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Terraform vCloud Director Provider v2.5.0 Features

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HashiCorp Terraform vCloud Director Provider v2.5.0 version is here! With this new release we’re enabling cloud providers and their customers deliver more advanced automation with new data sources and import capabilities, which enable easy inclusion of existing vCD resources into Terraform management. We have also extended read functionality, which enables monitoring changes done to infrastructure, added a new Read more...

Announcing the Launch of vCloud Availability 3.5

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In March 2019, VMware announced the launch of VMware vCloud Availability 3.0, a powerful solution offering simple, secure, and cost-effective data protection services “to” or “between” multi-tenant VMware clouds. Since its launch, adoption of this new unified solution has gained momentum with leading cloud providers. More VMware partners are now offering data protection services across a wider choice Read more...

Innovations Galore for Cloud Providers at VMworld 2019 Europe

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The VMware engineering team has been operating at a breakneck pace over the past year to deliver new innovations for cloud provider and managed service provider partners. At VMworld 2019 Europe, the innovation cycle for this year reaches a crescendo! We have some massive announcements that will help our partners continue to expand their business Read more...
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Ease your Customers through Digital Transformation with vRealize Automation Cloud on Cloud Provider Hub

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‘Business Agility’ and ‘Digital Transformation’ are potentially the two most overused terms in the corporate world today. I’m fairly certain every major airport in the world has at least a few billboards with those words plastered across them. As trite as they may be, they convey an important point. Business need to evolve rapidly to Read more...

451 Cloud Digital Economics with Owen Rogers

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Welcome to Episode 9 of Cloud Spot In this episode we address the economics of cloud with 451’s expert in digital economics Owen Rogers Cost in cloud is critical to get right, the right portfolio, the right pricing, the right value and the right timing are all essential. We talk a lot of value and Read more...

Rackspace Managed Cloud Solutions with Peter FitzGibbon

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Welcome to Episode 8 of Cloud Spot In this episode I’m joined by Peter FitzGibbon of Rackspace, Vice President of Strategic Alliances. We’re discussing Rackspace’s managed services across not only their hosted VMware clouds but also how Rackspace is using VMware Cloud on AWS, the use cases and customer requirements behind using VMware Cloud on Read more...

Unlock more value move from the Standard Bundle to Flex today!

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  Welcome to Episode 7 of CloudSpot, in this week’s episode I’m joined by Luis Ayuso, senior product marketing manager and Benjamin Wold, a senior systems engineer.   This session discusses the end of life of Standard Bundle due to the end of life of the “vSphere Enterprise with Distributed Networking Switch” component. Many providers Read more...

Introducing vCloud Usage Meter 4.1

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VMware is excited to announce the general availability of Usage Meter 4.1. VMware Cloud Provider Partners utilize the Usage Meter appliance for license metering of hosting environments. This new architecture for metering will help partners in several ways to make metering and reporting much easier each and every month. Usage Meter has been a part Read more...

vCD 10 is GA! (i.e. Glorious and Awesome)

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  And also generally available! After generating quite the buzz at VMworld, vCloud Director 10 has officially landed (in no small part thanks to our beta community! #represent). Fitting to its version number, the release marks the most significant leap in vCloud Director establishing itself as *the* strategic service-delivery platform for cloud providers.   vCloud Read more...

VMware vCloud Director + VMware Cloud Foundation = Harmony

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The Cloud industry continues to move forward at such a fast pace, it’s sometimes challenging to keep up. What if a VMware Cloud Provider could seamlessly automate a multi-tenant cloud platform along with providing comprehensive lifecycle management of the underlying cloud infrastructure? With VMware vCloud Director (vCD) and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), this is possible. Read more...