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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Posted by Jae Ellers at 3:55 pm

VKernel Capacity Management Suite 2.0 Launches

3rd-Party, Uncategorized, integration, management 2 Responses »
Aug 262010

Bryan Semple, VKernel CMO, spent some time with me last week reviewing some of the new features and improvements in their Capacity Management Suite (CMS). According to Bryan, there are three improvements users should hear about in the new release. These are:

  • Scalability
  • Analytics
  • Automation

We’ll review the improvements in these areas in more detail below

Here’s a shot of the dashboard:

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Figure 1: CMS 2.0 Dashboard

The VKernel CMS is composed of four components that can be mixed and matched. Together these form the entire suite. If you’re not already familiar with the various components please visit the VKernel site and take a look at the full feature list, as I’m just highlighting some of the new functionality. These components are listed below with some of the recent improvements:

  1. Capacity Analyzer 5.0: Nuanced analysis allows fine tuning of what resources are reported on and which systems to exclude
  2. Optimization Pack 2.0: Automation and scheduling enable fine grained and extensive reclamation and recovery activities
  3. Chargeback 2.0: Report on allocated or utilized resources for VMs
  4. Inventory 1.0: Inventory, index, filter, document, annotate the environment and configuration

One of the additional improvements we discussed was streamlined installation. This comes from the fact that the entire suite is now integrated into a single VM with licensing activating the various modules. This helps improve the performance, scalability, and manageability of the product by reducing the footprint and inter-component communication necessary.

VKernel has also been working hard to improve the UI. When dealing with 100s or 1000s of VMs the quality of the UI has a huge impact on the utility of the product. From what I’ve seen, the new interface reduces time and clicks when reviewing and optimizing your environment using VKernel’s custom groups. When this is coupled with the ability to exclude vms, hosts, clusters, and run analyses only over custom time ranges it provides a new level of accuracy in reporting.

One great example of this is that most VMware admins have a test cluster or a dev environment (or both if you’re lucky). We don’t want those older GHz which are frequently idle to count against us for production machines when reporting to the CIO. With the VKernel suite it is a simple matter to exclude these systems from the analysis and reports.

All together, these improvements add up to an increased ability to monitor the resource utilization as you wish to see it while concurrently capturing configuration data. This is important as you have correlated historical configuration data to review as you tune your environment. This can be a real lifesaver should you need to back out config changes in your environment at a future date.

Finally, the real killer feature here is the fine grained control and scheduling ability to recover and reclaim wasted resources. This really leads to a more self-tuning environment where the automation delivers actual ROI by providing more available resources for more VMs or enhanced capacity for existing systems.

Posted by Jae Ellers at 12:06 pm

Finally an update!

Uncategorized 2 Responses »
Mar 102009

Hola Amigos,
It’s been a long time since I rapped at you, but things have been crazy. Changed jobs, remodeled a couple houses, had a baby, etc. I hope to get back to normal soon.

I have a couple things on my todo list for this blog (not surprisingly), the first of which is to put out a new VC2.5U4 visio schema.

I have also reviewed Hal’s upcoming book on the VIToolkit and Powershell: http://halr9000.com/article/660.

Finally, I’ve been working a lot with ESX, SRM, and vSphere. I’ll still try to split up the posts with more of a market and architectural spin here with tech details on vmprofessional.

More RSN.

Posted by Jae Ellers at 7:47 pm
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