Highlights:
The VI Admin Career Guide: Your Map to Continued Professional Growth and Opportunity
During the 10/15 Virtual Event, Kit Colbert (CTO, VMware) explored the evolution of IT, the innovation of technology and how ever-changing business requirements drive the critical need for VMware experts within an organization. In this on demand session you’ll understand how to take your career to the next level through VMware’s broad offerings, education, communities and much more!
VMworld Recap: Modernizing Infrastructure and Applications with VMware Tanzu
At VMworld 2020, the path to business outcomes with modern apps became clearer. Core vSphere pros gained a lot of insight into new capabilities for managing Kubernetes. Operations teams learned how Tanzu supports a secure, observable path to production. And attendees heard inspiring stories from Northern Trust, Fiserv, and Humana about modernizing applications and their respective “path to production” stories. Read here for more detail!
New podcast episode: vRealize Automation Cloud on VMware Cloud on AWS
As hybrid clouds are scaling, the need for a comprehensive automation framework becomes more pressing than ever. However, automation is such a broad area that can get intimidating for our VMware Cloud on AWS operators.
In this podcast, Bill Roth is joined by the vRealize Automation Cloud product team to break down automation and discuss how the new “quick cloud automation setup” feature makes automation for VMware Cloud on AWS as easy as pie.
Professional Development
Introducing KubeAcademy Pro: In-Depth Kubernetes Training, Totally Free
We’re excited to introduce KubeAcademy Pro—a free education program that grants members access to technical, in-depth, product-agnostic Kubernetes training, exclusive workshops, virtual events with community leaders, instructor-led webinars, and more.
Welcome to VMware Learning
Rapidly emerging technologies are impacting the increasing IT skills gap and demand a shift in the way you grow and validate your IT skills. VMware Learning is here to help with training options for individual learners and IT team.
New VMware Certification Level for Operators
We’re excited to announce the VMware Certified Technical Associate (VCTA), a new credential offered by VMware that validates the skills and knowledge required by candidates performing operational tasks within a virtualized infrastructure — in areas across multi-cloud operations, or in networking, security, or device management.
Events
Manage security for Kubernetes at scale across clouds with Tanzu Mission Control
Tired of streamlining your security approach across multiple clouds and multiple teams? Overwhelmed by managing security for multiple Kubernetes clusters across environments? Come join us to understand our streamlined approach for safe and secure deployments on Kubernetes clusters.
In this talk, we will go through the challenges security administrators face while managing Kubernetes across hybrid or multi-cloud environments, and show you how VMware Tanzu Mission Control helps you define and manage all your Kubernetes security through a single control point irrespective of the underlying cloud provider or infrastructure. As long as you have a CNCF compliant Kubernetes cluster, you are covered! Tanzu Mission Control helps set the right security context for your applications, provides feedback on any pods violating the security policy, and lets you easily manage mixed security workloads.
We will also introduce an important open source project adopted widely by the Kubernetes community for managing Kubernetes policies — the Open Policy Agent-Gatekeeper project, the implementation driver behind security policies in Tanzu Mission Control. A live product demo will be showcased during the session.
Catch us on your screens with the VMware Marketplace on-demand webinar!
VMware Marketplace was officially launched on Sep. 14th as a consolidation between the earlier marketplace products in VMware: VMware Solution Exchange and VMware Cloud Marketplace. This consolidated catalog features over 2,000 ecosystem solutions across all VMware products. On Sep. 10th, the Marketplace PM and PMM previewed the new service through a webinar – view it on-demand today!
October Odyssey 2020 brought to you by VMware and VMUG
VMUG is very happy to announce our first ever October Odyssey! Join us and register to participate in this competition against fellow VMUG Members in a hands-on lab tournament! The top 16 competitors will move on to the “Sweet 16” and a chance at a grand prize and the title of October Odyssey Champion. VMUG Members can participate in each round but only those within the bracket qualify for potential prizes. Each round will offer a new lab for participates to take. Register here!
Webinar: Add Value to Apps in VMware Cloud on AWS with Native AWS Services
Would you like to modernize enterprise applications running in VMware Cloud on AWS? VMware Cloud on AWS gives you high bandwidth, low latency access to more than 175 native AWS services, including storage, database and analytics, serverless, compute, networking, security, IoT, machine learning and more.
Register today for this webcast and we will show you:
- How to integrate VMware Cloud on AWS applications with native AWS services.
- A demonstration of integrating applications with AWS services, and much more.
Product Updates
RDS on VMware at VMWorld 2020!
RDS on VMware was at VMworld 2020! Click here to watch the on-demand video where AWS Database Specialists discuss how RDS on VMware lets you deploy managed databases on vSphere clusters using the familiar RDS service enjoyed by thousands of AWS customers.
To see how to provision a database instance in just a few steps, visit the RDS on vSphere solution in the Scale on Demand section at VMworld Cloud City for a step-by-step demo. You can also watch AWS webcast for ISV Partners here to learn more about the benefits and features of RDS on VMware or read our new blog to dive deeper into all the newly added and upcoming feature functionality. You can also reach out to us at [email protected].
New VMware Skyline Releases: vRealize Integration and Support for VMware Cloud Foundation
The new Skyline Collector 2.6 and Advisor releases offer an integrated management and support experience. Skyline is now integrated with vRealize Operations Cloud for a unified issue avoidance and troubleshooting workflow. All Skyline customers are eligible for a free 30-day trial of vRealize Operations Cloud: log into Skyline Advisor and click on the ‘Sign Up’ button to start your free trial. We’re offering Skyline SWAG to the first 100 customers who sign up via Skyline Advisor, so sign up today!
Skyline now supports VMware Cloud Foundation v4.1 and above. Skyline identifies management and workload domains, and surfaces VMware Cloud Foundation solution-based Proactive Findings.
Making Commerce Easy with AWS Billing and Cost Management Platform Integrations
Looking for improved commerce experience to manage and control your infrastructure costs? If you purchase VMware Cloud on AWS from AWS or one of its partners, AWS Billing and Cost Management Platform helps you organize, report, forecast, and optimize your cost and usage. Learn more here.
Application Modernization with VMware Cloud on AWS and Kubernetes
Search the VMworld catalog for session MAP1251 and explore VMware Cloud’s rich feature set for application modernization. Learn about the benefits of VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Plus to easily integrate Kubernetes workloads. See how you can tackle application problems and choose the modernization strategy that best fits your application and business needs.
What’s New with VMware Cloud on AWS
Learn about the new on-demand Disaster Recovery service and improved workload support and delivery.
Whitepaper
VMware Tanzu at the Edge: Solution Architecture for ROBO Topology
Businesses across all industries are running more and more applications at edge locations. Traditionally, these applications were run in virtual machines (VMs). With the emergence of Kubernetes and microservices architectures, more applications are being containerized, which means cloud native compute stacks need to be run at the edge as well. Learn more here.
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