DevSecOps Tech Talks | Paving the Road to Modern Apps

Attacks on software supply chains have become prolific in the past few years. Organisations are often forced to trade-off between speed and safety, pulling either the performance, ease of use or customisable lever. How do you de-risk business investments, and enable better co-ordination of work between dev + sec + ops teams?

Attend this session to learn how you can build a compostable, app-aware secure platform with tools you can plug and play:
- Secure you application source code
- Manage app dependencies
- Secure CI/CD systems
- Secure image build & registry
- Secure runtimes

See how easy it is to create and manage modern applications with Spring Cloud and VMware Tanzu Application Platform. You will be guided through the implementation, deployment, and day2 of a typical Spring Cloud microservices architecture application - leveraging a range of technologies such as Spring Boot, Spring Cloud Services, Spring Cloud Gateway, Data Services, and VMware Tanzu Application Platform.

We're looking forward to seeing you there!

The industry has seen explosive growth for Kubernetes in recent years. According to the State of Kubernetes 2022 research report, there has been hyper growth in the number of clusters that companies are deploying in response to the benefits the technology has been providing – particularly in areas of software development and cloud adoption. Based on the projections, there will likely be even more growth in the next few years to come. However, being a still relatively new technology, there are numerous challenges to navigate.

Join us on this webinar to learn how enterprises can tackle the evolving operational challenges, as the industry makes a shift towards hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures.

Legacy applications and services too often slow down and stop business innovation. Yet, 76% of executives said they are too invested in legacy applications to change. They’re caught in the legacy trap! Organisations simply can’t figure out how to prioritise this invisible work over adding new features and apps. But today, there’s no room to avoid modernising core systems if your business wants to keep up. No more new features can be added to software and no more progress can be made on transformation journeys until this fear is faced.

In this webinar we’ll introduce the business-driven methodology that many organisations have used to escape the legacy trap covered in our upcoming ebook The Legacy Trap - How to modernise applications that are holding you back, and why you need to start right now.

Based on actual customer stories and years of experience from our team you’ll learn:
- What does modernisation really mean?
- How business outcomes drive successful modernisation
- How to build and execute on a transformation strategy
- Some common missteps

Many organisations have invested heavily in becoming ‘agile’, but many are left feeling unsatisfied, not seeing the business value they had expected and feeling that things haven’t really changed that much.

Initiating change - and making it stick - in a large organisation is hard. It’s easy to make the mistake of focusing solely on technology and team level changes, while leaving the rest of the organisation unchanged. More often than not, the old way of working wins out and changes don’t materialise.

In this webinar, we’re going to discuss some of the key challenges organisations face adopting agile at scale - specifically governance, leadership behaviours, and funding models - and share some of the approaches we’ve used to help our customers tackle these challenges, make changes stick and deliver real business value to their organisations.

Organisations have evolved their cloud strategies to multi-cloud environments and are adopting more containers, microservices, and cloud native technologies. This is creating increasingly distributed systems, making it harder to gain a comprehensive view into how they are performing.

This year’s State of Observability report, commissioned by VMware, shows that 89 percent of respondents agree that today’s applications are significantly more complex and 97 report challenges in their ability to monitor cloud application environments, with visibility and insight issues growing from last year.

In this webinar, we’ll introduce how Tanzu Observability provides critical answers, not data, so you can move quickly to the “why” about the performance of your applications, correlated with underlying cloud infrastructure and end user experience. Along with a look at the 2022 State of Observability report, you’ll learn how Tanzu Observability:

- Provides visibility into Kubernetes components and CI/CD pipelines
- Automatic discovery Kubernetes workloads with zero configuration
- Instant real-time alerting across multi-cloud environments at high scale

Leading research projects that data science and AI will add $13 trillion to the global economy by 2030, yet only 8% of enterprises have built the foundations for widespread adoption (Harvard Business Review, May 2021). To remain competitive, it is critical that organisations establish these foundations, to enable them to unlock extraordinary business and customer value.

This session discusses the proven practices, processes and technologies the VMware Tanzu Labs team have adopted, from our over 200 client engagements, to help organisations get started on this journey:

- Introduction to the 3 Accelerators: Experience, Methodology, and Technology
- How agile and design thinking methodologies foster sustained innovation
- The proven tools and platforms to increase productivity
- Real-world use cases in ML development

Every day GemFire powers applications in banking, telecommunications, travel, health care, and retail. In fact, the odds are good that within the last day you used a cloud-based application that relied on GemFire’s ultra-high speed, in-memory data and compute grid to provide consistency and performance at global scale. No matter what kind of application you’re building, learn how GemFire makes it easy to build and deploy modern data-driven applications.

In this webinar, we'll provide an overview of VMware GemFire - the product, its features, and how it supports business critical applications in some of the world's largest organisations.

Modern applications require modern platforms to serve the needs of your organisation and customers. Once you’ve decided to implement a modern app platform, you’ll need to build a team that will prioritise the tasks needed to provide a positive impact on your business. This team’s charter will be to quickly and effectively address security and compliance issues, build abstractions that drive efficiencies at scale, and reduce toil and friction for developers to bring features to market faster. Assembling the right people for the right jobs is a daunting but necessary foundational step toward elevating your platform capabilities. Join VMware Tanzu Labs experts as they walk you through the thought process for creating a team that can meet your infrastructure, platform engineering and application modernisation challenges.

We’ll spend time covering:

- Day 1 objectives for your new platform (team)
- The needs & role of the platform team
- How to structure a team for the most impactful results
- Which capabilities (and technologies) must be owned by the platform team (and which ones are optional)
- How the platform team enables Developers

Recently, at our flagship VMware Explore events in San Francisco and Barcelona, we conveyed our commitment to enabling our customers to journey from a state of Cloud Chaos to one of Cloud Smart. As part of this, we announced a range of new capabilities to enable development teams to build cloud-native apps faster, operations team to streamline multi-cloud Kubernetes management and security teams to apply security policies and compliance in the development lifecycle.

Join us for a summary of the key DevSecOps announcements, across our VMware Tanzu portfolio, in the areas of:

- Enhanced DevSecOps experiences
- Increased support for air-gapped environments
- Enhanced supply chain security
- Expanded public cloud deployments
- Third party integrations with AWS, Azure, Oracle, RedHat, Snyk
- plus more!