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VMware and Cisco Extend Collaboration in Support of ROBOs

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Posted by Sean Gilbert
Sr. Alliance SE

I’m the proverbial “man on the street” at Cisco Live 2012 today, asking attendees to comment on the two exciting joint announcements from VMware and Cisco this morning. Both pieces of news highlight the joint development our companies have undertaken to transform remote-office and branch-office (ROBO) operations.

First, let me quickly recap the announcements:

The New Cisco Cloud Services Router (CSR) is supported on VMware – What this means is your business can now connect its remote branches and mobile users to your cloud with a great user experience and consistent security—a key success factor in cloud deployments. Supported on VMware, Cisco’s CSR enables enterprises and cloud providers to have consistent networking capabilities across branches, datacenters and clouds. The CSR features a virtual IOS router with enterprise capabilities deployed off-site, in a cloud. The solution is optimized for single-tenant edge-router use cases such as virtual private network (VPN) and Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) termination and is seamlessly integrated into Cisco ISR and ASR end-to-end WAN architectures. 

VMware technology is a critical component of the UCS-E Series Generation 2 – The Intel architecture blade server, based on UCS hardware design, enables a converged networking, computing and virtualization platform for hosting essential infrastructure services and mission-critical business applications in the lean branch office. The VMware platform is once again a critical component of this platform, enabling various Cisco vApps and vServices to run on a single blade for both ROBO and retail locations. While more than one-third of today’s business applications reside outside the datacenter in remote locations, the servers and desktops running these applications have traditionally been hard to manage, difficult to protect and costly to maintain. The combination of VMware and Cisco UCS-E can break down these barriers and provide an easy to deploy, secure and low-cost solution for ROBOs.

So what do attendees think? I caught up with a Director of IT for a Fortune 500 Manufacturing Company, outside of our theater session on Cisco VXI and VMware View who said, “This is an exciting integration announcement, it will increase flexibility and options for our move to the cloud while providing added security.”

Mark Douek, Solutions Architect for Strike Cloud agrees, “Cisco and VMware continue to be leaders in innovation. This solution will help accelerate customer's journey to the cloud and is just another example of their leadership in this space.”

So there you have it: A few reactions from the show floor to share the excitement of yesterday’s news. I look forward to keeping you apprised of implementation successes. If you’re here at the show, come by the VMware booth to attend one of the many theater sessions outlined by James Lomonaco in his previous blog post.

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Also here is a photo taken at our booth yesterday with some very special guests, from left to right:

Rick Snyder, Cisco VP Global Partner Organization
Vittorio Viarengo, VMware VP for Desktop Product
John Chambers, Cisco CEO
Nitin Brahmankar, VMware Sr. Director, Global Cisco Alliance
Hatem Naguib, VMware VP Cisco, EMC, VCE Alliance

Reporting live from Cisco Live, I’m Sean Gilbert for VMware.

VMware at HP Discover – Booth Theater Schedule

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Posted by Frances Fortanely
Americas HP Alliance
Marketing

Join your colleagues at the VMware booth #406 at HP Discover in Las Vegas on June 4th – 7th, to listen and learn how VMware and HP are working together to accelerate your pathway to cloud computing and better business results. VMware experts will be on hand throughout the week to present a variety of topics beneficial to companies of all sizes. Check out the schedule below!

Also, have a look at the VMware speaking session schedule that was mentioned in a previous blog post. If you attend at least three sessions, you will be entered to win an iPad. Visit the VMware booth for more details.

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Be Sure to Visit VMware at HP Discover!

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Posted by Jay Workman
HP Alliance Marketing
Director

HP Discover 2012 is just around the corner and as a major sponsor, VMware, will be showcasing our breath of solutions with HP. Las Vegas the week of June 4th will definitely be the place to be if you want to learn how virtualization and cloud computing solutions from VMware running on HP Converged Infrastructure can take your business to the next level.

Make plans to visit the VMware booth (#406) to learn how you can securely manage your cloud, virtualize your business critical applications, enable secure access for remote workers from virtually any device, save ongoing OpEx with Hybrid Clouds and much more! You’ll also be able to sit in on various booth theater presentations and we’ll have VMware experts on-hand to answer your questions about our joint solutions with HP! Sit in on any three of the VMware business or technical sessions listed below and you’ll be entered into a drawing for one of three new Apple iPad’s to be given away at the show. Details are in your conference attendee bag or available at the VMware booth!

VMware Sessions:

Session ID

Title

Day

Time

PSS3302

Cloud Infrastructure, applications, and users: How VMware brings it all together

Tuesday

1:30 PM

BB3303

Haven't virtualized critical applications?  Don't be passed by competitors

Tuesday

2:45 PM

TB2270

A hardened cloud infrastructure with VMware

Tuesday

4:00 PM

BB3304

Security, productivity and compliance in a BYOD World

Tuesday

4:00 PM

TB2755

Implementing a vSphere Metro Storage Cluster with the HP LeftHand

Tuesday

4:00 PM

BB3305

Lowering your costs again – with a Hybrid Cloud

Wednesday

1:30 PM

TB3258

The benefits and right practices of using 10Gb Ethernet with VMware vSphere 5.0

Wednesday

2:45 PM

TB2944

HP and VMware: building the cloud

Wednesday

2:45 PM

TB2756

Simplicity of an automated recovery plan with 3PAR and VMware SRM

Wednesday

4:00 PM

TB2941

Accelerating vMotion with the HP FlexFabric

Wednesday

5:15 PM

TB2102

HP and VMware: fast path to virtualization value and foundation for cloud

Wednesday

5:15 PM

BB2966

Why VMware choose HP ALM to manage its next-generation product lifecycles

Thursday

10:00 AM

BB2420  

VMware’s perspective on reducing lifecycle costs  with HP VirtualSystem for VMware

Thursday

2:45 PM

Follow @VMwareEvents on Twitter to receive news and information live from the show floor. We look forward to seeing you at HP Discover 2012 in June!

EMC and VMware Partner to Develop New Storage Analytics Suite Powered by vCenter Operations

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Sr. Director, Product
Marketing

At EMC World this week, VMware and EMC announced a joint solution that extends vCenter Operations Manager to provide a single view of virtualized infrastructures built on VMware vSphere and EMC VNX series storage. I’m pretty excited about our partnership with EMC and wanted to let our customer community know what we’re doing and why.

First, the why. What problem are we trying to solve? Think of the traditional division of responsibilities between server and storage administrators. Today’s virtualized environments are so dynamic that split decision-making leads to poor performance, capacity planning, and utilization. The reason is obvious: neither group has all the necessary information about the infrastructure and they can’t effectively coordinate their activities fast enough to meet service levels—or the expectations of users. Plus, troubleshooting across siloes is a time-consuming, frustrating nightmare. What’s needed is a unified approach.

And that’s just what this solution provides. The secret is the new EMC VNX Connector for vCenter Operations that feeds VNS storage metrics and customized dashboards into vCenter Operations Manager. This rich stream of information, combined with vSphere deep integration, gives vCenter Operations Manager complete visibility and understanding of the full virtual environment—servers, network and storage.  A good fit for any size enterprise that uses VNX storage, the solution scales up for large cloud environments that are especially dynamic and difficult to manage.

vCenter Operations Manager offers a number of features that help administrators stay in control.  They receive notifications of issues and can take steps to keep the infrastructure running at optimal capacity and efficiency—before problems occur. Customizable dashboards continuously update health, risk, and efficiency scores, providing end-to-end visibility into virtualized environments and cloud operations.  Troubleshooting gets easier, too, because vCenter Operations Manager delivers actionable performance analysis that accelerates the resolution of performance and capacity problems.

But what distinguishes vCenter Operations Manager from other management tools is how it implements proactive monitoring.  It actually has self-learning capabilities—powered by a rich set of patented algorithms—that learn the behavior of the infrastructure and set dynamic thresholds accurately. That means far fewer false messages and more reliable information for decision-making.

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vCenter Operations Manager is continuously updated to show current scores for health, risk, and efficiency.

 

There’s a lot more that I could say, but here’s the bottom line: VMware vCenter Operations manager, with EMC VNX Connector for vCenter Operations, delivers full cross-domain visibility and eliminates operational silos across the virtual and physical infrastructure for VNX-based environments. And that translates directly into rapid problem resolution, optimal resource utilization and superior end-to-end performance.  A future blog will talk about real-world uses. Meanwhile, post your thoughts and questions about the joint EMC-VMware announcement.

 

 

VMware at EMC World + Instagram

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Share your VMware Instagram experience at EMC World, and win a prize! From May 21-24th at EMC World in Las Vegas, drop by VMware booth #201 to pick up your “VMware +_______” paddle, which is shown above.

See the instructions on the back of the paddle and upload your photos to VMwares Instagram page – it’s easy! Please be sure to upload using the hashtags #EMCworld and #VMwarePlus, so we can seed your photos into the VMware at EMC World + Instagram page. Three prizes will be awarded for the most creative #VMwarePlus photos.

You can still participate even if you can’t attend EMC World! Since we are collecting all of the #EMCworld photos you can check out the sights of the conference as they unfold in real-time on the VMware Instagram page.

Not an Instagram user?  Just download the app to your smartphone for free. Click here for Andriod users or here for iPhone users to get started.

In the comments section of this post, please let us know how your experience was with #VMwarePlus and if you have any questions.

Be sure to follow @VMwareEvents and @VMware_Partners for more information during the conference.

Validation with SAP Signals Strong Support for Virtualization & Cloud Infrastructure

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Posted by Andre Kemp
Principal – SAP Business
Practice, Americas

In a post last week, Elliot Fliesler alluded to some exiting news that we would soon share around our SAP partnership. And where better to finally unveil that news than at Sapphire Now 2012 and here on our alliances blog?  It’s now official: SAP has validated its Sybase High Performance OLTP Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) Database on VMware cloud infrastructure.

This validation announcement is notable for a number of reasons:

  • It assures customers and prospects running SAPSybase ASE databases as virtual machines that they can achieve high-performance results that match their physical infrastructure.
  • It enables customers and prospects to stop worrying about virtualizing business-critical applications—including their most important databases.
  • It signals the beginning of further testing by VMware and SAP to support the virtualization of other key SAP products, such as SAP Sybase IQ, Replication Server and SQL Anywhere on VMware cloud infrastructure.

 Commentary from the Show

One of the reasons I enjoy coming to Sapphire every year is to hear firsthand how customers are currently using and prospects are thinking about using our joint solutions and services. Yesterday, I co-presented a session (2307) with one of our customers, Fonterra. This $16B (NZD) dairy company virtualized its entire SAP landscape in 2010 and is now deploying automated disaster recovery on the VMware vSphere® platform.

From Fonterra and other attendees, I have learned that the launch of vSphere 5 has really done more to unlock the potential value of SAP landscapes. For example, customers virtualizing their SAP landscape with VMware solutions are benefitting from enhanced business agility. They also are able to provide superior service levels and improve asset turnover while lowering TCO.

More customers today are moving from server consolidation (the IT Production phase that begins the VMware Journey) into virtualizing business-critical applications (phase two or the Business Production phase). What this tells us is that a greater number and a wider variety of customers—enterprises and small and midsize businesses (SMBs)—are embracing IT transformation. They are all moving ahead with us on the journey from virtualization to cloud computing and IT as a service—at their own pace.

As I gather new insights from customers during the many meetings that I’m participating in this week, I’m reminded about how far we have come with virtualization and cloud infrastructure. At first, our products helped technical customers to overcome IT challenges and save money. Now, there is tremendous demand from CIOs and line-of-business stakeholders for more extensive services and solutions that move their business applications to a virtualized and cloud environment that solves real business issues. In this way, we are helping to transform enterprises, and this makes me look forward to working even more closely with SAP on solutions that are yet to come. Let us know how virtualizing SAP has made a difference to your business, in the comments section below.

Sapphire

Photo: A packed VMware theatre session at the booth yesterday.

Transform IT+Business+You with EMC and VMware – See us at EMC World 2012

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Posted by Dana Vickey
EMC Alliance Marketing
Director

Whether you are just beginning your journey to your Cloud—or well on your way to IT as a service, see how EMC and VMware help customers transform their business and IT. It’s all at EMC World 2012 on May 21-24th.

Hear Paul Maritz, VMware CEO, speak about the forces shaping Cloud Computing and the next generation IT at his keynote on Tuesday, May 22nd at 8:30AM.

Learn more about EMC and VMware’s joint solutions that can help accelerate your journey to the cloud. Here is just one solution that VMware will be demoing and discussing at EMC World – End User Computing.

Support Your Transformation into the Post-PC Era with End User Computing

To give end users more freedom while IT maintains control, we recently announced unified solutions for the post-PC era. For example, with the newly available VMware View 5.1, your organization can build on the most effective virtualized desktop infrastructure to further end-user computing goals:

  • Simplify – Transform end-user assets from computing silos into centralized managed IT services
  • Manage – Create a single, central point for IT to manage end-user access to IT services across the public and private cloud—with control over when an end user has access and at what level of security
  • Connect – Better connect end users to IT services and to other end users with the freedom to choose the best device, application and service to accomplish a task

At EMC World 2012, we’ll show and tell you more about this vision and our journey stages to support them. Join Scott Davis, VMware end-user computing CTO, for his session on VMware View Deployment Architecture Optimizations. Visit the VMware booth for theater presentations about “What’s New in VMware View 5.1.”

And, just for fun, show us your world. Stop by VMware’s booth #201, and grab a paddle to capture images with VMware. Upload to Instagram using  #VMwarePlus and #EMCworld to see your post.VMware will create a collage with all of the images taken and highlight some fun and interesting ones. Keep an eye out on this blog or follow @VMwareEvents for more information.

Looking forward to seeing you at the conference next week.

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The Sapphire Now Conference is Just Around the Corner

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Posted by Elliot Fliesler
Director, SAP Alliance
Marketing

We are only a few weeks away from SAPPHIRE NOW 2012 in Orlando, FL and VMware has some exciting news to share with you around our SAP partnership… However, you will have to wait until the conference starts!  I will give you a hint: it includes LVM, Sybase and Cloud Foundry.  Now that I have your attention you might be interested in some of the activities we have planned at this year’s conference.

Visit us at booth #1293 where you will get hands on live demonstrations of VMware’s solution for SAP Landscapes that include IT as a Service with our flagship VMware vSphere products, VMware vCenter SRM for automated backup and recovery, integration with Landscape Virtualization Manager, Fault Tolerance (SAP Landscape) and VMware vCloud Director.

Joining us in our booth will be several key SAP and VMware partners presenting on our joint solutions and offerings.  So be sure to come to the booth to see the schedule.

  • VMware Presentation – The Easiest Way to Deploy SAPGui – Ever!
  • VMware Presentation – Improved Disaster Recovery with Virtualized SAP Deployments
  • VCE Presentation – Paving the Way from Bare Metal to SAP Virtualization with VCE
  • NetApp Presentation – Build a Secure Foundation for the Cloud with SAP Applications Built on Flexpod
  • EMC Presentation – Virtualize SAP with EMC & VMware
  • CapGemini Presentation – Benefits of SAP Landscape Virtualiztion with VMware
  • CSC Presentation – Accelerate Change with CSC Cloud UI for SAP
  • RunE2E Presentation – Take Back Control!

And after a long day of training, education, and vendor/customer meetings drop by our booth from 3:00-4:00p.m. We will be serving beer, wine and conversation with the VMware team and our partners.

On Tuesday, May 15th VMware will be co-presenting with Fonterra, a $16B (NZD) dairy company who virtualized their SAP Landscape with VMware titled “How a World-Class Dairy Producer Virtualized Their SAP Landscape, Including HA, DR, and ACC” (Session ID 2307) This is one session you will not want to miss!

We look forward to seeing you at SAPPHIRE NOW!

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Symantec and VMware: Moving Your Business-Critical Applications with Confidence

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Posted by Paul Vasquez
Strategic Alliance Manager

It’s difficult to imagine the future, but every day CIOs make decisions that impact the trajectory of their businesses. Some decisions are simple cost equations. Will a new solution save the company money, and is the savings enough to justify the purchase? Other decisions affect business and IT agility. Will a new solution improve time to market or deliver an equally important competitive advantage? In the case of virtualizing mission-critical applications with Symantec and VMware, the answers are yes and yes.

We have been working closely with Symantec to deliver enterprise solutions that increase the security, compliance and availability of virtualized business-critical applications while reducing costs. As a result of our tight collaboration and joint development, together we now offer:

  • Extensive protection for virtual and cloud environments, including five security integrations with the VMware cloud infrastructure suite. Symantec Data Loss Prevention, Symantec Control Compliance Suite, Symantec Critical System Protection, Symantec Security Information Manager (SSIM) and Symantec Managed Security Service (MSS) all are designed to ensure customers have both the security and compliance controls necessary for private or hybrid cloud deployments..
  • Comprehensive high-availability  with vSphere High Availability and Symantec ApplicationHA. We also jointly offer Symantec VirtualStore and optimized storage I/O performance and availability. These solutions enhance the availability of Tier 1 virtualized applications, improve application manageability through visibility, and support the rapid provisioning of servers and virtual desktops.

For additional information on these and other Symantec solutions for VMware, please visit our Virtualization resource page at Symantec.com.

While it’s important that all applications remain accessible and protected when virtualized, it’s critical that they remain highly available and highly secure when they are the applications that run your business. Symantec and VMware virtualize your mission-critical business applications—including Microsoft Exchange, SQL, SharePoint and others—with confidence.

Vision is having foresight. Looking ahead, there’s no reason to simply imagine how these solutions will impact your business. Come see how they really work. Join us at Symantec Vision 2012, May 7-10 in Las Vegas.

RSA Conference 2012 and VMware – Partnership and Progress on the Journey

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Posted by Jeremiah Cornelius
Information Securiy Architect
VMware Technical Alliances

This year’s RSA conference set a new benchmark for VMware presence and the reach of our partnerships for securing the virtual datacenter and cloud computing models.  It’s been exciting to see the evidence of a growing partner ecosystem that is focused on solving the real security needs of customers with VMware as their enabling platform.

Two years ago, it was difficult to find anything on the exhibition floor with much of a security approach for virtualization. By last year’s conference, the ubiquity of virtual platform adoption could be seen, but often with little done to enable data center transformation. Today, there are many more technologies for realizing virtual and cloud solutions among the exhibitors.  I predict that we’ll next year we’ll see near disappearance of many of cloud messages, as mainstreaming continues.

What’s different for VMware? At the 2011 show, we had one partner, with solutions integrated on our vShield technology.  Now, we are featuring co-exhibition by fifteen global alliance partners, many with multiple solutions on display and actively promoting vShield in their centerpiece offerings.

Another indicator of the mainstreaming of clouds and virtualization was the “Cloud Computing” conference track that featured 29 breakout sessions. The keywords “cloud” and “virtual” yielded over 75 sessions presented at RSA 2012, and the subject came up in every session I attended – even those seemingly unrelated.

In addition to standard track offerings for RSA conference attendees, the Cloud Security Alliance was hosted at RSA 2012 for their annual summit.  The closing keynote was given by VMware’s own CTO, Steve Herrod. It was great to have Steve deliver the vision and solution of a VMware architected cloud.

As VMware continues to develop our excellent capability as the leading platform for building private cloud infrastructure, the opportunity will grow for our partnerships that yield robust and dynamic security solutions – delivering on the promise of security that is “better-than-physical”.  The RSA 2012 successes are our sign of what’s to come, and I’m already looking forward to next-year’s conference.