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vCloud Air ondemand early access program

Take part vCloud Air OnDemand early access program

Are you interested in taking part in the vCloud Air OnDemand early access program?  The vCloud Air product team is is now accepting candidates for the Early Access Program. The vCloud Air Early Access program offers: Free Service credits: Join the EAP now and receive up to $1000 in service credits 100% compatibility with your existing IT environment Create, resize, rename and delete data centers on the fly Instant access to compute resources – run vSphere workloads anywhere Per minute metering – Pay for only what you use Self service sign up – Service provisioned in minutes Follow this link to sign up for the Early Access Program: http://vcloud.vmware.com/uk/service-offering/virtual-private-cloud-ondemand You can watch this short video that explains what the Early Access Program is all about. This is a really cool offer to get access to the vCloud Air OnDemand offering, which will give people a great opportunity to test vCloud Air […]

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vCloud Air Australia

VMware vCloud Air Australia – a new location

VMware has announced that vCloud Air will be expanding to Australia in 2015.  VMware vCloud Air Australia will offer local vSphere customers the ability to build and extend the hybrid cloud in the local geography.  Something they have been asking for for some time. VMware vCloud Air Australia Asia is a big market place for IT, and having cloud offerings in both Japan and Australia will provide flexible access for customers building their cloud strategy. You can read the official VMware announcement here: http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/2014/11/vmware-vcloud-air-continues-global-expansion-now-australia.html The Register has a great article on the announcement: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/11/04/vmware_announces_vcloud_air_for_australia/ For me personally working in the Cloud Services BU at VMware, this continues to show our commitment, dedication and drive to bring our customers the best integrated cloud platform. Its going to be an exciting 2015 with Germany, Australia, Japan, UK and all the US data centers online.  My Tech Marketing Lab is going to get extremely interesting […]

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VMware vCloud Air Microsoft Exchange

VMware vCloud Air Microsoft Exchange and SRM

Over the past few months I have been working on a number of scenarios for VMware vCloud Air and deploying Microsoft Exchange in a Hybrid Cloud design. I have written a couple of blog articles about the subject too. VMware vCloud Air Microsoft Exchange The first one was about how you would deploy Microsoft Exchange in a hybrid cloud and at a high level how you would do this. Read the article here. The second article, I wrote for VMware blogs, which discusses the business reasons behind why you would actually want too, and this article can be read here. At a high level these are: • Growth – Speed – Agility – Expansion – Fluidity • Leverage Existing Infrastructure – Backups – Archiving • Disaster Recovery – Build a highly resilient messaging solution • Operational efficiency – SLAs from cloud In the first article, I talk about why you […]

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