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Partner Connect Program Updates

SAVE THE DATE – register now for our next Partner Connect vmLIVE on July 22 @ 8 AM PST to hear about upcoming competency launches, renewal reinstatement, and annual audit information.

STAY TUNED

Cloud Native Master Services Competency – target launch is July 17 (more details below).
Partner Connect Program Renewal process will be reinstated on September 25, 2020 – read the Legal Notification – communications with additional information are being sent to the Primary and Alternate contacts of impacted partners in July and August.
Partner Connect Business Continuity page showcases how you and your customers can maintain business continuity, stay connected, and find support.

UPDATED Resources & Partner Showcases

Virtual ‘coffee chat’ series on Power of Partnership blog – last month Rich Steeves connected with Jamison Nack, Vice President of Sales at AHEAD, showcasing how AHEAD is meeting customer challenges with innovative solutions.
Get answers to the Top Trending Questions in the Resources section of the Partner Connect page.

VMware to Extend Self-Driving Operations with Acquisition of True Visibility Suite Team and Products from Blue Medora

For two years, VMware has been on a journey to deliver self-driving operations management from applications to infrastructure to our customers via VMware vRealize Operations. Powered by AI and predictive analytics, vRealize Operations helps IT run production operations hands-off and hassle-free with a unified operations platform. Learn more.

VMware Announces Intent to Acquire Datrium

Today we announced our intent to acquire Datrium, a leader in cloud-native disaster recovery, to deliver on our vision to provide a cost-optimized Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) solution that can be rapidly deployed and managed as a modern cloud service. Datrium is already a VMware partner offering DRaaS with VMware Cloud on AWS as an end-to-end DR service. The Datrium DRaaS solution offers an innovative, cost-optimized approach with incremental backups that are encrypted, deduped, and stored efficiently in AWS S3. Learn more.

HPE Announced NEW Integrated vSAN ReadyNodes

Last month, HPE announced NEW certified, preconfigured, and easy-to-order Integrated HPE vSAN ReadyNodes that includes vSphere capabilities of vLCM. This provides customers greater flexibility to order based on their workloads to accelerate their path to HCI. This new offering is available through HPE authorized resellers and must be ordered through the HPE Sales Config Tool (OCA). Learn more.

Get Insights into Growing Your Cloud and Modern Apps Practices

This 3-page infographic uses data collected from recent VMware events to identify the key investments, skills, and solution offerings that our partners are utilizing to grow their Cloud and Modern Apps practices. Plus, check out these additional tips and insights.

VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.0 is now GA + Cloud Director Service Initial Availability

Cloud Providers now is the opportune time to provide Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) to your customers. This Disaster Recovery (DR) and Migration as a Service solution has many new capabilities, allowing you to deliver tiered DRaaS services for on-premises to cloud Disaster Recovery (DR) and Migration, in addition to Cloud to Cloud DR. Customers will get visibility of protection status and DR protection and failover actions. Learn more.

Introducing VMware Cloud Director Service Initial Availability
Available to Cloud Providers who are signed up to the MSP program. Cloud Director Service provides multi-tenanted IAAS services on VMware Cloud on AWS and is delivered as a SaaS service in order to sell smaller chunks of VMware Cloud on AWS IAAS in resource pools to tenants. The value is that this service provides an on-ramp for bigger deals (addressing differing customer tiers with smaller offerings), a unified operating model, and geographic extensibility though a single self-service dashboard. Learn more.

New VMware Tanzu Courses

We’re releasing two new technical courses to get you started with VMware Tanzu. In June, we’re offering a 1-day management and operations course for Tanzu Mission Control (read more), and in July we’ll be offering the 2-day Install, Configure, Manage released for Tanzu Kubernetes grid. Combine the two courses to get 3-days of expert, instructor-led content for VMware’s exciting new product portfolio, Tanzu.

Keeping You Informed on Partner Connect Program & Portal

STAY TUNED – details for the New Cloud Native Master Services Competency (MSC) will be available in Partner Connect in July.

UPDATED – Partner Connect Business Continuity page shares the offers and programs we have in place to support the conversations your partners may be having with their customers.

NEW Resources & Partner Showcases:

Get answers to Top Trending Questions in the Resource section of the Partner Connect page.
Virtual ‘coffee chat’ series on Power of Partnership bog – last month Rich Steeves connected with Vivek Parath, VP of Sales, for Huco in Dubai, who shared his foundation for solution success and Gavin Jolliffe, CEO and Founder of Xtravirt in London, to discuss customer rapid-pace transformation and adaptation in today’s world.

VMware Cloud on AWS Continues to Gain Momentum

VMware Cloud on AWS continues to gain traction among our partners and customers and with new features and business continuity partner incentives, there’s no better time for you to guide your customers toward VMware’s hybrid cloud solution. Following are some of the new capabilities, incentives, and resources to help you grow your hybrid cloud business.

Special business continuity incentive that can be used to help your customers avoid infrastructure disruptions, minimize infrastructure risk, and aid remote workers.
Support for Kubernetes for VMware Cloud on AWS enabling you to deploy a hybrid cloud solution that supports both VMs and containers.
2-host Cluster Capability in Preview, to help your customers get started on their VMware Cloud on AWS journey – either to prove value or to reduce the cost of getting started.
Tune into the VMware Cloud on AWS Unplugged podcast series, delivered by VMware experts, covering topics including solution overview, cloud migration, data center extension, business continuity, Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Plus, Horizon 7 on VMware Cloud on AWS and cloud economics.
Bookmark the VMware Cloud on AWS blog for all the latest updates.

VMware Announces Intent to Acquire Lastline

Today we announced our intent to acquire Lastline, a pioneer in anti-malware research and AI-powered network detection and response. This is an important step forward for VMware’s vision of Intrinsic Security, as it will allow us to further take advantage of the intrinsic attributes of our virtualization platform to yield innovative security capabilities. Our aim is not to replicate that which exists today, but rather to build security solutions that we can uniquely deliver, spanning from the heart of the data center to users in a branch office and all the way to mobile users at home or on the road. Read more.