In this briefing, we will look at VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) — both the strategy and the practical implementation. Understanding how VCF works, what its strengths/weaknesses are and how to best utilize VCF within your organization is key to properly leveraging VCF platform.

Infrastructure Automation is the cornerstone that allows IT to provide consumable infrastructure for development and application teams inside your organization. Automation is also key to reducing toil and having engineering and operations teams focus on important work and driving your business into the future. However, for many, getting started with Automation can seem like a daunting task, and prioritizing where to start can be a difficult decision.

High-performance computing (HPC) is the ability to process data and perform complex calculations at high speeds — it is all about performance and scale. The hybrid cloud is a solution that combines a private cloud with one or more public cloud services, proprietary software enabling application and data portability between each distinct infrastructure.

Today's businesses rely on rich data-driven decisions to help them achieve their goals, but the explosion of data and the need to analyze it as close to real-time as possible is challenging even the most powerful legacy systems. This need is driving technological innovation in the areas of chip design, computation, storage, and networking, allowing businesses to re-think how they architect and operate infrastructure for data-intensive workloads. This briefing explores modern data-intensive workload technologies, products, and solutions to help identify which solutions work best to meet an organization's needs.