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APIs and IPAs: The VCE Developer Community is Born
You probably didn’t notice, but VCE reached a significant milestone this week.  I don’t think it got nearly as much fanfare as it should have, but the VCE Developer Portal that was announced as part of the VCE Vision Intelligent Operations launch in February, and which has been in b

Changing IT Consumption Models: Are You the Comet or the Dinosaur?
First off, I apologize for the relative scarcity of blog posts lately.  I hadn’t really noticed that I had slowed down, but I was (forcefully) reminded by two people that I respect very much that I need to stop making excuses and get back to writing more. Since the large product launc

VMware vSphere Blog: VXLAN Series – How VTEP Learns and Creates Forwarding Table – Part 5
In this post I am going to describe how VTEPs learn about the virtual machines connected to the logical Layer 2 networks. The learning process is quite similar to a transparent bridge function. As transparent bridges learn based on the packets received on the bridge ports, the VTEP also learn based

VMware End User Computing: Securely deliver apps, data and desktops to personal devices
As customers start embracing Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD), users can choose their own devices to improve productivity and collaboration. it is critical that all the different components are highly secure as users start using devices that are outside the network perimeter and not controlled by the IT

VMware Cloud Ops Blog: Service Definition – The Tradeoff Between Standardization and Agility
By Rohan Kalra and Pierre Moncassin In the client server era, IT demonstrated responsiveness by designing infrastructure to meet the technical requirements of various applications that the business relied on to do work. Developers spec’d systems. Ops built the systems. Devs changes the specs. Th

Creating a Baseline for Small Business
In my last blog ‘To Cybercriminals, The Size of a Company No Longer Matters” I discussed the fact that the latest PwC Information Security Breaches Survey 2013 shows that there has been a significant rise in the number of small businesses that were attacked by an unauthorized out

Replaced certificates and get vSphere HA Agent unreachable?
Replaced certificates and get vSphere HA Agent unreachable? I have heard this multiple times in the last couple of weeks. I started looking in to it and it seems that in many of these scenarios the common issue was the thumbprints. The log files typically give a lot of hints that lo

VMware Education & Certification Blog: Build Skills Deploying a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure with View: Install, Configure, Manage
System administrators and system integrators responsible for deploying  the VMware® virtual desktop infrastructure can build valuable skills in deploying a virtual desktop infrastructure by attending VMware View: Install, Configure Manage.  This 4-day course teaches you to: Install and configu

VMware End User Computing: SMBs Prefer Horizon View Over Other VDI Solutions – Two Years in a Row
By Courtney Burry, Director, Desktop Product Marketing, VMware I’m excited to share that a recent study conducted by Spiceworks with small and midsized businesses (SMBs) revealed that VMware Horizon View is the solution of choice over the competition for a second year in a row. By an almost 2-

The Network Week in Review and Look Ahead: May 20-24
1.) How The Internet Is Preserving Korea's Cultural Heritage Amy Cortese takes a look at online services that are uncovering local culture for ...

VMware Accelerate: It All Started with Server Virtualization
Rob Jenkins, Director of VMware Accelerate Advisory Services in EMEA, presented on the journey to virtualized compute — from server consolidation, to automation, to game changing ITaaS — at IDC’s Cloud and Virtualisation event in Dublin this month. At the time, no one predicted the impact serv

What Have I Learned Over 36 Years Working in IT?
I started my first IT job in 1978 in a consulting firm on Wall Street. I worked on cutting edge minicomputers back then, bucking the steady mainframe market that most of my former classmates entered. Recently I tried to explain that environment to a younger colleague by pulling out the A

VMware Support Insider: Physical or Appliance – Upgrading to vCenter Server 5.1
The other day we received this question from a customer via Twitter: @VMwareCares planning to upgrade to 5.1 from 5.0 vcenter. What’s recommended physical or appliance? Ups and downs side of each? We thought a few more of you might have the same questions so we decided we would take the opportun

VMTN Blog: What was your favorite VMworld session?
This year will be the 10th yearly VMworld event. (Have you registered for VMworld yet?) In the run up to the event, we’ll be running some features talking about the previous nine years of what I like to think of as the World’s Best (And Most Intense) Technology Conference. Photo: Peter Tsai/Del

VROOM!: Power Management and Performance in ESXi 5.1
Powering and cooling are a substantial portion of datacenter costs. Ideally, we could minimize these costs by optimizing the datacenter’s energy consumption without impacting performance. The Host Power Management feature, which has been enabled by default since ESXi 5.0, allows hosts to reduce po

Arming The Enterprise: A Health Care Use Case
In a recent post I described Chief Technology Officer John Roese’s EMC World message about arming Enterprise customers for the future. He advised customers to prepare themselves for the converging service provider, consumer ecosystem, and enterprise markets. I used the diagram below

The Right Architecture Is Priceless, Part II
Architecture is sexy. The proof? Brad Pitt loves architecture. Brad Pitt has twice been named “Sexiest Man Alive.” Donald Trump’s garish, obnoxious buildings indicate that he hates architecture. Donald Trump has never been named “Sexiest Man in the Room,” even when he’s alon

Number of vSphere HA heartbeat datastores less than 2 error, while having more?
Last week on twitter someone mentioned he received the error that he had less than two vSphere HA heartbeat datastores configured. I wrote an article about this error a while back so I asked him if he had two or more. This was the case, so next thing to do was to “reconfigure

VMware Support Insider: vCenter Server 5.1 Update 1a
Back on April 29th we posted an alert: ALERT: Login issue after updating to vCenter 5.1 Update 1 which detailed a scenario whereby customers might be unable to log in using the vSphere Web Client or domain username/password credentials via the vSphere Client after updating to vCenter 5.1 Tonight at

The Fragmented Picture of Mobile Security
I was in Munich last week, speaking at the European Identity and Cloud Conference in a panel on standards for mobile security. It was a very good session, not least because of the colleagues who joined me on the panel. John Sabo spoke about the work he’s doing in privacy frameworks

VMware for Small-Medium Business Blog: How Laurens County Health Care System is Now Realizing 65% Decrease in Hardware Costs / Uptime in the 99.999% Range by Deploying Meditech in a Virtualized Environment
Post by Brandon Sweeney, Vice President U.S. Mid-Market Businesses Many midmarket organizations face challenges in equipping their IT infrastructure to support privacy and regulatory protocols and ensure consistent uptime, but those in the health care field have a unique challenge. For a healthca

HANA Cloud, Mobile, and Sports Analytics – Sapphire Followup
So I am back from 4 weeks on the road and I wanted to do a follow up from SapphireNOW. Based on the economy and the general gossip in the industry around travel restrictions that many companies have in place, I was concerned both EMC World and Sapphire would be “lite” to say

VMware End User Computing: School Testing: The Next Generation
by Geoffrey Murase, Solutions Marketing for End-User Computing When I was in elementary school, each year, we were administered a standardized test called the “California Test of Basic Skills” or CTBS.  This test involved using “number 2” pencils and filling out a form with boxes from A to

VMware vSphere Blog: Virtualization Security for the IT Guy–Courtesy of the New England VTUG
Here in Technical Marketing at VMware, we are fortunate to be able to regularly speak to members of the virtualization community at various events. One of those events is the newly formed  VTUG. VTUG is short for Virtualization Technology Users Group. Run by Chris Harney, this organization has been

Hadoop On VMware -- Another Workload Conquered?
If you're like me, you've been promoting the idea of server virtualization for many, many years. You're also probably familiar with the standard pushback: what about performance? I can clearly remember going through before-and-after charts over and over -- again and again -- for workload

VMware Support Insider: Locating your VMware Workstation serial number
Ever wondered how to locate your VMware Workstation serial number after the software has been installed on your machine? We present you with a new video today, geared towards users of our VMware Workstation product. The serial number is listed in the order confirmation email you receive for your W

Is flash the saviour of Software Defined Storage?
I have this search column open on twitter with the term “software defined storage”. One thing that kept popping up in the last couple of days was a tweet from various IBM people around how SDS will change flash. Or let me quote the tweet: “What does software-define

VMware vSphere Blog: VMware Storage Futures Video – Courtesy of VMUG Italia
I mentioned last month that I would be presenting at the Italian VMUG event in Milan. Well, the VMUG guys recorded the session, so if you are interesting in seeing me talking about some of the cool storage projects we are working on internally here at VMware (such as Virtual SAN, Virtual Volumes &am

Securing the DMZ with vCloud Networking and Security
I am all about sharing information that I find incredibly beneficial. This document that VMware has just released is one of those incredible beneficial documents. Lately, it seems like this is the number one “issue” that customers are constantly asking me about… and rig

Mainstreaming Sustainability
Kathrin Winkler, Chief Sustainability Officer At EMC, as in many leading companies, we believe in mainstreaming sustainability. Rather than belonging to a single team, we see it as a shared responsibility and as a pervasive consideration in how we conduct business. Sustainability as a co

VMware vFabric Blog: Cloudera Gets More Cloudy: Partners and Certifies CDH4 on vSphere
Today, we are excited to welcome Cloudera officially to the VMware family. VMware and Cloudera have entered into a partnership agreement that is meant to help users of Cloudera’s Hadoop distribution, CDH4, to run in the cloud. As part of this announcement, VMware has tested and certified Cloudera

The Pain and Pleasure of Sustainability Reporting
Whew! Another EMC sustainability report out the door, much to our relief. EMC 2012 Sustainability Report If you haven't produced a sustainability report, you should know that it's hard. Harder than you can imagine. And totally worth it. You'd think it would get easier year

EMC VSPEX Solutions for Microsoft
What's blue, has six wheels and delivers highly available virtual Microsoft workloads? That would be the Avnet Mobile Data Center Solution for EMC VSPEX voted one of the Top 10 Hot Products from EMC World according to CRN! What makes the new mobile data center solution a top 10 pr

How The Internet Is Preserving Korea's Cultural Heritage
April 30th marked the 20-year anniversary of the World Wide Web, the system of urls, hypertext and protocols that paved the way for what today we take for granted as the Internet. It’s hard to imagine how we managed to get by before everything from news headlines to arcane trivia and shoes

VMwareTV: VMware vC Ops Tech Tip: Configuring the Microsoft SCOM Adapter
VMware vC Ops Tech Tip: Configuring the Microsoft SCOM Adapter vC Ops Tech Tip: Overview of how to configure a Microsoft SCOM adapter instance in a vCenter Operations Manager vApp installation. For more vC Ops Tech Tips visit http://www.youtube.com/playlist?l... From: VMware TV Views: 110

VMware Virsto: A Very Smart Volume Manager For VMs
I think many IT professionals realize that many application performance issues eventually boil down to storage and physical I/O. That was true before server virtualization, and it's certainly true now. Storage array vendors do what they can. Operating system, hypervisor and database vend

VMware Education & Certification Blog: Question of the Week: VCP5-DCV
This week’s “Question of the Week” comes from the VMware Certified Professional 5-Data Center Virtualization (VCP5-DCV) Official Study Guide. Which of the following can prevent a host from seeing LUNs that are on a storage processor to which it is connected? a. Zoning b. Shares c. Permis

Mandiant Malware? Not Exactly.
By Alex Cox, Senior Researcher, RSA FirstWatch team The RSA FirstWatch team uses a number of techniques to detect emergent threats and trends.  Much of the output of the analysis process becomes inputs for the RSA FirstWatch Feeds and new rules to detect botnet variants, malicious user-

EMC Announces New Contracts Lifecycle Management Solution from Beach Street
EMC is pleased to announce the availability of the Beach Street Contracts Lifecycle Management Solution that delivers an end-to-end solution for automating processes throughout the contract lifecycle from creation or reception, negotiation and approval, contract renewal and closeout, and

VMwareTV: VMware vC Ops Tech Tip: Making Attribute Packages and Setting Key Performance Indicators
VMware vC Ops Tech Tip: Making Attribute Packages and Setting Key Performance Indicators vC Ops Tech Tip: Overview of how to manage attribute packages and set KPI's using the vCenter Operations Manager custom UI. For more vC Ops Tech Tips visit http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9... Fro

VMwareTV: VMware vC Ops Tech Tip: Downloading and Installing an Adapter
VMware vC Ops Tech Tip: Downloading and Installing an Adapter vC Ops Tech Tip: Overview of how to download and install an adapter for a vCenter Operations Manager vApp installation. For more vC Ops Tech Tips visit http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9MeVs... From: VMware TV Views: 46

VMwareTV: VMware vC Ops Tech Tip: Creating and Assigning Resource Tags
VMware vC Ops Tech Tip: Creating and Assigning Resource Tags vC Ops Tech Tip: Overview of how to create resource tags using the vCenter Operations Manager custom UI. For more vC Ops Tech Tips visit http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9MeVsU0uG653d3-bYO1d... From: VMware TV Views: 22

VMwareTV: VMware vC Ops Tech Tip: Configuring an Adapter Instance
VMware vC Ops Tech Tip: Configuring an Adapter Instance vC Ops Tech Tip: Overview of how to configure an adapter instance in a vCenter Operations Manager vApp installation. For more vC Ops Tech Tips visit http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9MeVsU0u... From: VMware TV Views: 28

VMwareTV: VMware vC Ops Tech Tip: Building a Dashboard for a Virtual Infrastructure Administrator
VMware vC Ops Tech Tip: Building a Dashboard for a Virtual Infrastructure Administrator vC Ops Tech Tip: Overview of how to create an dashboard for a Virtual Infrastructure (VI) Admin using the custom UI in vCenter Operations Manager. For more v... From: VMware TV Views: 1 2 ratin

VMwareTV: VMware vC Ops Tech Tip: Building a Dashboard for an Executive User
VMware vC Ops Tech Tip: Building a Dashboard for an Executive User vC Ops Tech Tip: Overview of how to create an dashboard for an executive user (CEO) using the custom UI in vCenter Operations Manager. For more vC Ops Tech Tips visit http://www.youtube.com/playli... From: VMware TV Views:

VMwareTV: VMware vC Ops Tech Tip: Building a Dashboard for an Application Owner
VMware vC Ops Tech Tip: Building a Dashboard for an Application Owner vC Ops Tech Tip: Overview of how to create an dashboard for an application owner using the custom UI in vCenter Operations Manager. For more vC Ops Tech Tips visit http://www.youtube.com/playlist?... From: VMware TV View

VMwareTV: VMware vC Ops Tech Tip: Creating Applications
VMware vC Ops Tech Tip: Creating Applications vC Ops Tech Tip: Overview of how to create an application using the vCenter Operations Manager custom UI. For more vC Ops Tech Tips visit http://www.youtube.... From: VMware TV Views: 5 1 ratings Time: 03:46 More in Science & T

VMware vCloud Blog: Introducing vCloud Hybrid Service
By: Bill Fathers, GM, Hybrid Cloud Services A public cloud without compromise. Today it becomes reality. We are excited to unveil vCloud Hybrid Service, an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud built and operated by VMware that will enable our customers to achieve the benefits of the public clo

VMwareTV: Moving to Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Moving to Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Bill Fathers, VMware Senior Vice President and General Manager, Hybrid Cloud BU, discusses VMware's move to IaaS. From: VMware TV Views: 383 1 ratings Time: 02:53 More in Science & Technology

VMwareTV: Hybrid Application Deployment: VMware vCloud Hybrid Service
Hybrid Application Deployment: VMware vCloud Hybrid Service In this short video, see how we can easily take advantage of compatible, scalable production-ready cloud infrastructure to stretch the deployment of a multi-tier application between the private... From: VMware TV Views: 389

VMwareTV: An Introduction to VMware vCloud Hybrid Service
An Introduction to VMware vCloud Hybrid Service Watch Greg Herzog, Consulting Architect, Field Services, white board the basics of VMware vCloud Hybrid Service. From: VMware TV Views: 341 4 ratings Time: 03:01 More in Science & Technology

VMwareTV: Network Connectivity and Virtual Appliances - vCloud Hybrid Service
Network Connectivity and Virtual Appliances - vCloud Hybrid Service Watch Greg Herzog, Consulting Architect, Field Services, white board network connectivity and virtual appliances. From: VMware TV Views: 228 1 ratings Time: 02:52 More in Science & Technology

VMwareTV: Creating a Fault-Tolerant Three-Tier Application - vCloud Hybrid Service
Creating a Fault-Tolerant Three-Tier Application - vCloud Hybrid Service Watch Greg Herzog, Consulting Architect, Field Services, white board creating a fault tolerant 3-tier application. From: VMware TV Views: 268 3 ratings Time: 03:02 More in Science & Technology

VMwareTV: City of Melrose Accommodates for Future Growth with vCloud Hybrid Service
City of Melrose Accommodates for Future Growth with vCloud Hybrid Service The City of Melrose values the interoperability, performance, and security that VMware vCloud Hybrid Service provides on a platform that is 100% compatible with their multiple on-premise environments. From: VMware TV

VMwareTV: Planview Growing New Business in the Cloud with vCloud Hybrid Service
Planview Growing New Business in the Cloud with vCloud Hybrid Service Planview is looking at VMware vCloud Hybrid Service to offload backup and infrastructure management so they can focus on developing their SaaS products. From: VMware TV Views: 153 1 ratings Time: 02:47 More i

VMware for Small-Medium Business Blog: More Virtualization Benefits: Taking Advantage of Your vSphere Host Profile Feature
by Kevin Lubojacky, VMware SE, Mid-Market Team vSphere Host Profiles are an often overlooked valuable feature for virtualized environments. Whether your environment is growing rapidly and adding hosts has become a management nightmare, or there have been too many cooks in the kitchen, and host conf

Groove Theory of GRC – Postulate #2: Duet, Trio, Quartet, Orchestra
The initial inspiration of my “Groove Theory of GRC” was Rocco Prestia, the bass player for the funk band Tower of Power.  His definition, or lack thereof, of the term groove started my thought process on how very important things can exist without exact scientific explanation.  

VMware Consulting Blog: Virtualize SAP – Risky or Not?
By Girish Manmadkar, VMWare Professional Services Consultant In years past, some IT managers were not ready to talk about virtualizing SAP due to technical and political reasons. The picture is very different today, in part because of the increased emphasis on IT as a strategic function towards

Office of the CTO Blogs: A Look Inside vCloud Hybrid Service
Today we unveiled vCloud Hybrid Service – A VMware-owned and operated public cloud designed to help our customers seamlessly extend their private cloud resources beyond the data center. Now that I’m able to talk about the service, let me pull back the curtain on part of the architecture and tech

VMTN Blog: VMware Communities Roundtable Podcast – Show Notes 231 – vCloud Automation Center
Hosts Mike Gordon Laverick, VMware @Mike_Laverick Guests Adam Bohle, VMware @adambohle News VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger to unveil vCloud Hybrid Service May 21st Central Ohio VMUG User Conference Philadelphia VMUG User Conference Flipboard users – Three cool magazines – consider subscribing

VMware Support Insider: SSL Certificate Automation Tool version 1.0.1
Last month we announced a new SSL Certificate Automation tool to help everyone with the implementation of custom certificates. Yesterday, we released the second version of it (version 1.0.1). This is a minor update which aims to simplify the replacement of certificates further by adding Certificate

VMware vSphere Blog: Download DMZ Design and Deployment Guide
I am happy to announce the availability of the VMware vCloud Networking and Security – DMZ Design and Deployment Guide. This paper highlights how securing a virtual DMZ environment using vCloud Networking and Security can be a strategic enabler to your organization as it helps you to reduce your c

Why Power Companies are Delving into Data
A power cut in most places will bring down the streetlights for a while. But in India last July blackouts nearly brought down the country. Around 700 million people were without power because of a grid collapse dubbed ‘Blackout Tuesday.' The power outage stretched around 2000 miles

Don’t Fear the Hangover – Network Detection of Hangover Malware Samples
By Alex Cox, Senior Researcher, RSA FirstWatch team Today, Norman and Shadowserver released a paper that revealed a large attack infrastructure in which they detailed an ongoing campaign, running as far back as September 2010.  This campaign, reportedly run out of India, used spear-phis

VMware Accelerate: Adding Another Aspect of Agility into the CIO’s Toolkit
AUTHOR: Padmaja Vrudhula Tomorrow VMware announces the launch of the VMware vCloud® Hybrid Service™ — a true hybrid cloud solution connecting and integrating on-site and off-site IT environments through a common management platform with a design that ensures all (new and existing) applications

A Look Back on GPS 2013
Now that Global Partner Summit is over, and you’re (hopefully) back into your normal routine, I just wanted to take a minute to look back at the week in Las Vegas and reflect on everything I took away from it. Leaving Las Vegas after Global Partner Summit, I know you are bursting w

Backup Is Broken – But Why?
“Well, at least you brought lunch.” – Every CIO’s reaction after I tell them we’re going to talk about backup. Backup is broken. Backups are slow and restores are even slower. Even worse, application administrators assume they’re unprotected because they have no visibility in

The Liberating “What If” Analytics Cycle
Ah, the anguish of not knowing the “right” answers.  Organizations struggle with the process of determining the “right” answers, resulting in lots of wasted debates and divisive arguments regarding whose answers are more right.  They even have a name for this debilitating proce

VMware Cloud Ops Blog: Reaching Common Ground When Defining Services – Join Us For #CloudOpsChat!
An optimized service definition process can make or break the success of hybrid clouds or Software-Defined Data Centers (SDDC). But even if you have tools and processes in place to enable automated provisioning, you still need key stakeholder agreement on the makeup of standard services and resource

VMware End User Computing: NetApp has now introduced its VMware AlwaysOn Point of Care™ reference architecture built for healthcare
by Monty Zarrouk, Product Marketing at NetApp How will this improve patient care? VMware® AlwaysOn Point of Care™ architecture helps solve customers’ problems by providing ready access to patient information from any terminal or mobile device. This allows clinicians to make informed decisions

Arming the Enterprise
One of the more interesting talk tracks coming out of EMC World 2013 was the Venn Diagram introduced by EMC Chief Technology Officer John Roese: Prior to joining EMC, John had observed that the lines were blurring between three different markets: the enterprise market, the service pro

VMware KB Digest – New Articles Published for Week Ending 5/18/13
In our effort to provide our viewers with up to the minute information on VMware related news and topics, we’re posting the following list of new KB Entries for this week, direct from VMware Support. VMware Data Recovery Migrating restore points from VMware Data Recovery to vSphere

Backup Is Broken – But Why?
Stephen Manley, Chief Technology Officer, EMC Backup Recovery Systems Division “Well, at least you brought lunch.” – Every CIO’s reaction after I tell them we’re going to talk about backup. Backup is broken. Backups are slow and restores are even slower. Even worse, application

VMware Virtualization Management Blog: Using vCloud Automation Center with Infoblox IPAM
Assigning an IP address and a DNS host record  need to be accomplished during the provisioning process.  VMware vCloud Automation Center supports a number of methods for assigning IP addresses.  These include dynamically assigning them via DHCP,  statically assigning them from a pool of IP addre

Five Common Corporate Pitfalls in Cyber Security Management
By Mike McGrew, Advisory Practice Consultant, RSA Advanced Cyber Defense Services This blog discusses five of the high level missteps common to organizations that have experienced needlessly prolonged negative effects of cyber security incidents. 1) No security team A fair percentage of

Manufacturing Snapshot: Does Social Media Matter?
Social media continues to play a pivotal role in day-to-day commerce. It offers shoppers valuable resources, from product evaluations and opinions to advice and trends to watch, but what about social media's influence in the manufacturing sector, the source of consumer satisfaction?

Forget the Drapes… How’s Your Plumbing?
A little more than 10 years ago, I wrote an article for InfoStor magazine exposing IT's Dirty Little Secret: Backup was grossly inefficient - and IT knew it. Back then, nobody talked about the backup problem because there was little that could be done about it.

VMwareTV: From Paper to Digital - Sydney Adventist Hospital Transforms Patient Care with VMware View
From Paper to Digital - Sydney Adventist Hospital Transforms Patient Care with VMware View In only two months, this leading Sydney specialist hospital transformed its processes from paper-based to paperless. In this video, a range of people, from t... From: VMware TV Views: 225 4

VMwareTV: VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) Configuration
VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) Configuration VSOM video series: http://bit.ly/15BqQUp] This video shows how to configure the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA). The VCSA is a preconfigured Linux-based vir... From: VMware TV Views: 491 3 ratings Time: 01:57 More in Science

Accountability Breeds Service Excellence
No company is perfect. Missteps take place. But a company’s true colors are displayed when it responds to inevitable missteps. Of course, one way that criticism is both received and responded to is through social media channels. Before booking a trip to a hotel or making a restaurant r

VMware Support Insider: Licensing VMware Fusion
Hi folks, We have a new video today which is brief and straight to the point. This video is specifically geared towards first-time users of our VMware Fusion product. This video discusses and demonstrates how you can license VMware Fusion. In this brief video tutorial you will learn how quick and

VMware vCloud Blog: Webinar: Learn How Cloud Makes DR Easy, Affordable, Reliable
This is a guest post from vCloud Service Provider, Bluelock. If you’re evaluating disaster recovery (DR) options you’re likely looking several options including traditional warm or cold-site solutions, cloud-based Recovery-as-a-Service (RaaS) DR and maybe even the age-old choice of simply cros

VMware Education & Certification Blog: No more depressed IT professionals!
I came across a post last week that caught my eye: Don’t let training and skills be the forgotten investment in the digital revolution. You won’t be surprised to hear I agree with its call for companies to invest in continuing education for their IT staff. “During any economic downturn, one o

To Cybercriminals, The Size of a Company No Longer Matters
Gone are the days when it was thought that size of the company matters to the cybercriminals.  The latest PwC Information Security Breaches Survey 2013 shows that there has been a significant rise in the number of small businesses that were attacked by an unauthorized outsider in the la

VMware Accelerate: On-Demand Services –Thoughts from Down Under
AUTHOR: Michael Francis I’m a principal systems engineer with VMware and have been involved in the development of our cloud operations services. I’m sharing my experiences through a series of blogs pertaining to on-demand services. In this first blog, I reflect on what got us to this point and

The Network Week in Review and Look Ahead: May 13-17
1.) Behind the Scenes of a MOOC Don't know what a MOOC is? You're about to find out. We take a look ...

Why SourceOne?
In this short four minute video, EMC’s own Gene Maxwell gives a straight forward presentation that answers the question, “Why SourceOne?” SourceOne is a next-generation archiving solution that captures and protects your valuable email, file and SharePoint content for c

VMware End User Computing: VDI Becomes A Reality for Hospitals
by Steve Poitras, Solutions Architect, Nutanix There are two things I normally notice when I visit the doctor – 1) a massive stack of paper medical records and 2) long visit times… The need… I’ve always been huge fan of adopting and evolving the IT services utilized in the medical industr

VMware for Small-Medium Business Blog: Join VMware on May 21st For a Live Webcast Unveiling the New vCloud Hybrid Service Offering
Mid-sized companies face specific challenges when it comes to meeting the changing demands of the business, such as needing to balance limited resources while still remaining agile enough to respond to new business requirements. Indeed, many mid-sized companies cite limited resources as a common bar

VMware Education & Certification Blog: FREE Instructional Videos on vCenter Operations
VMware Certified Instructor, Steve Jones, presents what’s new with vCenter Operations since 5.0 including: Steve Jones, VCI First Look Navigation Part 1 for V5.X First Look Navigation Part 2 for V5.X Operational Insight Through Drill Down Actions for V5.X Determining and Planning for Capaci

The ATM: Convenience for Consumers….and Fraudsters?
By Amy Blackshaw, Principal Product Marketing Manager, RSA Identity Protection & Verification ATMs (otherwise known as a Cash Points, Money Machines, Cashlines or sometimes even Holes in the Wall), are a staple of modern life. To the everyday consumer, they are seen as a convenient way t

Non-malware Penetration Techniques of an Advanced Attacker – Podcast #246
The level and sophistication of advanced threats is a constantly moving target pitting the advantages of smart and patient attackers against security teams that often times can’t possibly know what to look for when an attacker employs specialized techniques and tools designed to cloak

VMware Support Insider: The Inside Scoop: Maintenance tips for your vSphere Database
Today we have the third edition of our blog series The Inside Scoop. In this installment we will look at vSphere Databases and more specifically some helpful tips for maintaining them. In order to obtain some real world perspective, we met up with some of our Technical Support Engineers at our supp

VMware End User Computing: Always On. Always Available
by by Pam Takahama, Director of Solutions Marketing, Riverbed Technology Healthcare turning to VDI to improve patient care I recently took my daughter to the doctor for an earache, and chuckled when the pediatrician reached into his lab coat for what I thought was an iPad to write up a prescr

Educating Business Leaders To Exploit Big Data
Bob Savage, Vice President and Managing Director, EMC Ireland Across every sector and in every boardroom, Big Data is disrupting business models. The challenge facing enterprises is how to monetise data and drive new revenues. To do that, organizations will need data savvy and business s

Groove Theory of GRC – Postulate #1: Musicality or Performance?
Welcome to my second in a series of blogs based on what I term “The Groove Theory of GRC.”   As you may or may not know (or infer from this series), I have been a musician for much of my life.  Starting in grade school playing in the school band, I have enjoyed the gift of making

VMware Education & Certification Blog: Take Your Cloud Infrastructure Skills to the Next Level with VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale
So you’ve take either VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.1], VMware vSphere: What’s New [V5.1], or VMware vSphere: Fast Track [V5.1] and want to take your cloud infrastructure skills to the next level? Then you’ll want to attend: VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V5.1]  In this

VMware End User Computing: Achieving Epic Status
by F5 News Healthcare providers face a unique challenge: continuously deliver quality patient care that is both effective and affordable. Today, this depends largely on technology – from diagnostic systems to patient record systems accessible by health care professionals dispersed amongst hospita

VMware End User Computing: VMware Horizon View 5.2 Performance and Best Practices, and A Performance Deep-Dive on Hardware-Accelerated 3D Graphics
By Banit Agrawal, Senior Performance Engineer, VMware VMware Horizon View 5.2 simplifies desktop and application management while increasing security and control and delivers a personalized high fidelity experience for end-users across sessions and devices. It enables higher availability and agil

VMware End User Computing: Paving the Way for VDI
By: Courtney Burry, Director of PMM, VMware End-User Computing BU In the past several years, many customers have turned to desktop virtualization in an effort to drive down costs and improve operational efficiencies.  This year, however, the tide has shifted. In a survey recently conducted by For

Network Trailblazer: A Conversation With Chris Anderson, Co-Founder & CEO of 3D Robotics and Former Wired Magazine Editor
As editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine for most of the 21st century, Chris Anderson has had a front row seat to the technological changes that continue to transform our world. He's explored some of these changes in his books, The Long Tail, about the rise of niche markets, and Free, about the seemi

The Network Week in Review and Look Ahead: May 6-10th
1.)Leadership@Cisco: John Chambers Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers, shares thoughts about his family, his love of adventure, and how technology will change our lives in ...

Get Off of My Cloud: Why CIOs Must Accept and Integrate Personal Clouds into the Enterprise
Many consumers today use personal cloud services such as Dropbox, SkyDrive, Google Drive, Evernote, and iCloud. The lure of these services is clear: they allow users to store files such as documents, notes, and photos on a central server – automatically syncing these files to all of their d

Sports Analytics Goes High School: Small-budget Coaches Get Big-league Capabilities
National Basketball Association teams have long wielded big budgets for data analytics that can break down tendencies of rival teams. But this year, a disruptively cheap web-based version of the technology helped the high school boys on the Fort Bend Travis Tigers basketball team storm to the Cla

The Network Week in Review and Look Ahead: April 29-May 3
Healthcare and The Cloud Can’t quite remember everything about your medical history? A former RN says the cloud can help. Find out what else she says as we take a look at the benefits and challenges of cloud computing in ...

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