by Maryam Zand, senior director Global SISO and Telco Partner Marketing, Alliance Marketing, VMware Business transformations are driven by user experiences. The better the experience, the more creativity gets unleashed and the more collaborative and productive your teams become. Your business can make transformations a reality by mobilizing user workspaces that provide always-on access to […]

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It seems like the majority of OpenStack users tend to work witha Linux or Mac desktop. What about the Windows users? Fortunately, the OpenStack CLI utilities we know and love (like python-novaclient, python-glanceclient, etc.) run just as wellon Windows as they do on Mac and Linux. Although, there are a few differences in setting your […]

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This year’s RSA Conference ought to be good—and VMware is well represented among the industry’s security leaders and pioneers who will discuss topics from network virtualization to data center security to Minecraft. Overwhelmed by all RSA has to offer? Start by stopping by the NSX booth #3821. Then, on Monday, February 29, 8:30 AM – […]

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Have you watched the launch event, checked out Rawlinson’s latest webinar and reviewed many of the Virtual SAN 6.2 blog posts like this one, this one and this one? Fantastic! Now, let me take you back home to VMware.com. For our Virtual SAN 6.2 launch, the team has made somevery usefulnew tools and page updates

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Innovation has always been at the core of VMware’s DNA. This idea rings especially true in the light of last week’s major announcements surrounding our new offerings in the hyper-converged software space, cloud management, and end-user computing business. Catch a replay of the electrifying 2-day online event in which the below announcements were unveiled, featuring […]

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The Postgres-XL community is pleased to announce Postgres-XL 9.5 R1 Beta1.

Postgres-XL is a massively parallel database built on top of, and very closely compatible with PostgreSQL 9.5 and its set of advanced features. Postgres-XL is fully open source and many parts of it will feed back directly or indirectly into later releases of PostgreSQL, as we begin to move towards a fully parallel sharded version of core PostgreSQL.

Postgres-XL is different because it supports both Business Intelligence and OLTP workloads in the same horizontally scalable server. This allows Postgres-XL to support a diverse range of workloads

• OLTP workloads that need write-scalability as well as read-scalability
• Business Intelligence requiring OLAP with massive parallelism
• Operational Data Store/ Central Data Backbone
• Distributed Key-Value store using JSONB, similar to NoSQL
• Internet of Things applications
• Mixed-workload environments

Star schema style SQL queries exhibit large performance gains from massively parallel processing (MPP). Many queries show fully linear performance gains, for example a 16-node XL cluster is 16 times faster than PostgreSQL on one node. Postgres-XL is able to successfully complete the complex TPC-H business intelligence benchmark, showing its capability to address much more than basic operations.

Postgres-XL’s High Availability functionality has also been enhanced in this release. Popular features such as BRIN indexes, JSONB and GIN index compression are fully supported, as are many popular extensions.

Postgres-XL is available for download here: http://www.postgres-xl.org/download/ You can go through XL’s comprehensive documentation here: http://files.postgres-xl.org/documentation/index.html

2ndQuadrant has led the development of Postgres-XL 9.5, building upon the work of many others over a long period of continuous development, with easily more than 10 man years of development. After six months of professional formal alpha-level testing and tuning, the project has now reached the next stage of maturity and we are now ready to have initial users contribute their comments and usage reports to the Postgres-XL community at postgres-xl-bugs@lists.sourceforge.net.

The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2015) under grant agreement n° 318633. Postgres-XL has also received support and assistance from European Space Agency's Gaia project, as well as other users in industry.

For more details, please visit: http://2ndQuadrant.com/resources/postgres-xl/

As I sit and write this, a stat from last year keeps popping into my mind. Forty-six percent of smartphone users told Pew Research that they “couldn’t live without” their smartphones. Considering that the same report cites that nearly two-thirds of Americans own a smartphone, our love affair with consumer technology grows deeper every year. […]

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by Blake Brannon, VP product management, End-User Computing, VMware Last week, VMware revealed what we believe is the new era of work: the digital workspace. At its heart, VMware Workspace ONE is the next evolution of end-user computing—an innovative ecosystem designed to strike a balance between an intuitive end-user experience and IT’s mandate to enable […]

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Today VMware launched AirWatch 8.3, the latest release of the industry-leading EMM solution. AirWatch 8.3 delivers a smarter, more secure platform that enhances the digital workspace. Updates in AirWatch 8.3 empower users to change the way work gets done with unified app access, increased user privacy education and a redesigned VMware AirWatch Content Locker. For […]

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This articlewas originally posted on theVMware Cloud Native corporate blog. I am re-posting here for the convenience of the readers of my personal blog.

As many of you know docker-machine is the client side tool that allows an individual on his/ her own workstation to fire up docker hosts either local or remote.

Docker-machine supports . . . → Read More: How to use docker-machine in conjunction with the vSphere driver

Even with a tool tailor-made for enterprise productivity, it’s easy to get distracted by the wealth of information available on enterprise social networks.

You may log in just to check your team’s activity, but by the time you open up another application, you’ve probably thrown your hat into the ring on a Challenge, read what your coworkers think about the latest announcements, scrolled the most recent Town Hall to read the comments, gloated over your brand new Thanks badge and found an entirely new group to start following.

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Join us on Wednesday, March 2nd, from 9 to 11 a.m. PST, for the second event in our series: Ask vCloud Air (#AVCA). During the Ask vCloud Air event, VMware vCloud® AirTM experts will be on hand to answer your questions and chat about vCloud Air, all live from our VMware vCloud Air Community forum. […]

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By Ahmed Al-Buheissi DevOps is about getting Development and Operations to work together and avoid conflicts in how they operate is to achieve their goals. The most commonly noted objective is shifting to Agile processes where applications are released more often and with better quality. While development and operations are of equal importance to a […]

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