College used to be so simple when the only tech students and faculty had to worry about was a typewriter and a telephone. Today’s campus denizens are a much more connected bunch — and they’re making more demands than ever on their institutions. IT decision makers at universities nowadays face the prospect of modernizing, streamlining, […]

The post The College IT Challenge: Student Demands Are Outstripping Capabilities appeared first on VMware Cloud Blog.

Part 1: Getting Started. By Kevin Lees For IT to truly transform into an effective, business-focused service provider it has to do more than implement an enabling technology like software defined data center, though that’s certainly a great start. In fact, according to the recently published State of IT Transformation analysis done by EMC and […]

The post Mind the Gap: Breaking Down Silos appeared first on VMware Operations Transformation Services.

Just imagine you are an IT guy, working hard in an air conditioned windowless (home-) office - your social life is limited to slack, skype, socialcast or some other social media plattform. Wouldn’t it be nice to pretend, that you participate in the life outside and chat about something not work related - for example […]

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Learn more about the updated EUC vertical solutions by accessing the resources on these pages: Financial Services Federal Government State & Local Government Manufacturing Retail Healthcare Primary & Secondary Education Higher Education

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We are excited to announce the fall VCDX Defense dates. As announced earlier, we are separating defenses for Data Center Virtualization (DCV) fromthe other three tracks. Week of 24 October: VCDX5-DCV, VCDX5-DTM in Australia Applications are due 12 August Week of 31 October: VCDX5-DCV in London, UK Applications are due 19 August Week of 7 […]

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Kyle Wassink, Blue Medora There are two key relationships that need to be identified in order to provide comprehensive Oracle monitoring in VMware vRealize Operations (vROps): relationships within the Oracle stack, and relationships between Oracle and the VMware stack. When combined, these relationships give you a complete picture of the Oracle on VMware stack for […]

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By Amber Boyle, Diversity and Inclusion Program Director, VMware At VMware, we are all about harnessing the power of human difference. As a global multinational company, VMware competes to win in markets across the globe, and that means we need to attract and retain the best talent in each market. Diversity and inclusion is about […]

The post Introducing VMinclusion: Harnessing the Power of Human Difference appeared first on VMware Radius.

By Daniel Berkowitz,Horizon Air Senior Solutions Engineer Managing virtual desktops requires some infrastructure services to support everyday use, services such as: user authentication and entitlement (Active Directory), IP address management (DHCP), Key Management Services and File Services. This isn’t an exhaustive list; it is really any service that supports the desktop’s basic functionality so that […]

The post VMware Horizon Air: Utility Server Considerations appeared first on VMware End-User Computing Blog.

Daring to take a look at who you are is a powerful journey to go on. It’s also an opportunity to reflect on where you’ve come from, what makes you unique, your strengths, and what you could improve upon. For VMware, 2014 marked a pivotal moment for our workplace community when we committed to being […]

The post How the VMware Community is Harnessing the Power of Human Difference appeared first on VMware Careers Blog.

The following is a guest blog post by iland, a partner on the vCloud Air Network. It’s summer. That conjures classic Norman Rockwell images of cabins by the lake with muddy children running in and out of banging screen doors, scavenging snacks and trailing wet footprints across the floor. In our collective consciousness, we think […]

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By Robert Codo, Santosh Raju Gumidelly, and Amit Rathod We were recently involved in a major global effort to upgrade a customer to vSphere 6, and want to describe how VMware TAM services can help in scenarios such as this. To set the scene, let’s review the customer and the challenges they faced in upgrading […]

The post Global Teamwork Smooths the Way for a Major vSphere 6 Upgrade appeared first on VMware TAM Blog.

Part 1: Optimizing demand management to deliver “Just in Time” cloud service provisioning. By Bill Irvine A common phrase overheard during the creation of new cloud based innovation environments for modernized applications is “build it and they will come”. The surprise for many IT organizations is that they do come and the challenge becomes dealing […]

The post If They Come - Are You Ready? appeared first on VMware Accelerate Advisory Services.

VMware is actively working to address a recently discovered issue wherein an incremental backup becomes a full backup when backing up Windows 2008 (or higher) virtual machines with VSS-based application quiesced snapshot. This recent CBT (Changed Block Tracking) issue does not cause any data loss or data corruption. This issue is well understood and VMware […]

The post Windows 2008+ incremental backups become full backups in ESXi 6.0 b3825889 appeared first on Support Insider.

Snow, rain and gloom of night are minor concerns compared to the big data problem the U.S. Postal Service faces when coordinating delivery of more than 150 billion pieces of mail each year. After experiencing increased delays and instances of fraud, USPS turned to a high performance computing solution from NVIDIA and Kinetica, which just […]

The post Kinetica Helps U.S. Post Office Solve Big Data Problem, Wins Big HPC Award appeared first on The Official NVIDIA Blog.

The best thing to give first responders before they enter a smoky room or the site of a chemical spill, or to soldiers before they enter a hostile bunker, is a picture of what’s inside. Exploring an unsecured space in 3D from a safe distance could be a matter of life or death. A team at […]

The post DARPA Virtual Eye Lets Emergency Responders ‘See’ What They Can’t See appeared first on The Official NVIDIA Blog.

The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces today that the second beta release of PostgreSQL 9.6 is available for download. This release contains previews of all of the features which will be available in the final release of version 9.6, including fixes to many of the issues found in the first beta. Users are encouraged to begin testing their applications against 9.6 beta 2.

Changes Since Beta1

Our users and contributors reported bugs against 9.6 beta 1, and some of them have been fixed in this release. This includes multiple fixes for failure and performance issues in parallel query. We urge our community to re-test to ensure that these bugs are actually fixed, including:

• update most contrib extensions for parallel query
• two fixes for pg_trgm (trigram) bugs
• rewrite code to estimate join sizes for better performance
• correct handling of argument and result datatypes for partial aggregation
• fix lazy_scan_heap so that it won't mark pages all-frozen too soon
• mark additional functions as parallel-unsafe
• check PlaceHolderVars before pushing down a join in postgres_fdw
• improve the situation for parallel query versus temp relations
• don't generate parallel paths for rels with parallel-restricted outputs
• make psql_crosstab plans more stable
• finish loose ends for SQL ACCESS METHOD objects, including pg_dump
• stop the executor if no more tuples can be sent from worker to leader
• several pg_upgrade fixes to support new features
• fix regression tests for phrase search
• add new snapshot fields to serialize/deserialize functions
• measure Bloom index signature-length reloption in bits, not words
• many improvements to parallel regression tests
• many documentation updates and clarifications
• multiple translation updates for the docs

Additionally, we've made some user-visible changes to parameters and functions. These may cause dump/restore between beta 1 and beta 2 to generate errors. This includes:

• rename max_parallel_degree to max_parallel_workers_per_gather
• add integrity-checking functions to pg_visibility
• add VACUUM (DISABLE_PAGE_SKIPPING) for emergencies
• add pg_truncate_visibility_map function
• add min_parallel_relation_size GUC
• change default of backend_flush_after GUC to 0 (disabled)

Note that some known issues remain unfixed. Before reporting a bug in the beta, please check the Open Items page.

Beta Schedule

This is the second beta release of version 9.6. The PostgreSQL Project will release additional betas as required for testing, followed by one or more release candidates, until the final release in late 2016. For further information please see the Beta Testing page.

Links

• Downloads Page
• Beta Testing Information
• 9.6 Beta Release Notes
• What's New in 9.6
• 9.6 Open Items

Located in the heart of Silicon Valley, San Jose’s Tech Museum welcomes tinkerers in all things electronic. Its latest exhibit takes this idea a step further, inviting visitors to play with the underpinnings of life itself. The first bio-tinkering space in a U.S. museum, its BioDesign Studio lets visitors of all ages explore the intersection […]

The post Let There Be Life: Bioengineering Comes Alive at Silicon Valley’s Tech Museum appeared first on The Official NVIDIA Blog.

The world depends on coral reefs, but they’re disappearing – ravaged by climate change, coastal development, overfishing and pollution. With a quarter of Earth’s reefs already gone, scientists are racing to save them, and they’re getting a big boost from GPU-accelerated deep learning. There’s a lot at stake. Although reefs cover less than one percent […]

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