News from VMware Partner Exchange 2012

This week VMware Partner Exchange is being held in Las Vegas. This event is attended by VMware partners only. VMware will present their vision and roadmap. Also partner awards will be announced.
As some sessions in particular those telling more of the VMware roadmap are under Non Disclosure Agreement not much news will be made public on the VMware solutions.

Presentations are probably be published on VMware Partner Central in March.

This posting will publish the news announced at Partner Exchange 2012

New training and certification
VMware will release a new training titled VMware vCloud: Deploy and Manage the VMware Cloud .
Details on a new certification on vCloud Director will be announced.

vCloud Director Client for iPad available

A live blog of the keynote at day 1 by Scott Lowe can be read here
A recap of the general  session by -Scott Aronson , Senior Vice President, Global Channels and Alliances
PEX 2012 Day 2 Recap  by David Davis

VIDEO: Disaster Recovery in vCloud Director
In this video from PEX 2012, you’ll see:
Duncan Epping and Chris Colotti of Yellow-Bricks.com and ChrisColotti.us
Jason Nash (of JasonNash.com) and Lane Leverett
Kendrick Coleman (of KendrickColeman.com) and David Hill (of Virtual-Blog.com)

Nice overview of attended bootcamps and sessions at Think Meta

VMwarePEX 2012 recap by Greg Gooch

Zerto introduces Virtual Replication version 2.0

VirtualSharp Software Unveils Global Partner Program by VMblog.com

IBM announcing Distributed Virtual Switch 5000V for VMware vSphere 5

VMware puts their bets on SMB market
VMware Stepping Up SMB Game With New Specialization, Incentives at CRN.com

EMC and VMware are teaming with French IT services company Atos to create a European cloud infrastructure provider, Canopy. Read more here

Kaspersky Lab to Support VMware vShield for Virtual Data Centers

Leading Partners Awarded by VMware at VMware Partner Exchange 2012

VMware Partner Exchange Day 2 at doublecloud.org

More later ….