15 - Should anyone be able to declare a SEV1 incident? 4:37 - What do you say to people who feel as though they have tooling overload? 7:00 - Announcing Milestones. What is it, how does it work, and why is it important? 8:57 - How do you convince companies to review incidents after they've been resolved? 10:58 - Wrap up