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enable customers to maintain hundreds of virtual networks
spanning the private cloud and vCloud Air over a single
WAN connection, and share the same fine-grained ‘zero
trust’ security policies and network isolation for applications,
unchanged.
VMware’s unified platform includes advanced virtualisation
support for developers and system administrators who are
leveraging continuous delivery and container-based distributed application technologies. Businesses rely on VMware’s
industry leading compute, networking and storage innovations, integration with the OpenStack framework, and integrations with containers and Kubernetes, the open-source
container orchestration project initiated and managed by
Google. This support helps customers achieve fast, flexible
and reliable development, deployment and consumption of
business-critical and cloud-native applications across the
hybrid cloud.

PARTNER UPDATE: VMware Teams
with Partners to Drive Business
Transformation in the Mobile
Cloud Era
As organisations continue to consume IT in new
ways, VMware and its partners ‘Dare to Thrive’,
engage closely at VMware Partner Exchange to
deliver a new model of IT
At its recent Partner Exchange 2015, VMware, announced
new programmes, new and updated solution competencies,
and momentum for the VMware Partner Network.

VMware vSphere 6, VMware Integrated OpenStack, VMware Virtual SAN 6 and VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes
are expected to become available in Q1 2015.

New Programmes, Enhancements and Opportunities
for Partners

Introducing VMware vSphere 6

VMware introduced the VMware Partner Professional
Services Programme, which will enable consulting partners
to sell and deliver their own services engagements. This
programme will be available to a limited number of pilot
partners in the first half of FY15, and is expected to expand
in the second half of FY15. Eligibility will initially be focused
on partners that have demonstrated expertise in selling and
delivering software-defined data centre solutions.

VMware has announced VMware vSphere 6, the newest
edition of the industry-defining virtualisation solution for the
hybrid cloud and foundation for the software-defined data
centre.
With more than 650 new features and innovations, VMware
vSphere 6 will provide customers with a highly available,
resilient, on-demand cloud infrastructure to run, protect and
manage any application. VMware vSphere 6 will also be
complemented by the newest releases of VMware vCloud
Suite 6, VMware vSphere with Operations Management 6,
and VMware Virtual SAN 6.
VMware also reinforced its support of open frameworks for
building and managing clouds with its new VMware Integrated OpenStack distribution. This first-ever OpenStack
distribution from VMware will empower IT to provide developers with open API access to enterprise-class VMware
infrastructure. Additionally, VMware has revealed a technology preview that will enable customers to bridge the public
and private cloud through the combination of VMware NSX
network virtualisation and VMware vCloud Air, VMware’s
public cloud service, to enable a single, secure
network domain.
New capabilities and features include:
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Broad Application Support
New Long-Distance Live Migration Capabilities
Instant Clone Technology
3D Graphics for Desktop Virtualisation
Enterprise-Class Hypervisor-Converged Storage
Virtual Machine-Awareness for Third-Party Storage

VMware Partner Professional Services Programme

VMware vCloud Air Network Programme to offer managed services opportunities
The VMware vCloud Air Network Programme will expand
to include managed services opportunities for vCloud Air
Network service providers, enabling partners to use VMware vCloud Air as their core infrastructure while differentiating through their managed services. The new managed
services model will be available in Q2 to qualified service
providers, enabling these partners to have more choice and
flexibility in how to build and offer cloud solutions.
New solution competencies
Mobility Management Solution Competency – Available
today, the Mobility Management Solution Competency is
now available to enable and reward partners in the mobility
management space.
Software-Defined Data Centre Competency – Available
in Q2, the Software-Defined Data Centre competency will
encompass elements of VMware Networking, Software-Defined Storage, Server Virtualisation, Management Operations and Management Automation Solutions Competencies, and rewards partners who have invested in all
five competencies.

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