Highlights
VMware continues to be a LEADER in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Hyperconverged Infrastructure.
VMware is positioned furthest on the completeness of vision axis and is also in the Leaders quadrant of the report based on the ability to execute axis.
Announcing VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts Beta
VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts is now in Beta – do you qualify to be one of the first to try this new service from the leader in private cloud and the largest public cloud provider in the world? Find out how to sign up to experience cloud capabilities offered as a service in your own data center.
Dive deeper into Kubernetes at KubeAcademy
Ready to dive a little deeper into the world of Kubernetes? Understand the first principles of a cloud native infrastructure, and then dig into our lab environment and deploy your first cluster. This training is designed for attendees who are early in their cloud native journey—you will walk out with more knowledge of basic concepts and greater comfort in working with containers.
Professional Development
Backed by Research: Certification Results in Promotions, Raises, and Increased Abilities
If you’ve ever considered becoming VMware certified, you’ve probably already guessed that there are a host of benefits that come with certification. What you may not know is that hard research backs these hunches up. After querying nearly 10,000 credential-holding professionals, Pearson VUE’s Value of Certification survey found conclusively that earning an industry-recognized certification resulted in both tangible and practical benefits.
What is IT Academy?
Let’s play a game. You’re at a holiday party and someone says, “What’s this VMware IT Academy I’m hearing about?” Maybe they heard about us at VMworld or read some press. If you don’t know about IT Academy, here’s the answer:
VMware® IT Academy provides students with the skills and education needed to succeed in a software-defined future. We work with approved academic institutions and help jump-start IT careers. This is great for high school, college students, former military, or people making a career change. Plus, it helps our partners find a pipeline of VMware trained talent.
Product Updates
New Skyline Release: SupportAssist Integration, Log Assist Support for Horizon and More
The latest release of Skyline proactive support, included with your Production or Premier Support subscription, includes:
- Enhanced Security Policies: As of November 19th, Skyline has enhanced security policies and now Skyline Advisor explicit grant access is required.
- VMware Skyline Integration with Dell EMC SupportAssist
- New Proactive Findings
- Log Assist for Horizon Connection Server
- Collector Health in Skyline Advisor
- Skyline Advisor Federated Identity Management
- Skyline Collector Improved Active Directory Authentication
Using GPUs for Your AI/ML Workloads?
VMware’s acquisition of Bitfusion is a hit with customers. Learn how to share GPUs across a network today. Stop wasting time and money. Contact us at [email protected] to get more information or start a POC today!
How to Connect Wavefront Observability with Logging Tools Using External Links
External linking helps engineering teams connect Wavefront to logging tools such as vRealize Log Insight, ELK, or Splunk. The Wavefront External Links feature allows you to drill down into logs once you have received alerts and see them in Wavefront. The feature lets the Wavefront UI pass information that exists in the Wavefront metrics (such as source, period, tags, etc.) to external applications.
See a real-world example of how to create an external link.
Migrate and Modernize with VMware Cloud on AWS
Check out all the latest VMware Cloud on AWS announcements from VMworld Europe 2019 including a new update about Stretched Clusters.
VMware News
VMware named leader AGAIN in 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAN Edge Infrastructure
Positioned highest in the Ability to Execute and furthest in Completeness of Vision, VMware continues to elevate its solution, lighting the way forward with SD-WAN. Let the statistics speak for themselves:
- Acquired thousands of customers
- Over 150,000 sites
- SD-WAN vendor of choice for over 100 service providers
VMware Cloud on AWS to launch in Sweden
VMware Cloud on AWS will be launching in the AWS EU (Stockholm) region, bringing the total number of available global regions in Europe to five and globally to 17 in just over two years! Read more on how VMware Cloud on AWS is helping customers across Europe migrate and modernize applications.
Customer Success Stories
Customer Success Story: Global Analytics Leader Deploys Hybrid Cloud with VMware Cloud on AWS
In 2016, data and analytics leader IHS Markit turned to VMware for its high-performance, on-premises private cloud. Within a few years the rapidly growing company realized it needed the global reach and scalability of the public cloud to further its business goals, which include serving more clients worldwide with increasingly complex data security requirements. To support a recent acquisition, IHS Markit adopted VMware Cloud on AWS as the foundation for a global hybrid cloud to accelerate time-to-market for services, while addressing heightened security and data localization rules.
Thought Leadership
Webinar: Shaping Your Hybrid Cloud Strategy: Recent Market Insights from ESG
Hybrid cloud is clearly becoming the default configuration for most organizations. Organizations will continue to keep workloads on-premises for the foreseeable future, but are increasingly recognizing the value of being able to integrate them with cloud workloads. Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) recently surveyed more than 350 organizations across North America to identify trends in hybrid cloud use. In this webinar, ESG will discuss the findings of their report and how VMware Cloud on AWS is helping to make the hybrid cloud a reality.
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