VMware's 2023 Explore Conference provided some exciting announcements about new product offerings and features. This year's live event in Las Vegas featured more than 600 keynote and breakout sessions, hands-on-labs, as well as a large expo showcasing VMware ecosystem partners.

VMware's 2022 Explore Conference provided some exciting announcements about new product offerings and features. This year's live event in San Francisco featured more than 600 keynote and breakout sessions, hands-on-labs, as well as a large expo showcasing VMware ecosystem partners.

VMware held their annual EMPOWER for the Americas in May of 2022. The three day virtual partner conference consisted of general/breakout sessions, "ask the expert" sessions, hands-on labs and technical training. All the sessions were available to VMware partners online, but there are often themes and details that get lost along the way. So, we asked WWT's VMware technical experts what they found most interesting from EMPOWER. Here is what they had to say.

VMware has entered into a first-of-its-kind relationship with WWT to provide specialized training in all things Tanzu, effectively becoming VMware's in-depth experts.

VMware vSphere with Tanzu allows for running industry-standard Kubernetes native on vSphere. A critical component that is often misunderstood is the versioning requirements for vSphere. They directly impact the versions of Kubernetes that can run on a cluster and future upgrade options. This article is for vSphere administrators that break down the key pieces that need to be understood when planning a vSphere with Tanzu deployment and future upgrades.

Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG), Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated (TKGi) and vSphere with Tanzu are all from VMware. The option to run virtually any other container platform on vSphere exists as well. So what are the differences, dependencies and benefits of each? Let's get into it.