Weekly virtualization news, as featured on the Community Roundtable podcast.
VMware Labs has released two new flings last week, called the Cloud Cleaner and the VMware Zimbra client for Android. The Cloud Cleaner is a free tool that helps remove all traces of vCloud Director from your machines, such as virtual machines, resource and network pools, as well as networks. It can also unprepare hosts that have been prepared by vCD.
Zimbra for Android is a native Android collaboration app that allows you to access your email, calendar, contacts, tasks, and files from any Android device, such as smartphones and tablets. This tool supports any ActiveSync compliant email server and of course it also works with the Zimbra Collaboration Suite.
Find out more about these two new flings at labs.vmware.com/flings
On Facebook, the vCloud team has posted a link to a detailed vCloud Director architecture overview. You can find it at facebook.com/vmwarevcloud
VMworld team is inviting everyone to send in their videos to be used as part of the opening keynote session at VMworld this year. Go to vmworld.com and click on the blue button on the right which says “Be part of the VMworld Opening General Session” to find out how you can participate.
Also, Early Bird registration for VMworld Copenhagen is now open, and you can save EUR 500 if you register by the 29th of July. And if you use the Refer a Friend program, you can also save. All of this is linked from vmworld.com
The VMware View team has shared a blog post dealing with the history of VDI—the Virtual Desktop Manager. You will find the link on facebook.com/vmwareview
And as usual, the upcoming days and weeks will be as exciting as ever, with a number of cool events happening in the world of virtualization.
Mark your calendars, folks. In just about over a week, on July the 12th, 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
A few days after that, on the 19th, the VMware View team will launch the VMware View Bootcamp, which will be a series of nine 40-or-so minute videos, released daily Monday through Friday on VMTN community forums. Each day, the presenter of the video will be available for Q&A about their piece. Also, at the end of the bootcamp, registered participants will receive a copy of an e-book that will contain the full contents of the bootcamp. Learn more and register for your copy of the e-book at vmware.com/go/viewbootcamp
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 nine webinars coming up over the next couple of weeks, covering a variety of topics from VMware View to Cloud computing in English and Spanish. They all are listed at webcasts.vmware.com
Our friends at EMC are hosting five webinars covering EMC solutions for VMware, a couple of them are featuring our very own VP of Product Marketing, Bogomil Balkansky. Go check them out at vmware.com/go/emcwebinars
The following VMUGs are meeting over the next seven days: Toledo, Brisbane, Lansing, Chicago, and London. 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.”
