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TAM TWEETS OF THE WEEK (Editor: Daniel Mizrahi)
Kit Colbert interview with theCUBE at #EMCWorld 2016 in Las Vegas bit.ly/24Bq9Jg
#VMworld 2016 US Public Session Voting open thru May 24th bit.ly/21PHCIHpic.twitter.com/ldbdyWXB3T
Working Together – UCS Management and VMware vRealize Operations (via #Cisco Blogs) bit.ly/21XKKm1pic.twitter.com/D3MtuJpanx
Can Combining Virtual Machines and Containers Get You to ‘Cloud Native Nirvana?’ bit.ly/21Vj80Npic.twitter.com/tcUnQ00BAI
Enterprise Networking: Top 10 Trends (via #CIO Vantage) bit.ly/24SuRCppic.twitter.com/Ot8WHCTNfC
TAM BLOG (Editor: Kelly Dare)
Improving the VMware User Experience Every Day
By Kelly Dare
I recently spoke with Steve Wehrend, our VP of User Experience (UX) and User Interface (UI), about his role and the impact his group is making on the VMware customer experience.
Steve’s objective is to make VMware UIs as transparent as possible. He describes his vision this way: “The best tools let you focus on your work. They become part of what you’re doing. You don’t think about them. You just use them. You become lost in the task, not in the tool.” Speaking with Steve, you realize that this vision drives all that he does here.
Steve described how he was drawn to UX and UI. “At their most basic, user experience problems are people problems,” he explains. “I love being able to understand people and how to make things work for them. I enjoy that part of problem solving, which is why UX and UI are my passions”
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NEWS AND DEVELOPMENTS FROM VMWARE
GENERAL NEWS
VCAP5 Exam Retirements Suspended – Registration Remains Open
Since we announced the retirement of the remaining VCAP5 exams in late March, we have heard from quite a number of you who have requested additional time to prepare for and take those exams. Additionally, we are still working on the development and refinement of the VCAP6 exams (which will replac...
May 13, 2016 4:00:20 PM
Improving the VMware User Experience Every Day
By Kelly Dare I recently spoke with Steve Wehrend, our VP of User Experience (UX) and User Interface (UI), about his role and the impact his group is making on the VMware customer experience. Steve’s objective is to make VMware UIs as transparent as possible. He describes his vision this way: “Th...
May 12, 2016 7:16:36 PM
Performance of RDMA and HPC Applications in VMs using FDR InfiniBand on VMware vSphere
Customers often ask whether InfiniBand (IB) can be used with vSphere. The short answer is, yes. VM Direct Path I/O (passthrough) allows InfiniBand cards to be made directly visible within a virtual machine so the guest operating system can directly access the device. With this approach, no ESX-sp...
May 12, 2016 6:49:24 PM
It’s All in the Context: Practical Advice for Using IT Benchmarking
By Ton van Tubergen In my role as an Operations Transformation Architect, I have been involved in many large and small IT Transformations, addressing people, process, technology, governance and organizational aspects and their dependencies. As a responsible IT leader, managing uncertainty and ris...
May 12, 2016 5:48:33 PM
New Courses covering NSX, Horizon 7 and more
VMware Education Services continually releases new courses designed to grow your skills so you can exploit the opportunities provided by VMware technologies. New this month: VMware NSX: Troubleshooting and Operations [V6.2] This course teaches you to troubleshoot and operate a VMware NSX® deploym...
May 12, 2016 3:39:51 PM
Save on Training & Certification at VMworld US 2016
Take advantage of our special training and certification offers at VMworld 2016 US to hone and validate your skills on the latest VMware technologies and solutions: Save 25% off our best-selling classes offered the week before VMworld. Save 25% off our On Demand course and complete your training ...
May 9, 2016 4:25:57 PM
SAP HANA on VMware vSphere – Sizing (Compute)
This is the second blog of my SAP HANA on vSphere blog series and will provide information on SAP HANA on VMware vSphere compute resource sizing . This blog does not describe how to perform the actual SAP HANA system RAM sizing. For this please refer to the SAP documentation. A good start is to r...
May 13, 2016 6:07:22 PM
VMware NSX Fundamentals Live is Coming to a City Near You
Sometimes a webcast isn’t enough – that’s why when VMware brings an NSX seminar to your hometown, you say “yes.” VMware is kicking off the NSX Fundamentals Live U.S. tour, so register now to secure your spot in one of these seminars when it gets to your town. VMware experts will start off with a ...
May 13, 2016 5:53:58 PM
Storage Troubleshooting in a 3-2-1 Hardware Stack
By: Chuck Petrie, Blue Medora As the storage market transitions to all-flash, hybrid array storage providers strategically work to accelerate performance and utilization. In doing so, it becomes more difficult to categorize hot data, dynamic and agile storage capacities, and other new age concept...
May 13, 2016 10:01:34 AM
Troubleshooting Tips: Orchestrator PowerShell Plug-in
By Spas Kaloferov Background and General Considerations In this post will we will take a look at some common issues one might experience when using the VMware vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) PowerShell Plug-In, especially when using HTTPS protocol or Kerberos authentication for the PowerShell Host (P...
May 12, 2016 7:18:57 PM
VMware and Cirrity Help U.S. Auto Sales to Speed Past Sales Records with Virtual Desktops
U.S. Auto Sales needed to update its IT infrastructure after an unprecedented ice storm slammed the Southeastern United States, knocking its payment collection system offline. The company, specializing in preowned high-end vehicles for customers without access to traditional financing, could not ...
May 12, 2016 4:00:49 PM
vRealize Suite Customer Results
VMware’s vRealize Suite delivers the industry’s most complete solution for building and managing multi-vendor private, public or hybrid cloud environments See proven results from our customers and learn how you can do more with your data center too from our vRealize Suite Infographic. Key Benefit...
May 12, 2016 11:00:47 AM
Reinvent Cloud Security with vCloud Air
Let’s say your business is expanding rapidly. You’ll need an infrastructure that can expand with the business, right? One cost-effective option is the public cloud. However, based on what you know of the public cloud, you might not see it as the best choice. After all, the cloud works differently...
May 11, 2016 4:00:52 PM
Infographic: Survey Reveals IT Organizations Underestimate Security Threats
Did you know the average organization’s security has been compromised an average of four times over the past year? If that seems like a lot, well, that’s because it is—especially considering that, according to a survey conducted by Forrester of 210 IT risk and compliance decision-makers, the vast...
May 11, 2016 12:00:35 PM
Project Cava, Dogfooding the vRealize Suite
Caution Dogfooding in Progress! For the past eternity it seems, what would become the vRealize Automation team has been dogfooding their own product. This allows them to deploy Virtual Machines for a variety of purposes. Until vRealize Automation 7 brought the Converged Blueprint and Software Pro...
May 11, 2016 10:00:25 AM
vTech Talk: vCloud Air Template Options
In this episode of vTech Talk, our series highlighting tips, tricks and resources for all things vCloud Air, David Hill, Senior Technical Marketing Architect at vCloud Air, answers a top vCloud Air Community question from our recent AVCA Community event. During the event, Community member Sebasti...
May 10, 2016 4:02:08 PM
Moving VMs is not solving your SDDC Management Problems!
In my last blog article, “What is Intelligent Operations Management in the SDDC” , I discussed how intelligent operations management of the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) can be broken down into three (3) areas of focus: Topology Scope, Data Collection and Management Functions. We also talke...
May 10, 2016 10:01:44 AM
DevOps Ready IT achieved at VMware IT
Success in the new economy requires companies to rethink traditional processes and approaches. Enterprises that embrace digital solutions and automation to accelerate innovation are rewarded. Recognizing the opportunity to increase IT agility and be a better partner to lines of business, VMware I...
May 9, 2016 11:00:27 AM
END USER COMPUTING
Rise of the Bots & Big Data in Top Mobile News This Week
Every-bot-y’s talking about this hitting the enterprise. They’re smart. They’re helpful. They’re about to change the way you work. They’re bots. Head to Workspace Central to read how these little helpers could soon save you time on the job. Think you’re ready for Big Data? How fast can you swim? ...
May 13, 2016 5:00:47 PM
3 Tips for Managing Data in the IoT Context
Internet of Things (IoT) adoption is gaining major momentum in the enterprise . As companies get ready to harness the power of IoT in their businesses, they need to account for the next big challenge that comes with this initiative: how to manage the billions of bits of data generated by these mi...
May 12, 2016 4:49:35 PM
Developing a Mobile App for People with Too Many Passwords
Recently, we introduced you to EZ Link , our new Socialcast login feature. Right from your Socialcast web or mobile app, you just click a button to send yourself an email with a link that logs you into the Socialcast mobile app. Today, we all have more passwords to remember than ever. We develope...
May 12, 2016 1:46:29 PM
[Webinar] Understanding the Benefits of Offline VDI: Introducing Horizon FLEX
Nobody wants to provision physical machines anymore. It’s a time-consuming, costly exercise fraught with user downtime. But what do you do when you can’t give virtual desktops (VDI) to contractors, offshore developers or field workers? That’s where VMware Horizon FLEX comes in. FLEX is the secure...
May 12, 2016 12:29:05 PM
NetApp Hikes Engineers’ Productivity on Virtual Desktops
Fortune 500 company (and VMware partner ) NetApp brings in more than $6 billion in revenue by providing big businesses with technology to store and manage data. NetApp’s customers are major innovators, using data management to its fullest potential to grow their businesses. And NetApp’s engineers...
May 11, 2016 2:39:34 PM
[Infographic] The Undeniably Mobile Consumer | Retail Technology Trends
Dive into the biggest consumer and retail technology trends, including business mobility, omnichannel engagement, digital workspaces and more, in our new infographic. The Mobile, Connected Consumer The modern consumer is undeniably mobile, with 70% of those surveyed citing access to a smartphon...
May 11, 2016 12:31:44 PM
Preview of Our EZ Link Login Flow for the Socialcast Mobile App
In our February 2016 new features update , we introduced EZ Link, which lets a user log into the Socialcast mobile app without having to manually enter a password. Last time, we previewed the desktop web version. To recap, a logged-in Socialcast user simply clicks on a handy EZ Link icon to recei...
May 10, 2016 2:00:19 PM
Is Financial Services IT Leaving the Wrong Kind of Legacy?
There’s an old saying in software application development: “Legacy software is fine. It’s just old software that still works.” In banking, “legacy” has made financial services IT leaders cringe for years. The word conjures visions of aged IBM mainframes and green screens, piles of COBOL program p...
May 10, 2016 12:10:17 PM
[SlideShare] See Your Industry’s Digital Workspace In Action
Driven by explosive growth in mobility, changing demographics and a new scale of security breaches, industries worldwide are shifting IT budgets for digital workspaces . These new, integrated technologies combine desktop virtualization with identity, application and enterprise mobility management...
May 9, 2016 5:00:33 PM
[Video] Want to See How Windows 10 Management Actually Works?
Windows 10 is a huge talking point for IT departments in every company of any size all over the world. Windows’ first truly mobile operating system is designed to work seamlessly across mobile devices and PCs, making unified endpoint management more than a possibility. Now, combined with VMware A...
May 9, 2016 1:16:21 PM
[WEBINAR] The Rising Threat of Insider-led Security Breaches
An escalating proportion of threats come from insider-led breaches. One recent survey reveals that 40% of organizations sampled are expecting an insider-led attack within the next 12 months. Another study suggests that such breaches cost companies an average of $3.79 million per breach, with an a...
May 9, 2016 1:12:24 PM
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