FROM THE EDITORS VIRTUAL DESK
Hi everyone, a shorter than usual update this week and a reminder that as next week is Thanksgiving there will not be another newsletter for 2 weeks. This past week has been very exciting with all of the announcements and new product releases. Many of my customers are very excited to start working with these new solutions from VMware and I am already hard at work helping them with a plan on how to get prepared for implementing these in their environments. This is always a really exciting and challenging time where we have to weigh the new product features with the current edition and stability that we have achieved over time. Of course, we will be moving to the new versions but it is all in the planning to ensure that the outcome will be favorable.
More details on the new releases here!
This list includes:
- vSphere 6.5
- Fusion 8.5.2
- Site Recovery Manager 6.5
- vSAN 6.5
- vRealize Automation 6.2.5
- vRealize Business for Cloud 7.2
- vRealize Operations Manager 6.4
- Workstation Pro 12.5.2
- Identity Manager 2.8
- ThinApp 5.2.2
- vRealize Log Insight 4
- vRealize Orchestrator 6.0.5
- vSphere Data Protection 6.1.3
- vSphere Replication 6.5
- Workstation Player 12.5.2
- PowerCLI 6.5 Release 1
- VIX API 1.15.6
- vRealize Operations Management Pack for NSX for vSphere 3.5
I wish you all a fantastic shorter week ahead if you are in the USA and look forward to speaking to you again in 2 weeks time.
Virtually Yours
VMware TAM Team
TAM BLOG (Editor: Kelly Dare)
VMware Named 2016 STAR Award Winner for Innovation in Enabling Customer Outcomes
VMware’s global Professional Services organization has played an important role in enabling customer successes. Over the last five years, as VMwaretsia-award-2-233x300 has evolved from a single product company to a multi-product solutions provider, the maturation, innovation and transformation of its professional services business has driven new and higher levels of business success and customer satisfaction.
The Technology Services Industry Association (TSIA) announced the 2016 STAR Award winners at the Technology Services World Conference held in Las Vegas. VMware Professional Services was named the 2016 STAR Award winner for Innovation in Enabling Customer Outcomes.
Now in its 26th year, the STAR Awards have become one of the highest honors in the technology services industry. The selection process is rigorous, consisting of a thorough evaluation followed by a vote by TSIA’s service discipline advisory board members.
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TWEETS OF THE WEEK
VMware AirWatch 9.0 Is Officially GA! - AirWatch Blog bit.ly/2eMf1Wwpic.twitter.com/8kNBijDyhP
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vSphere 6.5 Feature Preview: vCenter High Availability - have you tried reinstalling? bit.ly/2fgzRcLpic.twitter.com/DAZ8Bg8N5z
A new badge at CloudCred, on Triple-Point Tuesday: VMware Cloud on AWS bit.ly/2ezvAF3pic.twitter.com/ZTYyfrg7rP
VMware vSphere 6.5 - HTML5 Web Client and More - ESX Virtualization bit.ly/2fNAE61pic.twitter.com/VpAjwtz7m1
NEWS AND DEVELOPMENTS FROM VMWARE
GENERAL NEWS
vSphere 6.5 is here! What you need to know
vSphere 6.5 has been released for all to download. We’re sure you vSphere users are all eager to install a copy and start kicking the tires, and we’re just as eager to see that you get started on the right foot. With this in mind, we have created the following list of Knowledge Base articles that...
Nov 16, 2016 5:29:31 PM
Today we’re ecstatic to announce Project Clarity, a design system that combines UX guidelines, patterns, and front-end code in one solution. Clarity is for the designer and developer in each of us. Bringing it together — UX, HTML/CSS, and Angular Clarity’s designs stem from relentless explora...
Nov 15, 2016 5:00:18 PM
New Courses on vSphere 6.5, Cloud, NSX & More
Last month the Education Services team opened registration for several new instructor-led training courses covering a broad range of topics. For more information on these courses use the links below or contact your local Learning Specialist. vSphere VMware vSphere: What’s New [V5.5 to V6.5] explo...
Nov 15, 2016 4:40:43 PM
VMware Announces General Availability of vSphere 6.5
vSphere 6.5 is here! Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of VMware vSphere 6.5 along with new releases of other SDDC components: VMware vSAN 6.5, VMware vRealize Log Insight 4 and VMware vRealize Operations 6.4. Together, these products help IT more efficiently run, manage,...
Nov 15, 2016 9:05:41 AM
How to backup and restore the embedded vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 vPostgres database
This video demonstrates how to backup and restore an embedded vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 vPostgres database. Backing up your database protects the data stored in your database. Of course, Restoring a backup is an essential part of that function. Note : This video is only supported for backup an...
Nov 14, 2016 1:02:48 PM
High Performance Computing with Altitude: SC’16 Begins Tomorrow!
As readers may know, VMware has had a presence in the EMC booth for the last several years at Supercomputing, the HPC community’s largest annual ACM/IEEE conference and exhibition. With the fusion of Dell and EMC into DellEMC and with VMware now under the Dell Technologies umbrella, I am very ple...
Nov 14, 2016 4:27:07 AM
Top Ten Ways VMware vCloud Air is Better than Thanksgiving
1. Modernizing your Data Center through vCloud Air won’t gobble your budget. 2. Cloud Migration with Hybrid Cloud Manager supports stretched networks. The elastic in your sweatpants however, notsomuch . 3. Downtime from your tryptophan-induced turkey coma can be tremendous, but there’s zero downt...
Nov 18, 2016 5:00:22 PM
Workload Mobility and Disaster Recovery to VMware vCloud Air Network IaaS Provider
Every third Thursday of the month on the vCloud Blog, we aim to publish blogs around vCloud Architecture Toolkit for Service Providers , which is a set of reference documents designed to help you construct a superior working cloud solution leveraging current technologies, recommended practices an...
Nov 17, 2016 5:00:13 PM
New VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2016-0020 and Updated Advisories
Today VMware has released the following new and updated security advisories: New VMSA-2016-0020 Updated VMSA-2016-0016.1 VMSA-2016-0018.1 The new advisory documents a deserialization vulnerability in the vRealize Operation REST API, CVE-2016-7462. Please sign up to the Security-Announce mailing l...
Nov 16, 2016 6:58:10 AM
vSphere 6.5 DRS Performance – A new white-paper
VMware recently announced the general availability of vSphere 6.5 . Among the many new features in this release are some DRS specific ones like predictive DRS, and network-aware DRS. In vSphere 6.5, DRS also comes with a host of performance improvements like the all-new VM initial placement and t...
Nov 16, 2016 6:43:26 AM
Extend Your Data Center in Less Time Than It Takes to Cook a Turkey
You finally made it to the cloud. Congratulations, you’re among the leading enterprises that recognize the value of this critical tool for business success. In fact, by the end of 2016, 27% of IT workloads will be run in the private and public cloud – 10 years ago it was a mere 2%. Maybe you’re u...
Nov 15, 2016 10:08:42 PM
Game Changing: Day 2 Enterprise Data Management Tasks with VMware NSX and vRealize Operations
As a Staff Partner Architect at VMware, I tend to look at our platform and products through a slightly different lens than some of my colleagues. Rather than focusing solely on our feature rich product sets and platform, I take a top down approach and identify which of these features are most int...
Nov 15, 2016 10:07:52 PM
How Do CIOs Imagine the Future of 2020?
The best leaders are visionaries, and CIOs are no exception. They’ve seen networking evolve substantially over the past decades — naturally, CIOs anticipate big changes ahead. As they envision an ideal future for IT however, business pressures influence their wish-lists. So the question for anyon...
Nov 14, 2016 6:03:24 PM
END USER COMPUTING
Apple Moving iPhone Production to U.S.? Top Mobile News this Week
Rumor has it: Could Apple iPhone production move to the U.S.? A gaggle of rumors abounded this week about iPhone assemblers Foxconn and Pegatron potentially, maybe, possibly bring production of Apple’s popular smartphone to the U.S. While Apple declined comment, we’ll definitely watch this rumor ...
Nov 18, 2016 4:17:08 PM
Managing Windows 10 with VMware User Environment Manager
With the introduction of Windows 10 , Microsoft’s new philosophy is for each user to manage his or her own desktop and that every user has his or her own dedicated physical device. All data and settings in Windows 10 are tied to the local device. This also means that Microsoft does not provide wa...
Nov 18, 2016 4:03:50 PM
What’s New in VMware Workspace ONE Nov 2016 Release
Here’s a (pre) Thanksgiving gift to all our VMware Workspace ONE customers, releasing an exciting set of new features generally available for both the cloud and on-premise versions of Workspace ONE . Workspace ONE App Updates Deliver internal enterprise mobile apps to unmanaged devices Adaptive m...
Nov 17, 2016 4:50:06 PM
Are We Finally Getting Better at Mobile Security?
The short answer is we’re getting there, said John Britton, VMware End-User Computing Security Product Marketing Director, when he recently sat down with VMware TV during Connect Atlanta . Find out what he thinks was the worst cybersecurity blow to businesses this year, who’s now responsible for ...
Nov 17, 2016 3:19:57 PM
VMware AirWatch 9.0 Is Officially GA!
In case you missed it, we announced VMware AirWatch 9.0 at Connect Atlanta a little over a month ago. This week, we are excited to share that AirWatch version 9.0 is now generally available. Click here to access all the AirWatch 9.0 documentation on myAirWatch . Join the Webinar & Dive into the A...
Nov 17, 2016 2:28:38 PM
No Enterprise IoT Strategy? Here’s Why Your Company Could Lose
“If enterprises are not looking at IoT today, they will lose in their industry,” recently said VMware IoT expert Mimi Spier. Why do companies suddenly need an enterprise IoT strategy? Connect Atlanta keynote speaker David Pogue, founder of Yahoo Tech, asked Mimi everything enterprises need to kno...
Nov 17, 2016 2:25:58 PM
Mobile Tech Predictions: What Does 2030 Look Like for IT & Mobile Workers?
What does 2030 look like for enterprise IT? And what do we need to do today to prepare for the future of business tech and end-user demands? We’re getting in on the mobile tech predictions action with Brian Katz, VMware End-User Computing (EUC) Director of Mobile Strategy and all-around smart guy...
Nov 16, 2016 6:32:24 PM
Mobile Tech Predictions: What Does 2030 Look Like for IT & Mobile Workers?
Listen to this new episode of the digital work podcast, Echo ONE, to hear mobile strategy expert Brian Katz share biggest mobile tech predictions and trends today and into 2030. What does 2030 look like for enterprise IT? And what do we need to do today to prepare for the future of business tech ...
Nov 16, 2016 6:02:57 PM
[Video] 2017 Tech Trend Alert: Explore the Future of Augmented Reality at Work
“There is a divergence that’s happening in the consumer and enterprise use cases, where AR (augmented reality) is supposed to be content overlaid on the real world. In the enterprise use cases, you’re actually seeing more and more AR applications that deliver contextually relevant data but not an...
Nov 15, 2016 4:14:46 PM
Behind the Scenes of the VMware AirWatch EMM Console
The AirWatch enterprise mobility management ( EMM ) platform makes it possible—and easy—for employees to work in the moment. From a single pane of glass, IT can configure and deliver consumer simple experiences to workers on any app and any device. Behind the scenes, VMware is ramping up efforts ...
Nov 15, 2016 1:00:51 PM
Biggest sale of the year is almost here!
It’s nearly that time again… Black Friday and Cyber Monday are quickly approaching! We’re going to have our award winning virtualization products on sale at huge discounts just in time for the holidays. If you had been holding off upgrading to Fusion 8.5, our Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales a...
Nov 14, 2016 9:37:51 PM
Safelite AutoGlass Has a Window to the Digital Workspace with VMware AirWatch & Workspace ONE
If you’ve ever had a problem with your car’s windshield, chances are that someone from Safelite AutoGlass repaired or replaced it. The Ohio-based company fixes more windshields than any other company in the U.S. Safelite technicians use VMware AirWatch -managed Samsung Android phones that enable ...
Nov 14, 2016 3:10:16 PM
RES and VMware App Volumes in Action: Identity-Driven and Automated AppStacks
By Lacy Gruen, Director of Product Marketing, RES Managing application access and enforcing policies around who should get what set of apps is no easy feat for IT pros. It’s only getting harder to strike the balance between worker productivity by giving the workforce want they want and adhering t...
Nov 14, 2016 2:00:54 PM
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