FROM THE EDITORS VIRTUAL DESK
Hi everyone, welcome to the latest VMware TAM newsletter which is being sent to you during the VMworld 2019 event taking place in Europe. We have added as much news and updates from the event in this weeks newsletter and will continue that next week as well. If you are attending the event I hope you are having a really productive time at the event and enjoying all of the amazing sessions being presented.
I wish you all a fantastic week ahead and look forward to bringing you the latest VMware and virtualization news next week from VMworld and beyond.
Virtually Yours
VMware TAM Team
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ANNOUNCEMENTS @ VMWORLD EUROPE
VMworld 2019 Europe Day 1 General Session
VMworld 2019 Europe Day 2 General Session
Project Maestro Overview
Announcing vRealize Network Insight 5.1
VMware Introduces “Workspace ONE for Microsoft Endpoint Manager” to Enable Modern Management for Windows 10
Announcing VMware NSX Distributed IDS/IPS
VMware Tanzu Progress and Design Principles
TAM WEBINARS @ VMWARE
November 2019 – Bitfusion Technical Overview
Date: Thursday, November 14th
Time: 11:00am EST/ 10:00am CST/ 8:00am PST
Duration: 1 Hour
Synopsis:
This session will provide a technical overview of the Bitfusion product along with a timeline of how the product will move forward at VMware. In the overview and demo, our tech team will discuss and show how Bitfusion’s FlexDirect provides network-attached GPUs (full or partial) in order to create an elastic infrastructure for today’s AI/ML workloads. VMware plans to integrate this technology into the core vSphere platform and use it as an entry point for integration with other hardware acceleration technologies (for example – FPGAs). Bitfusion was acquired by VMware in August of 2019.
Guest speakers:
Peter Buckingham – Director of Engineering, VMware (former VP Engineering at Bitfusion)
Jim Brogan – Technical Marketing Manager, VMware (former Technical Engineer for Bitfusion)
Registration Link:
https://VMware.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_AebrqlmCTHGycFJ8Ij5XKA
New Version of Proactive Support with Skyline Now Available
We’re excited to announce that a new release of Skyline Advisor is now available, with new features and functionality designed to improve customers’ proactive support experience.
Highlights of the release include:
- Consolidated Recommendations: Easily navigate through upgrade recommendations based on current product versions, and view the Findings that will be remediated with each upgrade.
- Analysis Timestamp: Message at top of each page indicates when the most recent data analysis was performed.
- Data Analysis Message Upon First Login: When customers log into Advisor for the first time after installing a Skyline Collector, they will see an alert message informing them that data analysis is in progress and they will begin seeing proactive Findings and Recommendations within 48-52 hours.
To learn more about these updates, please visit:
Skyline Blog
Skyline Documentation
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