FROM THE EDITORS VIRTUAL DESK
Hi everyone, well a few weeks out from VMworld Europe and VMworld USA and I wanted to share with you a list of many of the products and announcements that were made during these two amazing conferences. I hope that you find them useful. There are of course many other announcements not captured here but would have been in the past few newsletters which are always available online in our archive within a few weeks (https://communities.vmware.com/blogs/vmwaretam )
New Products / Services Announced during VMworld Europe 2016
- vSphere Integrated Containers (feature of vSphere 6.5)
- vCenter Server 6.5
- Host Resource Management and Operations
- Security
-vRealize Automation (vRA) 7.2
-vRealize Log Insight (vRLI) 4.0
-vRealize Operations (vROps) 6.4
-Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 6.5
-Data Loss Prevention (DLP) for Office 365
-Tech Preview: Skype for Business Integration with Horizon View
-Photon Platform and Kubernetes as a Service
-Workspace One Essentials (standalone digital workspace without device enrollment)
-Workspace One Single Sign-On (SSO) collaboration with F5 Network’s Big IP
I wish you all a fantastic week ahead and look forward to providing you with even more VMware news next week as we start the countdown to the end of 2016.
Virtually Yours
VMware Brisbane TAM Team
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