Jimmy Alvarez

Jimmy is an experienced leader across internal organizations and has a track record of successfully being a source of knowledge cross-pollination across Product Management, Sales, Services, Support, and Education teams. With over 15 years of working within the technology industry, Jimmy has earned roles that have consistently increased in responsibility. These roles include Systems Administrator, Pre-sales, and Technical Marketing. Jimmy Is currently the Technical Marketing Manager for VMware's vRealize Lifecycle Manager and Cloud Automation Services. He focuses most of his time on gathering feedback for improving the product as well as creating reusable content that can be consumed by many organizations across the company--attempting to decrease duplicated effort across silos.

Recent Posts

vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 2.0 – What’s new

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We are very excited about the latest release of vRealize Lifecycle Manager that went GA on September 20, 2018. Along side vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager we updated several of our key products in our Cloud Management space. vRealize Automation 7.5 – YAY New UI vRealize Business for Cloud 7.5 vRealize Code Stream 2.4.1 vRealize Operations Read more...

vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 1.3 – What’s new

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On July 10, 2018, VMware released an updated version of its vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager. vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager (vRSLCM) automates Day 0 to Day 2 operations of the entire vRealize Suite, enabling simplified operational experience for customers. The vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager automates install, configuration, upgrade, patch, configuration management, drift remediation and health from within Read more...

May 16th Webinar: More Usability Improvements of vRealize Automation and vRealize Life Cycle Manager

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On May 16th, we will be hosting another Getting More Out of VMware webinar. The webinar is designed for Cloud Administrators and VI Administrators who leverage vRealize Suite products, such as vRealize Automation,  to run their virtual infrastructure and cloud environment. It will be a great opportunity to learn how vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 1.2 (vRSLCM) and Read more...

vRBC 7.3 – Whats New Technical Blog

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On June 13, 2017, VMware released an updated version of its vRealize Business for Cloud 7.3 solution. VMware vRealize Business for Cloud automates cloud costing analysis, consumption metering, cloud comparison and planning, delivering the cost visibility and business insights you need to run your cloud more efficiently. Below is a summary of what’s new in this release of Read more...

vRealize Automation 7 – Installation & Configuration

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One of the key features in vRealize Automation 7.0 is the simplified Installation – an interview-based wizard that, based on your feedback, automatically configures and deploys the entire solution. It will also allow you to validate your configuration before installation, as well as determine which parts of the software you want in which type of Read more...

Working with vRealize Code Stream and vRealize Orchestrator

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One of the most critical aspects of being able to implement new software is to be able to leverage existing tools in the market. Many companies use Orchestration tools like vRealize Orchestrator to create new workflows that automate those custom one-off tasks.  In this blog post we are going to explore how vRealize Code Stream Read more...

Gating Rules in vRealize Code Stream

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One of the key features in vRealize Code Stream is the ability to control what happens between individual stages in a pipeline. Let’s say you want to run an automated Selenium test against a Jenkins package. Or, suppose you want someone from your operations team to manually approve a deployment into a production environment. vRealize Read more...