VMware News: November 2019

Highlights

Project Pacific Beta is coming soon

Ever since we announced the technology preview of Project Pacific at VMworld 2019 back in August, customers and partners have been excited to hear more. While an early private beta is available to select customers today, we plan to expand access to the Project Pacific beta program later this year. If you would like to be included in this beta program please request access here.

KubeAcademy

Ready to dive a little deeper into the world of Kubernetes? Understand the first principles of a cloud native infrastructure, and then dig into our lab environment and deploy your first cluster. This training is designed for attendees who are early in their cloud native journey—you will walk out with more knowledge of basic concepts and greater comfort in working with containers.

More info here!

Wavefront Helps Yammer Hit Global SLAs

Yammer is a secure enterprise social network internal to an organization, that enables people to connect and engage across their company. Over four years, the Yammer cloud service grew rapidly. Yammer’s engineering teams started relying on Wavefront analytics-driven alerts to be able to hit their SLAs. Read on to learn how Yammer continues to thrive with Wavefront.

VMware News

New Version of Proactive Support with Skyline Now Available

We’re excited to announce that a new release of Skyline Advisor is now available, with new features and functionality designed to improve your proactive support experience.

Highlights of the release include:

• Consolidated Recommendations: Easily navigate through upgrade recommendations based on your current product versions and view the Findings that will be remediated with each upgrade.
• Analysis Timestamp: Message at top of each page indicates when the most recent data analysis was performed.
• Data Analysis Message Upon First Login: When you log into Advisor for the first time after installing a Skyline Collector, you will see an alert message informing you that data analysis is in progress and you will begin seeing proactive Findings and Recommendations within 48-52 hours.

Learn more here!

Reference Architectures for VMware Cloud on AWS

Check out these VMware Cloud on AWS Reference Architectures to understand the recommended topologies based on real world examples.

Events

November Update: Check Out VMware Learning Zone’s Upcoming Live Online Events!

Don’t miss VLZ’s upcoming webinars and instructor hours, covering a broad array of topics. These FREE webinars are conveniently one hour in length and are often followed by an instructor hour. Find event descriptions, instructor bios, and date/time on VMware Learning Zone—and register for free with your existing VLZ account.

 VMware Cloud on AWS at re: Invent 2019: Don’t miss these key sessions!

With re: Invent 2019 quickly approaching, I am sure you all must be excited to learn what latest news and announcements will be coming out of the conference. This year VMware Cloud On AWS has a bigger presence than ever before at re: Invent. We are going to have breakout sessions, theater sessions, exciting cool demos and some announcements as well. Put these activities on your calendar now! 

Product Update

VMware Cloud on AWS can save you money. Build your own Total Cost of Ownership report

Did you know that VMware Cloud on AWS saves customers on average 34% over their on-premise costs? To see how much VMwware Cloud on AWS can save you, click here!

What’s New with VMware Cloud on AWS in November

Migrate and Modernize with VMware Cloud on AWS. Check out all the latest VMware Cloud on AWS announcements from VMworld Europe 2019.

Wavefront Enterprise Observability Platform

Wavefront is a platform for enterprises to deliver observability as a service across all their engineering teams. It is purpose-built for modern apps running on the enterprise multi-cloud at scale.

Download the datasheet to learn more about what makes Wavefront an enterprise-grade observability platform.

VMware Inner Circle Community Working to Improve Product Design

With customers at the core of our EPIC2 values, we are always working to improve the customer experience. Check out this video to learn how the Inner Circle Community partnered with the Cloud Services team to improve product design. For more information on the Inner Circle Community, click here! 

Thought Leadership

Download this Data Center Modernization technical guide for VMware Cloud on AWS

Learn how VMware Cloud on AWS can help transform your applications and operations with a next-gen cloud strategy. Download it here!

Customer Success Stories

VMware Enterprise PKS Simplifies Multi-cluster K8s & Builds R&D Backing

When Trend Micro began implementing Kubernetes in 2015, the management burden quickly became apparent. VMware Enterprise PKS cut cluster provisioning time from weeks to 30 minutes. Read the case study for the full success story.