Broadcom Inc., which recently acquired VMware, previewed highlights of VMware Explore 2024, the industry's essential cloud event. VMware Explore 2024 will kick-off in Las Vegas on August 26-29, 2024 at The Venetian Convention and Expo Center. That event will be followed by VMware Explore 2024 in Barcelona, Spain on November 4-7, 2024 at the Fira Gran Via.

In the ever-evolving landscape of enterprise technology, staying ahead of the curve is not just an advantage-it's a necessity. For IT professionals looking to sharpen their skills, expand their network, and gain insights into the future of cloud computing and virtualization, VMware Explore 2024 stands out as the must-attend event of the year.

With a theme of "Set your sights higher," the event is scheduled for August 26-29, 2024 and takes place in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Venetian Convention Center and Expo Center. VMware Explore 2024 promises to be a cornerstone gathering for technologists, innovators, and industry leaders. This year's event is poised to showcase the latest advancements in multi-cloud strategies, app modernization, and the ever-expanding role of AI in IT operations.

This event also marks the first VMware Explore since the acquisition by Broadcom. Attendees will get a much better picture as to what direction Broadcom will be taking VMware, beyond what we already know. Will this be the last VMware Explore? Who knows, but we hope not. And that might be the best reason of all to make sure you attend this year.

This week, Veeam hosted its annual user conference, VeeamON 2024, at the Diplomat Beach Resort in Hollywood, Florida. The focus of the event was clear: Veeam is transitioning from a data backup provider to a comprehensive cyber resilience solution company.

Over the three-day event, Veeam was able to showcase the company's latest innovations in data protection, cloud integration, and artificial intelligence (AI). The event provided a platform for Veeam executives to share their vision and unveil new offerings designed to address the evolving needs of its customers in an ever-changing technology landscape. And two of those Veeam executives that VMblog had the pleasure to sit down with were Rick Vanover, VP of Product Strategy, and Shiva Pillay, GM and SVP of Americas.

Scality provides object storage for on-premises IT infrastructure. Organizations looking to store and manage critical peta-byte scale data turn to Scality to help them manage and store their unstructured data stores. This includes massive amounts of image files, documents, PDFs, videos and other data that does not sit in a database.

In this exclusive VeeamON 2024 interview, VMblog sits down with Candida Valois, field CTO at Scality, to explore their cutting-edge technology and their strategic partnership with Veeam. Valois sheds light on the features and advantages of Scality's technology and discusses their partnership and how they collaborate with Veeam.

In recent years, Scality has expanded its offering to include cyber-resilient storage solutions that protect data against AI-fueled ransomware. Scality ARTESCA is simple and secure S3 object storage that is built for Veeam to provide ransomware-proof backups; it's designed to provide the strongest form of data immutability plus five levels of cyber resiliency-that Scality refers to as the CORE5.

Valois says ARTESCA is optimized specifically for Veeam and supports all of its object storage capabilities. It is purpose-built for Veeam users and available as a turnkey integrated hardware appliance, making it the easiest-to-deploy solution on the market. In short, it's secure, efficient and simple to use.

Learn more at their website: https://www.scality.com

Learn more about ARTESCA and try it out: https://www.artesca.scality.com/

Ready for VeeamOn 2024?  Will you be in attendance?  Make sure to visit with Scality.

VeeamON 2024 (the home of radical resilience) is taking place in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, June 3-5, 2024 at the Diplomat Beach Resort.

Get started by reading this exclusive pre-show interview between VMblog and Candida Valois, field CTO at Scality, a global leader in cyber-resilient storage for the AI era.

In an era where data is the lifeblood of organizations, safeguarding it has become paramount. The need for modern, resilient backup and recovery systems is more significant than ever, especially in the face of rising cyber threats like ransomware. Enter Object First, founded by the co-founders of Veeam-Ratmir Timashev and Andrei Baronov, and the creators of Ootbi (out-of-the-box immutability).

In this exclusive VeeamON 2024 interview, VMblog sits down with Anthony Cusimano, Technical Marketing Director at Object First, to explore their cutting-edge technology and their strategic partnership with Veeam.

In this video, Cusimano explores the features and advantages of Object First's technology, and discusses their collaboration and partnership with Veeam.

Ootbi is an object storage appliance built for backup and, even more specifically, for Veeam. It takes less than 15 minutes to configure, requires zero security and Linux expertise, and no additional setup or namespace adjustment is needed at the Veeam layer when scaled.

Capacity and performance scale linearly when adding additional nodes, supporting backup speeds up to 4.0 gigabytes per second with up to half a petabyte of storage space. Ootbi was designed to empower Veeam Backup & Replication and supports Veeam's standard block size and encryption by default.

Learn more at their website: https://objectfirst.com

Find out more in this written VMblog Q&A article with Object First.

Get an inside look at the latest innovations and strategic vision of IGEL Technologies in this insightful discussion with James Millington, VP of Vertical Solutions at IGEL, from their flagship DISRUPT 2024 event in Miami Beach.

James kicks off the conversation by reflecting on IGEL's recent brand relaunch and repositioning, emphasizing their focus on providing a secure endpoint operating system for "now and next." He delves into the evolving landscape of end-user computing, where traditional virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) strategies are giving way to a more diverse approach, incorporating desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) and SaaS applications.

Join us for an insightful conversation with Brad Tompkins, the newly appointed CEO of Workspot, as he shares his perspectives on the future of end-user computing and the company's innovative approach to virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) at IGEL DISRUPT24 in Miami Beach.

In this engaging discussion, Brad highlights IGEL DISRUPT as a premier venue for the end-user computing (EUC) community, fostering collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and driving innovation in the industry.

Get the inside scoop on the latest innovations and announcements from IGEL Technologies straight from Carl Gersh, VP of Global Marketing, in this exclusive interview from IGEL DISRUPT24.

Carl kicks off the conversation by reflecting on the transformative changes and growth at IGEL over the past year, highlighting the company's continued commitment to driving the future of secure, high-performance end-user computing.

Get an inside look at LG's innovative solutions for the end-user computing space in this insightful discussion with Aaron Addison, Strategic Alliance Manager at LG Electronics, from IGEL DISRUPT 2024 in Miami Beach.

Aaron kicks off the conversation by providing an overview of LG's long-standing presence in the EUC market, dating back to 2009 with their zero client offerings. He highlights LG's diverse product portfolio, spanning from laptops and mobile thin clients to purpose-built thin clients and portable monitors, catering to the evolving needs of modern digital workspaces.

In Paris this March, join thousands of cloud native community members to dive into topics including AI, WASM, Platform Engineering, security, and more

Join us for a special VMblog spotlight video ahead of AWS re:Invent 2023, with five innovative companies that are leading the way in cloud computing. These companies are at the forefront of developing new technologies and solutions that will help transform your company.

In this video, you will learn about:

Dynatrace: Dynatrace exists to make the world’s software work perfectly. Their unified platform combines broad and deep observability and continuous runtime application security with the most advanced AIOps to provide answers and intelligent automation from data at an enormous scale. This enables innovators to modernize and automate cloud operations, deliver software faster and more securely, and ensure flawless digital experiences.

HYCU: HYCU is the fastest-growing leader in the multi-cloud and SaaS data protection as a service industry. By bringing true SaaS-based data backup and recovery to on-premises, cloud-native and SaaS environments, the company provides unparalleled data protection, migration, disaster recovery, and ransomware protection to thousands of companies worldwide. As an award-winning and recognized visionary in the industry, HYCU solutions eliminate complexity, risk, and the high cost of legacy-based solutions, providing data protection simplicity to make the world safer.

Quali: Quali provides the leading platform for Environments as a Service. Global 2000 enterprises rely on Quali’s infrastructure automation and control plane platform to support the continuous delivery of application software at scale. Quali delivers greater control and visibility over infrastructure, so businesses can increase engineering productivity and velocity, understand and manage cloud costs, optimize infrastructure utilization and mitigate risk.

Sumo Logic: Sumo Logic, Inc. turns insights into action by enabling customers to deliver reliable and secure cloud-native applications through its Sumo Logic SaaS Log Analytics Platform. By analyzing logs and other data sources, including events, metrics and traces at scale through one, unified self-managed platform, Sumo Logic enables developers, operations and security teams to ensure application reliability, secure and protect against modern security threats, and gain insights into their cloud infrastructures. Customers worldwide rely on Sumo Logic to get powerful real-time analytics and insights across observability and security solutions for their cloud-native applications.

Sysdig: In the cloud, every second counts. Attacks move at warp speed, and security teams must protect the business without slowing it down. Sysdig stops cloud attacks in real time, instantly detecting changes in risk with runtime insights and open source Falco. Sysdig correlates signals across cloud workloads, identities, and services to uncover hidden attack paths and prioritize real risk. From prevention to defense, Sysdig helps enterprises focus on what matters: innovation.

This video is a must-watch for anyone who is interested in learning more about the latest innovations in cloud computing. After watching, you'll want to connect with these industry leading companies at their booth, at the event, to explore their latest technologies and to network with their subject matter experts and thought leaders.

At its core, re:Invent is about learning-but that's just the start. It's a week-long immersion among people with a shared passion, including skilled AWS leaders who are excited to share their expertise. You'll efficiently gain practical skills for building more innovative solutions and expand your cloud-tech circle.

Ready for AWS re:Invent 2023?  Attending the show?  Make sure to visit with Sumo Logic.

AWS re:Invent 2023 takes place November 27 - December 1, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada, across multiple venues.

Read this exclusive interview between VMblog and Lynne Doherty, President Worldwide Field Operations of Sumo Logic, the SaaS Log Analytics Platform to enable reliable and secure cloud-native applications.

Ready for AWS re:Invent 2023?  Attending the show?  Make sure to visit with Quali.

AWS re:Invent 2023 takes place November 27 - December 1, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada, across multiple venues.

Read this exclusive interview between VMblog and Colin Neagle, VP Growth Marketing at Quali, a leading provider of Environments-as-a-Service infrastructure automation and management solutions.

Join us for a special VMblog spotlight video ahead of AWS re:Invent 2023, with four innovative companies that are leading the way in cloud computing. These companies are at the forefront of developing new technologies and solutions that will help transform your company.

In this video, you will learn about:

SingleStore: The world's leading brands rely on data - to make the right business decisions, to deliver exceptional customer experiences and to stay ahead of the competition. This reliance on data brings with it a need for simplicity, speed and scale. SingleStore delivers the world's fastest distributed SQL database for real-time applications, SingleStoreDB. By combining transactional and analytical workloads, SingleStore eliminates performance bottlenecks and unnecessary data movement to support constantly growing, demanding workloads. Digital giants like Hulu and Comcast, and many more of the world's leading SaaS providers, choose SingleStore to unleash the power of their data - supercharging exceptional, real-time data experiences for their customers.

vFunction: vFunction is the first and only AI-driven Continuous Modernization Platform for architects that provides Architectural Observability and Automation to manage technical debt and enable iterative application modernization, from basic refactoring to full rewriting and microservices extraction.

Mirantis: Mirantis helps organizations ship code faster on public and private clouds, increasing developer productivity by removing the stress of managing infrastructure. The company combines intelligent automation and cloud native expertise to provide a ZeroOps approach to managing and operating Kubernetes and cloud environments. Mirantis delivers a public cloud experience on any infrastructure, from the data center to the edge, with one cohesive cloud experience for complete app and DevOps portability, a single pane of glass, and automated full-stack lifecycle management, all based on open source.

Cohesity: Cohesity is a leader in AI-powered data security and management. Aided by an extensive ecosystem of partners, Cohesity makes it easy to secure, protect, manage, and get value from data - across the data center, edge, and cloud. Cohesity helps organizations defend against cybersecurity threats with comprehensive data security and management capabilities, including immutable backup snapshots, AI-based threat detection, monitoring for malicious behavior, and rapid recovery at scale. Cohesity solutions can be delivered as a service, self-managed, or provided by a Cohesity-powered partner. Cohesity is headquartered in San Jose, CA and is trusted by the world's largest enterprises, including six of the Fortune 10 and 42 of the Fortune 100.

This video is a must-watch for anyone who is interested in learning more about the latest innovations in cloud computing. After watching, you'll want to connect with these industry leading companies at their booth, at the event, to explore their latest technologies and to network with their subject matter experts and thought leaders.

At its core, re:Invent is about learning-but that's just the start. It's a week-long immersion among people with a shared passion, including skilled AWS leaders who are excited to share their expertise. You'll efficiently gain practical skills for building more innovative solutions and expand your cloud-tech circle.