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Where in the World are VCPs? [Infographic] See where in the World VCPs are in this infographic . Bonus points for commenting which country you represent! VCIX6 Certification Announcement: Part 3 of 3 In this three-part blog series (see parts one and two ) we roll out all the information you need ...

Jan 22, 2016 4:36:24 PM

By Pierre Moncassin A number of enterprise customers have established dedicated organizations to leverage VMware’s cloud technology. As these organizations reach increasing levels of cloud maturity, we are more and more often asked by our customers: “how is our organization going to be impacted b...

Jan 22, 2016 12:35:11 AM

Why the VMware America’s TAM organization is rated higher than the Apple iPhone By Martha Bellens-Martin After being in this business for more than 25 years, I have worked with hundreds of customers—most of them from a pre-sales perspective. That means I have spent a lot of time working with orga...

Jan 21, 2016 6:21:51 PM

There’s a glitch some customers are encountering whereby a Linked Clone desktop is created on vCenter Ok, but is deleted soon after vCenter complains about either “disposable” or “internal” .vmdk files this desktop. Creating and recomposing linked clone desktops fails on VMware Horizon View 6.1.x...

Jan 20, 2016 2:24:48 PM

In addition to instructor-led courses delivered in a traditional classroom environment, VMware Education Services also offers self-paced training delivered online as well. Last month we released four new courses that you can attend whenever and wherever you like. AirWatch Enterprise Mobility: Con...

Jan 18, 2016 10:57:40 AM

Disasters happen, that doesn’t mean business failure has to. As they say “you can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf,” which is why a foolproof Disaster Recovery (DR) solution is crucial to any sound business plan. Furthermore, choosing the right solution for your organization is more im...

Jan 22, 2016 5:00:49 PM

Microsoft Exchange Server is one of the mission critical applications most commonly virtualized on the vSphere platform. As customers become more comfortable and familiar with virtualization in general and the VMware vSphere virtualization platform in particular, they become more confident, enoug...

Jan 21, 2016 10:16:13 PM

Growth is a natural byproduct of any successful business. However, with any type of growth, come growing pains. As your business grows, one way to ease those growing pains is to have a clear option when it comes to your cloud strategy. The vCloud Air Network makes compliance clear. In our previou...

Jan 21, 2016 5:00:29 PM

Martin Heisig runs infrastructure services for SAP, the world leader in business applications. As one of the biggest players in its category, SAP depends on flexibility, agility, and scalability to succeed—but being a leader doesn’t come without problems. The organization was having some challeng...

Jan 20, 2016 5:00:58 PM

By Jonathan McDonald This is the second part of a two blog series as there was just too much detail for a single blog. For Part 1 see: http://blogs.vmware.com/consulting/2016/01/virtual-san-stretch-clusters-real-world-design-practices-part-1.html . As I mentioned at the beginning of the last blog...

Jan 19, 2016 9:19:39 PM

It’s called a cloud, not a lockbox. It’s your data, so you should have the ability to back it up how you’d like. This week, we answer this question from the vCloud community: “Other than using the Data Protection Service, how are people backing up their workloads in vCloud Air?” There are actuall...

Jan 19, 2016 5:20:21 PM

By Troy Bailey, Blue Medora Dashboards are the primary visualization tool for users of VMware vRealize Operations Manager (vROps). This tool provides graphic representation of vROps data and displays overall infrastructure health. Reports are another great way for vROps consumers to use and lever...

Jan 19, 2016 11:01:15 AM

I was recently given a use case by a client who was seeing alert noise from the vR Ops 6.1 alert “One or more virtual machine guest file systems are running out of disk space“. This alert is built from three symptoms: “1. Guest file system space usage at warning level” “2. Guest file system space...

Jan 19, 2016 11:00:42 AM

We hear this a lot – you’ve been asked to evaluate public clouds by your IT leaders who say, “Cloud is strategic”…but where do you even begin? Should you compare features and functions? Look at analyst ratings? Hire a consultant? Join Angelos Kottas, VMware Senior Director, Product Marketing, for...

Jan 18, 2016 5:00:50 PM

It’s severe weather season, and even if you’re not a regular telecommuter, chances are high you’ll find yourself skipping icy commutes to work from home at least once this winter. Though working from home is known to increase productivity at work , distractions abound, and it’s easy for the new o...

Jan 22, 2016 4:11:09 PM

Microsoft’s $1B donation, iOS 9.3 “best” feature, banking on IoT and VMware’s big announcement. 1. Microsoft puts its money where the cloud is. Microsoft has pledged to donate $1 billion in cloud services to non-profit groups and university researchers over three years, the Wall Street Journal re...

Jan 22, 2016 2:28:59 PM

Wonder what VMware has in store for its End-User Computing division and business mobility vision this year? Here’s your exclusive chance to get the VMware news as it breaks. Enabling the Digital Enterprise: Two-part Online Event VMware has opened up registration for what promises to be one of the...

Jan 21, 2016 7:21:13 PM

On February 9 th and 10 th , you have the opportunity to be among the first worldwide to hear VMware’s breaking news. All you have to do is claim your ticket here . Next month, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger will host an exclusive virtual event with the breaking news and announcements about VMware’s “O...

Jan 21, 2016 5:54:04 PM

For many years, we have been pulled into this false sense of mobile security. In early September, that sense of security came crashing down when it was revealed that the App Store had been hit with malicious code known as XcodeGhost. It is malicious code inserted into iOS apps using Xcode, which ...

Jan 21, 2016 3:40:14 PM

This last year was a very exciting one, to say the least. The sheer magnitude of the popularity wave for mobile devices caused a shift in the way we live our everyday lives. This cannot help but take the world of business along with it. In banking, we have seen mobile apps evolve from “nice-to-ha...

Jan 20, 2016 5:17:49 PM

Over the past several years, we’ve had the unique opportunity to see the transformation of the retail experience firsthand. As technology quickly evolves and ushers in the mobile-cloud era, leading retail organizations have made incredible strides in leveraging tech innovations to deliver better ...

Jan 18, 2016 1:00:57 PM

by Paige Handza, VMware End-User Computing retail vertical marketing manager Here at VMware End-User Computing, we are thrilled to help thousands of retailers—including 19 of the 20 top U.S. retailers—leverage purpose-built technology solutions to boost customer engagement, modernize store operat...

Jan 18, 2016 1:00:54 PM