Optimizing IT Asset Management: Strategies for Enhanced Efficiency and Compliance

Recently, I attended a customer meeting where the focal point was how ServiceNow could enhance overall IT lifecycle management. Our discussion centered on how our platform seamlessly integrates with existing ecosystems to provide comprehensive visibility, governance, and stakeholder alignment. However, amidst the dialogue, one of the customer's executives raised a significant concern: the challenge of...

Understanding the Distinction Between ITSM and ITOM: ITOM Importance for Organizations

In the realm of Information Technology (IT), the distinctions between IT Service Management (ITSM) and IT Operations Management (ITOM) often lead to confusion among customers. Let us delve into the core concepts of each to provide clarity. ITSM and ITOM, both critical IT management strategies, serve distinct purposes. ITSM encompasses a spectrum of activities that...

Venturing Into the Future: A New Chapter Unfolds

It has been some months since my last communication, a period during which I have been acclimating to my new professional environment. I am pleased to share that I recently joined ServiceNow in the capacity of an Advisory Solution Consultant. While many perceive ServiceNow as a preeminent IT Service Management (ITSM) company, this characterization only...

VMware Explore 2023: Unveiling Innovation and Inspiration in Las Vegas

Introduction A few days ago, I returned from VMware Explore 2023, an exhilarating tech conference held in Las Vegas from August 21st to 24th. VMware Explore, formerly known as VMWorld, is an event eagerly anticipated by tech enthusiasts, customers, and partners worldwide. This marked my second visit to this event, having had the privilege of...

What’s new in vSphere 8

This would have been a long long time since I'm writing this blog post and a lot has happened in the last few years. I changed my role within VMware (India) and moved into a different team, the entire world was hit by the pandemic and finally, I left VMware and moved to a different...

vROps 7.0 – Self Driving Operations (Part 03)

With this blog we have come to the final pillar of Self Driving Data center operations which is Intelligent Remediation. In case if you haven't read my earlier blog posts i.e. Part 01 & Part 02 of self driving data center operations, I'll highly recommend you to please go through it so that you can relate...

vROps 7.0 – Self Driving Operations (Part 02)

In my last blog I had discussed about how Continuous Performance Optimization pillar has been  tightly integrated within vROps 7.0  If you have't yet read my earlier blog, I'll request you to please browse the link to read it so that while I start my discussions onward in this blog you can relate to it....

vROps 7.0 – Self Driving Operations (Part 01)

Ever since we hear this term Self-driven Car we develop this notion of a vehicle which has the built-in intelligence to take decision while moving on the road. There has always been approach in software industry to bring similar kind of intelligence in the data center where it is aware of the problems and is...

How to install vRealize Network Insight (vRNI) 3.8.0

Once a customer asked me we have vROps to monitor our infrastructure but when it comes network devices or network flow between virtual machine how can we monitor that..?? This question is pretty valid for almost all environment because with more and more workload being offloaded to virtual environment it becomes utmost important to make...

Running Enterprise Applications on vSphere

There are plenty of misconceptions while moving the workload from Physical to Virtual world. Customer sometimes assume that while virtualizing their infrastructure concepts application behavior may change - which is not the real case. Recently I was working on one engagement with one of VMware's large customer and they are planning to virtualize few core...