VMware Partner News

On Tuesday, Cisco and EMC, together with VMware, announced the Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) coalition. This coalition is designed to accelerate customer adoption of private cloud infrastructures by providing richly integrated joint solutions, services and support offerings – mainly through the existing partner ecosystem of Systems Integrators and Channel Partners.

The Virtual Computing Environment coalition offers organizations of all sizes an accelerated approach to data center transformation with dramatic efficiencies that promise significant reductions in both capital and operating expenses. As a result, organizations will no longer have to choose between best-of-breed technologies and end-to-end vendor accountability.

Check out the blog post from EMC's Chad Sakac or get the full details from at VMware.com. 

VMware Workstation is the gold standard in desktop virtualization that transforms the way technical professionals develop, test, demo and deploy software. Innovative features help developers, QA engineers, sales professionals, and IT administrators reduce hardware costs, manage risk, and streamline tasks that save time and improve productivity.

Check out the Workstation Zealot blog or see get the details and resources on VMware.com.

The Mac revolution is here, but your customers don’t want to have to sacrifice Windows functionality. VMware Fusion 3 is the best way to run Windows on a Mac. Run Mac and Windows applications side-by-side at maximum speeds without rebooting. With over 50 new features and a new ultra-fast Migration Assistant for Windows, it’s never been easier for your customers to run Windows on a Mac. Open more doors with Fusion 3 for anyone who wants to purchase a Mac or has one, or enhance your sale by attaching a copy of Windows, more memory, or more storage.

Check out the Team Fusion blog for all the details

On October 22, 2009 Microsoft announced the General Availability of Windows Server 2008 R2, which includes Hyper-V R2. We have released a Competitive Flash to help VMware Partner Sales Teams understand the VMware positioning in regards to Microsoft’s virtualization offerings and to respond to customer questions about Hyper-V R2.

Get the Competitive Flash on Partner Central

VMware vCenter CapacityIQ is a value-add component of the VMware vCenter family of management solutions, providing capacity management capabilities for virtualized datacenter or desktop environments. CapacityIQ integrates seamlessly with VMware vCenter Server, ensuring that your virtualized infrastructure capacity is always predictable and efficiently used.

VMware vCenter CapacityIQ balances business demand with IT supply, without compromising performance, availability and security. With CapacityIQ, your IT infrastructure is guaranteed to have sufficient capacity to meet any business service level agreements.

IT organizations can leverage VMware vCenter CapacityIQ in a number of scenarios, including:

• Cost avoidance and justification. Do more with the same or less! Optimize utilization of existing hardware resources or justify any new business purchases.
• Availability and risk mitigation. Plan for potential business and service disruptions proactively by modeling the impact of an outage, failure or disaster.
• Project planning and decision-making. Model the effect of one-time strategic business changes. Quantify the results of workload consolidations, company acquisitions, additional new headcounts or deployment of multi-tiered applications.

Learn more about VMware vCenter CapacityIQ or visit Partner Central to download partner assets, including a demo and customer presentations.

The all-new Renewals Central has been designed to help maximize profitability, productivity, service agreement renewal rates and revenue. Quickly get quotes for your customers, access service renewals, view performance reports, and much more.

View the all-new Renewals Portal on Partner Central

We want to know how you make your customers’ time and money count more with VMware vSphere. Here are two new programs for your small and midsized customers with fewer than 1000 employees and/or less than 100 servers before virtualization!

Tell Us Your Story
Encourage your customers to share how you and VMware have helped their business succeed and you could win up to three passes to Partner Exchange 2010 and get a one-page joint-customer success story published on vmware.com. Just be sure to have your customers include your company name in the Partner section of the contest entry form.  In addition, your customers could win an iPod Touch for participating!

Send your customers to www.vmware.com/go/tellusyourstory today.

Time to Save with VMware Video Contest
Get your customers to create a video that demonstrates why VMware is the right choice for small and midsize businesses and they could win big! Prizes include $5,000 cash, Apple MacBook Pro laptops with VMware Fusion®, 5th-generation iPod nanos, and t-shirts. Be sure to have them mention your company that helped them achieve it all!

See all the details at www.vmware.com/go/timetosave/contest.

Oracle customers rely on VMware to optimize industry-standard datacenter infrastructure, ensure business continuity, strengthen security, and accelerate Oracle product delivery with rapid provisioning and infrastructure management.

VMware will be at Oracle OpenWorld 2009 to showcase virtual services from the resources of the physical infrastructure, enabling administrators to allocate these virtual resources quickly to users and business units that need them most.

Our booth will feature:

• Theater talks every half hour on Customer Experiences, Partner Solutions, Oracle Support, Performance, Technical Deep Dives, and Virtualization 101

• 5 Demo Stations

• Customer Station with great prizes!

Be sure to check out our Oracle OpenWorld event page at http://www.vmware.com/go/oow/oow09

We'll see you there!

Booth #1111
October 12 - October 14
Moscone Center, South Hall
757 Howard Street
San Francisco, CA

Register now

VMware Partner Exchange 2010 will be held at the world-famous Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada on February 8 to 10.

Read "Ben's Top 10 for 2010" as Ben Matheson, Senior Director of Global Partner Marketing at VMware, gives his top reasons why you should attend the biggest partner event of the year.

See the reasons

VMware has just released VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 4, part of the VMware vCenter Product Family, Site Recovery Manager 4 provides automated disaster recovery for virtual environments. Now, with added support for Network File System (NFS) based storage replication, compatibility with VMware vSphere™ 4, and simplified “many-to-one” failover using shared recovery sites, VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager makes it even easier for customers to confidently protect all of their virtual environments.

VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 4 now provides:

• VMware vSphere 4 Support. Customers can now take advantage of the capabilities of VMware vSphere 4, including Fault Tolerance, for better performance and protection of applications.
• Expanded Storage Support. Lets users leverage iSCSI, Fiber Channel, and NFS storage and replication solutions
• Many-to-One Failover. Protects multiple production sites with automated failover into a single, shared recovery site

See the full product details

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