While we were on the well-deserved holiday break, the Silicon Valley Business Journal has awarded our CEO Paul Maritz the title of the Executive of the Year 2011. In the interview with the Biz Blog, Paul has emphasized that the ongoing success and growth of VMware is rooted in having “teams of people who work effectively together.” He said the biggest challenge for companies is striking the right balance between having ambitious goals, and being so focused on those goals that you ignore constructive feedback.
For the more technical among our listeners, Sammy Bogaert has published a series of blog posts detailing how to build an ultimate affordable vSphere lab to prepare for your certification exams. It is PC-based, running Windows 7 with VMware Workstation 8. In his twelve-part series of articles, he covers everything you need to know to replicate the setup on your own, from the Hardware, the Workstation configuration, Domain controller, SQL server, vCenter and ESXi setup, to Storage and Fault Tolerance. Complete with step-by-step instructions and many screen shots, this guide will be a great help to anyone working on their Certification prep.
And finally, in an effort to better expose the wealth of content that VMTN community has to offer, we have launched a landing page that lists VMware related podcasts. Some are produced by VMware (such as the Roundtable Podcast today), and some are run by community members. On this page, you will also find a big green button you can click if you want to submit a link to a podcast that you’d like to see featured on this page. The podcast listing is located under communities.vmware.com/groups/podcasts – the location many of you already know.
We plan to extend this approach to more VMTN communities, such as vSphere, vCenter and so on, with the ability for the community members to contribute links to the lists. Links can be internal to the communities, and point to useful threads and documents, or they can be external. As long as they are relevant and helpful, we will publish them. The icons next to the links will help you distinguish VMware resources from external ones.
For now, go check out the Podcasts page and let us know what you think in that community.
