HIGHLIGHTS:
VMware Ransomware Recovery named an Outperformer and Leader by Analysts
VMware Ransomware Recovery was named a leader and outperformer in ransomware recovery and business continuity as-a-service by firm GigaOm.
Don’t Miss the Core+Cloud Virtual Event!
As businesses build and deploy new workloads, they need to be ‘cloud smart’ and determine the right location for each workload, whether on-premises on in the public cloud. The workloads that best run on-premises do not have to be cut-off from the benefits of the public cloud. VMware’s core IT infrastructure offerings have evolved to enhance on-premises workloads with the power of cloud services, and the flexibility of a cloud operating model. Join this upcoming Core+Cloud Virtual Event to learn about new solutions from VMware – vSphere+, vSAN+, VCF+ and more – that enable cloud transformation without cloud migration.
Introducing New Career Certifications and a New Specialist Badge for 2023!
In today’s IT market, you can stand out with valuable credentials. We have new Career Certifications and a Specialist Badge that can help you in your career advancement. Learn more!
Customer Success Stories
Moving Fast and Cutting Costs in a Billion-Dollar Organization: Containers in the Automotive Industry
One of our customers, an automotive company in the U.S., needed to speed up time to revenue in the face of competition and their own increasing IT infrastructure costs.
Their CIO challenged his team to be more responsive to marketplace dynamics by bringing features and functionality to the market faster, while driving cost efficiencies by scaling down virtual machines (VMs) and optimizing infrastructure.
Woche-Pass AG Protects Production Capabilities with VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery
See how Woche-Pass overhauled its disaster recovery approach with VCDR and VMware Cloud on AWS after a near-miss of CHF 150,000 in lost sales.
Rentokil Initial Puts Its People First with the Cloud
Rentokil Initial, the world’s leading pest control company worldwide, seamlessly moved 2,000 VMs from their largest physical data center to Google Cloud VMware Engine. With this ease of migration, they avoided the need for a large, complex recoding project and enabled the infrastructure team to deliver value beyond managing hardware and patches. Read their story.
Oracle Cloud VMware Solution Customer Story: Vivo
The major Brazilian telecommunications company, Vivo, moves to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to speed up new service offerings by 30 percent and reduce expenses by 25 percent
Product Update
Tanzu What’s New Weekly Series
Do not miss the Tanzu What’s new blog series , which is a weekly update . This blog has Tanzu Product releases for that week, Knowledge Base Articles with How To guides, troubleshooting tips and resolutions, Product Updates, Technical blog recommendations, Customer Success Stories, Tanzu Blogs and Videos, Webinars and Events. Bookmark them and Enjoy catching up with Tanzu updates.
What’s New in VMware Cloud on AWS: Jan 2023
Check out latest features and capabilities released in VMware Fiscal Year 2023 Q4.
Check Out the VMware Cluster Conversion Service
See how you can change your VMware Cloud on AWS instance type with this new service.
Extend Network Segments for Restrictive On-premises Architectures
Now extend network segments from multiple on-premises sites to VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC using alternatives other than VMware HCX.
Simplify Operations with GemFire Management Console
VMware GemFire is a powerful in-memory database for low latency applications. Customers around the world rely on GemFire for its consistency, reliability, and scalability. In this webinar, you will be introduced to the exciting new GemFire Management Console. You will learn how developers and operators can configure, manage, and monitor GemFire clusters. A single console can provide insight across an entire fleet of GemFire deployments. Don’t miss this opportunity to be among the first to see these brand new capabilities in action.
Create VMware NSX Networks with PowerCLI on Google Cloud VMware Engine
VMware administrators often rely on PowerShell and PowerCLI to manage a wide range of services throughout the data center: virtual machines, storage, networking, and much more. By using PowerCLI, VMware administrators can get a new Google Cloud VMware Engine private cloud up and running with one or more network segments without ever signing in to the VMware NSX admin web interface. Read how to do this.
Google Cloud Filestore with Google Cloud VMware Engine – Part 2
Filestore instances are fully managed file servers that can present storage to hosts running within Google Cloud, Google Cloud VMware Engine, or even on-premises. Discover how to setup Filestore as an easy-to-use solution as file storage for Google Cloud VMware Engine workloads.
Storage Options with Google Cloud VMware Engine – Part 1
Learn about the storage options available for your Google Cloud VMware Engine workloads. In this blog, we’ll dive deeper into the storage included within Google Cloud VMware Engine, VMware vSAN, the primary storage method for your private cloud.
Site Recovery Manager is now available as Tech Preview for Alibaba Cloud VMware Service
VMware Site Recovery Manager, the premier Disaster Recovery solution for VMware workloads, is now available with Alibaba Cloud VMware Service as part of the new “Site Recovery Manager for VMware Cloud” licensing option. With this new addition, VMware disaster recovery is now possible for even more clouds.
VMware Telco Cloud Platform is now available on Oracle Cloud VMware Solution
VMware Telco Cloud Platform with an integration with Oracle Cloud VMware Solution will help deliver greater flexibility for CSPs to design and implement their end-to-end networks with a rich ecosystem of VMware-verified network functions, enabling them to deploy services in Oracle’s public cloud with 40+ global regions
Oracle & VMware Application Modernization Webinar Series
Invite your customers to join the OCVS on-demand webinar led by the Oracle team to explore how businesses can optimize and derive more value from Oracle Cloud VMware Solution and third-party applications by migrating to the cloud.
Events
Upcoming VMware Webcasts!
Want to learn how we can solve your various pain points across your infrastructure? Check out our webcast series to see how we can help!
Critical Cloud Migration Planning for Organizations
Picking the right migration strategy is key to getting the very best out of cloud. By taking a smart approach, you can accelerate innovation, boost efficiency, and gain a competitive edge. Learn best practices that will help you accelerate your growth to the cloud. During this interactive webinar session, learn about common approaches, roadblocks and how to navigate complexities many companies face when migrating to the cloud. In addition, we will discuss assessing the current environment and examining security and compliance. Maximize your impact and look like a rockstar during the planning session! Register today.
Join VMware End User Computing at Disrupt EUC Nashville, April 3-5
VMware End User Computing is participating in the Disrupt EUC conference in Nashville, one of the largest EUC-dedicated user conferences in North America. VMware President Sumit Dhawan will deliver a keynote discussing Horizon multi-cloud support as well as the new Apps on Demand.
In addition to Sumit’s Closing Keynote with Jed Ayres, CEO IGEL, VMware will have breakout and technical sessions for you to learn about Apps on Demand. Interested in joining VMware- we would like to offer you a free Disrupt EUC event pass. Visit the link, select the “reserve a spot” button on the right to sign up for “free” registration asap, limited amounts are available.
The Disrupt EUC conference will be held Mon. April 3, 12pm CT – Wed. April 5, 4:30pm CT at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center in Nashville, TN.
Cloud Conversations Webinar: OCI Flexible Infrastructure: Oracle Cloud VMware Solution with OCI Block & File Storage
Join us for a webinar where we will delve into the world of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and the Oracle Cloud VMware Solution with OCI Block and File Storage. Our team of experts will discuss the versatility of OCI and its advantages for OCVS, as well as cover topics such as OCI storage with OCVS and how to get started.
White Paper
Evaluation Guide for VMware App Volumes 4
This guide provides a technical overview to help you evaluate VMware App Volumes 4. Simplified application management includes the administrative workflow components called applications, packages, and programs. Exercises include step-by-step instructions for creating and working with these components to manage the lifecycle of an application. One exercise shows how to use Horizon published apps on demand.
Service Integration
After your Workspace ONE and Horizon components are designed and deployed, you can create the parts from each component, and assemble and integrate them into the various services to be delivered to your end users. Included: Use-case service integration for Workspace ONE, Horizon, Horizon Cloud, and recovery.
Business Drivers, Use Cases and Service Definitions
As you start to design your solution, this reference architecture provides detailed information about common business drivers for single- and multi-site deployments, common Workspace ONE and Horizon use cases, services required by the most common use cases, and recovery services for your Workspace ONE, Horizon, and Horizon Cloud solution.
Microsoft Teams Optimization with VMware Horizon
Media Optimization for Microsoft Teams with VMware Horizon – a feature created by VMware, working closely with Microsoft – improves the end-user experience, decreases load on the data center, and decreases network traffic. Users have the impression that they are on a Teams call in the virtual desktop VM, but the data is actually going directly from the local endpoint to the Internet. This guide describes how the feature works and provides installation instructions and troubleshooting tips.
Using Intelligent Hub hubcli to Manage macOS Updates
VMware Workspace ONE UEM provides a comprehensive management solution for macOS devices, supporting operating systems version 10.15 and higher. This guide explains how to configure Software Update utility settings, such as installing updates, deciding which updates to install and how often to check for updates, and setting up restart behaviors such as force restart, allow deferrals, max number of deferrals, and so on.
New Solution Brief for Cloud Migration with Oracle Cloud VMware Solution
What are the major challenges in cloud migration must be addressed to ensure a successful cloud transformation journey? How does Oracle Cloud VMware Solution help customers gain agility and scale while saving costs in this transition? Read the Solution Brief to learn more.
New Oracle Cloud VMware Solution Infographic: Breaking Down Cloud Migration Barriers
An infographic that outlines the cloud-first strategy, highlights the primary factors driving cloud migration, and demonstrates effective methods for overcoming major obstacles, including expense, timing, and risk, when transitioning to the cloud.
Designlet – Planning and Considerations for VMware SRM on Oracle Cloud VMware Solution
VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) provides policy-based management, minimizes downtime in case of disasters via automated orchestration, and enables non-disruptive testing of your disaster recovery plans. this article demonstrated the advantages of having an OCVS environment as the DR site: 1) Scale and agility 2) Low-cost storage options 3) Protect the HPC compute workloads. Learn more
Tutorial
Deploying Kubernetes at the Edge with VMware Tanzu Using Single Node Clusters
This demonstration shows how to use VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid in a hub-and-spoke architecture to create Kubernetes clusters at multiple edge locations. We also demonstrate a new feature of single node clusters using a minimal operating system to reduce the footprint even further.
Managing Kubernetes Edge Locations at Scale with VMware Tanzu Mission Control
This demonstration shows how VMware Tanzu Mission Control can be used to manage many Kubernetes edge locations with ease. Tanzu Mission Control is responsible for fleet-wide management. It has extensive capabilities that can help you visualize your entire Kubernetes footprint across many data centers and edge locations. Tanzu Mission Control makes it easier to handle lifecycle management with deployment and upgrade capabilities. It displays diagnostic data from extensions that are transmitting data from the cluster, includes data protection services through Velero, and has a powerful policy engine that makes configuration management across thousands of clusters easy to manage.
Demo
Register Today for VMware’s Workspace ONE Virtual Demo Session for the Retail Industry
During VMware’s April 12th VMware Workspace ONE demo you will learn how our modern management solution helps enable simplified and secure delivery and management of any app on any device, anywhere.
Join Ed Durbin, Sr. Director of Global Retail Industry Group, and Dave Dwyer, EUC Solutions Engineer, to speak on their experiences with customers and highlight the Unified Endpoint Management console, Intelligence, and Zero Trust Security.
Register Now for VMware’s Horizon Virtual Demo Session
Join us for a tour of VMware’s Virtual Desktop and App Solution called Horizon. The demo session will show 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 biweekly demos on Wednesdays at 1pm, VMware EUC Specialists will highlight how you can elevate your Digital Workspace Experience with the efficient and secure delivery of virtual desktops and apps from on-premises to the cloud.
VMware Videos
App Volumes Evaluation Guide
Follow along with the videos in this playlist to set up a test environment and try out App Volumes–VMware’s real-time application delivery and lifecycle management tool. Be sure to check out the latest feature, Horizon Published Apps on Demand. These videos are also embedded in the document available at https://via.vmw.com/tchzmno1851
Workspace ONE Evaluation Guide (Part 1: Setup)
This playlist includes videos that are embedded in the Tech Zone document called Evaluation Guide: Setting Up Cloud-Based VMware Workspace ONE, available at https://via.vmw.com/tchzmno4808. Learn about cloud-based VMware Workspace ONE and its features by setting up a proof-of-concept environment. The tutorials and videos in this guide navigate you through the Getting Started wizard to sign up for a free-trial, configure the various cloud connectors, register with Google and Apple to manage mobile devices, and more.
Workspace ONE Evaluation Guide (Part 2: Manage Apps & Devices)
This playlist, part 2, includes videos for the major tasks you perform in Workspace ONE after you complete Workspace ONE setup (part 1). The videos in this playlist are also included in the document Evaluation Guide: Setting Up Cloud-Based VMware Workspace ONE, available at https://via.vmw.com/tchzmno4808.
VMware Identity Services
Find out about VMware Identity Services, an introduction to centralized user management, as well as the benefits of integrating with Azure AD and Okta. Sascha Warno provides a technical overview of the newly released VMware Identity Services. He discusses SCIM and how VMware will use it to implement a more centralized user management. In the second video, he walks you through setting up Azure AD as a cloud identity source. In the third video, he walks you through setting up generic SCIM 2.0 sources with Okta.
Horizon Cloud Service – next-gen
This series of demos introduces VMware Horizon Cloud – next-gen, which is our newest platform for deploying and managing virtual desktops and applications. The content is excerpted from a presentation at VMware Explore 2022.
Workspace ONE Tunnel Compliance with Office 365
This playlist covers part of the Compliance Integrations series. The videos in this playlist accompany the Compliance Integration with MS Office 365 using Workspace ONE Tunnel tutorial: https://via.vmw.com/tchzmno5099 that describe a variety of scenarios to achieve Zero Trust and secure access to sensitive data in productivity suites like Office 365. The focus is on using Workspace ONE Tunnel as a compliance enforcement point for authenticating to Azure AD.
VMware Best Practices
When Is the Right Time to Adopt a Kubernetes Management Tool?
As platform teams scale their Kubernetes estate from a handful to dozens of clusters they increasingly benefit from automation tools that replace manual tasks they perform on their environment.
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