Jae Ellers

VCE Vblock FastPath Desktop Virtualization Platform

Aug 292011

A Faster Path to VMware View at Enterprise Scale

Today VCE has announced the Vblock FastPath Desktop Virtualization Platform. This product is a single SKU VDI solution that provides a customer wizard interface to accelerate the implementation of VMware View installations for our customers.

The benefits of the platform include reduced acquisition and deployment times as well as simplified setup. FastPath gathers your site information in a short series of wizard screens, then automatically configures the environment to your specifications. FastPath will import your master image for your View environment and automatically deploy it per VMware and VCE best practices for your needs.

With the release of FastPath, VCE has extended our seamless support to include VMware View. This streamlines the support process for your environment and assures you of a single number to call, even with your virtual desktop support needs.

The Configuration Process

The basics of the Automatic Optimized Logical Configuration process is shown in the next image.

Here are some detailed shots of the individual wizard tabs during the configuration process.

Step 1: Initialization

Step 2: Installation

Step 3: Deployment

Step 4: Reset/Reclaim

For more information, review the VCE FastPath site at http://www.vce.com/fastpath/

If you’re at VMworld, stop by the VCE booth (#1121) and hear more about this great new innovation. I will be doing presentations on this topic from time to time, so check in and see when you can hear more.

VMware and Pearson Team Up to Offer VMware Press

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May 202011

Pearson and VMware Announce the Creation of VMware Press

New Publishing Alliance to Provide Virtualization Learning and Certification Resources from VMware

Indianapolis, IN – May 19, 2011 – Pearson, the world’s leading learning company, and VMware, the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced VMware Press, a newly created technical imprint that will serve as VMware’s official publishing entity. The newly formed press will provide a suite of virtualization technology and certification products in multiple languages and formats.

News Facts

The newly formed press will focus on three types of content:

Technical books, ebooks and videos that concentrate on specific applications of virtualization.
Decision Maker books, ebooks and videos that focus on the business aspects of virtualization.
Official certification materials that support VMware’s complete certification program.

The majority of the new products will target VMware technology, primarily VMware vSphere®, VMware View™, VMware vCenter™ and VMware vCloud®, which comprise the basic platform for all of VMware’s products and services.

Expert authorities, IT professionals, and subject matter experts from VMware will author official VMware Press titles.

Working in conjunction with VMware, Pearson plans to leverage the user group community programs and social channels to further engage the VMware community and offer exclusive promotions and access to the certification and technology products endorsed by VMware.

Visit http://www.vmware.com/go/vmwarepress for a complete product listing of relevant materials for IT professionals.

Usable Quotes

“Pearson stands for accessible, engaging learning, and we look forward to working with VMware to create materials that help IT professionals master innovative technologies and prepare for career-building certifications,” said David Dusthimer, Associate Publisher for Cisco Press, Pearson IT Certification and the new VMware Press. “Through this partnership, we will work hard to make VMware Press synonymous with exceptional VMware learning.”

“Many qualified subject matter experts from our engineering and technical communities are already reputable authors,” said Andrea Eubanks de Jounge, Senior Director at VMware, “and the time is right for VMware, through our alliance with Pearson, to establish a publishing entity as an official source of books and certification preparatory materials.”

Additional Publisher Links

Facebook: VMware Press fan page

Twitter: @VMwarepress

About Pearson

Pearson, the world’s leading learning company, is home to such respected brands as Addison-Wesley Professional, Cisco Press, Exam Cram, IBM Press, Prentice Hall Professional, Que, and Sams Publishing, which have as their online publishing arm, InformIT-The Trusted Technology Learning Source. In addition, Berkeley-based Peachpit, the publishing partner for Adobe Press, Apple Certified, and others, publishes best-selling books for creative design professionals. Pearson is also co-founder, with O’Reilly Media Inc., of Safari Books Online, the premier on-demand technology content library providing thousands of expert reference materials through a single point of contact, including expert technology, creative and design, industry and management resources in video, audio and written formats. Pearson Education is part of Pearson (NYSE: PSO), the international media company. Pearson’s other primary businesses include the Financial Times Group and the Penguin Group.

About VMware
VMware delivers virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable IT organizations to energize businesses of all sizes. With the industry leading virtualization platform – VMware vSphere® – customers rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, improve agility, ensure business continuity, strengthen security and go green. With 2010 revenues of $2.9 billion, more than 250,000 customers and 25,000 partners, VMware is the leader in virtualization, which consistently ranks as a top priority among CIOs. VMware is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at www.vmware.com

Press Contacts

Jamie Adams, Senior Publicist
Pearson 317-428-3012
Jamie.adams@pearson.com / @Jamieadams76

Joan Stone, Global PR

650-224-8733

joanstone@VMware.com

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Life at VCE

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Feb 082011

Thanks to some of the good friends I’ve made at VCE, I expect a bit of click-through. It wouldn’t do to leave my blog with content left-over from September if that’s going to happen. Given the interest in VCE and what we’re doing I wanted to post an update about VCE and what I’m doing here.

The Back Story

I’ve been working with virtualization since 2002. I’m here at VCE fresh from the startup environment, where I worked as a Systems Engineer for a virtualization storage startup in the Valley. I’ve worked as a virtualization and server consultant with a reseller, and in the past at a long stint in a big company where I got my start with VMware and server engineering.

The VCE Experience

I think the startup experience was amazingly valuable as we’re living and breathing that attitude daily here at VCE. Every day brings new projects and challenges as the Vblock message resonates in the industry and we see huge demand from partners and customers.

My Work

The team I work in is the Service Provider and Vertical Solutions group. I am a Principal Solutions vArchitect.

The Team

Our group is composed of several lab teams that work to develop and test Vblock solutions. We work with software vendors and service providers to identify leading products that fit in various vertical solutions. A project typically consists of optimizing the architecture of these products’ implementation to take advantage of Vblock’s native scalability and integration.

Solutions vArchitect

My role is to find the software vendors and solution providers who can benefit from running on a Vblock, then to turn that into business value. We work through a process to bring these projects into the lab and define how we build up a solution based on the products and Vblock capabilities. There are often opportunities to add value with other products and tools that can improve the operation and security of the end product.

Once our solution has been developed, I also work with customers, partners, and the vendors to spread the word to evangelize these solutions. Part of this is collateral development, some involves working at tradeshows, and some is based on educating partners and customers on these solutions.

So Far, So Amazing

The people here really do make an enormous difference. From working with some of the well known bloggers and leaders in the vSpecialists’ teams to meeting many of the lab staff behind many of the familiar whitepapers and solutions out there, this team is second to none.

I’ve given myself some leeway here to gush about the fantastic opportunities and amazing teams that I work with daily. I expect I will need to do this once in a while as it’s been such an amazing journey so far. The reality is that I get to work with cutting edge technology and products daily and my blog will also delve deeply into how that is constructed and operates as well. Expect more of the technical aspects of Vblock products and operation coming soon.

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