VKS: One Platform for VMs and Containers with Audrey Bian

About this episode

Rachel Stephens interviews Audrey Bian about how VKS is modernizing enterprise applications.

Rachel Stephens sits down with Audrey Bian, Principal Product Marketing Manager at Broadcom, to explore how vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) is helping enterprises modernize their applications without rebuilding their infrastructure from scratch. Audrey breaks down how VKS bridges the gap between traditional VM workloads and modern containerized applications on a single unified platform. For additional information please visit: - https://vmware.com/vks This RedMonk conversation is sponsored by VMware by Broadcom. Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/vks-audrey-bian/ Topics covered: - What is VKS and how does it the VMware stack? - Cloud admins vs. platform engineers - VKS and TCO - What's new in VKS 3.6?

People in this episode

Host: Rachel Stephens

Guest: Audrey Bian

Topics covered

• VKS
• VMware stack
• cloud admins
• platform engineers
• TCO
• modern applications
• containerized applications

Keywords

• VKS
• VMware
• containers
• virtual machines
• cloud
• infrastructure
• application modernization
• TCO
• platform engineering

Sponsors

VMware

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Broadcom

Products: vSphere Kubernetes Service, VKS, VKS 3.6

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