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+title: "Mike O'Reilly"
+type: entity
+tags:
+  - VMware
+  - CTP
+  - Cloud
+last_updated: 2026-05-07
+---
+
+## Mike O'Reilly
+
+Staff Cloud Solutions Architect at VMware. Primary technical presenter for VMC on AWS content at Cloud Transformation Programme (CTP) learning sessions.
+
+## Role
+Staff Cloud Solutions Architect at VMware. Main technical speaker at CTP Topic 43 — VMware Cloud on AWS. Explained the joint engineering nature of VMC on AWS and demonstrated the platform capabilities.
+
+## Key Technical Points
+- VMC on AWS is a jointly engineered cloud service where the VMware hypervisor runs natively on AWS bare metal servers — "not just something where VMware showed up at Amazon and dropped off a box of CDs"
+- VMC on AWS runs vSphere 8 and provides native access to AWS services with low latency
+- VMware and Amazon jointly manage the underlying infrastructure, allowing users to focus on their workloads
+- Service is available across multiple regions and availability zones globally
+
+## Connections
+- [[VMware]] ← speaker ← [[MikeOReily]]
+- [[ctp-topic-43-vmware-cloud-on-aws]] ← presented_by ← [[MikeOReily]]
+- [[VMware-Cloud-on-AWS]] ← explains ← [[MikeOReily]] technical architecture
+
+## Sources
+- [[ctp-topic-43-vmware-cloud-on-aws]]