VMware News: January 2020

Highlights

IHS Markit and VMware share the VMware Cloud on AWS experience with SiliconANGLE theCUBE

Learn about how IHS Markit migrated around 1000 workloads in just 6 weeks without any refactoring or re-architecture. More information here!

Congratulations VMware on Making CRN’s 2019 Products of the Year Awards!

CRN recognized VMware in the following areas:

VMware vSAN: overall winner in the Software-Defined Storage Category
VMware Cloud Foundation: finalist in the Hybrid Cloud Category
VMware NSX: finalist in the Software-Defined Networking Category

Introducing 2020 Certifications and Badges

The new 2020 VMware Certifications and Badges are now available. With the year designator, it becomes clearer when you earned it and how current your expertise is. The credential you earn depends on when you complete the requirements. Click here for more information!

Professional Development

New Live Online Events for January in the VMware Learning Zone

There are lots of great live online events coming up in the VMware Learning Zone. Don’t miss these free educational opportunities.

Jan 15: Transferrable Skills – How to Survive Through the Digital Transformation
Jan 16: Features and Benefits of Using VMware NSX-T in the Software Defined Data Center
Jan 16, 23, and 30: Learn to Go Beyond Break/Fix with VMware Skyline in 45 Minutes
Jan 28: Enable and Configure Hyper-converged Storage
Feb 19: Three Strategies to Boost your Brand and Advance your Career with Training and Certification

New KubeAcademy Course for Beginners

KubeAcademy just launched a new course called Getting Started. The course is designed to orient students with the Cloud Native ecosystem. Learn why Cloud Native and Kubernetes is becoming an important must-know technology today!

VMware Certifications and Badges…Working Together to Prove Expertise

Certifications and digital badges are not so different, but they each serve a specific purpose. Working together, they provide a learning journey that can lead to expanded expertise and more opportunities. Click here for more!

Product Updates

What’s New with VMware Cloud on AWS in January 2020

Explore all the latest news about VMware Cloud on AWS. Review the top articles from November and December and learn about the latest updates, launches and user guides. Plus, enjoy our favorite new customer and partner transformation stories.

Whitepaper

New eBook: How to Make Your Prometheus Monitoring Enterprise-Grade

Prometheus is a great tool to start monitoring Kubernetes. It’s open source, freely available and embraced by the CNCF. Learn how you can bring your Prometheus setup into the enterprise-grade, hyper-scale, and observability worlds. Click here for more information!

VMware News

Top vSphere Blogs of 2019

The end of the year is always a time to contemplate the past and perhaps make resolutions for the next year. For many, 2019 was a good year, filled with opportunity and accomplishments. For others, 2019 can’t end fast enough. To mark the end of the year we looked at some of the top vSphere blog posts of 2019.

Customer Success Stories

Why Cenitex turned to HCI and VMware Cloud on AWS for its transformation program

Find out how shifting to VMware Cloud on AWS has helped Cenitex ensure that it’s equipped with the right capabilities to address a dramatic Disaster Recovery scenario.

Events

Odyssey into Asia Pacific vForums

Straight after VMworld Barcelona, the excitement of Odyssey continued at the vForums in APAC (Asia Pacific). The first stop on the journey was Tokyo where VMware Odyssey was center stage at the solutions exchange. The venue was filled with excitement and enthusiasm. In total, there were 46 customers and partners, forming 16 teams of 2-3 people. The tournament format took place across two days between November 12th and 13th. Click here for more!