Over the past few months I’ve spoken with many customers about Virtual SAN. These conversations usually result in “unofficial” success stories that are published in the form of a blog post. In addition to these informal stories, businesses that successfully implement Virtual SAN are featured in customer case studies. Below are two new customer case […]

The post Two brand new customer case studies published! appeared first on Virtual Blocks.

One of the major components released with vSphere 6 this year was the support for Virtual Volumes (VVOLS). VVOLS has been gaining momentum with storage vendors, who are enabling its capabilities in their arrays. When virtualizing business databases there are many critical concerns that need to be addressed that include: Database Performance to meet strict […]

The post VMWorld Topic: Virtual Volumes (VVOLS) a game changer for running Tier 1 Business Critical Databases appeared first on VMware vSphere Blog.

No Application Left behind This year at VMworld 2015 US in San Francisco, over 40 sessions focused on Business Critical Applications and databases will be delivered by a broad cast of VMware experts. These experts include VMware product specialists, partners, customers, and end users (developers and data scientists). One specific session that we would like […]

The post VMworld US 2015 Spotlight Session Project Capstone, a Collaboration between VMW, HP & IBM - No Application Left Behind appeared first on VMware vSphere Blog.

By: Cameron Jones, Blue Medora VMworld is less than a week away! If you have been looking for a chance to take a look at VMware’s vRealize Operations Manager (previously known as vCenter Operations) or just want to learn more about it, look no further than VMworld 2015 in San Francisco. This year at VMworld […]

The post Learn About vRealize Operations Manager at VMworld appeared first on VMware Cloud Management.

Von Matt Crosby, Head of Expertise, UK and Irland, Hay …

Read More

Desktop virtualization is a potentially exciting topic, but one which requires careful planning and resource allocation. For many healthcare companies, the flexibility and control provided by this technology frees up resources to innovate and focus on customers. In a traditional desktop virtualization environment, this is simply shifting IT resources to support this new paradigm. For […]

The post Healthcare Desktops in the Cloud appeared first on VMware for Healthcare IT.

What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of a storage system? Well, rotating disks! Storage has been traditionally consumed either in the form of block storage or as files. Irrespective of the consumption model, data gets persisted/retrieved on physical disks or Flash using protocols (such as Small Computer System Interface (‘SCSI’), or NVM Express (‘NVMe’) that have been standardized over decades. Traditionally, the role of the storage system has been lowest in the food chain, with very little visibility or understanding of the data contents. Instead of talking to the storage system in terms of “Retrieve record X,” we talk to it as “Retrieve block address Y.” File systems provide an incremental layer of abstraction in the form of “Retrieve file Z created by Alice”. File-related metadata and extended attributes provide limited visibility into data, and aid data search based on key-value metadata attributes. Database systems have existed since the 1960’s. Most people remember databases as data organized in a relational model with ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability) read/write properties. A database in some sense can be considered as a specialized storage system that can persist, retrieve, and analyze data records. Enterprise data was broadly [...]

The post Is it a Storage System? Is it a Database? The ongoing blurring of boundaries within enterprises appeared first on Office of the CTO.

We’re excited to help usher in the dawn of a new era – one in which on-demand, pay-as-you-go cloud infrastructure is the norm. No commitments, unlimited resources and the same VMware tools you know and love. VMware vCloud® Air™ Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand is a great solution for when you want to test applications on […]

The post Test Drive vCloud Air OnDemand in VMworld 2015’s Hands-on Lab Sessions! appeared first on VMware vCloud Blog.

Aditya Gorantala, who prefers to be called Aadi, is a full-time MBA student at Mays Business School, Texas A&M University. He currently works as a Partner Compliance Analyst Intern from the Austin, Texas office. One of the most important lessons I learned in business school is to work at a place where your personal values […]

The post Defining Communities, Redefining Myself: An Intern’s Take on Giving Back through Service Learning appeared first on VMware Careers Blog.

Thank you to everyone who applied for vExpert. I’m pleased to announce the list of 2015 Second Half vExperts. Each of these vExperts have demonstrated significant contributions to the community and a willingness to share their expertise with others. Contributing is not always blogging or Twitter as there are many public speakers, book authors, script […]

The post vExpert 2015 Second Half Announcement appeared first on VMTN Blog.

Aaron Dumbrow is a Senior Systems Engineer in VMware Healthcare. He is an Army veteran who now works from a home office in Oregon. “Thosethingswhicharepreciousaresavedonlybysacrifice.” ?StephenE.Ambrose,BandofBrothers:ECompany,506thRegiment, 101stAirbornefromNormandytoHitler’sEagle’sNest Our nations’ veterans put their lives on hold,sacrificing what they want to protect the ideals of freedom and justice. For many of us who have served, we look […]

The post How Veterans Can Use the GI Bill to Advance Their Careers appeared first on VMware Careers Blog.

Virtual Volumes (VVOLS) a game changer for running Tier 1 Business Critical Databases: One of the major components released with vSphere 6 this year was the support for Virtual Volumes (VVOLS). VVOLS has been gaining momentum with storage vendors, who are enabling its capabilities in their arrays. When virtualizing business databases there are many critical […]

The post STO4452 - Virtual Volumes (VVOLS) a game changer for running Tier 1 Business Critical Databases appeared first on Virtualize Business Critical Applications.

By Debra Perrin Coltoff, Technical Writer, End-User-Computing Technical Marketing, VMware You have already heard that VMware App Volumes provides real-time application delivery and life cycle management, but did you know that App Volumes also optimizes the management of Citrix XenApp published applications? Organizations are searching for a straightforward solution aimed at handling their XenApp applications […]

The post VMware App Volumes—Just What Your Citrix XenApp Environment Has Been Missing appeared first on VMware End-User Computing Blog.

By Gina Daly, Technical Writer for Technical Marketing, End-User Computing, VMware The VMware App Volumes Technical FAQ has recently been published! As the title suggests, this FAQ deals with the meaty technical questions you may have concerning VMware App Volumes. Questions have been divided into sections including requirements and maximums, installation and configuration, storage, management, […]

The post VMware App Volumes Technical FAQ Now Available appeared first on VMware End-User Computing Blog.

By Shawn Bass, Sr. Director of Strategy and Planning, EUC, VMware While I wasn’t working for VMware during last year’s VMworld, I was blown away by the number of amazing technologies that were shown at VMworld 2014 such as VMware’s vision for Just-in-time (JIT) Desktops, Project Meteor, Project Fargo, EVO, etc. I was already in […]

The post Top 10 EUC Sessions at VMworld 2015 appeared first on VMware End-User Computing Blog.

Today I’m able to offer another guest-authored post on Virtual Volumes, this time from my respected colleague at Dell, David Glynn, a highly esteemed Technical Solutions Engineer in their Enterprise Storage division who has spent a great deal of his time recently focused on Dell’s implementation of VVol. Here David shares Dell’s vision of the […]

The post Virtual Volumes: Another round of data center transformation from Dell and VMware appeared first on Virtual Blocks.