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Accelerate, Streamline, and Control Your Self-Service Private Cloud with VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1
VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) has evolved significantly with each release. VCF 9.1 will build on the comprehensive capabilities established in VCF 9.0, delivering an enhanced consumption experience for a self-service private cloud with VCF.
Analyst Insight Series #3: Policy-Driven Governance and Multi-Tenant Control
Guest post by Carl Lehmann, S&P Global Market Intelligence This blog is the final installment in a three-part series that functions as a companion to the 451 Research report, “A Unified Platform Approach to Building Private Clouds for Modern Workloads.” In this blog, we discuss how policy-driven governance helps ensure secure, multi-tenant control and postulate the cultural impact on IT organizations of a unified platform approach to building private clouds for modern workloads.
VCF Breakroom Chats Episode 77: Orchestrate like a Pro - Event Subscriptions and Extensibility for Every Admin with VCF 9.0
In this episode of VCF Breakroom Chats, Alina Thylander and Scott McDermott break down how VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 makes private cloud automation smarter and easier with event‑driven extensibility. You’ll see how real‑time event subscriptions cut out ticket queues, how policy‑as‑code keeps things secure while giving developers freedom, and how orchestrator workflows tie the whole lifecycle together—from deployment to retirement.
VCF Breakroom Chats Episode 76: Cloud Admin Fast Track - Learn Infrastructure as Code the Easy Way with VCF 9.0
Ready to make Infrastructure as Code feel easy? In this episode of VCF Breakroom Chats, Alina Thylander chats with Scott McDermott about how VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 helps VI Admins step into the role of Cloud Admins with confidence. From guided setup and a modern cloud interface to low‑code blueprints and YAML templates, you’ll see how automation makes private cloud operations simpler, safer, and more approachable.
VCF Breakroom Chats Episode 72: From VI Admin to Cloud Provider - Building Your First Self-Service Catalog with VCF 9.0
Welcome to another exciting episode of the VCF Breakroom Chats! In this latest video feature, we’re joined once again by Vincent Riccio, Product Marketing Engineer for the VCF Division at Broadcom, alongside Alina Thylander.
From Tickets to Clicks: Driving Real Consumption in Your Self‑Service Private Cloud
Tired of slow, ticket‑driven provisioning and fragmented cloud operations? The Self‑Service Private Cloud Dummies Guide shows you how to transform your virtual data center into a speed‑first, policy‑driven private cloud that gives developers instant access to the infrastructure they need — while IT keeps full control. This isn’t just about building infrastructure; it’s about creating a product people actually want to consume.
VCF Breakroom Chats Episode 62: Cloud Governance Unlocked - From VI Admin to Cloud Policy Pro with VCF 9.0
Welcome to another exciting edition of the VCF Breakroom Chats! In this latest video feature, we’re thrilled to have Vincent Riccio, Product Marketing Engineer for the VCF Division at Broadcom. Join Vincent and Alina Thylander as they delve into the transformative capabilities of cloud governance with VCF 9.0. Discover how VI Admins can seamlessly transition to Cloud Admin roles by harnessing the power of policy as code.
VCF Breakroom Chats Episode 61: From VI Admin to Cloud Hero - Building a Multi-Tenant Cloud with VCF 9.0
Welcome to the latest edition of VCF Breakroom Chats! In this exciting episode, we’re thrilled to feature Maher Alasfar, a Product Marketing Engineer with the VCF Division at Broadcom. Join Maher and Alina Thylander as they dive into how Virtual Infrastructure Administrators can seamlessly shift to Cloud Admin roles, leveraging the power of VCF Automation.
VCF Breakroom Chats Episode 61: From VI Admin to Cloud Hero - Building a Multi-Tenant Cloud with VCF 9.0
Welcome to the latest edition of VCF Breakroom Chats! In this exciting episode, we’re thrilled to feature Maher Alasfar, a Product Marketing Engineer with the VCF Division at Broadcom. Join Maher and Alina Thylander as they dive into how Virtual Infrastructure Administrators can seamlessly shift to Cloud Admin roles, leveraging the power of VCF Automation.
VCF Breakroom Chats Episode 57: Behind the Code - A Journey from Customer Pain to VCF 9.0
Welcome to the next episode of the VCF Breakroom Chats. Today, we are happy to present this vLog with Shanky Chandra Gowri, Director of Technology Product Management for the VCF Division at Broadcom. In this episode, Shanky Chandra Gowri and Alina Thylander dive into the fascinating journey behind VCF 9.0, explore how valuable customer feedback has influenced its new features, and offer a sneak peek into the enhancements on the horizon! Want to learn more about VCF Automation?
Accelerate App Modernization with VCF Automation at VMware Explore 2025
Are you ready to unlock new possibilities and revolutionize your thinking? Join us at VMware Explore 2025, taking place in Las Vegas from August 25–28, where groundbreaking ideas and innovative solutions converge. Our diverse range of sessions is designed to ignite your creativity, expand your knowledge, and empower you to achieve your goals.
Automation Services for VMware Private AI
In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, staying ahead requires organizations to embark on infrastructure modernization initiatives. A new wave of AI-enabled applications is poised to significantly boost worker productivity and speed up economic development on a global scale, just as the mobile-app revolution transformed businesses and technology over the years. We are at the beginning of a new innovation cycle, and this effort is not without challenges.
Next-Gen Public Cloud Management with VMware Aria Automation
Organizations can enable multi-cloud infrastructure consumption for greater agility and enhanced business value with automation capabilities from VMware Aria. They can unlock modern DevOps-enabled capabilities with a common multi-cloud infrastructure consumption layer that speeds up the delivery of infrastructure and services—both private and public, which are key to driving increased profitability, top-line revenue, and enhanced agility.
VMware Named a Leader in The Forrester WaveTM: Cloud Cost Management and Optimization, Q3 2022
This week, Forrester Research published the Forrester WaveTM: Cloud Cost Management and Optimization, Q3 2022. If you’re not familiar, The Forrester WaveTM is a guide created to help buyers evaluate a shortlist of vendors in order to make the right purchasing decisions for their business. Ten vendors were assessed based on responses to a questionnaire, product demo, strategy briefing, and customer feedback.
Announcing General Availability of VMware vRealize Automation 8.9
vRealize Automation 8.9 is now generally available for download. vRealize Automation 8.9 – Modern Infrastructure Automation Platform Demand for new application development continues to rise globally, as we see an increase in the use of modern application frameworks by developers and the use of Kubernetes in production by organizations. This further creates an even greater need for organizations to adopt a multi-cloud strategy and be able to execute apps in any public cloud.
Introducing the Tanzu Mission Control Integration for vRealize Automation Cloud
With the July 2022 release of vRealize Automation Cloud, Tanzu Kuberentes Clusters deployed through vRealize Automation Cloud can be automatically added to Tanzu Mission Control Cluster Groups and therefore inherit the associated Access, Security, Quota and Custom policies.
vRealize Automation at VMware Explore 2022 US
Where is vRealize Automation at VMware Explore 2022 US?
Cloud Assembly Cloud Guardrails - The AWS Landing Zone Use Case.
With the arrival of the vRealize Automation Cloud May 2022 release, the foundation for a new governance capability known as Cloud Guardrails (currently in tech preview) has been introduced in Cloud Assembly. Tech Preview means that not all functionality and capabilities are currently available, but we are releasing incremental capabilities to gather your feedback. You’ll see this feature suite grow in capabilities over the next several releases.
A Technical Preview into Cloud Assembly's Cloud Guardrails feature
With the arrival of the vRealize Automation Cloud May 2022 release, the foundation for a new governance capability known as Cloud Guardrails (currently in technical preview) has been introduced in Cloud Assembly. This is a new policy service that deploys policies through templates that monitor and manage the configuration, security, network, performance, and cost drift in your environment, by adhering to rules that you define and apply via data templates.
vRealize Automation Cloud - 05.22 Launch Update
Share on: 0 vRealize Automation Cloud – 05.22 release is now generally available. Scroll down to learn more! For years, VMware has focused on supporting technology innovation driving critical business innovation. The demand for new application development had already been on the rise, but COVID-19 further accelerated this by amplifying the need for digital presence and a multi-cloud strategy.
Git Repository Integration in vRealize Orchestrator
If you have developed vRealize Orchestrator content, you might have had the need to have that vRealize Orchestrator content shared across different instances. In previous vRealize Orchestrator versions you might have done this by creating Packages, exporting them to your local machine and importing them to another desired vRealize Orchestrator instance.
vRealize Automation for Dummies
COVID-19 has required worldwide organizations in both private and public sectors to reconsider the way they need to operate. The changes have encouraged organizations to rely more on digital services to engage with customers. Consequently, organizations need to provide innovative and compelling digital services at a faster pace, with security and consistency.
vRealize Automation 8.7 Brings Deeper Security and Kubernetes Automation to vRealize Suite
With the recently announced general availability of vRealize Automation 8.7 (“vRA”), vRealize Suite has received a major boost to its Kubernetes automation functionality, among other platform enhancements. Tanzu Kubernetes Grid delivers an enterprise-ready Kubernetes runtime across any cloud(s), streamlining operations for developers across private, hybrid, or multi-cloud infrastructure. With vRA 8.7, TKG clusters can now be requested, created, and managed from within vRealize.
SaltStack Config Resource Type in vRealize Automation Cloud Template
I am very excited to introduce our latest feature enhancement between vRealize Automation and SaltStack Config with the introduction of a SaltStack Config Resource Types for vRealize Automation Cloud Templates. Last year we introduced the saltConfiguration property into the Cloud Template YAML as part of a virtual machine set of properties.
Introducing vRealize Automation SaltStack Config Job Updates
vRealize Automation SaltStack Config has had quite a few new features lately that have helped our customers with many IT tasks, however I am particularly excited about a new feature that provides additional capabilities and logic to SaltStack Jobs.
Announcing General Availability of VMware vRealize Automation 8.7
Consistent Automation Across Clouds and Data Centers. Scroll down to learn more! To embrace the digital transformation, businesses need technology that adapts and scales rapidly, reliably, and cost-effectively. Applications are more important than ever, progressively serving as how organizations engage with customers.
How VMware is helping to optimize healthcare outcomes with real-time solutions
For most organizations, automation is becoming more than a nice-to-have. It means key personnel can focus their energies away from the routine and repetitive, and toward delivering critical outcomes – and nowhere are the outcomes more critical than in healthcare. Getting IT out of the way A US healthcare provider with 100 critical illness recovery hospitals, 30 inpatient rehab hospitals and 50,000 employees in 45 states has multiple operational objectives and success metrics.
What’s New in vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.6?
Well, our product team has been busy since the 8.4 release of vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager and it shows in our latest release, 8.6. This is a hefty payload of new features, product enhancements and usability tweaks that will certainly bring a lot of value to customers of vRealize Suite and vRealize Cloud Universal.
Custom Resources - Resource Actions Troubleshooting and Event Topics
As you probably know in vRealize Automation you can create your own Resources (Custom Resources) and Day-2 actions (Resource Actions) backed by vRealize Orchestrator workflows in your Cloud Templates and deployments! You could learn the basics at this excellent blog Custom Resources and Resource Actions in vRealize Automation Cloud by Vincent Riccio and I would suggest also review this blog Integrating Tanzu Mission Control with vRealize Automation Custom Resources by Sam McGeown where these...
What’s New with vRealize Automation – Technical Overview - VMware Cloud Management
August, 2021 Update Since my last update, the vRA team has shifted to monthly releases for both our SaaS and on premises versions of vRA. This blog post is a roll-up of the 8.4.1, 8.4.2, and 8.5 releases. Click the link for each version to take a look at the release notes.
Announcing General Availability of VMware vRealize Automation 8.5
Simplify your cloud experience with vRealize Automation 8.5, the modern infrastructure automation platform – now generally available. Scroll down to learn more! Traditionally, the IT landscape has struggled with widespread human error, over-provisioned resources, and poor governance. The lack of automation led to failed deployments, compliance, and security risks, below par performance and downtime issues.
vRealize Automation Updates for Puppet and Ansible Integrations
vRealize Automation has always embraced third party configuration management solutions like Ansible and Puppet to provide extensibility and in-guest management during machine deployments. vRealize Automation has out-of-the-box plugins for Ansible Open Source, Ansible Tower and Puppet Enterprise. In vRealize Automation 8.4 and vRealize Automation Cloud, we have made some improvements to our Ansible and Puppet integrations.
What’s New with vRealize Automation 8.4 – Technical Overview - VMware Cloud Management
We are excited to announce the release of vRealize Automation 8.4. The 8.4 release includes many new features and updates, so many that we can’t list them all on a single blog post. I’ve focused this post on features and updates that have been most requested for this release by vRA customers.
Announcing General Availability of VMware vRealize Automation 8.4
New, modern, event-driven infrastructure automation platform powered by DevOps principles and open-source innovation: VMware vRealize Automation 8.4 is generally available, scroll down to learn more! Building and managing a multi-cloud environment to support the needs of IT admins, Cloud admins, DevOps, lines of business and developers is complicated.
Announcing vRealize Automation 8.4
Announcing new, exciting capabilities for VMware vRealize Automation 8.4. Scroll down to learn more! Today we are announcing VMware vRealize Automation 8.4, the latest release of VMware’s modern, event-driven, agile and open infrastructure automation platform.
Announcing VMware vRealize Orchestrator 8.4
Announcing the latest capabilities in VMware vRealize Orchestrator 8.4. Today we are announcing VMware vRealize Orchestrator 8.4, the latest release of our IT workflow orchestration and automation platform, designed to simplify and automate data center infrastructure workflows and processes for VMware customers. vRealize Orchestrator is delivered as a component of VMware vRealize Automation within vRealize Suite and VMware Cloud Foundation.
Announcing General Availability of VMware vRealize Automation 8.3
Modern, Agile and Open Infrastructure Automation? VMware vRealize Automation 8.3 is HERE. Why wait? Learn more now! Today we are thrilled to announce the general availability of VMware vRealize Automation 8.3, the latest release of VMware’s industry-leading, modern infrastructure automation platform.
Announcing General Availability of VMware vRealize Automation 8.2
Alina Thylander posted 1 minute ago VMware vRealize Automation 8.2 is HERE, scroll down to learn more! We are announcing the general availability of VMware vRealize Automation 8.2, the latest release of VMware’s industry-leading modern infrastructure automation platform.
VMworld Online Around the Globe with vRealize Automation
Alina Thylander posted 33 minutes ago No one could’ve anticipated what COVID-19 would bring to the events world, let alone the world entirely. Due to the uncertain conditions, VMworld has moved to a digital format. This provides a unique opportunity for unlimited, free standard registration to make this year’s event the biggest VMworld ever. Are you ready to take your VMware knowledge to the next level?
Announcing VMware vRealize Automation 8.2
Alina Thylander posted 3 hours ago Announcing new, exciting capabilities for VMware vRealize Automation 8.2. Scroll down to learn more! Today we are announcing VMware vRealize Automation 8.2, the latest release of VMware’s industry-leading, modern infrastructure automation platform.
vRealize Automation Cloud and VMware Cloud on AWS
Alina Thylander posted 1 minute ago Looking for a modern self-service hybrid cloud with DevOps? Discover how vRealize Automation Cloud can rapidly implement a self-service hybrid cloud infrastructure to increase productivity and deployment flexibility. Automation has become increasingly important for simplifying the management of hybrid cloud infrastructure.
Announcing General Availability of VMware vRealize Automation 8.1
Alina Thylander posted 7 minutes ago We are announcing the general availability of VMware vRealize Automation 8.1, the latest release of VMware’s industry-leading hybrid cloud infrastructure automation platform. vRealize Automation 8.1 delivers new and enhanced capabilities to help organizations implement self-service hybrid clouds, multi-cloud automation with governance, and DevOps-based infrastructure delivery. Key enhancements for this release encompass the following areas: Modern Platform.
Announcing VMware vRealize Automation 8.1
Alina Thylander posted 18 minutes ago Today we are announcing VMware vRealize Automation 8.1, the latest release of VMware’s industry-leading, modern infrastructure automation platform.
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