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VMware Learning Zone has always offered 24/7 access to cloud-based VMware Training on vSphere 6, Virtual SAN and VMware NSX delivered by VMware Certified Instructors (VCIs) and experts. But we’ve now added exclusive Certification Exam Prep packages with detailed exam objective reviews and practic...

Aug 28, 2015 6:24:02 PM

The EMEA VMware Certified Instructor (VCI) of the Quarter award is a regular prize given to VCIs that aspire to be the best of the best. The awards are our version of the “Oscars” identifying and rewarding excellence. The award recognises outstanding VCIs from the EMEA region who share their expe...

Aug 27, 2015 3:58:41 PM

By Adam Eckerle We have added seven more sessions to our TAM Customer Central schedule for VMworld US. These are important and valuable sessions, however, they are being added after the deadline that updates can be made to Schedule Builder. So, attendees will need to manually track and schedule t...

Aug 26, 2015 6:12:59 PM

I finished off 2014 with a round of predictions about the future of network virtualization, and now I find myself preparing my VMworld® 2015 session on a similar topic. So as a preview of what I’ll be talking about in a few days (and later on at VMworld Europe), I thought it would be worth lookin...

Aug 26, 2015 5:25:08 PM

Did you know VMware now offers a series of troubleshooting KBs on NSX for vSphere 6.x? The series covers topics ranging from NSX Controllers, Distributed Firewall (DFW), VXLAN, Guest Introspection,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Aug 26, 2015 3:29:19 PM

As you have probably heard by now, VMware yesterday released shiny new versions for it’s desktop virtualization products: VMware Fusion 8 and VMware Fusion 8 Pro, and VMware Workstation 12 Pro &... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Aug 26, 2015 1:16:00 PM

By: Andy Troup VMworld 2015 is nearly upon us and I’d like to give you an overview of the Operations Transformation (OPT) Track that will be running again this year to help you get the most out of what’s on offer. As a reminder, the track is focused on helping you understand how the VMware Softwa...

Aug 26, 2015 12:02:11 AM

VMware On Demand is a robust, self-paced learning solution delivering modular training combined with hands-on practice labs, giving you a powerful alternative to traditional classroom training. But don’t just take our word for it, you can see for yourself with our free Sneak Peeks. Sneak Peeks ar...

Aug 25, 2015 3:45:33 PM

No Application Left behind This year at VMworld 2015 US in San Francisco, over 40 sessions focused on Business Critical Applications and databases will be delivered by a broad cast of VMware experts. These experts include VMware product specialists, partners, customers, and end users (developers ...

Aug 25, 2015 4:24:23 AM

One of the major components released with vSphere 6 this year was the support for Virtual Volumes (VVOLS). VVOLS has been gaining momentum with storage vendors, who are enabling its capabilities in their arrays. When virtualizing business databases there are many critical concerns that need to be...

Aug 25, 2015 4:05:54 AM

What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of a storage system? Well, rotating disks! Storage has been traditionally consumed either in the form of block storage or as files. Irrespective of the consumption model, data gets persisted/retrieved on physical disks or Flash using proto...

Aug 24, 2015 3:50:49 PM

Going to the bank or to the restaurant? Few years ago, there was a common idea that public Cloud would “eat it all” in a similar way that the banking industry did with the management of personal finances. How many of us have 99.9% of their finance in the banks? Are the internal IT workloads […] T...

Aug 29, 2015 1:00:49 AM

So, you’ve got your pass to this year’s VMworld? Cool! Now it’s time to make sure you’re ready for the event! The vCloud Air team has curated a list of 6 things we’re sure you wouldn’t want to miss out on at VMworld. Think of it as your “vCloud Air VMworld Cheat Sheet.” Here’s a quick recap of wh...

Aug 28, 2015 6:00:30 PM

For businesses today, disastrous events don’t have to mean disaster. That’s because today’s organizations can leverage the power of the cloud — public, private and hybrid — to keep their apps, data and more up and available when everything else is down and out. The best part: no cloud experience ...

Aug 28, 2015 4:00:28 PM

This whole week, we’ve been talking to VMware vCloud® Air™ experts to get the scoop on their sessions and strategies for navigating this year’s VMworld 2015 . In this special double feature of our “Meet the Experts” series, VMware Cloud Native SME Automation Specialist Gary Coburn and Google Seni...

Aug 27, 2015 9:00:36 PM

By Jonathan McDonald Anyone who knows me knows I have a particular passion (however misplaced that may be…) for the VMware Certificate Story. This multi-part blog series will discuss a bit of background on the certificate story, what you need to know about the architectural design of it in an env...

Aug 27, 2015 8:55:45 PM

VMworld 2015 is right around the corner! This week, we’re interviewing vCloud Air experts to get the scoop on their sessions and other VMware vCloud® Air™ can’t-miss events. We also asked them for pro-tips and advice to help you make the most of your time in San Francisco. In this segment of our ...

Aug 27, 2015 7:00:20 PM

Another exciting VMworld is upon us and there will be a ton of interesting topics and expert speakers covering various tracks. There is a special track for DevOps during this VMworld and vRealize Code Stream has an important role to play. To help you quickly find relevant sessions, here’s a list ...

Aug 27, 2015 5:45:17 PM

Join us at VMworld 2015 to learn how Symantec has been effectively managing its Cloud Costs. Cloud Costs: Showback Often we hear, “IT = Business.” However, have you had difficulty engaging the senior leaders in your organization around Cloud Costs because it was challenging to show the costs in a...

Aug 27, 2015 5:30:27 PM

A big thank you to everyone who entered this year’s vCloud Air Dilbert Caption Contest on Twitter! With so many hilarious submissions, choosing one winner was no easy task. That’s why we narrowed it down to our top 10, then left it to Scott Adams – creator of Dilbert – to pick his favorite. Let’s...

Aug 27, 2015 4:00:26 PM

This week, we’re interviewing vCloud Air experts to get the low down on sessions, events, and networking strategies to help you make the most of your time at VMworld 2015 . In this segment of our “Meet the Experts” series, Stephen Evanchik, Senior Staff Engineer for vCloud Air, shares tips on how...

Aug 26, 2015 9:32:09 PM

By Dale Carter One of the challenges when deploying VMware Horizon across multiple sites or data centers is how to keep your Gold/Master images in sync and how to get them from one site to another. In this blog I will show you how you can utilize the new Content Library that is part of vSphere 6 ...

Aug 26, 2015 4:39:26 PM

Expanding the reach of your enterprise takes time, effort, and much attention to detail—especially when expanding globally. One of the biggest hurdles clients face – domestically and abroad – is cloud deployment and all the security and reliability concerns that go with it. That’s why we’ve estab...

Aug 26, 2015 4:01:13 PM

VMworld 2015 is just a few days away! Once the doors open, there’ll be a lot to take in — regardless if it’s your first or fifth time to VMworld. To help you with planning, we interviewed a few vCloud Air experts for advice on what to see and what to do while you’re in San Francisco. In this segm...

Aug 25, 2015 8:00:55 PM

Getting started with with a new cloud architecture isn’t easy. Sizing, resources, tools, capacity and metrics all help to build a better picture of the costs of the service, but they don’t tell the whole picture. So how can you get the information you need to get started with VMware vCloud® Air™?...

Aug 25, 2015 4:00:10 PM

(Credit to my colleagues for this work: James Polizzi, Scott Stickells) We were engaged at a customer recently who had an issue with over-consumption of their development platform. This is probably familiar to lots of us, and the customer was interested in how vRealize Suite could help solve that...

Aug 25, 2015 10:01:41 AM

Let us start with what is RabbitMQ and how does RabbitMQ fit into vCloud Director for Service Providers (VCD-SP)? RabbitMQ provides robust messaging for applications, in particular vCloud Director for Service Providers (VCD-SP). Messaging describes the sending and receiving of data (in the form o...

Aug 25, 2015 9:43:48 AM

Harnessing the Power of Storage Virtualization and Site Recovery Manager to Provide HA and DR Capabilities to Business Critical Databases How do you simplify and improve availability of your Extended distance Oracle Real Application Cluster using vSphere Metro Storage Cluster (vMSC) ? Storage Vir...

Aug 24, 2015 9:40:30 PM

Virtual Volumes (VVOLS) a game changer for running Tier 1 Business Critical Databases: One of the major components released with vSphere 6 this year was the support for Virtual Volumes (VVOLS). VVOLS has been gaining momentum with storage vendors, who are enabling its capabilities in their arrays...

Aug 24, 2015 8:08:51 PM

We’re excited to help usher in the dawn of a new era – one in which on-demand, pay-as-you-go cloud infrastructure is the norm. No commitments, unlimited resources and the same VMware tools you know and love. VMware vCloud® Air™ Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand is a great solution for when you want ...

Aug 24, 2015 4:13:16 PM

By: Cameron Jones, Blue Medora VMworld is less than a week away! If you have been looking for a chance to take a look at VMware’s vRealize Operations Manager (previously known as vCenter Operations) or just want to learn more about it, look no further than VMworld 2015 in San Francisco. This year...

Aug 24, 2015 10:01:31 AM

By Tristan Todd, Architect, End-User Computing, VMware Jim Yanik, Architect, End-User Computing, VMware Tony Foster, EMC Michael Fox, EMC Mark Orth, EMC If you make it easy to implement, simple to administer, and deliver an exceptional user experience, then your “desktop of the future” project is...

Aug 28, 2015 11:45:55 PM

This year at AirWatch Connect, workshops will be hosted on Monday, September 21. During this time executives, sales account executives, sales engineers and product managers will gather for vertically focused programming. Programming for each industry workshop includes customer panels, opportuniti...

Aug 28, 2015 7:36:42 PM

This month, we have a few enhancements around the Topics/hashtags feature and addressed some challenges for LDAP-integrated communities. We’ve also improved out mobile browser experience so that the entire Socialcast feature set (Projects, Challenges, Town Halls, etc.) can now be accessed from a ...

Aug 28, 2015 6:33:50 PM

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Aug 28, 2015 2:00:00 PM

By Shawn Bass, CTO Desktop Technologies, End-User Computing, VMware On May 11, 2015, we unveiled Project Enzo to the world as a next generation hybrid cloud architecture for the deployment and management of virtual desktops and applications. We shared some details publicly about the design princi...

Aug 27, 2015 12:00:51 PM

By Matt Coppinger, Director, End-User-Computing Technical Marketing and Enablement, VMware and Gary Sloane, Consulting Writer and Editor, VMware Are you considering virtualizing your 3D desktop workloads? Are you wondering if your 3D applications will perform on a virtual desktop? The new VMware ...

Aug 26, 2015 10:53:09 PM

This year at AirWatch Connect, workshops will be hosted on Monday, September 21. During this time executives, sales account executives, sales engineers and product managers will gather for vertically focused programming. Programming for each industry workshop includes customer panels, opportuniti...

Aug 26, 2015 8:42:29 PM

So you may have heard the news that Fusion 8 and Fusion 8 Pro support Windows 10 and the cool new Cortana feature, but you might be wondering ‘how does it work and how can I use it?’ Well the answer is pretty simple, and I’ll walk through how to turn it on so that she’s always listening, and can ...

Aug 26, 2015 3:33:43 PM

By Harry Labana, VP Products, EUC, VMware How is your desktop, app, and user management strategy? Have you thought about it lately? With VMworld 2015 right around the corner, now is as good a time as ever. Next week, thousands of IT professionals will pour into San Francisco for the industry’s pr...

Aug 26, 2015 2:00:08 PM

AirWatch Connect Atlanta is right around the corner! Once again, we’re getting the conversation started early with a Twitter Chat hosted by mobility expert and Director of Mobile Strategy for EUC at VMware, Brian Katz (@bmkatz). The one-hour chat will focus on one of this year’s key themes at #AW...

Aug 25, 2015 8:15:19 PM

By Ben Siler, EUC Product Marketing Business mobility helps your people perform better. When employees have the ability to access their applications anytime, anywhere, and on any device, they’re happier and more productive. Business mobility means more than just remote access to email and a few S...

Aug 25, 2015 2:00:34 PM

Today we are pleased to announce the worldwide availability of the VMware Fusion 8 and VMware Fusion 8 Pro . These releases mark a milestone achievement for our team within VMware, with fantastic new features and improvements in several areas including: Windows 10 – Fusion 8 and Fusion 8 Pro prov...

Aug 25, 2015 12:10:11 PM

VMworld 2015 is back again this year from August 30 – September 3 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA. to deliver essential tools and training for organizations to work virtually and on the cloud. Today, IT is in the midst of a dramatic shift to the mobile-cloud era and it is imperative fo...

Aug 25, 2015 2:09:28 AM

By Shawn Bass, Sr. Director of Strategy and Planning, EUC, VMware While I wasn’t working for VMware during last year’s VMworld, I was blown away by the number of amazing technologies that were shown at VMworld 2014 such as VMware’s vision for Just-in-time (JIT) Desktops, Project Meteor, Project F...

Aug 24, 2015 8:57:35 PM

By Gina Daly, Technical Writer for Technical Marketing, End-User Computing, VMware The VMware App Volumes Technical FAQ has recently been published! As the title suggests, this FAQ deals with the meaty technical questions you may have concerning VMware App Volumes . Questions have been divided in...

Aug 24, 2015 8:46:49 PM

By Debra Perrin Coltoff, Technical Writer, End-User-Computing Technical Marketing, VMware You have already heard that VMware App Volumes provides real-time application delivery and life cycle management, but did you know that App Volumes also optimizes the management of Citrix XenApp published ap...

Aug 24, 2015 8:45:03 PM

This year at AirWatch Connect, workshops will be hosted on Monday, September 21. During this time executives, sales account executives, sales engineers and product managers will gather for vertically focused programming. Programming for each industry workshop includes customer panels, opportuniti...

Aug 24, 2015 1:00:43 PM

  For partners attending VMworld, access to the Partner Exchange Lounge gives partners a unique opportunity to attend the Ask the Executives Series, held Monday-Wednesday from 12:00 PM – 3:45 PM. These Ask the Executives sessions will leave the floor open to discussion with various VMware executi...

Aug 27, 2015 10:01:42 PM

Our TAP partners have access to several events at VMworld US 2015 and PEX at VMworld which will provide valuable program and product updates. Don’t miss out on these informative events, including:   Sunday, Aug 30, 4:00 PM – Moscone West, Level 3, Room 3004 PAR6190 – Simplifying Technology Partne...

Aug 26, 2015 9:50:21 PM

Each year, VMware recognizes its partner ecosystem for their demonstrated excellence and achievements during the Partner Innovation Awards, previously known as the Global Partner Award ceremony. Partner award recipients from around the world receive acknowledgement for their excellent performance...

Aug 26, 2015 7:28:16 PM

I mentioned in an earlier post that Cohesity were one of the vendors that I wanted to check out at VMworld 2015. These guys have only literally exited stealth. Just yesterday, I sat in on a webinar from Nick Howell, who I know extremely well from his days in technical marketing over at NetApp. Ni...

Aug 28, 2015 1:16:00 PM

In this video VMware will explain what a VMware Validated Design is, some common components across all VMware Validated Designs, and how the VMware Validated Design process makes deploying a Software-Defined Datacenter a streamlined experience.

Aug 27, 2015 11:34:00 AM

Actually, this happened last week – but I was so flattened by work leading up to VMworld – the joint announcement planned by myself and Carl fell flat on it face! That’s completely my mistake, as I totally dropped the ball on this one. In case you don’t know the Ultimate Deployment Appliance (UDA...

Aug 27, 2015 10:20:05 AM

Advertise here with BSA A couple of months back one of the people I used to work a lot with in the DRS team reaches out to me. He told me that he started a company with some other people I knew and we spoke about the state of the industry and some of the challenges customers faced. Fast forward t...

Aug 26, 2015 5:50:37 PM

The response and feedback from our customers on the recently released HTML5 Embedded Host Client for ESXi Fling has just been absolutely phenomenal. Having only been released for a little less than two weeks ago, it has also become the #1 Fling on the VMware Labs which is an amazing accomplishmen...

Aug 26, 2015 12:03:48 AM

Welcome to Technology Short Take #53. In this post, I’ve gathered links to posts about networking, virtualization, Docker, containers, Linux, configuration management, and all kinds of other cool stuff. Here’s hoping you find something useful! Networking Anthony Spiteri, who works at an Australia...

Aug 25, 2015 6:15:00 PM

I had a heads-up recently on a new company, ClearSky Data, who only exited stealth today. I want to make it clear that I have not yet been briefed by the folks from ClearSky, but I am definitely hoping to chat with them at VMworld 2015 (they’ll be at booth 441) . Therefore a lot of what I have in...

Aug 25, 2015 4:45:43 PM

Advertise here with BSA Yes that is right, Virtual SAN Ready Nodes are taking charge! As of today when you visit the VMware Compatibility Guide for Virtual SAN it will all revolve around Virtual SAN Ready Nodes instead of individual components. You may ask yourself why that is, well basically bec...

Aug 25, 2015 1:51:44 PM

Adoption of cloud-native application architectures is helping many organizations transform their IT into a force for true agility in the marketplace. This O’Reilly report brought to you by VMware defines the unique characteristics of cloud-native application architectures such as microservices an...

Aug 24, 2015 7:17:00 PM

This past weekend I was finishing up a couple of demo recordings for my VMworld sessions in case the live demos fail for whatever reason, which has happened to me in the past. A few of the demos involve the vSphere Web Client UI and I thought instead of wasting time and potentially fat fingering ...

Aug 24, 2015 2:29:59 PM