In this episode, we talk to FOS (Friend of the Show) Ken Drachnik at Google Cloud, and VMware's own Paul Stevenson III, AKA PS3, about the latest happenings in the collaboration between VMware and Google known as Google Cloud VMware Engine(GCVE). This includes VMware Cloud Universal credits to make it easier to buy GCVE and burn down commitments, a…

In today’s show we talk to Synack, a trusted Crowdsourced Security Platform, and how they use Google Cloud VMware Engine. Our guests today are Friend of the Show, Ken Drachnik from Google, to tell us about Google Cloud VMware Engine, as well as Mark Kuhr, the CTO and Co-Founder of Synack. We discuss how Synack has used the Google Cloud service to b…

In this episode, we talk to Google's Sai Gopalan VMware's Cheryl Young about the latest news and features around Google Cloud VMware Engine(GCVE). We talk about the latest features and regions in GCVE, and Sai provides several proof points via customers using the service. For more information, see Sai's blog at: https://cloud.google.com/blog/produc…

In this episode, we talk to Brad Beresh from VMware Partner, SoftChoice. Brad has been helping customers with VMware Solutions as well as works on Azure VMware Solution which SoftChoice uses internally. Brad has been partnering with us on Cloud Economics and has been using our partner accessible model for quite a while. Brad talks to use about the …

In this episode, we talk with Marie Burke at Director of Product Marketing at CloudHealth about all things related to cloud cost management and more; including FinOps, Zombie Infrastructure, and a couple of announcements at VMworld 2021. For more information check out these resources: CloudHealth Main page: http://cloudhealthtech.com The CloudHealt…

This week we talk to Tom Spalding, Chief Growth Officer at VMware Partner Effectual. In this episode we talk to Tom about who Effectual is as a modernization service provider, what their superpowers are (Spoiler alert: the 3 E’s), and how they're making customers successful on VMware Cloud. Items mentioned in the podcast: Slides from Tom and Bill’s…

This episode features Cloud Economist and sustainability expert, Craig Stanley. In this episode, we talk about how power and cooling can affect the economics of your decision to move to the cloud. Craig has also released a short video on one of our topics, Power Usage Efficiency. Watch here: https://youtu.be/zegQb2pAMxs…

In this episode we explore how customers are using VMware Cloud and vRealize solutions to extend their data center capacity. We’ll be talking with Sr. Product Marketing Manager, David Pham, who will tell us about what our vRealize Suite can do for you, and he shares some data on the kinds of improvements we’ve seen, based on 3rd party research. Men…

In this episode, we discuss how to model Risk when thinking of moving to the cloud with Lead Cloud Economist and former Gartner Analyst, Craig Stanley. He discusses how to think about how decisions get made, and what are the emotional components of the decisions, in order to be aware of any biases. He also discusses how to look at time, which is on…

This episode will feature VMware's Microsoft Licensing expert, Nicole Palko discussing things you should consider if you are moving Microsoft products from your data center to the cloud. She also outlines what Microsoft licensing documents you should review, and where you can get guidance. Note: Nothing in this episode should be considered legal or…

This podcast will give you a short overview on VMware’s Cloud Economics, and how you can get a VMware Cloud TCO report for your environment. We’ll cover common blindspots customer have when looking at VMware Cloud, how you can use the TCO model to overcome them. In short, if you think the cloud is too expensive, call us, we can help. Mentioned in t…

An introduction to a new podcast from VMware: The VMware Cloud Economics Podcast.Av Bill ROth