Virtualization Webcasts

Reduce Costs and Improve Asset Utilization with Vblock

IDC discusses how Vblock System customers were able to save time and money, as well as improve performance.

Sponsor: VCE

Virtualization Boosts SMBs

For small and mid-sized businesses, the most important driver of virtualization is better disaster prevention and recovery. But in this KnowledgeVault from Dell and VMware, we'll learn how IT leaders are aiming higher much higher with their virtualization initiatives with things like application virtualization, while optimizing their disaster recovery efforts.

Sponsor: Dell VMware

Quantifying the Business Value of VMware View

This white paper provides a quantitative measurement of the business value, defined as
the expected ROI, associated with the use of VMware View as a platform for the
targeted deployment of a CVD computing architecture.

Sponsor: VMware

Address Key Desktop Virtualization Use Cases with VMware View

As desktop virtualization garners more momentum, IT organizations are looking for a solution that is cost-effective and easy to deploy, manage, and scale. VMware View meets these requirements with a proven desktop virtualization solution designed to optimize both end user freedom and IT management and control. View provides a comprehensive set of features that address the most challenging desktop use cases for customers across different market verticals. With View, organizations can provide their end-users with a modern desktop while allowing IT to manage desktops easily and securely from a centralized location at a reduced cost.

Sponsor: VMware

Introduction to Virtual Desktop Infrastructure with VMware View

Although the capital expenditures for traditional computers have decreased over time, the operational costs of managing these desktops have increased significantly because of the escalating complexity of tasks, labor costs and security concerns. End users are also tied to a single piece of hardware to access all their data and applications, which limits mobility and causes frustration. Learn how virtual desktops using VMware View can meet these challenges by providing end-user freedom while maintaining IT control.

Attend this webcast to learn how to:

-Deliver the right desktop environment to end users to ensure maximum productivity
-Reduce the complexity associated with managing desktops and support users who are local or remote

Sponsor: VMware

What's New in VMware View 5.1: Technical Deep Dive

Attend this webcast and learn to:

Improve storage performance with View Storage Accelerator
Simplify desktop management with VMware vCenter Operations for View and other View administrator enhancements
Enable a rich end-user experience with new USB architecture, RADIUS support, and other PCoIP improvements

Sponsor: VMware

VMware vSphere 5.1 QuickStart Series Part 1: vSphere 5.1 Platform, What's New

Who should attend: IT professionals looking to gain a technical understanding of the new features of VMware vSphere 5.1, specifically VMware vSphere ESXi Server

Recommended pre-requisites: Virtualization 101 or a basic understanding of virtualization concepts and an understanding of vSphere 5.0

This is Part 1 of a two-part series using live product demonstrations to illustrate the updated and new features of a VMware vSphere5 environment.

Attend this session to learn about:

-vSphere Web Client
-Virtual machine updates
-VMware Tools updates
-vSphere vMotion updates
-Auto Deploy updates

Sponsor: VMware

VMware vSphere 5.1 QuickStart Series Part 2: vCenter Server 5.1 What's New

Who should attend: IT professionals looking to gain a technical understanding of the new features of VMware vSphere 5.1, specifically VMware vCenter Server

Recommended pre-requisites: Virtualization 101 or a basic understanding of virtualization concepts along with Part 1 of this series and an understanding of vSphere 5.0

This is Part 2 of a three-part course series using live product demonstrations to teach the basic installation, configuration and management of a VMware vSphere5 environment.

Attend this session to learn about:

-vCenter updates
-Single sign on
-Inventory service updates
-Distributed switch updates

Sponsor: VMware