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Securing the Software Defined Data Center – Conversations with VMware’s Security Ecoystem at RSA Conference 2013 – Part 2

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The conversations continue with VMware’s Security Ecosystem…Learn more about how VMware is collaborating with leading security vendors to extend our platform and deliver innovative integrated solutions that simplify and automate security and compliance.

RSA 2013: A Conversation with Sourcefire

RSA 2013: A Conversation with Symantec Part 1

RSA 2013: A Conversation with Symantec Part 2

RSA 2013: A Conversation with Trend Micro

Learn more about the Software-Defined Data Center

Learn more about the VMware vCloud Networking and Security Partner Ecosystem

Securing the Software Defined Data Center – Conversations with VMware’s Security Ecoystem at RSA Conference 2013 – Part 1

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IT is buzzing with the promise of a new architectural approach to the datacenter – the software-defined datacenter. The transformation is occurring now as IT leaders push their organizations to virtualize all infrastructure, leverage automation and deliver IT as a service. What does this journey mean to VMware’s security partners? How are their customers adjusting their security postures and approaches to compliance? What benefits are being delivered to customers now? What new integrated solutions are in the works?

Learn more about how VMware is collaborating with leading security vendors to extend our platform and deliver innovative integrated solutions that simplify and automate security and compliance.

RSA 2013: A Conversation with Bitdefender

RSA 2013: A Conversation with Catbird

RSA 2013: A Conversation with HyTrust

RSA 2013: A Conversation with McAfee

RSA 2013: A Conversation with Rapid7

Learn more about the Software-Defined Data Center

Learn more about the VMware vCloud Networking and Security Partner Ecosystem

 

vCloud Suite Beta

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vCloud Beta nominations are now open. Participants in the vCloud Suite Beta will work with Product Management and Engineering teams to help define the direction of the world’s most complete, trusted, and robust virtualization platform.

The vCloud Suite includes, among other products, vSphere and vCloud Director.

Overall Information

  • Private invitation-only Beta program
  • Highly confidential – Master Software Beta Test Agreement online acceptance is required prior to visiting the Beta Community
  • TAP Partners are eligible for Beta nominations
  • Beta code drops at scheduled intervals throughout program to include new feature functionality

Technical Requirements

  • General requirements:
    • vSphere 4.x or 5.x deployed
    • At least 2 server machines and one client machine
  • Storage-specific requirements:
    • At least 3 servers:
      • on vSphere HCL
      • Storage/server (note that SSD is only necessary to test some features, not required for all):
        • at least 1 SSD + 1 HDD per server that contributes storage to VSAN;
        • by quantity: total # of HDD’s >= total # of SSD’s;
        • by capacity: SSD capacity is ~10% of total HDD capacity (best practice)
    • Storage Controller: RAID controller/HBA, if present, supporting JBOD or pass-thru mode
    • Network: 10G NIC (best practice) or 1G NIC
  • Networking-specific requirements:
    • vCenter (Beta program version)
    • ESXi (Beta program version)
    • Four 10GB NICs
    • One switch with LACP supported (Cisco switch preferred)

As a TAP member, to get nominated for vCloud Suite beta, fill this form – http://short.solutionexchange.us/vsbnf

NDA Roadmaps at PEX for TAP Members

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Understand the evolving VMware technology landscape – don’t miss the NDA Roadmap sessions at PEX held exclusively for TAP members.

  • TEX1236 - NDA Roadmap Update: Cloud Infrastructure and Management (TAP only)
    Feb 26 at PEX – 12:30 – 3:00 PM in Jasmine A,B, third level.

    Eddie Dinel, Director of Product Management will lead this Roadmap session – A software-defined datacenter is where all infrastructure is virtualized and delivered as a service, and the control of this datacenter is entirely automated by software. VMware is making the software-defined datacenter a reality, starting with solutions announced at VMworld 2012. This session builds on that momentum with a NDA Roadmap look at VMware’s plans for 2013, 2014 and beyond in the areas of vSphere, software-defined networking and security, software-defined storage and availability, interacting with the virtual datacenter as an IT provider and IT consumer, infrastructure management, and extensibility.

  • TEX1907 - End User Computing, Mirage and Horizon NDA Roadmap (TAP only)
    Feb 27 at PEX – 2-4 PM in Jasmine A,B, third level.

    Robert Baesman, Director of Product Management, will lead this Roadmap – If you’re a VMware Technology partner who has any involvement whatsoever with End User Computing, this is THE must see session of the week.  We all are excited by the challenges and opportunities of user-centric computing and the consumerization of IT.  With this as a backdrop, we’ll dive into the NDA product road-maps for all three pillars of the VMware Horizon Suite, comprised of Horizon Mirage, Horizon View, and the new Horizon Workspace.  These are the facts you’ll need to plan and align your own business to meet the needs of our mutual end-user-focused customers

  • TEX1940 - Cloud Applications and Big Data Roadmap (TAP only)
    Feb 28 at PEX – 9-11 AM in Jasmine A,B, third level.

    Fausto Ibarra, Sr. Director of vCloud Application Services and Killian Murphy, Director of Product Management will lead this session. The session will cover two areas: The first, Cloud Applications, will cover VMware’s roadmap to support new types of applications on virtualized infrastructure. This will include a discussion of Cloud Foundry along with additional services supporting scale out and mobile applications. The second, Big Data, will address VMware’s roadmap for Big Data applications, including a discussion of Project Serengeti, how we are making vSphere the best platform for multi-tenant and elastic Hadoop, and our plans to support new workloads like Hadoop 2.0, HBase and Hadoop analytics.

Exciting Bootcamps & Workshops at Partner Exchange 2013

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TEX1150 @ PEX – Workflow Development with vCenter Orchestrator -Wed  Feb 27, 1 PM – 6 PM PT

Watch TEX1150 Session promo video now!  |   Session Details  |  Register Now

Use what you already have! Automation and Integration are key needs when implementing a Software Defined Data Center. With VMware vCenter Orchestrator you (and your customers!) already have a reliable Workflow Engine installed in your (their) environment (it’s included in every vCenter installation).

This Boot Camp gives you the know-how needed to activate this powerful platform. You will learn the architecture of vCenter Orchestrator, how to develop custom workflows, and how you can use Orchestrator to integrate all your IT Infrastructure. In lots of hands-on labs you will develop workflows based on real-world examples and use-cases.You will experience the Power of vCenter Orchestrator when we integrate vCloud Director, vCenter, vCloud Automation Center and components of the vCloud Suite with external systems. Even if the Workflow Library and the many Plugins allow to develop workflows mostly in graphical drag-and-drop style, experience in scripting or software development (no matter what programming language) is helpful for this Boot Camp. At the end of this Boot Camp you will be able to provide additional value to your services directly by automating and integrating your customer’s Infrastructure – without the need to sell additional products&licenses upfront!

Joerg Lew – Senior Consultant, VMware, Inc. & Brian Watrous – Technical Trainer, VMware, Inc.

CI1282 @ PEX – Delivering PCI Compliance on vCloud Suite – Tue Feb 26, 1 PM – 5 PM PT

Session Details  |  Register Now!

VMware and our Qualified Security Assessor partners have produced an Architecture Design Guide and Validated Reference Architecture for PCI. In this session we will look at an overview of this ongoing program to deliver evolving content for PCI and other compliance initiatives, such as healthcare and government. This content enables our partners to deliver services that facilitate our customers running applications subject to these compliance audits as part of their overall Business Critical Applications strategy.

Partners will learn details about what they can expect from VMware and Technology partners for turnkey approaches in the delivery of these solutions and also how to build service offerings that fill the gaps specific to customer environments and individual workloads.

VMware Celebrates First Anniversary of the VMware Solution Exchange by Reaching Major Milestone: 750 Partner Solutions and 1000 Virtual Applications Now Available

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More than 6 million listing views from 1.6 million unique visitors in the first year of operation.

One year ago the VMware Marketplace was introduced; providing VMware Customers, field and partners with a single one stop shopping experience for VMware Compatible solutions. The VMware Marketplace has been a resounding success; in just one year over 300 partners have published more than 750 applications and 1000 virtual appliances for easy cloud application installation and management. Brand new start-ups as well as established global technology companies are making applications available on the VMware Solution Exchange to be easily deployed by our thousands of customers worldwide. Equally important, customers are using the VSX as an enterprise style market place to browse and find on-demand applications; more than 200,000 customers views on the marketplace daily.

For more information on, please visit http://solutionexchange.vmware.com or contact vsxalliance@vmware.com.

VMware PEX 2013 Technology Exchange Track (TEX)

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Technology Exchange track at VMware Partner Exchange (PEX) 2013 has been organized by the TAP team – We have exciting and informative sessions lined up for you. Content catalog and the Schedule builder, both are live.

To help you choose which TEX sessions to attend, we have made great promo videos for some sessions!!

WATCH PROMO VIDEOS NOW!

Cloud Infrastructure

  • TEX1159 – Validating Your Business Critical Applications – Learn to better understand VMware’s validation services for partners
  • TEX1539 – TEX1539 VMware Network Security Partner Ecosystem Product Roadmaps
  • TEX1496 – What’s New – Storage APIs for Data Protection
  • TEX1132 – Big Data, Information Integration and Virtualization: Can They Coexist?
  • TEX1160 - Virtualizing Latency Sensitive Applications
  • TEX1294 - Integrating with vSphere Web Client SDK
  • TEX1437 - Storage Strategies for VMware vSphere & vCloud Suite

Cloud Application Platform

  • TEX1474 – Techniques for ISVs to Build Portable VMware’s Virtual Artifacts
  • TEX1442 vFabric Application Director & the Cloud Applications Marketplace Certification Program

Desktop Virtualization

  • TEX1960 - Protecting VMware View with vCloud Networking and Security

NDA Roadmaps – Exclusively for TAP members

  • TEX1907 – End User Computing, Mirage and Horizon NDA Roadmap (TAP Only)
  • TEX1236 - NDA Roadmap Update: Cloud Infrastructure and Management (TAP Only)

PEX Content Catalog - View all TEX Breakout Sessions here

Connect with the TAP Team with any PEX questions tapalliance@vmware.com

Sheela Toor
Marketing Communications Manager, Alliances

 

VMware Partner Exchange (PEX) Las Vegas

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VMware Partner Exchange is our annual global partner conference dedicated to VMware Partners. This event provides partner-only access to VMware’s Roadmap and industry vision, early previews of next-generation products and programs, as well as in-depth technical training that enables partners to accelerate business with VMware.

This four-day conference is designed to be an interactive and highly engaging forum for partners and sponsors to get hands-on training, share ideas, and develop business relationships. Through partner-focused education, expert speakers, and high-level networking, we aim to give our partners the keys to success in selling and deploying VMware solutions, products and services.

Mandalay Bay – Las Vegas, NV
Pre-Conference Boot Camps – Feb 23-25
Conference and Exhibition – Feb 25-28
Detailed Agenda 
Early Bird Registration Expires Jan 8, 2012 – Register Now!
Interested in Sponsoring at PEX? Get details in Partner Central

More details coming soon!

Sheela Toor
Marketing Communications Manager, Alliances

New Features Added To My VMware

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Announcing: New Features You’ve Been Asking For!

My VMware now includes new features to help you accomplish your tasks more quickly and easily. VMware implemented the enhancements in response to feedback we received directly from customers like you.

New features include:

  • Right-click menus to streamline access to key tasks such as adding a user to a folder, creating a sub-folder, renaming a folder and moving a folder
  • At-a-glance views of License Key notes by default in the folder view so you don’t have to open each record to find a specific License Key
  • Ability to filter on License Key notes to find specific records easily

VMware and Juniper Collaboration – Data Center Networks

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Hello from VMworld Europe!

First off I would like to thank the multitude of partners that are supporting VMware during this event. It’s amazing to see the momentum continue from VMworld in San Francisco to Barcelona, where our international and global partners continue to drive the virtualization revolution worldwide. In San Francisco we announced vCloud Suite 5.1, which is the most comprehensive cloud infrastructure and management solution for the software-defined datacenter. vCloud Suite includes groundbreaking innovation designed for cloud networking called VXLAN. Our customers are asking for security, compliance, performance, scalability and unified management – all of which VXLAN and the vCloud Suite from VMware deliver.

Software-defined networking (SDN) has always been an integral part of our virtualization journey, and vCloud Suite 5.1 does not disappoint. At its core is VXLAN, an architecture aimed at building automated scalable networks designed for the cloud. VXLAN provides the ability to build multi-tenant cloud networks to support the requirements of today’s business-critical application. The key to VXLAN’s success is its ability to integrate with the underlying physical network, eliminating the barriers imposed by traditional networking technology.

Physical layer integration ensures that the commitment around performance and scalability are satisfied. That’s why we are collaborating with Juniper Networks to build VXLAN solutions. Together we are addressing the requirements of software-defined networking and scalability for cloud providers and enterprise IT datacenter markets. Juniper and VMware have partnered to deliver integrated solutions to our customers for years and this is another example of that strong relationship. Through this collaboration, customers will benefit from the flexibility and performance that only the integration of physical and virtual networks can provide.
See Juniper’s blog.

I hope you enjoy VMworld Europe as much as I do. I would strongly encourage you to learn more about our latest networking innovations by attending breakout sessions and viewing technology demonstrations at the VMware booth.

Parag Patel, vice president, Global Strategic Alliances, VMware

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