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Hi “Virtual News” readers and welcome to the latest edition of our almost 13 year old newsletter. We are almost into event season and the first main event that I would like to provide much info on this week is Spring One. Firstly head over to springone.io and check out the agenda. Here are some tracks that will be presented:

• Beginner-Friendly Spring
• Intermediate/Adv Spring
• Architecture
• Cloud Native Platforms
• Agile Leadership
• Social

Spring One will take place as a virtual conference on September 1-2, and is the premier place for developers, architects, security professionals to take in so many amazing sessions. Don’t miss out, register, attend, learn, and network with your peers. I will bring a recap after the event but please don’t miss out on this great opportunity. Registration is FREE!

Enjoy this weeks news below and have a fantastic week.

Virtually Yours
Neil

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TANZU FEATURED
-In this episode of a Bootiful Podcast, Josh Long spoke with Microsoft Azure engineering manager Rome Li about his work supporting Microsoft Azure in IntelliJ, Visual Studio, Maven, Eclipse, and Visual Studio Code
 https://spring.io/blog/2021/08/19/a-bootiful-podcast-microsoft-azure-engineering-manager-rome-li-on-his-work-supporting-microsoft-azure-in-intellij-visual-studio-maven-eclipse-and-visual-studio-code

-In the latest Between Chair and Keyboard episode, Nate Schutta talked with Ryan Baxter, a software engineer on the Spring Cloud team, about inbox anxiety, the joy of taking things apart and (re)building them, how he was drawn to the Spring world (hint: it was Josh Long’s fault), and advice for people who want to contribute to open source projects https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/tv/bcak/39/

-Josh also put together his list of Spring news highlights for the week https://spring.io/blog/2021/08/17/this-week-in-spring-august-17th-2021

-James Urquhart joined the Cloud Native Application Flows podcast to talk about technology that could have been, the future of event-driven integration, who’s driving innovation, and more https://www.cloudnativeaf.com/2

-Gustavo Franco wrote this e-book, a step-by-step guide to creating an incident lifecycle program so teams can learn from their outages and manage alerts, reducing employee toil and ultimately keeping customers happy  https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/ebooks/establishing-an-sre-based-incident-lifecycle-program 

-Bob Glithero and Rita Manachi collaborated on this analyst report from 451 Research, showing how Tanzu Data Services enable modern application, cloud and DevOps transformation initiatives https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/analyst-reports/vmware-s-tanzu-data-services-emphasizes-data-modernization-in-cloud-and-application-transformation

-Bob Glithero hosted this webinar showing how Data Management for Tanzu simplifies the database provisioning and management lifecycle
 https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/webinars/aug-19-data-management-for-vmware-tanzu-sql-made-simple-for-vsphere

-Brian Kirkland wrote this blog post explaining how Tanzu Mission Control and Tanzu Service Mesh handle security and privacyconcerns https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/how-vmware-tanzu-saas-products-handle-data-privacy-and-security

-In this Tanzu Talk episode, Michael Coté and Henri van den Bulk discussed reinventing the finance world by focusing on customer experience and shifting to a product-centric way of thinking to establish trust and create new experiences. Audio-only podcast: https://www.tanzutalk.com/227; video: https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/tv/talk/97/

NEWS AND DEVELOPMENTS FROM VMWARE
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Cloud Foundation Blog

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• What’s the Greatest Enterprise Security Advance in Decades? Simplicity
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• How VMware IT Improved Colleague Experience with a Global Networking Standard
  by: VMware Director Shared Services Edward Lyons In the mid twenty-teens, VMware was expanding at a rapid rate due to in...

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vEducate.co.uk

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