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Hi everyone, we are half way through 2016. We have told so many stories through the newsletter this year and if you would like to get a recap on any of them please visit our TAM Newsletter Archive which can be found here.
We are also getting closer to VMworld which will be held in Las Vegas this year. If you haven't yet secured your ticket to this event go to www.vmworld.com where you will find lots of information about this years event as well as be able to get info on previous events that have been held as well.
I wish you a fantastic final few days of H1 2016 and all the best for the start of H2 2016.
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Global Teamwork Smooths the Way for a Major vSphere 6 Upgrade
By Robert Codo, Santosh Raju Gumidelly, and Amit Rathod
We were recently involved in a major global effort to upgrade a customer to vSphere 6, and want to describe how VMware TAM services can help in scenarios such as this.
To set the scene, let’s review the customer and the challenges they faced in upgrading their global infrastructure to vSphere 6. This company has three data centers in North America and three outsourced data centers in Europe. All the support for their outsourced data centers are located in Asia. They have several hundred ESXi hosts, which run thousands of VMs.
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NEWS AND DEVELOPMENTS FROM VMWARE
GENERAL NEWS
Mind the Gap: Breaking Down Silos
Part 1: Getting Started. By Kevin Lees For IT to truly transform into an effective, business-focused service provider it has to do more than implement an enabling technology like software defined data center, though that’s certainly a great start. In fact, according to the recently published Stat...
Jun 24, 2016 4:44:57 PM
Congratulations to all the new VCDXs!
The VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX) certification is the highest level of certification that we offer at VMware. VCDX architects demonstrate that they have enterprise-class skills in both VMware Solution design and implementation. Please join us in congratulating the 2016 VCDX certification...
Jun 24, 2016 3:35:16 PM
Windows 2008+ incremental backups become full backups in ESXi 6.0 b3825889
VMware is actively working to address a recently discovered issue wherein an incremental backup becomes a full backup when backing up Windows 2008 (or higher) virtual machines with VSS-based application quiesced snapshot. This recent CBT (Changed Block Tracking) issue does not cause any data loss...
Jun 23, 2016 11:20:12 PM
Global Teamwork Smooths the Way for a Major vSphere 6 Upgrade
By Robert Codo, Santosh Raju Gumidelly, and Amit Rathod We were recently involved in a major global effort to upgrade a customer to vSphere 6, and want to describe how VMware TAM services can help in scenarios such as this. To set the scene, let’s review the customer and the challenges they faced...
Jun 23, 2016 6:28:14 PM
Plan Now for VCDX Defense Dates this Fall
We are excited to announce the fall VCDX Defense dates. As announced earlier , we are separating defenses for Data Center Virtualization (DCV) from the other three tracks. Week of 24 October: VCDX5-DCV, VCDX5-DTM in Sydney, Australia Applications are due 12 August Week of 31 October: VCDX5-DCV in...
Jun 23, 2016 9:50:14 AM
VMware and the Internet of Things: Liota
This is my second CTO blog on VMware and the Internet of Things (‘IoT’). I’ll begin by covering our overall IoT strategy, beginning with the Little IoT Agent (‘Liota’). I’ll briefly review my first blog, Motivating the Three-Tier Architecture. Many believe that a three-tier architecture will domi...
Jun 22, 2016 5:45:21 PM
Updated Virtual SAN Book from VMware Press
Here is a brief excerpt from the newly released Second Edition of Essential Virtual SAN (VSAN): Administrator’s Guide to VMware Virtual SAN by Cormac Hogan and Duncan Epping, VCDX #7 from VMware Press. Introducing Virtual SAN VMware’s plan for software-defined storage is to focus on a set of VMwa...
Jun 22, 2016 3:57:27 PM
New and updated KB articles for NSX for vSphere 6.2.3
We’ve just released the bits for NSX for vSphere 6.2.3 and thought all of your making the upgrade would want to be on top of all the ins and outs of this release. Here is a list of new and/or updated articles in our Knowledgebase: NSX for vSphere 6.2.3 | Released 09 June 2016 | Build 3979471 Exte...
Jun 20, 2016 3:30:01 PM
4 Ways to Save on Training and Certification at VMworld 2016 Europe
Take advantage of the training and certification programs at VMworld 2016 to gain experience, validate your skills, and learn to design, deploy, and operate the latest VMware technologies and solutions. Add any of these offers to your event registration and make the most of your VMworld 2016 expe...
Jun 20, 2016 11:30:13 AM
Let’s talk about weather… in Log Insight
Just imagine you are an IT guy, working hard in an air conditioned windowless (home-) office – your social life is limited to slack, skype, socialcast or some other social media plattform. Wouldn’t it be nice to pretend, that you participate in the life outside and chat about something not work r...
Jun 24, 2016 7:00:12 PM
The College IT Challenge: Student Demands Are Outstripping Capabilities
College used to be so simple when the only tech students and faculty had to worry about was a typewriter and a telephone. Today’s campus denizens are a much more connected bunch — and they’re making more demands than ever on their institutions. IT decision makers at universities nowadays face the...
Jun 24, 2016 4:10:25 PM
Summertime, and Security is Easy
The following is a guest blog post by iland , a partner on the vCloud Air Network. It’s summer. That conjures classic Norman Rockwell images of cabins by the lake with muddy children running in and out of banging screen doors, scavenging snacks and trailing wet footprints across the floor. In our...
Jun 23, 2016 4:00:53 PM
Relationship Mapping Oracle-VMware in vROps
Kyle Wassink, Blue Medora There are two key relationships that need to be identified in order to provide comprehensive Oracle monitoring in VMware vRealize Operations (vROps): relationships within the Oracle stack, and relationships between Oracle and the VMware stack. When combined, these relati...
Jun 23, 2016 10:00:41 AM
Zebra Technologies Unifies Hybrid Cloud with vRealize Suite
by Rich Bourdeau You have seen the surveys, hybrid clouds are everywhere. If you are not using one today you are considering using one or so the experts are telling us. In a March 2016, Tech Pro Research Survey 88% of the respondents said that they were familiar with the concept of hybrid clouds ...
Jun 22, 2016 5:18:51 PM
Physical Security in a Virtual World – NSX Securing “Anywhere”
This is the second blog post in our Micro-segmentation Defined – NSX Securing “Anywhere” blog series . This blog post walks through security requirements that exist in environments with mixed workload deployment types. A mixed workload environment is one utilizing multiple application deployment ...
Jun 22, 2016 12:00:30 PM
VMware Welcomes Arkin To The Family
We’re excited to announce we’ve closed our acquisition of Arkin and I want to formally welcome the Arkin employees to VMware! This is an exciting time for both of our companies, and based on market feedback, there is a tremendous amount of energy around this acquisition from customers, partners a...
Jun 22, 2016 12:00:17 PM
Monitor Your Customized Applications in vRealize Operations
Alain Geenrits, Blue Medora If you want to monitor your complete infrastructure today, vRealize Operations (vROps) is second to none. It allows you to watch your whole VMware environment automatically through a vCenter connection. At Blue Medora we broaden your horizon even more. Our management p...
Jun 22, 2016 10:00:03 AM
Hybrid Clouds Can Be as Secure as Your Own Servers
Hybrid has become the dominant cloud model, it allows enterprises to combine the flexibility and performance of the public cloud with the security of onsite data centers. Those currently using it are considering migrating even more workloads, while newcomers are adopting it eagerly. It’s not hard...
Jun 21, 2016 4:42:09 PM
Automation Leveraging NSX REST API Guide
Check-out the new Automation Leveraging NSX REST API Guide . Authors: VMware NSX Technical Product Management Team Thanks to all the contributors and reviewers of this document. A brief overview of the guide is provided below. VMware has helped transform the data center landscape by introducing v...
Jun 21, 2016 12:00:44 PM
User Permissions: Staying Secure with vROps
Jake Martin, Blue Medora VMware’s vRealize Operations (vROps) takes advantage of user accounts and security in a number of different ways. Secure monitoring and varied access to particular sections of information by managing user permissions are just a few of the options available that we will di...
Jun 21, 2016 10:00:48 AM
Maintenance Mode in vRealize Operations
Greg Hohertz, Blue Medora Maintenance mode is a feature of vRealize Operations Manager (vROps), which prevents a resource from presenting misleading data or status during planned changes or unscheduled outages to the system’s software or hardware. In this blog, we’ll take a look at a couple ways ...
Jun 20, 2016 10:00:04 AM
END USER COMPUTING
This Week’s Mobile News: Apple to Pull the Plug, Samsung’s IoT $$$ & Windows 10 Apps
Apple reportedly set to pull the plug. The headphone plug, that is. The Wall Street Journal reported this week that the tech giant will likely break with its traditional two-year iPhone overhaul. Instead, Apple’s projected to make a few subtle tweaks, including *allegedly* getting rid of their he...
Jun 24, 2016 1:00:13 PM
Conquer Windows App Management: Part 1 (Modern Apps + Windows Store for Business)
Since the onset of personal computers and operating systems (OS), enterprises have been trying to utilize computational capabilities to simplify and get rid of skill-less tasks. There were “programs” written for each of the jobs. From then to the last few years, where companies completely embrace...
Jun 23, 2016 2:34:39 PM
VMware Horizon Air: Utility Server Considerations
By Daniel Berkowitz, Horizon Air Senior Solutions Engineer Managing virtual desktops requires some infrastructure services to support everyday use, services such as: user authentication and entitlement (Active Directory), IP address management (DHCP), Key Management Services and File Services. Th...
Jun 23, 2016 2:26:04 PM
AirWatch 8.4 Transforms Mobile Management for Education
With VMWare AirWatch 8.4 , we are delivering exciting and more intuitive features to manage Apple devices used in the classroom. We added easy ways to sort your students and teachers by the classes they belong to, and then assign devices and apps to those classes. Whether you have 1:1 or shared d...
Jun 22, 2016 2:00:10 PM
Getting a Pulse on Your Smart ATM: Remote Management Is Critical
Increased branch automation requires new concepts and strategies for branch services, including the management of ATMs. On September 2, 1969 , America’s first automatic teller machine ( ATM ) made its public debut, dispensing cash to customers at Chemical Bank in Rockville Center, New York. ATMs ...
Jun 22, 2016 12:00:16 PM
vRealize Operations for Horizon & Published Apps 6.3 Now Available!
Drumroll, please: VMware vRealize Operations for Horizon & Published Apps , version 6.3, is now generally available (GA). This new version of vRealize Operations for Horizon & Published Apps introduces a slew of new features that will allow you to: Monitor VMware’s Blast Extreme protocol in VMwar...
Jun 21, 2016 5:00:28 PM
Connect Atlanta Registration Is Open! Claim Your Ticket Today
Connect Atlanta 2016 is now open for registration ! The leading event for enterprise mobility is slated for October 2-6 in Atlanta, often referred to as the Silicon Valley of the South. Click here to save up to $200 with our early-bird rate. New to Connect Atlanta or just want to reminisce on the...
Jun 21, 2016 4:00:07 PM
Gartner: VMware AirWatch Scores Highest in 3 EMM Use Cases
DOWNLOAD THE REPORT Recently, Gartner released its 2016 Gartner Critical Capabilities for Enterprise Mobility Management Suites report. This report evaluates critical capabilities of enterprise mobility management vendors based on how well each vendor delivers each capability. VMware AirWatch rec...
Jun 21, 2016 1:31:42 PM
macOS Sierra and VMware Fusion 8
Hot off the heels of WWDC, Apple has made available the next major update to it’s flagship operating system for Mac. With a new name, macOS, Apple seems to be getting away from the OS X moniker and aligning with the rest of the OS’s that it has in it’s bag: tvOS, iOS, watchOS, and now macOS. User...
Jun 20, 2016 10:44:29 PM
New Podcast: Can IoT Live Up to the Hype?
In episode #6 of the free tech podcast, Echo ONE , we hit all the big-name trends facing the digital workspace. My favorite: Can IoT live up to the hype? Shawn Bass, long-time IT consultant and current VMware End-User Computing (EUC) CTO, joins hosts Justin and Blakely to dive into the biggest tr...
Jun 20, 2016 3:46:08 PM
Why Patient Engagement Is Important & How Mobile Technology Drives Adoption
Patient engagement is the process of healthcare providers and patients working together to improve health outcomes. The more a patient engages in their treatment process, the healthier that patient becomes. Simply put, better educated patients make better decisions and choices, which in turn lead...
Jun 20, 2016 1:00:03 PM
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