I have seen the light! Why I now believe that non-persistent / shared images are doable for VDI

For the past five years or so, I've said again and again that I don't like non-persistent / shared / locked down images for VDI. In fact that was a core tenant of our 2012 book, The VDI Delusion. Why I didn't like persistent in the past If you go way… more
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Partner Registration for PEX 2015 is Now Open!

Learn current go-to market selling strategies that will enable partners to accelerate their businesses, to insights that effectively identify customer needs and acquire new customers by exploring best practices and understanding the training roadmap.  Reminder to register before December 9th to take advantage of Early Bird pricing and save $300 on their conference pass.  Get registered today 2014NOVXTR

Top Gun Tech Thursdays!

VMware Top Gun Tech Thursday schedule is now live!  Be sure to check out these great topics to expand your field of expertise across the Software Defined Datacenter, End User Computing and Hybrid Cloud platforms. See a Demo (and learn how to do it yourself), get our most frequently asked questions (and the answers!), and ask an SE any questions you have on the product! 2014NOVXTREDU

Sign up at http://www.vmware.com/go/TopGunTechThursday

 Check out these great sessions:

• Nov 3 : VMworld highlights
• Nov 13 : NSX Microsegmentation
• Nov 20 : Horizon POC Tips & Tricks
• Dec 4 : Horizon Safe Passage Program
• Dec 11 : VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN)

Save 25% on any VCP exam before January 1, 2015!

If you’re a current VMware Certified Professional (VCP), you can save 25% off any VCP exam taken before January 1, 2015. This is a great opportunity to save money and get recertified before the March 10, 2015 deadline. (For the recertification policy details visit vmwarerecertification.com.) To claim your 25% exam discount, just enter discount code VCPRECERT25 when you check out on the PearsonVue site. But act fast. This discount is only good on exams taken before January 1, 2015. Read the complete terms and conditions here. 2014NOVXTREDU

EUC Datacenter Design Series — EVO:RAIL VDI Scalability Reference

By TJ Vatsa with Fred Schimscheimer and Todd Dayton End User Computing (EUC) has come of age and is continuing to mature by leaps and bounds. Customers are no longer considering virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) as a tactical project but are looking at EUC holistically as an enterprise solution that accelerates EUC transformation. You can refer...more  2014NOVECPTEK

vRealize Operations and vRealize Orchestrator Extensibility Presentations from VMworld 2014

There were a variety of presentations in VMworld around solution extensibility of vRealize Operations and vRealize Orchestrator. The following presentations give great detail around extensibility and have many examples of both VMware and Partner integrations. Operational Management Challenges for Converged Infrastructure from Virtualization and Cloud Management Solutions Cloud Management with vRealize Operations from Virtualization and more » 2014NOVHBDTEK

Introducing the vCloud Air Information Hot Spot!

We at VMware aim to provide you with the information you need, when you need it, to help guide you on your journey to the hybrid cloud. To that end, today we are introducing a new Facebook application where you can access key vCloud Air resources whenever and wherever you need them... more »

Real-Time Application Delivery and Lifecycle Management with VMware App Volumes

VMware Tectonic shifts are taking place globally that require businesses to quickly adapt to change and shift cost to activities that increase productivity. Traditional approaches to application delivery and lifecycle management, designed for the distributed computing era will not scale for modern enterprises... more » 2014NOVECPTEK

Disaster Recovery for Virtualized Business Critical Applications

Planned Migration: One of the relatively newer use cases for SRM is planned migration. With this use case, customers can migrate their business critical workloads to the recovery or cloud provider sites in a planned manner. This could be in planning for an upcoming threat such as a hurricane or other disaster or an datacenter migration... more » 2014NOVSDCTEK

Direct Connect: Now Available at a vCloud Air Location Near You

By popular demand, we are excited to announce the worldwide rollout of the VMware vCloud® Air™ Direct Connect™ service introduced last year to all existing VMware vCloud® Air™ locations. By providing a dedicated and secure connection with a streamlined deployment process, VMware is enabling customers around the world to seamlessly integrate vCloud Air into their... more » 2014NOVHBDTEK

The Evolution of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

The definition of SDLC is changing. SDLC often stands for the software development life cycle, a methodology to develop and implement software, currently in use by many IT organizations. IT organizations have realized, however, that this narrow focus on software is insufficient in today's IT service delivery... more » 2014NOVSDCTEK

What is coming for vSphere and VSAN? VMworld reveals…

The session is all about vSphere futures, what is coming soon? VSAN details announced to the press at VMworld EMEA...more 2014NOVSDCTEK

VMware Acquires Continuent

We announced the acquisition of Continuent. I think this will be a great addition to the VMware portfolio. I think I sense Database as a Service coming soon... I have worked in the Application Developments world for quite some time early in my career, and this type of technology is truly intriguing. For example, the Tungsten Replicator's core replication supports Oracle Replication – Replicate data from Oracle to MySQL, from MySQL to Oracle, and from Oracle to Oracle. “Think Oracle GoldenGate without the price tag!” I am truly excited to welcome Continuent to the VMware family! Here's more details on the solution. 2014NOVNWS

EMC Announced Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Solution

EMC Corporation announced immediate availability of its Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Solutions (EHC) – which brings together EHC and the Federation Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC), backed by a set of services that result in deployments of 30 days or less. EMC’s first and preferred approach to helping customers achieve a Hybrid Cloud for business agility is to lead with the Federation SDDC solution with VMware's vCloud Air. This represents a significant opportunity for you to sell our full product portfolio via the EMC EHC Federation SDDC edition.

Key Takeaways from EMC’s announcement:

• New EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Solutions unite private and public cloud, enable IT-as-a-service
• New services can help get solution up and running in 30 days or less
• EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud 2.5, Federation Software-Defined Data Center Edition with VMware available immediately
• The Federation SDDC solution is an “Engineered” solutions with 1000+ man hours vs. the others which will be reference architectures
• EMC announces the acquisition of Cloudscaling, Maginatics and Spanning to accelerate OpenStack-powered hybrid clouds, extend data protection to the cloud and assure availability and data protection for “born in the cloud” applications
• Public cloud interoperability with vCloud Air, Amazon Web Services  (AWS) and other EMC-powered cloud service providers 2014NOVNWS

Extending the Power of Mobility to Linux Users

By Victor Thu, Director of Product Marketing, End-User Computing, VMware Today at vForum China, VMware announced that it is beginning to work on a VDI solution for enterprise Linux desktops. Depending on which analyst report you read, most estimate that Linux desktops as an everyday go-to system for users is a small percentage of the [more] 2014NOVECPTEK