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TWEETS OF THE WEEK (Editor: Daniel Mizrahi)
CRN names VMware vSAN 6.2 the best software-defined technology of 2016 bit.ly/2h3Z8Lmpic.twitter.com/bUQnTqJefW
VMware Cloud Foundation Wins CRN's 2016 Cloud Platform Product of the Year Awardbit.ly/2g7z6SSpic.twitter.com/uwek0CRtft
VMware Cloud on AWS at re:Invent bit.ly/2gbpxCu
vSAN 6.5: A Real-World Review -- Virtualization Review bit.ly/2h6wOrGpic.twitter.com/rM3k0VnhYV
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NEWS AND DEVELOPMENTS FROM VMWARE
GENERAL NEWS
My 2017 Predictions: A CIO Perspective
By Bask Iyer, CIO, VMware and Dell Technologies As I look ahead at where market and technology is headed for 2017 and beyond, I am excited about several trends. The key theme across them is one of interconnection. These are not ten independent trends, but instead ten interwoven and increasingly s...
NSX System Admins: Free Webcast on December 15 Covers Advanced Troubleshooting for VMware NSX
Every system needs troubleshooting once in awhile. When it happens, you want to be ready. You need to know how to effectively troubleshoot VMware NSX features. This critical skill helps you heighten and improve security, maintain control over your networking environment, and get the most out of n...
NSX Field Advisory – December 2016 Edition
IMPORTANT NOTE Subscribe to RSS Feed http://feeds.feedburner.com/NSX for an up-to-date information on new product, patches and fix announcements regarding VMware NSX for vSphere. Minimum Recommended Release : NSX for vSphere 6.2.2 and vSphere 6.0 Update 2 remains the recommended release combinati...
What’s New in vSphere 6.5: vSphere Integrated Containers
Last year we introduced Project Bonneville . The idea behind it, at the high level, is that there is a strong parallel between the constructs Docker uses inside a Linux Docker host and the constructs ESXi uses as a hypervisor. In the final analysis what project Bonneville allowed you to do is to ...
VMware Announces General Availability of vSphere Integrated Containers
For nearly two decades, we at VMware have been working on helping our customers address the challenge of supporting traditional business critical applications as well as next-generation application. Today, with the General Availability of vSphere Integrated Containers, we are proud to announce th...
VCDX6-DCV Application & Blueprint Now Available
You’ve been waiting…and it’s here! VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX) is the highest level of VMware certification, recognizing an elite group of design architects who have demonstrated exceptional skills in VMware enterprise deployments. Earning your VMware Certified Design Expert 6 – Data Ce...
Earn Credit Towards Certification
Chances are that, at some point in your career, you have taken an exam for a certification to give yourself a competitive advantage. Whether attaining certification was a personal goal, a way to make yourself more marketable, or you simply like seeing all the fancy acronyms in your email signatur...
Time is running out to Save 15% off select VMware Training Courses
Stand out from your peers with VMware training and certification programs. From now until December 30, buy selected VMware training courses from the VMware online store and save 15%. Once your purchase is completed on the VMware store, you will receive a token to enroll via MyLearn. Find out whic...
VMware Cloud on AWS at re:Invent
Whoah. What can we say, AWS knows how to throw a party. When Andy Jassy and company decided to host 30,000 of their closest friends and relatives in Las Vegas, we couldn’t decline the invitation. Last week was a great coming out party for VMware Cloud on AWS. We were able to talk to hundreds of c...
Show off Your Certification with a Digital Badge
If you’re involved with the VMware IT Academy , you may already be familiar with our newest way to share the word about your VMware skills: VMware Digital Badges. Today, VMware is announcing that digital badges are now available for all version 6 certification holders too! Plus, in the new year w...
VMware Cloud on AWS Partner Program Coming in 2017
Earlier this year, VMware and Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a strategic alliance to build and deliver a seamlessly integrated hybrid offering that will give customers the full software-defined data center (SDDC) experience from the leader in the private cloud, running on the world’s most po...
December is a month of many holidays. From Hanukkah to Solstice to Christmas to Boxing Day, to Kwanzaa and then Festivus, we seem to be all in a constant state of eating, decorating, gift-giving and tolerating family members. While everyone you know seems to be firing up their out-of-office respo...
Announcing General Availability of VMware Adapter for SAP Landscape Management version 1.4!
****** THIS BLOG IS POSTED ON BEHALF OF THE AUTHOR NELSON YAN ******* At VMworld EMEA in October 2016, we announced the VMware private cloud solution for SAP and the upcoming release of our Adapter for SAP Landscape Management. To read more about the announcement by my colleague Alberto Farronato...
VMware and Macquarie Cloud Services – A Match Made in the Cloud
Macquarie Cloud Services, Australia’s only dedicated VMware Showcase Service Provider on the VMware vCloud® Air™ Network, offers a cloud that’s built fully on the VMware platform and delivering world-class customer service. Allowing customers to migrate to the cloud easily, without having to swit...
SAP production support for vSphere 6.5
On behalf of the VMware Walldorf based S AP engineering and support team, I am happy to announce that since December 7, 2016, in addition to the already granted SAP HANA support, all other SAP applications and solutions, as of below SAP notes are supported in production on SAP and VMware supporte...
Service Provider Multi-Tenant vRealize Operations (Managed Service)
VMware vRealize Operations™ is a key component of a vCloud Air Network powered cloud service offering. It provides a simplified yet extensible approach to operations management of the cloud infrastructure. It helps service providers maximize profitability by optimizing efficiency and differentiat...
Journey to the Public Cloud with Reality-Based IT
By Nathan Thaler, Senior Manager of Cloud Platforms, MIT Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a premier research university that prides itself on innovation and forward thinking vision. That willingness to embrace the new, and live on the leadin...
VMware vCloud Air Recovery as a Service at a Glance
Safeguarding all your applications and data without blowing your budget or creating a complex solution that’s not only hard to implement but nearly impossible to manage can be quite the challenge. As a result, many enterprises are only able to protect their most important workloads, and rely on b...
END USER COMPUTING
10 Predictions on Next Year’s Top Mobile News
1. You’ll stand in less lines. The Amazon Go grab-and-go retail store may just be a great experiment for now, but demand for mobile-enabled, faster service at brick-and-mortar locations is real. Even bank branches are starting to use iPads to reduce wait times. 2. You’ll see more “world-first” in...
Replacing the Self-Signed Certificate in VMware App Volumes 2.12
By Josh Spencer, End-User-Computing Architect, Technical Marketing, VMware With significant contributions from Graeme Gordon, Senior End-User-Computing Architect, Technical Marketing, VMware and Pim van de Vis, Product Engineer, User Environment Manager, R&D, VMware Introduction It is becoming in...
Horizon 7.0.3 and Horizon Client 4.3: The Next Step in Win10, UX, Automation & Availability
The VMware Horizon team continues the push to deliver our vision of any application on any device. We’re pleased to announce that with the general availability of Horizon 7.0.3 and Horizon Client 4.3, we’ve taken the next step on that journey. [Download Horizon 7.0.3 and Horizon Client 4.3 (avail...
The Best Keeps Getting Better: Introducing App Volumes 2.12
“We’ve tested with the new 2.12 version of App Volumes and see a decrease of login time by 30% to 50% dependent on the amount of AppStacks a user has assigned. Stability and flexibility have also been improved in version 2.12. All and all we are happy with how 2.12 works out in our environment.” ...
[Video] The Massive End-User Computing Shift From Assets to People
“These days, it’s not about the assets. It’s about people, and it’s about the things they do,” recently said Brian Gammage, chief market technologist at VMware. During VMworld Europe , Brian sat down with VMware TV to talk about how this shift in end-user computing (EUC) is transforming the entir...
AirWatch Re-Enforces FIPS 140-2 Encryption with Booz Allen Hamilton Inside Validation
VMware AirWatch helps thousands of organizations secure corporate data and applications on devices both at rest and in transit. While AirWatch always implements the latest recommended security processes and parameters by third-party regulatory bodies and analysts, increasingly the industry is see...
3 Predictions on What’s Next for Augmented and Mixed Reality in 2017
Earlier this year, I predicted that augmented reality (AR) would go mainstream in the enterprise before our consumer lives. I continue to believe that this is the case, particularly for AR experiences that are enabled through the use of smart glasses or head-mounted displays. AR still isn’t mains...
“The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word ‘crisis.’ One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger—but recognize the opportunity.” ― John F. Kennedy Following Hurricane Katrina, LCMC Health , a not-for-profit healthcare system based i...
AirWatch 9.0 Webinar Questions Answered
Our latest VMware AirWatch 9.0 webinar dove into the new capabilities and innovations in our most recent release. Thank you to everyone who was able to join us for the live event. If you weren’t able to join live, catch the replay here . Due to time constraints, we did not get to all of your ques...
New Quick-Start Guide for Deploying RDS Hosted Applications with VMware Horizon 7
VMware End-User-Computing Technical Marketing is happy to announce the publication of a new quick-start guide, Publishing Applications with VMware Horizon 7 . At just over 50 pages, this guide is full of screenshots that cover the process from start to finish—from installing and setting up the Ho...
IRS Approves VDI & BYO for Remote Access to FTI Systems
Faster, simpler and more secure tax reporting is now achievable for federal, state and local agencies thanks to new Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidelines. While virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) was previously approved by the IRS for remote access to Federal Tax Information (FTI), the Sept...
4 Trends Driving Mobile Productivity Apps in 2017
2016 was a huge year for mobile productivity. We saw an end user’s average number of devices jump to 3.64 . We also saw that users on average look at their phones 150 times a day for approximately 72 seconds each time. With all this screen attention on mobile devices, companies are looking to opt...
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