Highlights
Get to Know Project Pacific
Project Pacific, a technology preview, empowers IT Operators and Developers to accelerate innovation by converging containers and VMs into VMware’s vSphere platform with native Kubernetes. VMware has leveraged Kubernetes to rearchitect vSphere and extend its capabilities to all modern and traditional applications. Learn more about Project Pacific, invest in your career, and create the future for your organization.
Kubernetes Academy
We’re excited to introduce Kubernetes Academy Brought to You by VMware—a free, product-agnostic Kubernetes and cloud native technology education platform. We invite you to create your own profile on Kubernetes Academy to track your progress, save your favorite courses and lessons, earn achievements, partake in discussions, and more.
The Power of Giving Through Customer Feedback
How do we improve the experiences we deliver at VMware? By listening to your feedback and taking action on what we learn. Our Customer Relationship Survey is now live! As a thank you for taking just three minutes to share your thoughts using this link, we will donate to a cause* of your choice or by planting a tree in your honor – the choice is yours! *Causes include: Education, Environment, Technology, or Women & Girls. See more at Global Giving.
Professional Development
Don’t Miss the Live “Workspace ONE” Events
On October 10th, join us for a live online webinar titled “New Workspace ONE Features and Training Options” as well as an exclusive instructor hour covering Workspace ONE. Check out the full list of events!
Missed VMworld US 2019? Check out these sessions from the Education Services team!
So many sessions, so much to learn. That’s only part of what makes VMworld such a fantastic place to discover the latest in all things digital infrastructure. More specifically, we’ve structured our Lounge sessions to focus on actionable insights you can take back to the office. Head over the VMware Learning Zone to watch the recordings for these (and all the other) Lounge sessions.
Check out these sessions here!
VMware News
Taneja Group: When Comparing Cloud Alternatives, For the Best TCO Leverage VMware Cloud Foundation
With multiple options available, such as private, public, and hybrid cloud deployments, which cloud approach makes the most sense for your business? Recently, the Taneja Group examined the relative costs and advantages of four different cloud infrastructure approaches. Get the report to determine which cloud approach will provide the greatest advantage for your business.
Want to learn more? Click here!
Forrester Economic Total Economic Impact Study: VMware on AWS
VMware Cloud on AWS provides customers with a scalable solution to migrate and extend their on-premises vSphere-based environments to the public cloud. Take a look at the study to review the quantified benefits and cost reductions VMware Cloud on AWS could have for your business.
New Micro Courses from IT Academy
IT Academy is committed to preparing its students to lead the digital future. With that commitment, if you are an IT Academy make sure you check out our three new micro-courses. In partnership with the Network Development Group, the VMware IT Academy has made available: Cloud and Virtualization, Network Virtualization and Software Defined Storage concepts. Please visit our IT Academy website
Access the micro-courses here!
IT Academy is Making News
While at VMworld 2019 we had the privilege of hosting the delegation from the African Union at as a part of our IT Academy: Africa efforts to Virtualize Africa. Pat met with Her Excellency, the High Commissioner for Human Resources Science and Technology, Professor Sarah Anyang Agbor. Several other African dignitaries joined us along with the WWRACE leadership team plus in country and global program managers.
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Product Update
VMware Cloud on AWS for the vSphere Admin – Summing Up The Series
We have reached the end of the VMware Cloud on AWS for the vSphere Admin introductory series. I’ve answered some of your questions as to how you get yourself up and running with VMware Cloud on AWS. In this post, I’ll be summarizing what we’ve talked about in the last 5 posts.
What’s new in August for VMware Cloud on AWS – New capabilities to migrate, manage and modernize enterprise workloads
Learn about the latest capabilities in VMware Cloud on AWS to help you migrate, manage and modernize enterprise workloads.
Unlock New Capabilities with the New vRealize Automation 8.0
Last month at VMworld, we announced the release of vRealize Automation 8.0, VMware’s Hybrid Cloud Automation Platform. VMware vRealize Automation 8.0 unlocks new and exciting capabilities, enabling customers to take their hybrid and multi-cloud environments to the next level.
Click here for more information!
Wavefront’s Next-Gen Collector for Kubernetes
We are thrilled to announce the expansion of the Kubernetes observability experience in Wavefront with the next generation release of the Wavefront Collector for Kubernetes. This release has a significant number of changes that give Kubernetes operators, SREs and developers, richer visibility into the health, state, and performance of their Kubernetes environment.
Try our new Kubernetes capabilities here!
Customer Success Stories
IDC: The Business Value of Hybrid Cloud with VMware
IDC spoke with organizations that have deployed enterprise applications in a VMware Hybrid Cloud environment to understand the impact on their IT and business operations. Read the report to discover how current VMware customers were able to achieve strong value from upgrading their IT infrastructures with VMware Hybrid Cloud solutions.
Secureworks Surfing the Wavefront with Observability
Secureworks is a world leader in cybersecurity solutions. In the early days, when releasing a deployment, evaluating the real-time health of the production systems wasn’t easy. Now with Wavefront as their first pane of glass, Secureworks is able to reduce MTTR dramatically, and eliminate triage delays from context switching across tools.
Bringing the Learning Lab to Student’s Houses with VMware
IFRN built a mobile lab with VMware solutions to improve their students’ practical education, reduce costs and improve lab management. To make laboratory resources available to students anywhere, IFRN adopted VMware technologies, breaking down physical barriers by allowing students to access programs on a state-of-the-art infrastructure using any device.
Learn more about their story here!
Events
Join a Free Live Webinar to Learn About VMware Skyline
Skyline is VMware’s proactive support technology, designed to keep customers out of harm’s way by alerting them to potential issues in their environments and providing remediation guidance. Want to learn more about how Skyline can help you avoid issues before they occur? Join a webinar hosted by the Skyline team, where we’ll provide a high-level overview, live demo and Q&A session.
Join Brad Tompkins and VMUG at vForum Online
Save your spot for VMware’s largest virtual event, vForum Online. You’ll have the opportunity to choose from 38 technical breakout sessions, 11 Hands-On Labs, and VMware experts will be available for live Q&A following each session. You’ll also hear from VMware CEO, Pat Gelsinger, as well as an expert panel from the Office of the CTO.
VMworld 2019 Europe
VMworld 2019 captures the momentum of today’s rapidly changing IT environment and puts it within your grasp so you can accelerate your cloud journey to support your business. Hear expert perspectives, advance your career, and have some serious fun.
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