We hear about new features and buying modes for Google Cloud VMware Engine from 2 experts.

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 build a distributed, crowd-sources security platform for penetration testing and digital vulnerability analysis. Mark shares how and why they decided to go with Google Cloud VMware Engine, how their deployment went, and roughly how large it was. For more information, check out this blog.   More info on Synack:https://www.synack.com/https://www.synack.com/red-team/https://www.synack.com/were-in-synack-podcast/   Sr. Producer: Cheryl YoungEditor: Bill Roth

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

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 model, how he uses it, and how it helps to give customers a broader perspective on Cloud Economics. If you are a partner and would like to talk to us about the VMware Cloud Economics Model, please email us at [email protected].    Mentioned in this episode: SoftChoice.com The VMware online TCO tool

In this episode, we talk with Marie Burke at Director of Product Marketing at CloudHealth about all things related to cloud cost management

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, their process(Spoiler alert: the 3 E’s), and some of the results they have seen in working with making customers successful on VMware Cloud.

In this episode, we talk about how power, cooling and heat in general can affect the economics of your decision to go to the cloud.

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.   Mentioned in this episode:   e-Book: Realize Your Journey to the Cloud infographic: Unified Visibility Across Clouds Forrester Paper

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 one of the major success *and* risk factors.   Want your own cloud economics TCO analysis? You have two options: Check out http://vmctco.vmware.com for a DIY TCO Email us at [email protected], and we'll assign you an Economist after we collect some data.   Also mentioned in this podcast:   Fundamentals of Risk in Decisions – Part 1: https://cloud.vmware.com/community/2019/03/25/fundamentals-risk-decisions-part-1/   This episode was sponsored by vRealize Cloud Management: Need to Speed up delivery of your infrastructure & app services, optimize your cloud costs by simplifying financial management, or  reduce risks by strengthening security & compliance… in your VMware Cloud?  Look no further than vRealize Cloud Management. For more info, go to: http://vmware.com/products/vrealize-cloud-management.html  today!

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.