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Hi everyone, more news and a busy time in our industry. Every week I see numerous articles related to cloud, be it hybrid cloud, public cloud or of course the now ubiquitous private cloud. One thing that strikes me is how much press public cloud gets versus the rest which I do not think is fair. While the benefit of public cloud is obvious there are still and will continue to be use cases for both private and hybrid cloud in our industry for years to come if not forever. There are many reasons for this and most are tied to how organizations work with the data. I look forward to these discussions with my customers which I get to have on a regular basis and always happy to share with them my honest opinion on how they should work with their data be it in public or private clouds. Being able to help them get the best possible result is one of the things that as a TAM I get to go and I am always keeping up with current and new trends for that very reason.
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NEWS AND DEVELOPMENTS FROM VMWARE
GENERAL NEWS
Log Insight and Admission Control Videos added to the Learning Zone
VMware Learning Zone subscribers get one year of unlimited access to our cloud-based video training library taught by top VMware experts. This subscription includes all the latest videos we release each month, like these two new series covering vRealize Log Insight and vSphere Admission Control. ...
Apr 30, 2016 4:17:51 PM
TAMs Supersizing Resource Usage – or DNA vSequencing Power
By Peter van den Bosch In conversations with customers, I often hear awesome ideas, and I would like to share one. Recently, I started a new TAM engagement at a large academic hospital in the Netherlands ErasmusMC in Rotterdam. During the TAM kickoff and introduction meetings, one of the architec...
Apr 28, 2016 6:11:09 PM
The Network Virtualization Certification: A Career-Building Essential! [Infographic]
There’s no question about it: Network Virtualization is the future. As virtualization moves in to replace the hardware-centric networks of yesterday and today, the most sought after IT practitioners will be those who know Network Virtualization inside and out. Staying competitive in IT means grow...
Apr 28, 2016 3:49:25 PM
Less than a month away VMware Expert Forum 2016
VMware Expert Forum is heading to the UK on May 23-25 th , 2016 . Taking place at VMware EMEA Headquarters in Staines, London, this is an opportunity to experience VMware’s vision firsthand and discuss the evolving IT market with like-minded peers and experts. Unlike any other classroom training ...
Apr 26, 2016 3:56:36 PM
VMware Experts Database Workshop – Oracle Edition – April 2016
The most recent edition of the VMware Experts Database Workshop completed last week in Palo Alto. This event was focused on Oracle as the Cloud Platform Business Unit and VMware Execs partnered with Pure Storage to host 11 prominent and specially selected Oracle technology technical experts for a...
Apr 25, 2016 10:57:49 PM
User account locked in vCenter Server Appliance
We’ve recently noticed a number of cases where vSphere administrators become locked out of their accounts or receive reports of incorrect passwords in the vCenter Server Appliance. If you find yourself in this position, here are two articles that address these issues: KB 2034608 When attempting t...
Apr 25, 2016 2:27:16 PM
VMWorld 2016 Preview – The Software-Defined Data Center – Mission Critical Applications & Databases
Continuing on the theme of making the VMware Software-Defined Data Center real, here is a preview of my abstracts for VMWorld 2016 submitted along with our partners Hitachi Data Systems and NetApp. One session will feature SAP HANA with the Dynamic Tiering option and the other session will featur...
Apr 25, 2016 9:05:38 AM
Blog Recap: Rediscovering How VMware vCloud Air Delivers on the Cloud Promise
Over the last several weeks we’ve detailed how VMware vCloud Air can help you enhance your data center investments. We’ve covered everything from data center replacement to data center extension, disaster recovery and more. We’ll continue to add more customer stories and examples of how these cus...
Apr 29, 2016 6:07:33 PM
vRealize Automation 7 converged blueprints
vRealize Automation 7 feature a new Blueprint format. A converged blueprint can have one to many components including: Machines : vCenter, vCloud Air, vCloud Director, Amazon, KVM, Openstack, Citrix Xen, HyperV, SCVMM Network & Security: Security Group, Load balancer, NAT, Routed networks. Softwa...
Apr 29, 2016 12:22:07 PM
Monitoring vCenter Health Remotely with vRealize Operations – Part 2
By: Greg Hohertz, Blue Medora In Part 1 of this blog, I discussed how you can monitor vCenter’s vPostgres database remotely using Blue Medora’s Management Pack for PostgreSQL. For those of you with larger environments with Oracle or MS SQL databases supporting vCenter, you’ll want to monitor thos...
Apr 29, 2016 10:01:02 AM
vCloud Air Network Provider Carrenza Helps The Jockey Club Race to Success
The Jockey Club is the largest commercial horse racing entity in the United Kingdom. It owns and operates about 15 race courses and hosts about 3 million people annually. But The Jockey Club doesn’t race year-round, which means it experiences both periods of rest and high-demand. That’s what brou...
Apr 28, 2016 5:42:52 PM
VMware and IBM Team Up to Deliver the Enterprise Cloud
VMware has teamed up with IBM to bring the cloud to enterprises everywhere. To do this, we’ve jointly designed an architecture and cloud offering that’ll allow customers to automatically provision software-defined data center (SDDC) environments, like VMware vSphere, NSX, and Virtual SAN on the I...
Apr 27, 2016 4:00:32 PM
vTech Talk: vCloud Connector Tool Overview
Looking into vCloud Air, vCloud Connector and its system requirements and compatibility? In this episode of vTech Talk, our series highlighting tips, tricks and resources for all thing vCloud Air, David Hill, Senior Technical Marketing Architect at vCloud Air, answers a top vCloud Air Community q...
Apr 26, 2016 4:32:52 PM
King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology Secures Cloud Services with VMware NSX and vRealize Automation
by Rich Bourdeau The King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology’s Internet Services Unit (ISU) is responsible for providing networking and compute resources to academic and government institutions in Saudi Arabia. In order to satisfy this demand the ISU was looking to deploy a public cloud de...
Apr 26, 2016 8:36:31 AM
May 4th – Get Ready for Next-Generation Cloud Security with NSX and Armor
Shopping for cloud solutions used to mean choosing between performance, elasticity and security — you could get one, maybe two, but never all three. With the help of VMware NSX, Armor Active Cyber Defense has proven that you can achieve the highest level of cloud security while maintaining the hi...
Apr 25, 2016 4:31:50 PM
Finally, An Answer for Legacy App Headaches: The Cloud
Legacy applications are an office fixture. You can’t live with them, and you can’t live without them. As businesses move forward, these old technologies hold people back like uncomfortable chairs that can’t be replaced. Everyone wants an upgrade, but is that possible while maintaining core busine...
Apr 25, 2016 4:00:00 PM
END USER COMPUTING
Top Mobile News for Android, Microsoft, Samsung, Dropbox and More
Security alert! Don’t let this new ransomware hold up your Android end users. Here’s what you need to know about Dogspectus from our security expert John Britton. Microsoft got you a 1-year anniversary present (and it’s better than paper). If you haven’t already upgraded to Windows 10, you’re pro...
Apr 29, 2016 4:30:25 PM
[Video] How Essilor Raised Sales Productivity with iPads
Nearly 56 percent of people who cannot properly see the world around them don’t receive the visual correction they need. Essilor International , world leader for corrective lenses, has been working to change that for 160 years. This mission, and their ongoing innovations in lenses technology to e...
Apr 28, 2016 2:51:35 PM
Mirage and MongoDB, Part 2: Installing and Upgrading
By Yan Aksenfeld, Member of Technical Staff, VMware This 4-part blog post series discusses the addition of MongoDB to Mirage. Part 1 introduced the benefits of adding MongoDB to Mirage to enhance the performance of Mirage when working with a large number of small files. This blog post discusses n...
Apr 28, 2016 2:23:03 PM
Mirage and MongoDB, Part 1: Introduction
By Yan Aksenfeld, Member of Technical Staff, VMware This four-part blog-post series discusses the addition of MongoDB to Mirage. This blog post discusses MongoDB and how it optimizes Mirage performance. Why MongoDB? VMware Mirage requires many components, including servers, management consoles, g...
Apr 28, 2016 2:22:46 PM
8 Most Popular VMware EUC Product Diagrams & Charts, According to Social
Thanks to recent product releases and the expertise of our VMware End-User Computing (EUC) technical and creative teams, we’ve developed some great resources for our @VMwareHorizon social followers in the past month or so. And thanks to social media, we can always tell when we’re providing you, o...
Apr 27, 2016 6:33:42 PM
What You Need to Know About Dogspectus
On April 25, Andrew Brandt, director of threat research at Blue Coat Systems, published an article about the ransomware “Dogspectus” that they had come across in their lab environment. You can read the details on the Dogspectus here . Dogspectus is unique in that it requires no end-user interacti...
Apr 27, 2016 12:00:35 PM
Top Horizon 7 Insights and IT Best Practices From Our Pros
We’ve talked a lot about the newest capabilities introduced in VMware Horizon 7 , but how does it change the roles within your IT organization or impact your long-term end-user computing strategy? No one has better IT best practices and technical insights than our very own VMware consultants. Our...
Apr 26, 2016 5:00:49 PM
What Social Collaboration Looks Like IRL
No more boundaries, soaring productivity, infinitely faster innovation— enterprise social networks (ESNs) sound like the quickest way to solve some of your biggest problems. In reality, a lot of time and ongoing effort goes into creating successful ESN communities, and sometimes, ESN platforms ne...
Apr 26, 2016 5:00:07 PM
Fusion 8.1.1 Available Now with Important Networking fixes!
Hi Everyone, Over the weekend we rolled out an update to Fusion 8 and Fusion 8 Pro that brings our version to 8.1.1. The important fix has resolved a NAT port forwarding and DNS lookup issues that some users have been experiencing, particularly those who work with Hashicorp’s Vagrant plugin for V...
Apr 25, 2016 10:22:01 PM
5 Next-Gen IT Priorities: Highlights from VMware vForum Online
“The role of IT is more critical than ever,” said our CEO at VMware, Pat Gelsinger, last week at VMware vForum Online. “As businesses are looking to their digital transformation, the role that you play, the role that IT offers to the business, is more critical than ever. It’s also more challengin...
Apr 25, 2016 5:00:03 PM
[VIDEO] Why Your Business’ Mobile App Strategy Will Probably Fail (If It Hasn’t Already)
The reality is, for a lot of IT buyers and IT shops, they understand what it means to be enterprise secure. And they have a checklist of enterprise features in terms of what they really require. But when it comes to consumer simplicity, typically what we hear is, ‘Well, my end users just don’t li...
Apr 25, 2016 4:38:14 PM
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