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health. VMware vSphere with Operations Management will
enable customers to optimise their environment through
integrated capacity planning while proactively monitoring
and maintaining overall performance of their environment.
VMware vSphere with Operations Management 5.5 will take
advantage of VMware vSphere 5.5 to provide customers
with the best platform for all their applications and workloads.
New Services and Certifications
VMware has also announced a host of new professional
services to help customers outline the strategy and technology roadmap to define and implement a software-defined
data centre architecture:
• New levels of Certifications including VMware Certified
Associate (VCA). Available for cloud (VCA-Cloud), data
centre virtualisation (VCA-DCV), and network virtualisation
(VCA-NV), these certifications offer a new credential to val-

idate entry-level skills before progressing on to the VMware
Certified Professional (VCP) certifications.
• New Technology Consulting Services focus on building
an extensible platform for a software-defined data centre architecture. These services address the key design and deployment elements that deliver the efficiency, agility, control
and choice enabled by VMware products and technologies.
• Strategic Consulting Services, through VMware Accelerate Advisory Services, that help organisations quantify the
value of a software-defined data centre model within their IT
environments, mapping out an actionable strategy to deliver
tangible business value.

VMware Announces VMware
Workstation 10 and VMware Fusion 6
and VMware Fusion 6 Professional
As a result of its goal to continue to innovate and provide customers with
solutions that will help them in their virtualisation, cloud, end user computing
and mobility objectives, VMware has unveiled its latest VMware Workstation
10 and VMware Fusion 6 and VMware Fusion 6 Professional.
VMware Workstation 10
VMware Workstation 10, showcases robust new features
with unmatched operating system support, a rich user experience, a comprehensive feature set and high performance.
VMware Workstation 10 is designed for professionals that
rely on virtual machines to get their job done.

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Expiring Virtual Machines – Restricted virtual
machines can be set to expire at a specified date
and time. An expired virtual machine automatically
suspends and will not restart without administrator
intervention.

Key new features include:

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Tablet Sensors – VMware Workstation 10
includes the industry’s first virtual accelerometer,
gyroscope, compass and ambient light sensor to
enable applications running in a virtual machine to
respond when a user interacts with their tablet.

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Run a Cloud on Your PC – VMware
Workstation 10 lets users build a cloud on their
PCs running popular ?applications from Pivotal,
Puppet Labs and Vagrant.

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The Latest Operating Systems – Easy
Install now recognises Windows 8.1 and new
Linux distributions to make it easier than ever
to create the latest virtual machines. Computers
running Windows 8.1 can be converted into virtual
machines via an easy-to-use wizard.

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State of the Art Performance – VMware
Workstation 10 enables virtual machines to be
created with up to 16 vCPUs, 64GB of memory, 8
TB disks and adds faster USB connections, a new
vSATA controller and twice as many virtual net
works.

VMware, Inc. 3401 Hillview Avenue Palo Alto CA 94304 USA Tel [phone] Fax [phone] www.vmware.com

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