In this episode, we talk to FOS (Friend of the Show) Ken Drachnik at Google Cloud, and VMware's own Paul Stevenson III, AKA PS3, about the latest happenings in the collaboration between VMware and Google known as Google Cloud VMware Engine(GCVE). This includes VMware Cloud Universal credits to make it easier to buy GCVE and burn down commitments, as well as new certifications, and some crazy(good) new support offerings.

Mentioned in this episode:

Carrefour: https://retailtechinnovationhub.com/home/2022/3/31/vmware-helps-carrefour-france-hit-2026-digital-retail-strategy-mileston

Mitel: https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/docs/vmware-mitel-gcve-written-case-study.pdf

Innovator's Dilemma: https://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Dilemma-Revolutionary-Change-Business/dp/0062060244

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 Young Editor: 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). We talk about the latest features and regions in GCVE, and Sai provides several proof points via customers using the service. For more information, see Sai's blog at:

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure-modernization/whats-new-in-google-cloud-vmware-engine