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FROM THE EDITORS VIRTUAL DESK

Hi everyone, with VMworld USA behind us and VMworld Europe ahead of us I wanted to provide you with some good news for those wanting to review many of the sessions that were presented at VMworld USA.

 

Even if you didn’t attend VMworld these are open to the public. That’s 40 free sessions please take advantage of them.
Those can be accessed here. 
http://www.vmworld.com/en/sessions/top-10-us.html

If you are a registered attendee of VMworld, all sessions are now available through this link.
http://www.vmworld.com/en/sessions/verify.html

Also, the hands on labs from VMworld are now all available. There are 60 Labs to choose from in all of our software stacks.
Please take advantage of this free training opportunity.
http://hol.vmware.com


Have a fantastic week and if you are at VMworld Europe I wish you a great experience.

Virtually Yours

Neil Isserow

Staff Technical Account Manager, Team Lead

San Francisco, CA

 

 

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NEWS AND DEVELOPMENTS FROM VMWARE

GENERAL NEWS

 

Riding the Waves of Tech Innovation

 

I believe that not taking risks is probably the riskiest thing in IT. You have to ride some waves and risk wiping out a few times. But it’s not the end of the world. Just keeping that mission-critical system running for days is not going to cut it anymore. Driving innovative change is the only wa...

Oct 9, 2015 7:39:15 PM

 

Newly Released Hands-On Labs

 

Each month, we’ll share the latest news and announcements about VMware Hands-On Labs (HOL). If you’re not familiar with VMware HOLs, it’s a free online portal created by VMware that provides access to the latest products in a tested and documented cloud based virtual lab environment. Check back e...

Oct 9, 2015 3:00:30 PM

 

2016 IT Skills and Salary Survey + Contest

 

We’ve partnered with Global Knowledge to conduct one of the industry’s most extensive and comprehensive studies of IT and business professionals, the 2016 IT Skills and Salary Survey . This important research will help us identify IT and business pros’ salary trends, valuable training and certifi...

Oct 7, 2015 3:49:12 PM

 

Adopt Before You Adapt Your IT Processes

 

By John Worthington Many people familiar with ITSM have heard the expression ‘adopt & adapt’ as a good practice, but it’s worth noting the order in which these words are placed. You must adopt before you can adapt. This leads to the question, when has a process been ‘adopted’? Incomplete Process ...

Oct 7, 2015 2:15:21 PM

 

Virtual Volumes: A game changer for operations of virtualized business critical databases

 

This is first of a series of posts on deploying vSphere Virtual Volumes for Tier 1 Business Critical Databases. Although this article is written with a focus on Oracle databases, much of this discussion holds good for any Mission critical application. Business critical databases are among the las...

Oct 6, 2015 8:51:28 PM

 

Oracle, VMware and Extended Distance Oracle Real Application Clusters on vSphere Metro Storage Cluster

 

Oracle, VMware and Extended Distance Oracle Real Application Clusters on vSphere Metro Storage Cluster Nowadays a high availability cluster (for any kind of application) in a single data center is almost not enough to ensure the kind of availability a Mission Critical Application needs which supp...

Oct 9, 2015 10:12:56 PM

 

VMware Software Defined Data Center and vRealize Management Delivers Business Agility at Hartland

 

by Rich Bourdeau Hartland is national company that specializes in credit/debit card processing for over 300,000 business and educational institutions in the United States. In addition, Hartland offers a wide range of products and services from payroll solutions, to mobile payment devices and busi...

Oct 9, 2015 1:26:34 PM

 

What to Know Before You Go to VMworld 2015 Europe

 

  If VMworld 2015 Europe in Barcelona is anything like San Francisco, it promises to be one for the books. The vCloud Air team is back with our “can’t miss” list for Barcelona. Here’s a quick recap of what you need to know before our big week begins: Can’t-Miss Sessions: While all the VMworld ses...

Oct 9, 2015 8:00:57 AM

 

Making a Move to the Cloud – Part 3: Tools for Migrating Workloads to vCloud Air

 

By Michael Francis and RadhaKrishna (RK) Dasari As discussed in Part 2 of our blog series. when considering which workloads to migrate to VMware vCloud® Air™ you want to properly assess the business and technology factors that will ultimately determine the weighting and prioritization of your tar...

Oct 8, 2015 5:10:45 PM

 

Considerations for Connecting to Your Recovered Workloads

 

While most of the talk around cloud-based disaster recovery is on how you protect your workloads, a number of people are starting to look at this from a different angle. How do you connect to those workloads once they have failed over and are running in the cloud? You have literally moved all you...

Oct 7, 2015 4:00:25 PM

 

Harnessing the Power of Storage Virtualization and Site Recovery Manager to Provide HA and DR Capabilities to Business Critical Databases – VAPP4634

 

Harnessing the Power of Storage Virtualization and Site Recovery Manager to Provide HA and DR Capabilities to Business Critical Databases – VAPP4634 How do you simplify and improve availability of your Extended distance Oracle Real Application Cluster using vSphere Metro Storage Cluster (vMSC) ? ...

Oct 6, 2015 8:44:28 PM

 

Virtual Volumes: A game changer for operations of virtualized business critical databases

 

This is first of a series of posts on deploying vSphere Virtual Volumes for Tier 1 Business Critical Databases. Although this article is written with a focus on Oracle databases, much of this discussion holds good for any Mission critical application. Business critical databases are among the las...

Oct 6, 2015 8:26:11 PM

 

vCloud Air vTech Talk: Capturing vCloud Air Edge Gateway Data with Your Syslog

 

When your cloud is up and running, everyone wants to get in — especially the bad guys. But there’s good news: you can sniff suspicious actors out with your own virtual bloodhound. That’s right, all you have to do configure your edge gateway. In this episode of vCloud Air vTech Talk, our series hi...

Oct 6, 2015 4:00:42 PM

 

Get Started with Cloud-based Disaster Recovery to Protect Your vSphere Environment

 

For vSphere customers looking to protect their company data from a disaster or other disruption, VMware vCloud® Air™ Disaster Recovery, built on VMware vSphere® Replication™, provides a cloud-based failover environment for dependable recovery when faced with an operational disruption. We recently...

Oct 5, 2015 4:11:38 PM

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Why Socialcast Projects Is Superior to the Old School Paper To-Do List

 

We all have those days when there are too many tasks to accomplish, dozens of emails to respond to, calls to schedule, and so many projects to keep track of that we don’t know where to begin. Sometimes we have so many balls up in the air that we may lose track of loose ends and forget to complete...

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Microsoft’s Surface Book *Surprise!* Headlines this Week’s Mobile News

 

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Modernizing Laptop Management

 

It’s been a busy—and incredibly exciting—summer for business mobility. Over the past several months, I’ve been close to some of the biggest innovations and announcements in the business mobility space. I’ve spoken with customers about their mobility journeys over the past several years, but recen...

Oct 8, 2015 6:14:06 PM

 

The Amazing Technology Journey behind Coca-Cola Freestyle

 

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#TipTuesday – Pick a Good Platform, But Don’t Focus on the Technology

 

This is my 5th post in a series of tips on how to build a successful enterprise social network (ESN). In this post, I’ll address two important matters regarding the ESN platform decision. First, the tip: Pick a good platform, but don’t focus on the technology. In this tip, I have two concerns: th...

Oct 6, 2015 11:18:32 PM

 

Top 10 EUC Sessions at VMworld Europe 2015

 

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Oct 6, 2015 5:45:47 PM

 

What to Read About Today’s Microsoft Event

 

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Oct 6, 2015 4:48:35 PM

 

Upcoming Webcast: Discover the Latest in Business Mobility Straight from VMworld

 

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PARTNER

 

Attending NetApp Insight in Las Vegas Next Week?

 

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MORE NEWS AND DEVELOPMENTS FROM AROUND THE WEB

 

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Oct 5, 2015 11:38:00 AM

 

Cloud Native Apps - Photon Platform, Cloud Foundry, Mesos, Dockercon

 

Have been furiously cranking on this topic for the last few months (most recently playing a bit with the new AWS Lambda services - interesting). It’s a constant dialog with customers that I interact with - as they come grips with how they will leverage the new application patterns that are emergi...

Oct 5, 2015 8:12:47 AM


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