VMware NSX News You Can Use – January 9, 2017

Happy New Year everyone. Here’s the first NSX News You Can Use of 2017.

• In his round-up of the “10 Coolest Software-Defined Networking Technologies of 2016,” CRN’s Mark Haranas features NSX, referring to the technology as popular because of its hardware agnosticism and strong security use case through micro-segmentation.
• TechTarget Contributor Brian Kirsch details the newly launched vExpert NSX program. He notes the program builds on the success of ourthe vExpert loyalty program, and that the program could stimulate customer interest in VMware’s networking and security offering.
• In an interview conducted last year with Fr. Robert Ballecer of TWiT’s This Week in Enterprise Tech program, Guido Appenzeller about how VMware “took the art of virtualization and turned it into something that is commonplace” through NSX.

Top VMware NSX News

• CRN: The 10 Coolest Software-Defined Networking Technologies Of 2016
• TechTarget: VMware NSX vExpert program the latest in network virtualization growth
• TWiT TV: TWiT Bits 3072 – Vmware NSX Explained
• Web Host Industry Review: What Networking Looks Like in 2017
• TechTarget: 2016 SDN trends: The year of the software-defined WAN
• TechTarget: Virtualization product winners and losers of 2016
• Virtualization Review: The Top 10 Virtualization Stories of 2016
• ITWorld Canada: Consider microsegmentation for increased security
• TechTarget: Data center forecast for 2017 focuses on SD-WAN, infrastructure management
• TechTarget: Advanced network monitoring aids SDN deployments
• CRN: VMware Acquires PlumGrid Technology Assets To Boost NSX And Container Strategy
• eWeek: VMware Obtains Another SDN Option with PLUMgrid Buy
• SDxCentral: VMware Acquires Employees & Assets of PLUMgrid
• Enterprise Networking Planet: SDN Vendor PLUMgrid is No More; Some Assets Acquired by VMware
• The Register: Virtualisation got boring in 2016, but the fun’s about to start anew

VMware NSX Blogs

• Radius: The Future of Networking and the Net Effect for Enterprises
• The Network Virtualization Blog: Hot Off The Press: NSX Light Board Videos

VMware NSX Resources

• Read the VMware Network Virtualization Blog
• Learn the ins and outs of Network Virtualization on Radius
• VMware NSX Training and Certification
• Test drive VMware NSX in our Hands On Labs (search NSX)
• Join the VMware Community Page for VMware NSX
• Keep up with VMware NSX on Facebook, Google+, Twitter and YouTube
• Check out the VMware NSX resource library