App delivery has become a major factor in the adoption of multi-cloud strategies and as a key enabler in gaining competitive advantage. In fact, 88% of executives believe that improving their application portfolio directly influences the experience they can offer to their customers. Scott McKinnon returns, with regulars Nick Cross and Ralf Gegg come for a final time in this series to ponder the importance of apps as part of a broader business strategy, how to keep them secure and why we...

With increasing geopolitical uncertainty, much of the world entering recession and a slow recovery from the pandemic, it’s no wonder that businesses’ desire to better control and protect their data is growing. Nick Cross and Ralf Gegg are joined by special guest Scott McKinnon, Field Chief Information Security Officer and Strategist for VMware in EMEA, to discuss data sovereignty and the importance or otherwise of knowing exactly where your organisation’s data is and who has access to it.

Being effective in a modern hybrid working environment is a team sport, with a range of non-traditional stakeholders and issues outside of siloed functional or business topics. Building trust and openness between and within teams is becoming critical, whether they interact with each other in person or remotely. Nick Cross, Ralf Gegg and David White continue their discussion on the convergence of networking, security and the digital workspace – this time around, considering what businesses...

With modern IT security transforming into a far more flexible discipline than in the past, can we use it as an asset that contributes directly to the bottom line, rather than it being a hindrance in a company’s innovation toolbox? Our panel of VMware experts, Nick Cross, Ralf Gegg, and David White discuss how the convergence of security, networking and the digital workspace can deliver real bottom-line value by enabling greater levels of innovation.

With 70% of organizations having either implemented increased employee IT surveillance measures or having planned to do so by the end of 2021 – when does acceptable monitoring of IT become intrusive surveillance or even spying on the workforce? Our VMware panel of experts, Nick Cross, Ralf Gegg, and David White, ponder the technological and social implications of employee monitoring, the commercial benefits of getting it right, and the penalties for getting it wrong.

With 81% of organisations suffering at least one significant security breach in 2021, one can’t help but wonder – how much can we blame this increase on the impact of the pandemic and specifically, the move to more remote working?  Experts from VMware in Europe, Middle-East and Africa, including Nick Cross, Vice-President of Networking and Security Sales, Ralf Gegg, Vice-President of End User Computing Sales, and David White, Director of Security Solution Engineering, discuss what businesses...

Garry Owen, host of the new Convergence by VMware podcast series, discusses what you can expect from upcoming episode launching in the new year. From employee monitoring to data security, various topics will be discussed with experts. Hit subscribe to make sure you don’t miss the first episode launching in January.