VMworld General Session Keynote 2017
The session
started with VMware telling us about their Inclusion policy, VMware have been
at the fore front of promoting Women in IT and why not, the queues for restrooms
just go to show that not enough women work in IT, it’s the only place the
queues are longer for the gents than they are for the Ladies.
Fortunately,
QA seem to also be making headways looking at the QAA apprenticeship schemes split
of male vs female.
Pat
Gelsinger then took the stage. The big push this year is Enterprise mobility.
With that in
mind Airwatch and Workspace One will be big products, this allows for the “Run
any Application, one any device, on any Cloud.
With more
and more BYOD or mobile devices being consumed by users, VMware feel that IT is
now being utilised in different ways to the past, consumers now want data
available 24/7 in a way that is accessible easily and securely.
AirWatch is
no longer a way to manage purely security of mobile devices, it can now compete
with the likes of Microsoft SCCM to give a truly enterprise mobile device
management solution.
Workspace
One delivers applications to any device, users have a dashboard and they pick
their app.
Workspace
One allows any app to connect to any device and as such HP are embedding the AirWatch
agent into their devices.This also includes VMware Identity management which
allows a complete SSO solution which can integrate with Microsoft AD.
The VMware
Cloud Foundation solution now includes everything needed for a Private cloud
solution, this includes vSphere, VSAN and NSX.
With VMC on
AWS a VMware based hybrid cloud can now be implemented on VMware solutions
running in AWS datacentres.
The two main
growth areas for VMware are no longer vSphere, but now include VMware NSX
(network virtualisation) and VSAN (Software Defined Storage.
We also saw
the future of Cloud management which was virtual virtual datacentres, for this
demo Pat was given a VR headset, with this he entered the Virtual datacentre, he
could see the hosts and see data relating to the hosts, he could interact with
the VMs, pick them up, throw them away, or by throwing them at a cloud, VMotion
the VM to AWS and then enter the cloud and see the resources.
With Elastic
DRS a new host was provisioned and VMs placed automatically onto the new host.
Security was
also a keynote, with Appsense changing how security is viewed. The way is to
capture the good, and then detect any deviations and then finally respond with
automated policies, such as Shutdown a VM.
NSX gives us
encryption and VSAN gives us encryption.
Another
thought provoking part of the talk was that cloud centralises our data centres,
the future will become Edge devices, this will give us distributed clouds which
will allow IoT devices to communicate with the cloud, but still be able to
process locally, think of a car, you really want the system to process locally,
but receive updates etc automatically when required.
As I watch
sessions I’ll pass on the information as quickly as I possibly can.
