FROM THE EDITORS VIRTUAL DESK
Hi everyone, I am a big fan of certification. I think that it is a great way to confirm the skills that I have gained and provide proof of my skills. VMware provides many different certification paths but one of the most well known and still sought after is the VCP. This week our TAM blog focuses on the VCP6 and how to prepare to take this certification. Please take some time to read this and pass it on to your colleagues who might be considering certification as I am certain it will provide them with a good plan to gain this notable certification.
I would also like to remind you to sign up for our security announcements. This week we have issued an announcement to one of the issues published New VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2016-0002 (critical security issue in the glibc library, CVE-2015-7547).
I wish you all a fantastic week and look forward to talking to you again next week.
Virtually Yours
Neil Isserow
Staff Technical Account Manager, Team Lead
San Francisco, CA
TAM SOCIAL MEDIA ASSETS (Owner: Neil Isserow)
Facebook - www.facebook.com/vmwaretam/
Twitter - @VMwareTAM (twitter.com/vmwareTAM)
Blog - blogs.vmware.com/tam
Newsletter Archive - communities.vmware.com/blogs/vmwaretam
TAM TWEETS OF THE WEEK (Editor: Daniel Mizrahi)
New with VMware Virtual SAN 6.2 – Technical Whitepaper bit.ly/1KOFDAEpic.twitter.com/hsSdGjMNjx
IBM Hopes To Move Millions Of VMware Workloads To Its Cloud In New Partnershipbit.ly/1TB5Nt6pic.twitter.com/UeFUt8UOPi
How to Prepare for Your VCP6 Exam blogs.vmware.com/tam/2016/02/pr…
VMware Demonstrates vCloud NFV Momentum at Mobile World Congress #MWC16bit.ly/1QBm29mpic.twitter.com/RpLDT5CT1A
On Demand Courses bit.ly/1mTqJ0vpic.twitter.com/tRSY9BF6b1
TAM BLOG (Editor: Kelly Dare)
How to Prepare for Your VCP6 Exam
By Daniel Mizrahi
For many, VCP training and examinations can be a complex, nerve-racking process that often leads to the question, “Where do I start?” If you find yourself already asking this question, you came to the right blog! I will outline my recent experience, which will guide you through your VCP6 in the most efficient and effective way possible. [Continue Reading...]
TAM FOUNDATIONAL TRAINING PLAN (Editor: Jodi Shely)
Looking for training resources on VMware Solutions. We have everything you need online and updated regularly.
EUC - bit.ly/tamftpeuc
SDDC - bit.ly/tamftpsddc
TAM WEBCASTS (Editor: Michelle Kaiser)
Please head over to our dedicated TAM Webcasts online URL:
NEW AND UPDATES PRODUCTS AND SOLUTIONS
A list of many of our latest updates to existing solutions and any new releases
NEWS AND DEVELOPMENTS FROM VMWARE
GENERAL NEWS
Building a Holistic IT Strategy Using a Top-Down, Bottom-Up and Middle-Out Approach
Part 2 of the “Cloud Capable – Now What?” Series By Dion Shing The modern business environment is fast, fluid, complex and ambiguous. Businesses in all markets are embattled and face challenges and threats both internally and externally. In order to adapt, survive and thrive, business strategies ...
Feb 25, 2016 7:25:53 PM
How to Prepare for Your VCP6 Exam
By Daniel Mizrahi For many, VCP training and examinations can be a complex, nerve-racking process that often leads to the question, “Where do I start?” If you find yourself already asking this question, you came to the right blog! I will outline my recent experience, which will guide you through ...
Feb 24, 2016 8:23:32 PM
Virtual SAN 6.2 Licensing Guide
VMware, the market leader in powering Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI), enables the lowest cost and highest performance next-generation HCI solutions through proven VMware Hyper-Converged Software. The natively integrated software combines the marketing-leading VMware vSphere hypervisor, the ...
Feb 22, 2016 10:20:45 PM
Virtualize SAP HANA with Confidence in Application Availability
By Damian Bieniek The SAP HANA platform has been surging in popularity, especially since support for virtualization in production environments on VMware vSphere® 5.5 was announced just a year and a half ago. And it’s no wonder, as this in-memory platform helps you run analytics applications smart...
Feb 22, 2016 4:50:30 PM
vCloud Air: This Past Week in Review
Think you’ve had a busy week? You should see how fast the cloud has been moving this week! We’re slowing things down so you can catch up on all the latest updates in one place on the vCloud Air Blog! Here’s the past week in review: vForum Live Atlanta on 3/8 If you’re looking for a chance to inte...
Feb 27, 2016 5:00:04 PM
vForum Live is upon us once again! If you’re an IT professional who has yet to attend one of our free, 1-day events, then head to Atlanta on March 8 th for this unique opportunity to interface with experts, win prizes and stay up-to-date on cutting edge IT for your business. We’ll kick off the da...
Feb 26, 2016 5:00:26 PM
Straight-Up Flying with the vRealize Operations REST API
By: Mike Langdon, Blue Medora Coming from a background in software development, I get excited when I see the words REST API documentation attached to a platform where the normal interface is graphical. For many users, the highly-configurable web platform that is the face of vRealize Operations Ma...
Feb 26, 2016 11:00:52 AM
The Catalog Service Menu Strategy for Cloud Providers – Part 1
(This is part 1 in a series of blogs for service providers, assisting with go-to-market strategy and services.) By: Guy Bartram, Director of Strategy & Advisory, VMware A service catalog is a core interface between a cloud provider and its consumer, akin to the shop window. Within this blog I wil...
Feb 25, 2016 5:00:13 PM
Introducing VMware NSX Fundamentals LiveLesson from VMware Press
We are pleased to announce the first official video learning opportunity for VMware NSX technology – VMware NSX Fundamentals LiveLesson from VMware Press. This video course will provide viewers the information needed to understand NSX concepts, components and deployment options. As an added benef...
Feb 25, 2016 1:00:15 PM
By Spas Kaloferov One of the worst things you can do is to buy a great product like VMware NSX Manager and not use its vast number of functionalities. If you are one of those people and want to “do better” then this article is for you. Will take a look how to configure SSL VPN-Plus functionality ...
Feb 24, 2016 9:10:15 PM
I’d like to share some personal news with you, industry watchers and fans of VMware’s network virtualization offering. As network virtualization starts to mature, and it has, I have thought hard about how best to participate in the broader movement of infrastructure to software and services that ...
Feb 24, 2016 9:00:34 PM
How a Cloud Partnership Can Deliver Trust
By Chris Wong, CEO, LifeSite If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that providing a product delivering “peace of mind” is a worthy pursuit. Not only does it affect what you provide for your customers, but extends to many areas of how you run your business. It’s not something you hear everyday, ...
Feb 24, 2016 5:00:44 PM
Configuring vRA 7 for 2 Factor Authentication
One of the most exciting new features in vRealize Automation 7 is the addition of the VMware Identity Manager (or vIDM) to act as the identity provider. This brings a whole host of new capabilities, but one of the key among them is the addition of simple and flexible multi-factor authentication. ...
Feb 24, 2016 11:00:34 AM
vTech Talk: Register and Watch Our Top Webcasts Now! Part 2
Are you looking for additional resources to get the most out of your vCloud Air service? In addition to the vCloud Air Community , the vCloud Air Cloud Academy is another great place to start. In this vTech Talk series, we’re highlighting top webcasts that you can register for and watch now, all ...
Feb 23, 2016 5:00:45 PM
Cross Continental vMotion with VMware NSX and IBM SoftLayer Cloud
Ten years ago, using VMware vMotion to migrate a Virtual Machine from one server to another, even in the same rack without interruption, was considered black magic, prompting raised eyebrows and a flurry of questions. Today, it takes quite a bit more than just a standard host-to-host vMotion to s...
Feb 23, 2016 1:00:26 PM
Private Cloud Is Dead; Long Live…
As someone focused on Hybrid or Multi-Cloud management I spend a lot time reviewing analyst research and talking with analysts from firms like Gartner and Forrester. I was on a call recently and about 2 minutes into a call the analyst says “let’s be clear upfront, the Private Cloud is dead”. That...
Feb 23, 2016 11:00:05 AM
New VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2016-0002
Today VMware has released the following new security advisory: New VMSA-2016-0002 The advisory documents remediation and workarounds for a critical security issue in the glibc library, CVE-2015-7547. Please sign up to the Security-Announce mailing list to receive new and updated VMware Security A...
Feb 23, 2016 6:54:27 AM
Extending Existing Apps Made Easier
When your CIO gives you the seemingly simple directive to migrate your apps to the cloud, there are a myriad of options and decisions to make. Which apps should we start with? What apps do we need to replace, refactor or rebuild? And what it the right long-term infrastructure service? What is the...
Feb 22, 2016 5:00:21 PM
In my previous post I explained why current security architectures aiming at inspecting all inline traffic via hardware appliances are failing to provide proper segmentation and scale in modern day data centers. As I described, this has nothing to do with the type of security technology being dep...
Feb 22, 2016 1:00:40 PM
END USER COMPUTING
Feature and Mobile Updates: February 2016
This month, we have some awesome new features, such as EZ Link and Sameroom integration, enhancements to existing features, and new iOS and Android mobile app updates! Check out what’s new for February* below: 1. Introducing EZ Link In this multi-device era, employees are constantly transitioning...
Feb 26, 2016 11:52:54 PM
Sumit Dhawan Discusses the Digital Workspace Impact
Everyone’s talking about VMware’s big digital workspace announcement, the cutting-edge technological advancements alongside it and the impact the digital workspace will have on end-user computing. Sumit Dhawan , VMware’s senior vice president and general manager of end-user computing desktop prod...
Feb 26, 2016 2:15:54 PM
This Week’s Top Mobile News: MWC 2016′s Coolest Device, IoT, Apps & EMM Reveals
It’s a mobile, Mobile World (Congress). All the top mobile news this week comes through the biggest mobile event of the year, Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2016 in Barcelona. Get the daily highlights here: Day 0 Day 1 Day 2 Days 3-4 Top 10 coolest tech and toys at MWC. Mashable gives us their top 1...
Feb 26, 2016 2:11:18 PM
Why You Need to Deposit Creative Ideas into a Digital Bank
Is your company facing a creativity crisis today, struggling to generate good ideas, harness group creativity and execute on innovation? One reason you’re not getting anywhere: your company’s great ideas have no place to grow. Whenever you hold a meeting to brainstorm, you probably greenlight a h...
Feb 25, 2016 7:26:21 PM
VMware Horizon Blast Extreme Acceleration with NVIDIA GRID
By Erik Bohnhorst, GRID Performance Architect, NVIDIA When it comes to graphical workloads, users need a crisp, snappy experience or they simply can’t use virtualization. This can be challenging when accessing graphics intense workloads over remote networks due to latency and bandwidth requiremen...
Feb 25, 2016 1:00:21 PM
Television, Tweets & Virtual Reality: Top 5 Moments of MWC Day 3
We’ve been at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona for three days now, but with the hours jam-packed with sessions, demos and walking the halls of Fira Gran Via, it feels like it’s been three weeks! For the VMware AirWatch team, Day 3 brought another slew of highlights – read on below for our top f...
Feb 25, 2016 1:00:14 PM
Samsung Announces New Flagship Devices, Galaxy S7 and S7 edge, at #MWC16
Samsung just revealed their newest flagship devices Sunday at Mobile World Congress 2016: Galaxy S7 and S7 edge. With enhanced Exchange email, a sleek and curved design, all-day battery life, speech-to-text functionality, secure copy-and-pasting and multi-window viewing, it’s the productive worke...
Feb 24, 2016 6:00:47 PM
Samsung & VMware: Making Virtual Desktops on Mobile a True Reality
by Jonathan Wong, Samsung Enterprise Business Team Do you want seamless enterprise access to Windows desktops and apps from incredibly powerful, secure and beautifully designed mobile devices? Yes, please! But before jumping ahead, let’s start with the basics. Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)...
Feb 24, 2016 2:10:56 PM
The Next Frontiers for EMM: Identity, Windows Apps & the Digital Workspace
Enterprise mobility management ( EMM ) has traditionally been about securing, deploying and managing devices, apps and content to enable mobile employee productivity. However, the industry is quickly shifting based on emerging industry trends, including: The increasing number of business apps; Us...
Feb 24, 2016 2:00:26 PM
Ecosystem is the Word: Highlights from Day 2 of Mobile World Congress
“Ecosystem” and “partnership” were the buzzwords of the enterprise mobility community on Day 2 of Mobile World Congress. The mobile ecosystem continues to grow at a staggering rate, and today’s providers are collectively improving at integrating and collaborating with one another. Read on below f...
Feb 23, 2016 6:04:29 PM
Explore Next Generation Mobile Security with VMware NSX for AirWatch
Many organizations implement enterprise mobile management ( EMM ) to secure business workflows, deliver a secure digital workspace and achieve business mobility. Securing mobile devices, apps, data and networks against cyberattacks has become a daunting task, as the evolution of cyber threats hav...
Feb 23, 2016 6:00:19 PM
Is Your Enterprise Prepared for Chat to Dethrone Email?
Consumers and business professionals alike are chatting online more than ever, giving instant messaging the lead over email as the most commonly used online communication tool. For the first time, instant messages were predicted to outweigh email in 2015, and by 2018, instant messaging is expecte...
Feb 23, 2016 4:37:31 PM
It’s been a very exciting week at Mobile World Congress (MWC) already! One of our biggest announcements from the show is the formation of the AppConfig Community , led by the industry leaders in enterprise mobility management (EMM): IBM, MaaS360, JAMF Software, MobileIron and VMware AirWatch. So ...
Feb 23, 2016 2:00:32 PM
KB ARTICLES