Archive for 'VMware Workstation' Category
New Virtual Reality Blog: “Hyper-V passes Microsoft’s checkmarks exam: isn’t that always the case?”
Source: VMware Partner Central >>
While browsing through the Microsoft Virtualization website, I stumbled across this table included in the Cost Saving section that presents cost and feature checklist comparison between Hyper-V/System Center with few vSphere editions. While Microsoft’s spin on the theoretical cost advantage of Hyper-V/System Center over vSphere isn’t surprising (I am not going to [...]
Answering Customer Questions about Project VRC Phase II Report
Source: VMware Partner Central >>
Project Virtual Reality Check (VRC) recently released an update to their ongoing performance analysis of Terminal Services on three commercial hypervisors: VMware vSphere 4, Microsoft Hyper-V R2, and Citrix XenServer 5.5. This Competitive Flash is to help VMware Partner Sales Teams understand VMware’s positioning in regards to the performance analysis and [...]
Competitive Flash VMware Response to the release of Citrix Reference Architecture and Single Server Scalability documents
Source: VMware Partner Central >>
On February 4th, Citrix issued a press release announcing ‘Citrix Dramatically Improves Economics of Desktop Virtualization to Drive Mainstream Adoption’. The focus of the release was to communicate that one physical server had been verified to support 125 VDI based desktops, 500 hosted shared desktops, and 5000 local streamed desktops. This [...]
The #1 Opportunity to Maximize your Knowledge, Partner Exchange 2010
Source: VMware Partner Central >>
Maureen Lonergan: Ahead of the Learning Curve
2010 – Get Ready, Set, Go
Whether you are a novice to the topic of virtualization or fast approaching the status of Virtualization Zen Master, my sincere advice for you as you kick-off the New Year and develop new revenue opportunities, is to make sure [...]
Webcast: Help your Customers Meet Business Demands through a Mixed-Workload Solution Built on VMware® vSphere™ 4 and NetApp® unified storage
Source: VMware Partner Central >>
Best Practices for Microsoft App VirtualizationAccelerate your business when you virtualize Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, and SharePoint
Join us for a live Webcast and hear Grant Leathers from Kelley Blue Book discuss how he has cost-effectively grown his infrastructure to meet the demands of his business with a scalable Microsoft®-applications mixed-workload solution [...]
Cisco and EMC with VMware Announce Virtual Computing Environment Coalition
Source: VMware Partner Central >>
On Tuesday, Cisco and EMC, together with VMware, announced the Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) coalition. This coalition is designed to accelerate customer adoption of private cloud infrastructures by providing richly integrated joint solutions, services and support offerings – mainly through the existing partner ecosystem of Systems Integrators and Channel Partners.
The [...]
Just Released: VMware Workstation 7 – First with Support for Windows 7 Aero 3D Graphics
Source: VMware Partner Central >>
VMware
Workstation is the gold standard in desktop virtualization that transforms the
way technical professionals develop, test, demo and deploy software. Innovative
features help developers, QA engineers, sales professionals, and IT
administrators reduce hardware costs, manage risk, and streamline tasks that
save time and improve productivity.
Check out the Workstation Zealot blog or see get the details [...]
Announcing VMware Fusion 3 – Optimized for Mac OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard and with full support for Windows 7
Source: VMware Partner Central >>
The Mac revolution is here, but your customers don’t want to have to sacrifice Windows functionality. VMware Fusion 3 is the best way to run Windows on a Mac. Run Mac and Windows applications side-by-side at maximum speeds without rebooting. With over 50 new features and a new ultra-fast Migration Assistant [...]
Competitive Flash – Microsoft Announces the GA of Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V R2
Source: VMware Partner Central >>
On October 22, 2009 Microsoft announced the General Availability of Windows Server 2008 R2, which includes Hyper-V R2. We have released a Competitive Flash to help VMware Partner Sales Teams understand the VMware positioning in regards to Microsoft’s virtualization offerings and to respond to customer questions about Hyper-V R2.
Get the Competitive [...]
VMware vCenter CapacityIQ Released
Source: VMware Partner Central >>
VMware vCenter CapacityIQ is a value-add component of the VMware vCenter
family of management solutions, providing capacity management
capabilities for virtualized datacenter or desktop environments.
CapacityIQ integrates seamlessly with VMware vCenter Server, ensuring
that your virtualized infrastructure capacity is always predictable and
efficiently used.
VMware vCenter CapacityIQ balances business demand with IT supply,
without compromising performance, availability and [...]
New Renewals Central Portal Launched
Source: VMware Partner Central >>
The all-new Renewals Central has been designed to help maximize profitability, productivity, service agreement renewal rates and revenue. Quickly get quotes for your customers, access service renewals, view performance reports, and much more.
View the all-new Renewals Portal on Partner Central
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Get Your SMB Customers to Tell Us Their Story
Source: VMware Partner Central >>
We want to know how you make your customers’ time and money count more with VMware vSphere. Here are two new programs for your small and midsized customers with fewer than 1000 employees and/or less than 100 servers before virtualization!
Tell Us Your StoryEncourage your customers to share how you and VMware [...]
VMware at Oracle OpenWorld 2009: Oct 12-14
Source: VMware Partner Central >>
Oracle customers rely on VMware to optimize
industry-standard datacenter infrastructure, ensure business
continuity, strengthen security, and accelerate Oracle product delivery
with rapid provisioning and infrastructure management.
VMware
will be at Oracle OpenWorld 2009 to showcase virtual services from the
resources of the physical infrastructure, enabling administrators to
allocate these virtual resources quickly to users and business units
that need [...]
Top 10 Reasons to Attend VMware Partner Exchange 2010
Source: VMware Partner Central >>
VMware Partner Exchange 2010 will be held at the world-famous Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada on February 8 to 10.
Read "Ben's Top 10 for 2010" as Ben Matheson, Senior Director of Global Partner Marketing at VMware, gives his top reasons why you should attend the biggest partner event of [...]
VMware Site Recovery Manager 4 Released Today
Source: VMware Partner Central >>
VMware has just released VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 4, part of the VMware vCenter Product Family, Site
Recovery Manager 4 provides automated disaster recovery for virtual
environments. Now, with added support for Network File System (NFS)
based storage replication, compatibility with VMware vSphere™ 4, and
simplified “many-to-one” failover using shared recovery sites, VMware
vCenter Site [...]
