FROM THE EDITORS VIRTUAL DESK
Hi everyone, after all of the excitement of VMworld 2019 in the US we are now on the countdown for VMworld 2019 Europe in Barcelona. Many of the same great sessions will be presented as well as even more announcements that we will keep track of. A few items this week to take note of.
Did you see the Oracle announcement? Here it is!
Today, Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) and VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), announced an expanded partnership to help customers leverage the companies’ enterprise software and cloud solutions to make the move to the cloud. Under this new partnership, customers will be able to support their hybrid cloud strategies by running VMware Cloud Foundation on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. With this new solution, customers will be able to easily migrate VMware vSphere workloads to Oracle’s Generation 2 Cloud Infrastructure and take advantage of consistent infrastructure and operations. As a part of this partnership, Oracle will also provide technical support for Oracle software running in VMware environments both in customer on-premise data centers and Oracle-certified cloud environments.
Here is the press release:https://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vmw-newsfeed.Oracle-and-VMware-Partner-to-Support-Customers-Hybrid-Cloud-Strategies.1916340.html?src=so_5a314d05e49f5&cid=70134000001SkJn
We have new KB articles at the end of the newsletter as always and education and training and TAM Webinar information right below so please take a look and apply as appropriate.
Have a great week ahead, and as always please feel free to get in contact anytime.
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NEWS AND DEVELOPMENTS FROM VMWARE
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Cloud management Blog
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Using the search engine inside VMware vRealize Network Insight can be a revealing experience. It has every single bit of... - VMware Customer Analysis on AI/ML Adoption in the Modern Data Center
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Cloud Native Blog
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There’s a recurring theme in my recent conversations with customers—to build modern applications across multiple clouds,...
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- Protecting Your VCF Management Domain
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Today, we’re pleased to announce that VMware Cloud Foundation will now be offered in HPE’s GreenLake program running on ...
EXTERNAL NEWS FROM 3RD PARTY BLOGGERS
Virtually Ghetto
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While catching up on some news over the weekend, I had noticed a VMware Reddit thread asking a pretty interesting questi...
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- vSAN 6.7 U3 New Advanced Options
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In my lab, I run a number of different flavors of Kubernetes. Some of them I deploy via kubeadm. Others I have provision... - Two short video demos – CNS and Velero 1.1
I put together a few short (7 – 8 minute) videos to show off some new functionality that we’ve recently adde... - Introducing Project Magna – Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for vSphere self-driving operations
At VMworld 2018, Pat Gelsinger made reference to a project that was looking to use Artificial Intelligence and Machine L... - What’s new in vSAN 6.7U3?
With all the buzz at VMworld 2019 this week, I thought I would highlight some of the cool new features that have been in...
Scott's Weblog
- An Introduction to Kustomize
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Last week at VMworld, I had the opportunity to meet with Lightbits Labs, a relatively new startup working on what they c... - Bootstrapping a Kubernetes Cluster on AWS with Cluster API
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The annual SysAdmin day is on July 26nd so I thought I would do a quick post reflecting on my time as a SysAdmin. I spen... - VVols at VMworld
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Virten.net
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vEducate.co.uk
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I had an interesting question from a customer recently; Can we track the adoption/upgrades of VMware tools to the latest...
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VMExplorer
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KB Articles
- New KB articles published for the week ending 14th September,2019
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Status of TLSv1.1/1.2 Enablement and TLSv1.0 Disablement across VMware products vCenter Server or Platform Services Cont... - Top 20 articles for vSphere, August 2019
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Status of TLSv1.1/1.2 Enablement and TLSv1.0 Disablement across VMware products Thick-provisioned VMs on vSAN detected...
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