FROM THE EDITORS VIRTUAL DESK
Hi everyone, as I write this weeks newsletter it is Memorial Day in the USA. I want to share my wishes to everyone on this day. I have been spending a bit more time with our NSX network virtualization solution. This is a fascinating solution that I hope to learn more about in the future and intend on taking a course.
This week the featured TAM Blog post is on how TAMs can work for their customers to motivate for enhancements to existing VMware solutions. This is always a really great win for everyone involved, while it takes some effort to do this on both sides the outcome if managed correctly can significantly help our customers.
I wish you all a fantastic week ahead.
Virtually Yours
Neil Isserow
Staff Technical Account Manager, Team Lead
San Francisco, CA
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#VMware gaining ground as VDI market grows (via TechTarget) bit.ly/1OEksgUpic.twitter.com/fnUvvmxMGe
Recognizing Honorees for CRN’s Women of the Channel 2016 (viavmware.com/radius) bit.ly/1OyPNl2pic.twitter.com/rvNxb7TEFZ
Start planning: #VMworld 2016 to be held in Las Vegas August 28th - September 1st bit.ly/20syethpic.twitter.com/Vrsk1gMry1
#Cisco ACI and #VMware NSX kumbaya? - Network World bit.ly/20I9cGDpic.twitter.com/qbOzYYFGRg
TAM BLOG (Editor: Kelly Dare)
TAMs Enabling Enhancements in VMware Technology for Their Customers’ Success
By Neil Isserow
As a VMware TAM, I get involved in the most critical aspects of my customers’ solutions. I am often the first person my customers turn to when they have a problem, an idea, or have trouble integrating our products with another solution. Most of our problems are easily identified and can be resolved with a solution available via a Knowledge Base article or a VMware patch. In the rarest of cases, the problem requires a fix that will be included in a patch to be released. [Continue reading here...]
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NEWS AND DEVELOPMENTS FROM VMWARE
GENERAL NEWS
We asked, VMware Certified Instructors Answered
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May 30, 2016 3:22:56 PM
TAMs Enabling Enhancements in VMware Technology for Their Customers’ Success
By Neil Isserow As a VMware TAM, I get involved in the most critical aspects of my customers’ solutions. I am often the first person my customers turn to when they have a problem, an idea, or have trouble integrating our products with another solution. Most of our problems are easily identified...
May 27, 2016 7:17:26 PM
Announcing the Launch of VMware’s Certification Manager Tool
The VMware Certification Program has rolled out a new certification candidate portal that will improve your user experience. VMware Certification Manager offers several features and benefits: Single sign-on to Pearson VUE – saves multiple steps and clicks in the registration process Elimination o...
May 27, 2016 1:00:32 PM
Comprehensively Monitor your Enterprise Stack with vROps Management Packs
By: Ken Hess If you use VMware virtualization products at your company, then you should check out Blue Medora’s management packs. Blue Medora’s solutions extend the capabilities of VMware’s vRealize Operations Manager (vROps) to provide monitoring solutions for the hardware, software, application...
May 30, 2016 10:00:10 AM
Demo – Dynamically Enforcing Security on a Hot Cloned SQL Server with VMware NSX
Originally posted on the Virtualize Business Critical Applications blog. By Niran Even-Chen VMware NSX is a software defined solution that brings the power of virtualization to network and security. There are many great papers about NSX in general: for example here & here and many others, the p...
May 27, 2016 3:52:21 PM
Announcing VMware vCloud Director 8.10: A New Way to Orchestrate the Provisioning of Cloud Services
Creating a secure, automated, and well-managed enterprise grade computing environment often takes more unified approach than a public-only or a private-only cloud. Business leaders have begun rapidly transitioning to hybrid cloud environments that leverage both private cloud and public cloud serv...
May 27, 2016 1:00:31 PM
Top 3 Reasons Why You Need Cloud Management
By most accounts, the hybrid cloud approach to IT is not just in ascendancy—it’s ruling the roost. Estimates vary, but computing trend surveys are typically finding an overwhelming number of respondents have established a hybrid cloud strategy, if they aren’t there already. (Cutting to the chase:...
May 27, 2016 10:01:39 AM
Keep Your Business Critical Apps Soaring with Custom Dashboards
By: Bekah Suttner, Blue Medora As a systems administrator, you are pulled in a million different directions – monitoring this, ordering that, fixing environment issues, keeping up with endless emails; the list never ends. As much as you hate to admit it, at some point you’ve probably overlooked a...
May 26, 2016 10:00:15 AM
Solarwinds NPM content pack for Log Insight
Overview Solarwinds NPM or Network Performance Monitor is a monitoring software that monitors faults, availability, and performance of devices connected to a network which helps in detection, diagnosis, and resolution of network performance issues and outages. SolarWinds can also monitor your dat...
May 26, 2016 8:00:52 AM
Software Components – Reusable Building Blocks The Project Cava introduction blog mentions visually simple Converged Blueprints of Virtual Machines and Applications that can be deployed into various target platforms (vCenter, various Clouds etc.) However, there is a complexity behind that simplic...
May 25, 2016 7:54:42 PM
VMware at SAPPHIRE NOW 2016 Recap
From May 17 th to May 19 th , SAP welcomed around 30,000 attendees to Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida to its SAPPHIRE NOW conference and provided an overview on what’s new as well as what’s upcoming from SAP in 2016. As Bill McDermott, SAP CEO states during his keynote: “ Run ...
May 25, 2016 6:12:03 PM
Experience the Power of Operations Management with the vSphere Optimization Assessment!
Have you ever wondered about the power of Operations Management? Well, you’re in luck! The vSphere Optimization Assessment (VOA) for Service Providers is a sales acceleration program that allows you to see the power of operations management. Starting June 2 nd , we’re hosting a webcast series whi...
May 25, 2016 4:33:37 PM
New VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2016-0006 and Updated Advisories
Today VMware has released the following new and updated security advisories: New VMSA-2016-0006 Updated VMSA-2015-0007.5 VMSA-2016-0005.1 The new advisory addresses an important cross-site scripting issue in the vSphere Web Client, CVE-2016-2078. The issue is present on the server side when vCent...
May 24, 2016 10:30:02 PM
Read ’16 Gartner Cloud Management Platform Market Guide FREE from VMware
Cloud Management Platform With the emergence of cloud service providers, the Business now have alternatives to IT. The rise of cloud computing has created IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS offerings allowing vendors to directly target your users. A host of cloud services is available at the swipe of a credit ...
May 24, 2016 7:00:23 PM
5 Common Errors While Installing vRealize Operations Manager
By: Tim Sheldon, Blue Medora Understanding the most common errors associated with installing VMware’s vRealize Operations Manager (vROps) can drastically improve user experience. Currently, 85% of Blue Medora’s support tickets are related to user error during vRealize Operations installation and ...
May 24, 2016 10:00:35 AM
vRealize Suite Standard: Simplify IT Operations
vRealize Suite Standard: Simplify IT Operations With vRealize Suite Standard, IT organizations of all sizes can boost performance and avoid business disruption. And become more efficient with comprehensive visibility across applications and infrastructure. All in one place. Traditional operations...
May 23, 2016 10:27:47 PM
Packet Pushers Podcast Gets Technical About VMware NSX with Hutto Independent School District
Based in Texas, the Hutto Independent School District comprises more than 6,000 K-12 students on 8 campuses. When they decided to virtualize their network, they had a number of factors to keep in mind. Would the technology support VDI implementation? How would a virtual network affect business as...
May 23, 2016 6:43:41 PM
It’s Time for You to Attend vForum Live Chicago – May 25th!
Calling all IT professionals interested in exploring the benefits of virtualization, mobility, or cloud, VMware vForum Live Chicago is coming soon! Join our experts in-person for an interactive, all-day event that will take you through technical deep dives of VMware solutions. Sign up today to at...
May 23, 2016 4:18:22 PM
vRealize Automation 7 Catalog API In Action
I’ve written before about the improvements we made to the self-service API in vRealize Automation 7.0, but where APIs are concerned, working code is worth a thousand words. I’m pleased to present the vRealize Automation Reference Application, an open source sample application we developed to show...
May 23, 2016 10:00:17 AM
END USER COMPUTING
Top Mobile News: See the First Google Daydream Phone
Here’s the first official Google Daydream phone. Last week, Google revealed their advanced virtual reality (VR) platform, Daydream. The caveat: it only works with certain smartphones. And the first smartphone for Google’s Daydream VR platform is probably one you’ve never heard of. PC Magazine rev...
May 27, 2016 5:00:14 PM
Banking the Unbanked: How Technology Drives Financial Inclusion
A third of the world’s population does not have a bank account. That’s 2.5 billion people! “By 2030, 2 billion people who don’t have a bank account today will be storing money and making payments with their phones.” —Bill Gates in The Verge Back in the 1990s, improving access to financial service...
May 26, 2016 2:00:58 PM
VMware Horizon Remote Applications Just Got Better
It started a few years back with the release of VMware Horizon 6. VMware had entered the Remote Desktop Services (RDS) game. There were doubters, and many pundits wondered if VMware was really serious about making a dent in the RDS market. Naturally, some competitors made cute marketing videos an...
May 26, 2016 1:01:01 PM
Today Is #GeekPrideDay! Here’s How to Win Some Swag
Today is one of my favorite days of the year: Geek Pride Day . All across the world, we connoisseurs of geekdom celebrate our communal fascination with all things science, math, sci-fi/fantasy, video games, tabletop, technology, gadgets—you get the idea. And here at VMware, we want to celebrate r...
May 25, 2016 2:49:21 PM
New Wave of Enterprise Chat Grants You 3 Wishes at Work
Last week, Google showed everyone at the I/O conference that the future of chat is here. Integrated with their popular search engine, new chat app Allo answers your questions, mid-conversation, like your own personal genie. It’s just one of many recent innovations ushering in a new wave of smart ...
May 25, 2016 2:12:25 PM
5 Things You Won’t Want to Miss at EUC Insights 2016
A few weeks ago, we opened registration for VMware’s biggest End-User Computing event of the year: EUC Insights 2016 . On June 7, IT leaders from businesses of all sizes all over the world will converge online to talk about all things digital workspace and business mobility. Learn more here . 201...
May 24, 2016 1:33:27 PM
The Mobile Race to the White House
In the U.S., the presidential race to the White House is rising to a fervor as November approaches. And the campaign process, like so many other facets of our modern connected society, is increasingly happening through and on our mobile devices. In the recent Radius blog, On the Campaign Trail: M...
May 24, 2016 12:55:01 PM
Retail Data Security: Protecting Data beyond the Transaction
Retailers are increasingly under pressure from both consumers and regulatory agencies to build security programs that effectively protect customer data. As retailers look to roll out mobile solutions, security for devices, applications and content is a paramount concern in their mobility manageme...
May 23, 2016 2:05:07 PM
Enhancing Your VMware Horizon 7 Implementation with Smart Policies
Written in partnership with Raymond Wiesemann, VMware EUC product engineer. There has been a great deal of enthusiasm around the launch of VMware Horizon 7 and the innovative features delivered by the platform. But sometimes, a big launch can overshadow some of the more practical features in arch...
May 23, 2016 1:00:29 PM
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