Highlights
Your Mission, Should You Choose to Accept it: Join the Skyline Proactive Unit
Want to remediate top issues AND get a chance to win SWAG? Join the Skyline Proactive Unit (SPU) and we’ll give you points for remediating issues that Skyline has identified in your environment. You may win super cool swag based on the number of points you accumulate. It’s a win-win: your environment gets safer and more productive, and you could get prizes! Learn more and get started by reading the SPU blog.
Webinar – Essential Cloud Capabilities: 3 skills you must master when migrating to the Cloud
In a world where innovation is happening at the speed of light, it’s hard to keep up. One day you’re a tech wizard and the next you’re outdated.
Join us for an interactive session where you will learn the 3 skills you must master when migrating to the Cloud. Earn the admiration of your fellow technology leaders by launching your next project successfully. After this webinar, you will be able to discuss the benefits of moving from on prem to the cloud and avoid many of the common migration pitfalls. Register today!
Making Compliance a Feature, Rather than Friction
Compliance builds customer and government trust, but it can slow down software development. Here are three ways to be compliant and agile at the same time.
Customer Success Stories
Agero Modernizes to Deliver Critical Services to 115 Million Drivers
Agero supports more than 7,000 users with virtual desktops using a combination of VMware Horizon Cloud Service on Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop, which its agents can use from almost anywhere to deliver call center services without sacrificing security. Learn more here.
Alviva Scopes Beyond DRaaS to Create Multi-Cloud Environment
Alviva Holdings was facing a disaster recovery (DR) crisis. In the event of an outage, potential vandalism because of local unrest, or hardware failure, the information and communications technology (ICT) distributor simply wouldn’t be able to recover operations. The need was clear: Alviva required an entirely reimagined DR and backup environment, but the costs were prohibitive. Partnering with VMware Cloud Verified Partner, Routed, Alviva turned the challenge into an opportunity. With VMware Cloud technologies provided by Routed, Alviva evolved what started as a simple DR service into a consumption-based, multi-site DR-as-a-Service and VMware Cloud hosting solution. More information here.
SF Cinema Gets Better Connectivity for Less with VMware SD-WAN
One of the largest cinema chains in Thailand, SF Cinema, faced challenges due to COVID-19 restrictions and streaming service competition. The MPLS circuits that connected its 65 cinemas nationwide to the headquarters in Bangkok were expensive and had low bandwidth. To save costs, they switched from MPLS to broadband, and VMware SD-WAN helps to maintain quality by optimizing the underlying circuit issues. This resulted in higher speed with better uptime and high application performance. To become future-ready, SF Cinema is exploring VMware Secure Access to secure and optimize access for remote teams. Learn more here.
Publiacqua Creates a Secure Flow of IT Services in the Cloud
See how they created a disaster recovery service for stronger IT governance to ensure operational continuity with VMware Cloud on AWS.
San Jose Water moves to Oracle Cloud VMware Solution by improving app performance 50%
Read the customer story of San Jose Water, how Oracle Cloud VMware Solution helped the customer solve Aging, costly, and hard-to-scale on-premises IT infrastructure problems. With Oracle Cloud VMWare Solution, San Jose Water’s IT administrators now manage software versions certified for production operations. IT decides when patches and upgrades are applied.
Product Update
Cloud Director service Expanding Multi-Cloud Services on Oracle Cloud VMware Solution
We are pleased to announce the initial availability of VMware Cloud Director service (CDs) that support managing multi-tenancy or private SDDC services on Oracle Cloud VMware Solution (OCVS). Now customers can leverage a multi-cloud control plane for infrastructure and applications on Oracle Cloud VMware Solution, as well as connect existing on-premises vCenter instances or consider replacing your on-premises Cloud Director appliances. This offering will be available in all OCVS regions.
VMware Cloud Flex Storage is Generally Available!
Learn how VMware Cloud Flex Storage allows customers to elastically scale storage on VMware Cloud on AWS.
VMware Cloud on AWS is Now Available in South Africa
Customers across South Africa can now move towards a hybrid and multi-cloud future with this announcement.
Introducing Multi-rack and Multi-cluster Support for VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts
Now order multiple AWS Outposts racks, create multiple clusters on the rack and a lot more with this new capability.
VMware Ransomware Recovery is Generally Available!
This industry-first ransomware recovery-as-a-service solution helps you recover from attacks faster and with more predictability and confidence. Learn more here.
VMUG Virtual Session: Protecting your Mission Critical Workloads with Oracle Cloud VMware Solution
In this on-demand session, we’ll provide an overview of how Oracle Cloud VMware Solution solves customers’ challenges and discuss OCVS’s primary use cases with a specific focus on helping our customers achieve a true cloud-based business continuity and disaster recovery solution.
Publish Items to the OCVS Content Library Using OCI Object Storage Service
With Oracle Cloud VMware Solution, you can easily transpose VMware estate into the public cloud infrastructure and share close proximity with the native public cloud services. The advantage of using native OCI services is that customers can reduce the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and operational overhead required to manage a multi-cloud environment. Read our blog.
Visit VMware Cloud Tech Zone for latest technical info about Google Cloud VMware Engine
Get a quick overview, watch demos, view architecture frameworks and designs, read technical blogs, and gain other valuable technical insights. Visit Tech Zone.
Tanzu What’s New series – Weekly updates – Jan 13 2023
“Tanzu What’s New Series” is a weekly update on Tech Zone. During that week, it will bring product releases, articles to resolve and troubleshoot issues, customer success stories, product announcements, blogs, videos, webinars and events. This information will help the reader get up to speed on Tanzu happenings and catchup with latest and greatest on Tanzu front.
Improve Visibility of Kubernetes Clusters with Tanzu Mission Control Events and Audit Logs
Enhancements to events and audit logs in Tanzu Mission Control enable platform operators to view critical information about their operations, including what happened on the clusters, by whom, and when. Learn more!
Events
Save the Date for VMware Explore 2023
We’re excited to announce the next event dates and locations for VMware Explore 2023! Let’s Go!
Whitepaper
Understanding Windows Group Policies: VMware Workspace ONE Operational Tutorial
This Windows operational tutorial covers the benefits and all the steps to consider when moving to cloud-based group policies and other configurations. If you are trying to figure out how to apply group policies on and off the domain, enforce those policies offline, track compliance, use inbox or application AMDX policies, and don’t know where to start in VMware Workspace ONE® UEM (aka AirWatch) then you have come to the right place.
Deploying Traditional Win32 Applications to Windows Devices: Workspace ONE Operational Tutorial
Find out how Workspace ONE UEM can help to manage Windows updates through a series of exercises including managing Win32 apps, deploying Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus, and reviewing additional application file samples.
Compliance Integration with MS Office 365 using Workspace ONE Tunnel
This tutorial is part 2 of a 3-part series that will cover different scenarios to achieve Zero Trust and secure access to sensitive data in productivity suites like Office 365. Part 2 walks you through the second scenario; using Workspace ONE Tunnel as a compliance enforcement point for authenticating to Azure AD.
Troubleshooting Windows Devices: Workspace ONE Operational Tutorial
This Windows troubleshooting guide provides general guidance, as well as solutions to specific problems for various Windows features in Workspace ONE UEM. Procedures include locating log files and registry keys, using Fiddler as a troubleshooting tool, troubleshooting baselines, sensors, and more.
Distributing Scripts to macOS Devices: Workspace ONE Operational Tutorial
This tutorial covers how to deploy scripts to macOS devices using the Scripts resource within Workspace ONE UEM. It also offers an alternative method for delivering scripts as payload-free packages for customers who are not licensed to use the Scripts resource.
VMware DevSecOps-as-a-Service: App Delivery with Enhanced Security
This white paper discusses how the existing portfolio of VMware products and services supports DevSecOps-as-a-Service (DSOaaS) to accelerate application delivery with enhanced security.
VMware Cloud on AWS Saves 53% Costs per New Forrester TEI Study
This new Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study shares the cost savings & business benefits as seen by VMware Cloud on AWS customers.
Drop Ship Provisioning (Online): Workspace ONE Operational Tutorial
This tutorial covers the process for VMware Workspace ONE® Drop Ship Provisioning™ (Online) via the Self-Registration method. With Workspace ONE Drop Ship Provisioning (Online), you can dynamically assign VMware Workspace ONE® UEM payloads like profiles and applications. You can provision your Windows devices with assignments at the manufacturer (OEM) or via self-registration and ship devices directly to your end users.
FedRAMP High Authorization for VMware Horizon Cloud Service
VMware Horizon Cloud Service (HCS) has achieved FedRAMP High Authorization. You can now use your on-premises and cloud deployments to connect to Horizon Cloud Service in a FedRAMP High Environment. The hybrid-cloud experience is yours, leveraging the Horizon Cloud Control Plane to connect and run Horizon on-premises and/or Horizon Cloud on Azure instances. More information here!
Manually Creating Optimized Windows Images for VMware Horizon VMs
See how to build and configure Windows images that perform optimally in a virtual environment, for use with VMware Horizon.
What Is VMware Horizon Cloud Service – next-gen?
Get an excellent overview of Horizon Cloud – next-gen, including key features and architecture, with automation in mind. Various integrations, including with Workspace ONE Intelligence are discussed.
Demo
Horizon Cloud Service – next-gen Initial Setup & Configuration Workflow
Watch this video for an overview of the Horizon Cloud Service – next-gen Overview Video Series.
Amazon WorkSpaces Core with VMware Horizon
Amazon introduced Amazon WorkSpaces Core, which is a set of VDI APIs for third-party software. By extending our partnership with Amazon, VMware Horizon offers more flexibility to customers. Not only they can deploy on-premises or VMware Cloud on AWS, but also run their workloads natively on EC2 with Amazon WorkSpaces Core integration. In this video, we will introduce you to AWS WorkSpaces Core how we integrate with it, give insight into pricing, and more. In a demo, we will demonstrate how WorkSpaces Core and Horizon are deployed and how one can support users and connect with a client.
Adding User Resources in VMware Horizon Cloud Service – next-gen
Watch this video for an overview of adding virtual desktops and applications as resources in Horizon Cloud. The process involves creating and publishing golden images, creating a pool of desktops or servers, defining policies, setting power management options, and entitling users.
Deploying Unified Access Gateways for VMware Horizon Cloud Service – next-gen
Unified Access Gateways (UAGs) provide secure access to Horizon Cloud virtual desktops and applications. This video demonstrates how to set up a pair of load-balanced UAGs, which are configured as pass-through devices, checking that users have the correct authorization tokens.
Horizon Edge Gateway Deployment with VMware Horizon Cloud Service – next-gen
This video demonstrates how to deploy a Horizon Edge Gateway, which functions as an orchestration bridge between the Horizon Cloud Control Plane and the cloud infrastructure provider that hosts virtual desktops and applications. The edge gateway also provides single sign-on capabilities.
Adding an Infrastructure Provider in VMware Horizon Cloud Service – next-gen
Cloud infrastructure providers host Horizon Cloud Edge Gateways and end-user capacity. This demo shows how to set up a provider in the Horizon Cloud Service – next-gen UI.
Domain and Identity Configuration in VMware Horizon Cloud Service – next-gen
With Horizon Cloud – next-gen, user identity is separate from machine identity. Although Active Directory is used for machine identity, for user identity, admins now have the option of choosing between Azure AD and VMware Workspace ONE Access. This video demonstrates configuring directories for both Active Directory (machine identity) and Workspace ONE Access (user identity).
Automate your VMware Cloud on AWS with Python and pyVMC
Use the pyVMC open-source project to automate your VMware Cloud on AWS SDDCs. Steal our code! And join the project to help out!
Join Our Virtual EUC Lead Demo Session!
Please join us for a tour of VMware’s Virtual Desktop and App Solution called Horizon. The demo session will show you how you can equip your teams with a digital workspace that’s available at any time and place, and on any device.
With deep integration into the VMware technology ecosystem, the Horizon virtual desktop and application platform offers an agile cloud-ready foundation, modern best-in-class management, and end-to-end security for today’s Anywhere Workspace.
During our virtual demo on Wednesday at 1pm CT, VMware specialists will highlight how you can elevate the digital workspace experience with the efficient and secure delivery of virtual desktops and apps from on-premises to the cloud. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Mark your calendar now!
Deploy Node.js To Production In Seconds: Secure Software Supply Chains on Kubernetes
Just dropped a new video on deploying a Node.js app to production with Kubernetes. Learn how I do it safely, quickly, and securely with my fully automated, secure supply chain setup. From GitHub to Flux to Tekton to Grype, and more! Plus, customize with VMware Tanzu App Platform. Check it out now #Kubernetes #Nodejs #DevOps #Automation
Professional Development
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New VMware Learning Beta Courses – Save 50%!
Take advantage of our current Beta courses to get a head start on your professional growth goals! It won’t take long for these classes to fill up at 50% off! Learn more here!
RabbitMQ vs Kafka: How to Choose an Event-Streaming Broker
Learn why RabbitMQ fits well into most messaging-streaming scenarios and how it compares to others event-streaming brokers, like Kafka.
Getting Started with Kubernetes
This is a breakdown of core Kubernetes concepts, such as clusters, objects, services, and more.
CKAD Practice Questions
Tiffany Jernigan shares her experience preparing for and taking the Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) exam, which “certifies that candidates can design, build, and deploy cloud native applications for Kubernetes.”
VMware News
Azure Spring Apps
Visit the newly created Azure Spring Apps product page that is currently featured on the Apps & Cloud Management Tech Zone Website.
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