FROM THE EDITORS VIRTUAL DESK
Hi everyone, yes it is true, we are nearing the end go general support for vSphere 5.5. Are you still looking at your upgrade options? Have you discussed your plans with your Technical Account Manager? This is a great time to make sure that your plans are solid and you are working towards eliminating all vSphere 5.5 components in your organization.
vSphere 5.5 End of General Support is near. Learn upgrade scenarious, and best practice tips and tricks on May 24: http://bit.ly/2kifOik. And make sure all of your VMware products and solutions are within the general support date and you have a plan to upgrade to the latest edition. You can find the VMware Product Matrix lifecycle here.
I wish you all a fantastic week, and please check in with your TAM every week, prevention is much better than cure!
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Many people will say the best thing about a conference is the hallway track. But what exactly is a hallway track? The phrase is a reference to conferences having different tracks of presentation content. For example, there might be a series or track of discussion on one topic (e.g., security, networ... - VMware’s Dirk Hohndel on Why the Crux of Open Source Is Always People
KubeCon EU took Copenhagen by storm last week, and VMware was on-hand to display many of our open source projects and hold a week-long series of open source office hours that attracted many KubeCon attendees. Of particular note, VMware Chief Open Source Officer Dirk Hohndel delivered a keynote addre...
- Upgrade Considerations for VMware vSphere 6.7
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By Susan Wu, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Cloud-Native Apps We’re following up our VMware SIG announcement with some exciting plans for our presence at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Copenhagen. On the heels of the last Cloud Foundry Summit in Boston, we’re starting to see the Cloud Foundry an...
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Today, we are excited to announce VMware Workspace ONE Unified Endpoint Management (UEM), powered by AirWatch technology, now supports Vuzix M300 Smart Glasses. Vuzix M300 Smart Glasses are an ergonomically designed and ruggedized Android-based wearable device. With a versatile collection of mountin... - Make the Most of App Adoption and Engagement with Workspace ONE Intelligence
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Mozilla recently released version 60 of Firefox, which contains a number of pretty important enhancements (as outlined here). However, the Fedora repositories don’t (yet) contain Firefox 60 (at least not for Fedora 27), so you can’t just do a dnf update to get the latest release. With th... - One Week Until Spousetivities in Vancouver
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- Top vBlog 2018 starting soon, make sure your site is included
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In those days, there is the VeeamON 2018 event, from May 14 to 16, 2018 at the McCormick Place, Chicago. For sure will be a huge and successful event, as usual… considering also how the Veeam product’s portfolio has grow. It will be the fourth big Veeam’s conference, excluding the ... - VMworld 2018 – Where and when
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