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. 

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

Did you know that Professional-level partners must have 1 VSP and VTSP on staff by October 31, 2009 in order to maintain program benefits? The VMware Technical Sales Professional (VTSP) is a no-cost online learning course that provides fundamental technical knowledge for pre-sales individuals.

If your company does not have 1 VTSP on staff, login to Partner University and register for the free courses. (Certain requirements vary by region.)

Sign up for VTSP courses on Partner University

The courses for the VMware Sales Professional 4 (VSP 4) content has been localized and are now available in Portuguese, Spanish, Korean, Chinese, German, French, Russian, and Italian. The VSP is a sales training program designed to provide you baseline knowledge that you can use when selling VMware products. VSP is a prerequisite that you must complete before you can obtain Sales Competency Accreditations

Click on the "Localized Courses" section on Partner University

In light of news reports that Oracle will discontinue development of existing Virtual Iron products, VMware is offering companies a cost-effective way to migrate to VMware vSphere 4.

Target Virtual Iron customers with the new promo and find out how to migrate Virtual Iron machines to VMware vSphere 4.

The all-new Partner Central is launching on July 13. Your new new logins and passwords will be emailed on July 13 by 8am in your time zone. The email will be from "vmwarepasswords@vmware.com" so be sure to check your inbox on Monday morning.

As part of the transition process, the following activities will be unavailable until July 13:

- Cross-enrollment program applications
- Company and user profile updates
- Add Location form
- Add Users via Users tab 

Visit www.vmware.com/partnercentral for the latest info.

A new Event-in-a-Box tool with email bursting capability, seamless one-click web posting and registration management is coming soon and will replace the current Seminar-in-a-Box. If you have existing leads stored on Seminar-in-a-Box, please be sure to download them now.

Download your leads before they disappear

The all-new VMware Partner Network will be launched on July 13th. The VMware Partner Network is a comprehensive program that provides a common infrastructure, extensive sales and services tools, margin opportunities and industry-recognized training for the entire VMware partner ecosystem.

You can start earning competencies to distinguish your company’s depth of knowledge to your customers and gain the competitive edge. Partners will also automatically transition into the new program; look out for an email on July 8th for more details.

VMware is also launching a new Partner Central that gives you targeted content, enhanced differentiation via the Partner Locator, and an easy to use interface to find sales, marketing, and training tools. 

Listen to Doug Smith, VMware Senior Director of Worldwide Channel Sales, as he talks about the exciting changes that are coming this month.

Download the podcast

Speed up your sales cycle by taking the new VMware Competitive Accreditation Program (vCAP). vCAP will enable you and your sales teams to clearly articulate the VMware core competitive advantages and respond to competitor's claims.

Register for the vCAP Program

Take advantage of the big discount and get hands-on training in installation, configuration, and management of the next generation of VMware Infrastructure, including VMware ESXi/ESX™, and VMware vCenter Server.

Login into Partner Central, select Partner University, and check out the What's New