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VMworld Europe News and Announcements

October 10, 2012 By Josh Townsend Leave a Comment

I wanted to let you all know about some announcements that have come out at VMworld Europe over the past couple days. These announcements help round out some of the new products and features announced at VMworld 2012 in San Francisco. These new and updated features are a big deal for customers who want to take a wholistic approach to deploying and managing a hybrid cloud across different service providers. If you're thinking about upgrading your vSphere license to a vCloud Suite license (you have until December 15th to claim the free upgrade to the vCloud Suite Standard Edition, along … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EMC, News, Product Releases, vCloud, VMware, VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM), VMware vCenter Operations, VMware vSphere, VMworld Tagged With: 5.1, srm, vCloud, vCOps, vfabric, VMware, vmworld, vsphere

Webcast: VMworld 2012 Recap: What’s New from VMware

October 1, 2012 By Josh Townsend 1 Comment

Update: If you missed the webcast, you can watch the recorded session playback here: https://clearpathevents.webex.com/clearpathevents/lsr.php?AT=pb&SP=EC&rID=5836487&rKey=29a86bf8d53cdfc8 The presentation is available on Sliderocket if you want to skip through the presentation quickly without listening to my goofy voice: Webcast: VMworld 2012 Recap: What's New from VMware Tuesday, October 2, 10-11 am Eastern In keeping current with the latest news from VMware, Clearpath's team followed all of the breaking developments at VMworld 2012 to observe and report on all the changes … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Clearpath, News, VMware, VMworld Tagged With: 2012, 5.1, horizon, Mirage, vCloud, vmworld, vsphere, webcast

New VMUG Advantage Benefit: Free VMworld Online Content Access!

September 27, 2012 By Josh Townsend Leave a Comment

The VMUG Advantage subscription is an awesome benefit for members of the VMware User Group, and just got more awesomer with the addition of a new benefit - full access to all of the VMworld content, including breakout session recordings and slide decks, labs, and general sessions. Normally a VMworld.com subscription for online access to content is $699. The VMUG Advantage subscription is only $200 (or less if you got the 15% discount codes from yesterday's Potomac Regional VMUG in Washington DC), and VMworld content is free with the VMUG Advantage subscription. The VMworld session benefit … [Read more...]

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vCloud Suite Upgrade Notes

September 18, 2012 By Josh Townsend Leave a Comment

I live blogged at VMworld about VMware giving a free upgrade (technically a $1 upgrade, but what's a buck amongst friends) to the newly announced VMware vCloud Stuite Standard Edition for all current customers with VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus under active Support and Subscription (SnS). This gives customers the basic building blocks for starting to shift their virtualized datacenters towards a software-defined datacenter with all the cloud automation needed to drive the next stage of datacenter efficiency, mobility, and consumption-based provisioning. There are a few gotchas on the free … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Clearpath, News, Product Releases, vCloud, VMware, VMware vSphere Tagged With: bundle, licensing, Suite, upgrade, vCloud, VMware, vmworld

Big DC VMUG Event on September 26th at Nationals Park

September 10, 2012 By Josh Townsend Leave a Comment

A reminder to those of you in Washington DC, Maryland and Virginia and surrounding areas, the Maryland, DC and Federal VMware User Groups (VMUG) have come together to present an all-day event at Washington Nationals Park in Washington, DC. This event will give you a chance to get caught up on VMworld 2012 announcements, meet with local VMware experts, and engage with vendors in the virtualization ecosystem. Register Today for the Potomac Regional VMUG User Conference Register Today to reserve your seat at the upcoming Potomac Regional VMUG User Conference taking place on Wednesday, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Community, VMUG, VMware Tagged With: dc, VMUG, vmworld

Hyper-V World – What would Tad say now?

August 28, 2012 By Josh Townsend Leave a Comment

We've had some pretty exciting announcements over the past two days at VMworld. VMware is really flexing their muscle, proving that they are dead serious about going beyond simple server virtualization. We're plowing full speed ahead, delivering on the vision for cloud and now the Software Defined Datacenter that VMware has been painting over the past several years.car Microsoft was apparently threatened by this vision at VMworld last year, and tried to paint VMware as a virtualization-only offering with their VM-Limited campaign … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Community, Microsoft, VMware Tagged With: FUD, Hyper-V, Tad, vmworld

vSphere 5.1 Announcement, Features, and Specifications

August 27, 2012 By Josh Townsend Leave a Comment

Today at VMworld 2012 in San Francisco, VMware announced the new version of their flagship product vSphere 5.1. Version 5.1 builds on the success of vSphere 5, enabling more flexibility, scalability, and automation for running your private cloud of storage, network and compute resources. There's lots of coverage of vSphere 5.1 by the tech media, bloggers, and VMware, so I won't cover all of the nitty gritty details, but I do want to highlight several that are of interest. I'm saving some of the features for more in-depth posts, so stay tuned for more! vSphere vMotion no longer requires … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Product Releases, VMware, VMware vSphere Tagged With: 5.1, release, update, VMware, vmworld, vsphere

You Get A Cloud, and You Get a Cloud, and You Get a Cloud

August 27, 2012 By Josh Townsend 1 Comment

It's like Oprah has visited VMworld today, proclaiming "You Get a Cloud, and You Get a Cloud, and You Get a Cloud!" Look at your vSphere 5 box. If it says 'Enterprise Plus Edition' you get a key -- to the cloud. That's right - if you own VMware vSphere 5 Enterprise Plus edition, you now have VMware vCloud Director. For free. As I predicted in Reading the Tea Leaves Before VMworld 2012 Part 2, VMware has introduced a new pricing/packaging scheme called the vCloud Suite, which combines vSphere 5.1, vCloud 5.1, and vCloud Networking and Security into a new package called the vCloud … [Read more...]