FROM THE EDITORS VIRTUAL DESK
Hi everyone, it has been an amazing week of announcements I am sure you will agree. There is so much going on and I hope that much of this is captured for you in this weeks newsletter. One of the announcements that I wanted to bring to your attention was the new package suites. The official white paper is here:http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vrealize/vmware-vrealize-suite-vcloud-suite-licensing-packaging-whitepaper.pdf.
We also had announcements regarding VSAN 6.2, Log Insight 3.3, Workspace One and much much more. Please take a look at the newsletter for all of the latest information is provided for you below.
Have a really good week ahead everyone.
Virtually Yours
Neil Isserow
Staff Technical Account Manager, Team Lead
San Francisco, CA
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VSAN 6.2 – Things Just Got Interesting! bit.ly/1KFUi0Lpic.twitter.com/rLPzGSwQoa
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Getting More Out of Your VMware Investments
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Leveraging Virtual SAN for Highly Available Management Clusters
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vRealize Suite and vCloud Suite Pricing, Packaging and Licensing Changes: 2016
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Changes to vRealize Business Pricing and Packaging
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Feb 10, 2016 4:00:30 PM
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END USER COMPUTING
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