Big news first. A new version of the vSphere client for iPad has been released and is now available in the Apple App Store. You can find a link to the announcement, and all the details of the release if you go to facebook.com/vmwaremobile
Hyperic has now released a new plugin, which allows you to monitor the apps running in the Cloud Foundry environment. To find out more, visit blog.hyperic.com
On Facebook, the vCloud team has been busy posting cool little how-to videos showing how to secure the cloud for the enterprise, for example, and how to add more users to an account on vCloud Express. You can find it all at facebook.com/vmwarevcloud
The VMware View team has shared a video case study about using VMware View in healthcare, made together with Columbia Memorial Hospital. You will find the link on facebook.com/vmwareview
And as we’re all used to see, the upcoming weeks will continue to thrill us with awesome events in the exciting world of virtualization.
In two weeks, our CEO Paul Maritz and CTO Steve Herrod will host a live webcast, in which they will unveil the next major step forward in Cloud infrastructure. The webinar is called “Raising the Bar, Part V” and you can find the link to it on the main VMware Community home page at communities.vmware.com
The VMware Forum is Munich on the 13th, and continues on to Minneapolis on the 21st, after which there will be a short lull until August. The web page with details is linked from vmware.com homepage – in the grey box that says “VMware Forum 2011” on the lower left.
We have two webinars coming up soon, a technical webcast on industry-specific cloud building today, and a networking webinar tomorrow. Go have a look at webcasts.vmware.com
Also, tomorrow at 2:30 Edward Haletky has his Virtualization and Cloud Security podcast scheduled. It should later be linked from the Podcasts VMTN group communities.vmware.com/groups/podcasts, but you can also google it.
The following VMUGs are meeting over the next seven days: Memphis and Galicia. New England VMUG Summer Slammer is also coming up on the 21st. You can find more details and registration links for all the VMUG meetings at myvmug.org by clicking on “Events.”